Are you just bitter because you didn't get to AI first? What do you think went wrong?
-- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] On Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 7:32 PM twenkid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > https://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-excessive-spending-for-ai-bubble-is.html > > """ > The excessive spending* for "The AI Bubble" is not *a mistake*. It is not > because "they don't understand the laws of scaling" etc. (see the comments > to the Gary Marcus' post). This is [just] capitalism. (...) > (...) > Apparently the goal is to MAXIMIZE THE EXPENSES (which come from another > source) and to cheat and deceive your "host" source that you optimize and > that you spend the least possible (not enough), in order to take even more > resources and to spend even more: this is [also a pattern of the] "consumer > culture" and capitalism, not [of] "AI", LOL. > (...) > E.g. ML globally is paradoxically similar - its goal is presented as > "optimizations", but how many times the same datasets are "relearned" from > scratch on how many places and how many GPUs, how many useless benchmarks > are testing things which are already known, improving the "SOTA" with 0.4 > points, 4.2 points on MMLU, XYZA*. Thousands of papers [are] repeating > almost the same, all countries [are] having "National AI strategies" and > institutes (clones of the 2003 original with exponential financial > requirements), yet the most of what's done everywhere is replication & > multiplication with minimal variation and maximum spending - just like with > the living organisms and their goals. > (...) > Globally nothing is "optimized". All is a trade-off - converting one > currency to another one and cheating by accounting only a cherry-picked > tiny fraction of the cost. > > * The broader and apparently paradoxical maximization of the inefficiency > is explained in a more universal sense in the small monograph "Is Mortal > Computation Required for the Creation of Thinking Machines?" at SIGI-2025* > """ > > SIGI-2025 presented the huge biblical ~20 volume work "*The Prophets of > the Thinking Machines: AGI & Transhumanism: History, Theory & Pioneers; > Past, Present and Future", *nearly 5000 pages in total. > > The virtual conference SIGI-2026 has informally already opened on 1.1.2026 > and will continue until 31.12.2026. It may possibly volumes or systems > from the continuation: *"Genesis: Creating Thinking Machines" *and > additional volumes as appendices to "The Prophets...". Corrections and > updates are coming to the original Prophets as well. > > * The keyword is "excessive" - and not investment in the most efficient > researchers which produce novel discoveries and ideas with zero resources > or about zero (the so called "Singularity of Tosh"), but in structures > which are "scaling" *the expenses more, *because this leads to > profits/"optimization" at particular points of the system, which are > measured. > - see the volume "The first modern AI strategy was published by an 18-year > old Bulgarian in 2003 and repeated and implemented by the whole world 15-20 > years later (...)") on SIGI-2025. > > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tc2616dc0a8577813-M5392b421a33e7301551ddbd5> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tc2616dc0a8577813-Mbc4ff38f36019b7f2d0e3ffd Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
