So I would like to counter your cynicism with a “YMMV” depending on who you work for.

People keep saying this. Why?

Surely the AI can complete the prompt “Generate new research questions based on these observations”?

When I read the reasoning traces of coding models they are constantly asking themselves questions and attempting to answer them.

Is that not why they’re shredding the books when they’re done with them?

Clearly what we need is a Router Router, to avoid router lock-in.

If I were a student living on a measly $1600/month I would be livid if the school gave me a $200 raise in AI credits, instead of money to buy groceries or pay rent.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/article/google-bans-father-ov...

> Mark, from San Francisco, had noticed swelling in his son’s groin and used his phone to photograph the problem to get an emergency appointment in February last year. He shared the pictures with a nurse so that a doctor could review them.

> However, Google’s artificial intelligence system used to detect child abuse flagged the image to the police and Mark, a software engineer who asked to be identified by only his first name, was investigated and lost access to his Google accounts. He was exonerated by the police in San Francisco but his Google account has not been reinstated.

Probably a better chance the firm privatizes the government.

In fact we seem to be firing government employees and dismantling government institutions as much as possible.

These AI companies aren’t state enterprises. How is geopolitics a justification?

If it were just the military training them, probably no one would care about the copyright infringement angle, it makes sense that the government could ignore those rules for national security.

But Mark Zuckerberg isn’t training his models to protect us from China. He’s doing it to make himself even more ridiculously wealthy.

Maybe the sum of enjoyment lottery participants get from daydreaming about winning is >= the cost of running the lottery?

> We received almost a million applicants for 1,111 paid internships this summer.

~1000 applicants per internship! Not a job, an internship. How could that be interpreted as anything other than bleak?

What’s uncertain, however, is whether the work that remains to be done is valuable enough that it makes sense to pay someone an engineer’s salary to do it.

In your analogy, your competitors who keep their people could just as easily end up bankrupt.