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lightsblinken@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

maybe go for a “return on investment” angle… for the amount of literal billions we have thrown at it, perhaps its ok to expect more. if you gave me a mere couple of billion, i’d make healthy lunches for school kids to foster education and health outcomes (2-4-1!)

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MouldyCat@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
How many billions (in today’s money) were spent on going to the moon? What about the billions poured into refining the internal combustion engine? The billions that have gone into making and running massive particle accelerators?

Technology is constantly advancing and we often don’t know where it’ll take us until we get there.

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uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I haven’t spent billions on it, so it is not a bad ROI for me. Perhaps it is for those who has invested in creating OpenAI, LLama etc, I am not one of them.

Spending the same amount of money to create a better world would be ideal. But if the money was not spent on AI development does not mean that it would be spent on anything better. That is also a discussion about the money spent on AI and if it has been worth it (a discussion very much wroth having), it does not diminish the usefulness of AIs.

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