Angela Collier on the US Department of Energy AI Scam



6:09 Why, it's a department of energy scam of course. Didn't some AI once say intelligence would be something you can get on a metered account, like electricity? Or was that an AI CEO that said that? Or was it a goblin?

29:53 They destroyed science funding but they had to, to save the economy, see. This is how it goes: we have a huge amount of private debt invested in AI companies that have no "revenue model", i.e. they have no conceivable way to actually ever make a profit, because people only use AI because it's free. If you charge any reasonable amount for it (i.e. enough to cover the costs) then nobody will be able to afford to use any AI at all. So these businesses are not viable, but thousands of shadow banks and sovereign wealth funds and goodness knows what else have invested in them. Now the only thing to do is throw more money at it, so you get more institutions dependent on cheap AI and then you charge the smart ones to make the necessary nuclear reactors, chip fabs and rare earth processing plants and whatnot to keep the whole enterprise going. It's OK because Space-seX will be going public and will be a $7.5 trillion dollar AI bubble all on its own, and it will be able to fund all this crap... . 

She apologises that this isn't Star Trek.



Audrey Henson is also making a video on this. See her post on YouTube. 

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Human feedback is a much more profitable industry than AI:



This is shocking! You realise that it's not just human creativity that they parasitize, but human moral judgement too. And in the process they degrade both,... 

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