Re:Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble Is AI?
by coffeecloud on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @02:43AM
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I don’t think he’s questing the technological potential of AI, just the business viability of the current crop of AI companies offering billion dollar models.
Sure, AI can do language translation - but any major money making operation can’t rely solely on an AI translation (or an AI text-to-speech, or an AI transcription). Big important business needs a human in the loop to verify everything the AI does, so there really isn’t much money being saved.
You don’t need a human in the loop for a $10 app to help you learn Spanish, but that’s not the kind of big business that will keep OpenAIs lights on.
Sure, AI can do language translation - but any major money making operation can’t rely solely on an AI translation (or an AI text-to-speech, or an AI transcription). Big important business needs a human in the loop to verify everything the AI does, so there really isn’t much money being saved.
You don’t need a human in the loop for a $10 app to help you learn Spanish, but that’s not the kind of big business that will keep OpenAIs lights on.