The tech industry's successive waves of fascination with get-rich-schemes powered by FOMO ("my idiot neighbor is getting rich, I have to get on this") actually serve a useful social purpose. It compartmentalizes the negative impact of a certain kind of people/activity.
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So if an ambitious young person asks me whether they should go into crypto/NFTs or into AI, I will definitely tell them to go for crypto. (It used to happen a lot around 2017, not so much nowadays, which is great: AI is no longer "hot" in this way.)
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(If you're hesitating between these two options, then the right option for you is not AI.)
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Moths to a flame
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~1 year ago, I would have agreed w/ you: Better focus on good science than hype But science needs money, hype gets it If AI cannot get new tech to hype, the winter starts when the money goes somewhere else; be it crypto or useless AI, makes no differencehttps://twitter.com/trylks/status/1433516734321856517 …
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