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Six Dubious Strategies The AI industry Has Tried: Doom (Oh No! AI Civilizations!) Gloom (You will all lose your jobs!) Nerd Rapture (AI will…
Six Dubious Strategies The AI industry Has Tried: Doom (Oh No! AI Civilizations!) Gloom (You will all lose your jobs!) Nerd Rapture (AI will be better than all humans by the end of next year!) Terror
Six Dubious Strategies The AI industry Has Tried: Doom (Oh No! AI Civilizations!) Gloom (You will all lose your jobs!) Nerd Rapture (AI will be better than all humans by the end of next year!) Terror (What about China!) Price Wars (80% off!) and, now, a new last-ditch business model: “Pay when it works!” For an industry that allegedly has the world wrapped around its finger, they look more and more desperate every week. [Cartoon elicited from ChatGPT; spot the nonsense word!]
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- The new mantra is that AI can do pretty much everything better than humans. But that isn’t true. https://on.wsj.com/4eFzSpA
- a question that suddenly feels relevant: what happens if OpenAI loses?
- All your jobs are belong to us
- GenAI isn’t good enough to replace millions of employees, so there is basically no way the capex is going to earn out.
Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-08-31