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Subject: Re: Umpteen BILLIONS, Maybe a TRILLION, invested in "AI' - but Almost NO Returns
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 02:46:24 -0400, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote in
<xF-dnWPbhere8jj1nZ2dnZfqn_udnZ2d@giganews.com>:

> https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/tech/ai/invested-billions-ai-zero-
return/
> 
> There has been over $30B in enterprise investments into generative AI
> 
> 5% of integrated AI pilots are extracting millions in value'
> 
> AI systems fail due to their inability to learn and think in ways humans
> can
> 
> 
> . . .
> 
>    Um ... don't expect "AI" to be Just Like US.
> 
>    Be HAPPY if it's even a LITTLE Like Us.
> 
>    In any case, there has been VAST VAST investment in this tech - but
>    it's returning almost NOTHING for all the investment.
> 
>    NOT a good business model.
> 
>    The evil GOAL ... disemploy almost all of the very annoying Humans.
> 
>    Guess they go into ghettos ... with an address to the local Soylent
>    Green factory.
> 
>    BUT ... WHO then has the money to Buy Your Stuff ???
> 
>    That's the BIG Flaw in all this.
> 
>    Obsolete/broke people CAN'T buy your stuff.
> 
>    System error.

Well, think about it:  capitalism has no guarantee that there will
be jobs for everybody who can work.

Might need to move to UBI.

BTW, for some AI examples, I've posted to comp.ai.shells,
including a recent success story with a slightly complex
network configuration.

I used to refer to ChatGPT as "the father of lies" because
of its hallucinations, but it is fairly solid when it comes
to "here's the configuration I want, give me the netplan file"
type of problems.

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