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Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI
(www.businessinsider.com)
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Well because AI has been mostly hype and worthless. It has uses, but not as life changing as promised. And extremely energy intensive.
I think it could be life changing, but true progress will take time, like any tech. There's a reason most scientists know you can't just throw money at something and just make it work. That's why technocracy and the idea of chosen elite is so fucking dumb.
Imagine if in the 80s we had just said ok, Steve Jobs did it. We're done here. We don't give any outside voices or ideas in tech a chance unless Jobs gives it the ok first. Imagine how much cool shit we would have missed out on if people hadn't just said fuck it I don't need all that money, I'll just make my own shit and make it work with what I have.
Innovation and progress does not flourish in a neatly controlled box, and most people that don't just buy other people's work know that. That's the real reason people started pushing for DEI. Not just bc it was the "PC" thing to do. It helps bring new perspectives which then leads to new ways of thinking and problem solving.
If you completely isolate AI you may get some cool shit but eventually if you just buy out the entire market to fit your singular vision you get repeating/boring and stale.
I'm pretty sure they think they're at a point where if they just keep throwing money at it, it will just start getting creative and update itself, but when it's as unreliable as it is, I don't see that happening anytime soon