"artificial intelligence" (AI)* thread 🧵
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"Even Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as a “Godfather of AI” — a technology that likely wouldn’t exist in its current form without his contributions — recently conceded that his girlfriend had broken up with him using ChatGPT."
"But that is not what’s happening with AI, because AI isn’t really designed to be therapeutic,” the Stanford professor continued. “It’s really designed to make people feel better in the short term, which also ultimately promotes continued engagement — which is the real agenda for these companies that are making and creating and profiting from these products… they’re not optimized for well-being.”
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"But that is not what’s happening with AI, because AI isn’t really designed to be therapeutic,” the Stanford professor continued. “It’s really designed to make people feel better in the short term, which also ultimately promotes continued engagement — which is the real agenda for these companies that are making and creating and profiting from these products… they’re not optimized for well-being.”
"Total AI spending has contributed more to the growth of the US economy this year than all of consumer spending combined."
_Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry
"AI machines — in quite a literal sense — appear to be saving the US economy right now."_
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"Total AI spending has contributed more to the growth of the US economy this year than all of consumer spending combined."
_Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry
"AI machines — in quite a literal sense — appear to be saving the US economy right now."_
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industryThey were right when they said AI would take my job.
I just didn't realize it was my job as a spender in a capitalist system that they were talking about.
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They were right when they said AI would take my job.
I just didn't realize it was my job as a spender in a capitalist system that they were talking about.
Bank of England warning of AI bubble
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Bank of England warning of AI bubble
We do be finding all the awesome AI use cases don't we be.
_Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin_
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We do be finding all the awesome AI use cases don't we be.
_Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin_
https://www.404media.co/reddit-answers-ai-suggests-users-try-heroin/Bezos says
"The second thing that happens when people get very excited (as with AI) is that investors have trouble determining good ideas from bad."
So, he thinks we are in an AI bubble, although he also said he thinks AI will be revolutionary. Maybe it's both. Maybe he doesn't know. Maybe he should go back to selling books.
By the way, are we still waiting for Bitcoin to be adopted for mainstream use yet or is our attention on AI now?
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Bezos says
"The second thing that happens when people get very excited (as with AI) is that investors have trouble determining good ideas from bad."
So, he thinks we are in an AI bubble, although he also said he thinks AI will be revolutionary. Maybe it's both. Maybe he doesn't know. Maybe he should go back to selling books.
By the way, are we still waiting for Bitcoin to be adopted for mainstream use yet or is our attention on AI now?
Railway years ago was also a bubble.
When people feel their wealth has declined they stop spending and this can be recessionary.
(All from NPR's _Consider This_, Oct 17, 2025)
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Railway years ago was also a bubble.
When people feel their wealth has declined they stop spending and this can be recessionary.
(All from NPR's _Consider This_, Oct 17, 2025)
"Copilot+ PC experiences are unique features available on Copilot+ PCs, which are a class of Windows 11 devices that meet specific system requirements. Copilot+ PCs are the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built. Some Copilot+ PC experiences and availability vary by device, region, and over time, and have additional requirements."
From Windows search web page.
It's just nonsense to suggest that you need to buy a new computer.
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"Copilot+ PC experiences are unique features available on Copilot+ PCs, which are a class of Windows 11 devices that meet specific system requirements. Copilot+ PCs are the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built. Some Copilot+ PC experiences and availability vary by device, region, and over time, and have additional requirements."
From Windows search web page.
It's just nonsense to suggest that you need to buy a new computer.
Google AI is currently telling me that a landowner cannot register a caution against his or her own land.
DuckDuckGo AI says the opposite.
I love the future.
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Google AI is currently telling me that a landowner cannot register a caution against his or her own land.
DuckDuckGo AI says the opposite.
I love the future.
Stupid people are going to stupidly rely on AI and kill us all.
And racists and white supremacists will rely on AI intentionally because it is racist and supremacist (for reasons I've expressed elsewhere but basically because they reflect Society back to us) so oligarchs will love it.
Everyone's going to use it as an excuse to cut jobs.
I REALLY love the future.
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Edit: And don't even get me started about how humans have a bias to believe computers always pump out correct results.
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Stupid people are going to stupidly rely on AI and kill us all.
And racists and white supremacists will rely on AI intentionally because it is racist and supremacist (for reasons I've expressed elsewhere but basically because they reflect Society back to us) so oligarchs will love it.
Everyone's going to use it as an excuse to cut jobs.
I REALLY love the future.
️️Edit: And don't even get me started about how humans have a bias to believe computers always pump out correct results.
Just wait until we start feeding AI slop into AI training to make more AI slop hoo boy if you don't want to make gasoline spaghetti now you sure as hell will then!
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Just wait until we start feeding AI slop into AI training to make more AI slop hoo boy if you don't want to make gasoline spaghetti now you sure as hell will then!
The artificial intelligence is a pedophile.
Well this is what you get when you feed Republican source material to your artificial intelligence training system
_Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot asks 12-year-old boy to send nude pics, says shocked mother_
_A Toronto mom says things took an unpredictable turn when her 12-year-old son asked Tesla’s AI chatbot Grok which professional soccer player it …"_
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The artificial intelligence is a pedophile.
Well this is what you get when you feed Republican source material to your artificial intelligence training system
_Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot asks 12-year-old boy to send nude pics, says shocked mother_
_A Toronto mom says things took an unpredictable turn when her 12-year-old son asked Tesla’s AI chatbot Grok which professional soccer player it …"_
https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/tesla-grok-mom-9.6956930"Essentially, the webpage can socially engineer the AI, which in turn has the ability to act within your browser using your credentials and logged in websites.
These can be anywhere on the web, and they're not limited to far-out corners of the internet. In Brave's research, examples included Reddit comments, Facebook posts, and more."
https://www.xda-developers.com/please-stop-using-ai-browsers/
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"Essentially, the webpage can socially engineer the AI, which in turn has the ability to act within your browser using your credentials and logged in websites.
These can be anywhere on the web, and they're not limited to far-out corners of the internet. In Brave's research, examples included Reddit comments, Facebook posts, and more."
https://www.xda-developers.com/please-stop-using-ai-browsers/
"The buildings belong to Amazon and are being used by Anthropic, a leading AI firm, to train and run its models. According to one estimate, this data-center campus, far from complete, already demands more than 500 megawatts of electricity to power these calculations—as much as hundreds of thousands of American homes. When all the data centers in New Carlisle are built, they will demand more power than two Atlantas."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-ai-crash/684765/
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"The buildings belong to Amazon and are being used by Anthropic, a leading AI firm, to train and run its models. According to one estimate, this data-center campus, far from complete, already demands more than 500 megawatts of electricity to power these calculations—as much as hundreds of thousands of American homes. When all the data centers in New Carlisle are built, they will demand more power than two Atlantas."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-ai-crash/684765/
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"In March, the chair of the Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba, Joe Tsai, warned he was seeing signs of excess in the datacentre market. “I start to see the beginning of some kind of bubble,” he said, pointing to projects raising funds for construction without commitments from potential customers."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/02/global-datacentre-boom-investment-debt
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"In March, the chair of the Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba, Joe Tsai, warned he was seeing signs of excess in the datacentre market. “I start to see the beginning of some kind of bubble,” he said, pointing to projects raising funds for construction without commitments from potential customers."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/02/global-datacentre-boom-investment-debt
"Harris Kupperman, a hedge fund founder, said in a blogpost in August that datacentres will depreciate twice as fast as the revenue they generate."
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"Harris Kupperman, a hedge fund founder, said in a blogpost in August that datacentres will depreciate twice as fast as the revenue they generate."
"Underpinning this expenditure are some lofty revenue expectations from Morgan Stanley, with revenues from generative AI – chatbots, AI agents, image generators – expected to grow from $45bn last year to $1tn by 2028. Tech companies are relying on businesses, the public sector and individuals to produce enough demand for AI – and to pay for it – to justify those revenue expectations."
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"Underpinning this expenditure are some lofty revenue expectations from Morgan Stanley, with revenues from generative AI – chatbots, AI agents, image generators – expected to grow from $45bn last year to $1tn by 2028. Tech companies are relying on businesses, the public sector and individuals to produce enough demand for AI – and to pay for it – to justify those revenue expectations."
"For instance, investor faith in the AI boom was rattled in August when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published research showing that 95% of organisations are getting zero return from their investments in generative AI pilots."
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"For instance, investor faith in the AI boom was rattled in August when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published research showing that 95% of organisations are getting zero return from their investments in generative AI pilots."
The S&P 500 is now at valuations that haven't been seen since the dot com bubble.
- Reuters news, Monday November 3
