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by nojvek 1347 days ago
Big Tech has really big datasets esp Google. With YouTube, Photos, Music, Gmail, Docs, Maps, Books, Waymo, Search … they have giant multimodal datasets that capture essence of all human knowledge. They have 10+ products with more a billion users creating data for them.

If Google Brain/DeepMind were to crack AGI, it would make Google/Alphabet crazy rich at the detriment of millions of YouTubers, Book authors, musicians, drivers.

AI will concentrate power and wealth to fewer individuals.

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Ads companies getting rich off of AGI seems a bit sensational when they’re already getting rich off of the boring type of AI. They’ve already gotten rich indexing the web and all the data we have years ago.