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Re:Does AI make strong tech companies stronger? by hn_throwaway_99 on Monday December 31, 2018 @10:35AM (#18794888)
I think this is pretty scary when it comes to growing market concentration and inequality.

Basically, the most successful companies are the ones that can learn the fastest and apply that learning the fastest. Companies that already have lots of customers and data will be able to learn much faster (i.e. "get to statistical significance much faster") than those that don't.

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Re:Does AI make strong tech companies stronger? by mtgx on Monday December 31, 2018 @10:52AM (#18795026)
Isn't it pretty uncontroversial that AI and automation will only worse inequality?

We can only hope that the inevitable revolutions to come will not be crushed by the all-seeing AI surveillance and AI-powered robot armies of our wealthy overlords before they even get a chance to become a threat to them.

Supreme Leader Xi of China is certainly hoping that this will be the outcome of the government's aggressive investment in AI technologies.

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Re:Does AI make strong tech companies stronger? by erikpukinskis on Monday December 31, 2018 @07:28PM (#18798091)
How could a broad generalization about the future, couched in terms whose definitions are controversial, be uncontroversial?
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