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Feeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magic (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The "fix your data" line matters a lot here. However hard the job is it's entirely feasible for a person to do it. Like, this isn't a case where we need magic to solve the underlying problems, and in a lot of cases there are real advantages to solving them. But doing so would require admitting they had previously done (or are currently doing) stupid or evil things that need to be fixed and paying someone a fair chunk of money to do so.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

the entire pitch is not having to spend money on employees

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Next step is to do it without employees and datacenters. We will contact Turing (for the lesswrong fans, we will contact Von Neumann) via a seance (for a reasonable fee of course).

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