[philjohn]

It was ads that made the money to develop the artificial minds in the first place.

[exikyut]

This is technically correct to the extent of paperclip maximization and I don't like it.

[brookst]

This is starting to sound very paperclippy. Ads fund the AIs to make us click on ads to fund AIs that are even better at getting us to click on even more ads.

[flir]

It's ok, as soon as the AI figures out a better way to gather resources, it'll pivot.

(this is not meant to be reassuring).

[papruapap]

That is only true for Google. If anything bootstrapped AI, it was gaming.

[replygirl]

what's the gaming story? most of the ai we know today builds on academic work going back to the 90s

[donkeybeer]

Probably refers to the development of and increase in computing power of gpus, I guess.

[selectodude]

It’s matrix multiplication all the way down.

[lubesGordi]

Yeah, and look at how some very simple clustering ML/recommender systems impact social/political dynamics all to keep people engaged on the site and maximize chances to click ads ( see youtube/facebook, etc. ).

[laserlight]

Last time I checked, OpenAI wasn't earning money from ads.

[lordswork]

Last time I checked, OpenAI didn't develop transformers.

[temp0826]

Ex Machina vibes