Artificial Intelligenceicial Quotes

“Defenders of Al will often cite other technologies that were costly at the outset, like the web itself, as evidence that Al will soon solve all its energy and scale problems.
But the web revolution was a decade of unbroken drops in the cost of servicing each new web user. In economics terms, the web had great "unit economics" —the cost of each web session fell and fell, even as the cost of getting on the web (from hardware to software to connectivity) was also falling.
Not so with AI. Each generation of AI foundation models has been vastly more expensive to train and operate than the previous generation. Not only that, but many refinements in Al that are meant to improve accuracy and reduce "hallucinations" involve breaking a prompt down into multiple pieces and prompting an Al to respond to each prompt, turning that response into a new prompt, over and over again, to produce "chains of thought.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI