Martha Smith: It's not that AI will never create anything useful or profitable, it's that the vast majority of the $1 trillion estimated spend on it will be totally wasted. A few billionaires will get billionaire-ier, and everyone else will end up laid off and screwed. Like, duh. Duh duh duh.

It's not that AI will never create anything useful or profitable, it's that the vast majority of the $1 trillion estimated spend on it will be totally wasted. A few billionaires will get billionaire-ier, and everyone else will end up laid off and screwed. Like, duh. Duh duh duh.

I'm just a small town chicken lawyer, but even I could tell AI was mostly a FOMO-driving cash bonfire from the very beginning. "Over-building things the world doesn’t have use for, or is not ready for, typically ends badly" YES INDEED www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

'Incineration' of cash: Analysts question Google and Meta's AI splurgewww.sfgate.com Prominent analysts from Goldman, Barclays and Sequoia are questioning the decision of tech giants like Google and Meta to splurge on AI tech.

They need to stop letting the tech bros lead and let others point them in the right direction. They've been TOLD where AI would be a huge benefit but they want to replace creatives because that's sexier than crunching huge sets of numbers looking for patterns.

Like we get it, you don't like paying for writers and designers. Our "soft" skills sicken you to the very marrow of your "rational" bones.

They didn't narrowly focus on STEM skills to get out competed by *ugh* Liberal Arts majors.

Then everything will break, and nothing will work anymore, and we won't have other options because everything consolidated 🙃 and we just let it happen

It's so plainly obvious how this will end, like the Chekov's gun of financial malfeasance.

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