• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Many of us who are old enough saw it as an advanced version of ELIZA and used it with the same level of amusement until that amusement faded (pretty quick) because it got old.

    If anything, they are less impressive because tricking people into thinking a computer is actually having a conversation with them has been around for a long time.

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      5 months ago

      So you want to tell me they all spent billions and made huge data centres that suck more power than small country so we can all play with it say it was fun and then toss it away?

      This is kinda insane if that’s how it will play out

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        5 months ago

        Not the first time this has happened. Even recently. See NFTs. Venture capitalists hear “tech buzzword” and throw money at it because if they’re lucky, it’s the next Google. Or at least it gets an IPO and they can cash out.

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            5 months ago

            We could, but they don’t care about making the world a better place. They care about getting rich. And then if everything collapses, they can go to their private island or their doomsday vault or whatever and enjoy the apocalypse.