youradhere@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoOracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.finance.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square177fedilinkarrow-up1582arrow-down111
arrow-up1571arrow-down1external-linkOracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.finance.yahoo.comyouradhere@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square177fedilink
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·2 days agoIf LLMs fail and they invested: bailout If LLMs succeed and they invested: rich If LLMs fail and they passed: everyone else bailed out If LLMs succeed and they passed: out of business Therefore, the logical choice for a business is to invest in LLMs. The only mechanism to not do the stupid thing that everyone else is doing is gone.
minus-squarebearboiblake@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agothat assumes every business which invests in AI would be bailed out, which is a huge assumption. I would guess the only businesses that would receive bailouts would be those with personal ties to the government
If LLMs fail and they invested: bailout
If LLMs succeed and they invested: rich
If LLMs fail and they passed: everyone else bailed out
If LLMs succeed and they passed: out of business
Therefore, the logical choice for a business is to invest in LLMs. The only mechanism to not do the stupid thing that everyone else is doing is gone.
that assumes every business which invests in AI would be bailed out, which is a huge assumption. I would guess the only businesses that would receive bailouts would be those with personal ties to the government