So regarding Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, Social Security,

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65. AI has run out of training data, including the entire corpus of planet earth.

It is having diminishing returns despite even more billions sunk into GPU's.

AI (transformers) cannot deal with changes
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219719722

And is designed to predict text. One paper had it failing miserably on math problems. It does not reason. It only predicts.

Still, there is no more data. Everything has been scanned and scraped already. As the Internet fills up with terabytes of AI-generated data (viz twitler, Meta, etc. ) it will be feeding largely on its own output.

I would add more, but I'd have to scour the computer and post lots of links.

Reaction on Hacker News, largely tech heads and VC's is pretty negative, not what you'd expect.

Just a couple.
AI isn’t about unleashing our imaginations, it’s about outsourcing them. The real purpose is profit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159136
HN page has link to Guardian article and much discussion.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/16/ai-isnt-about-unleashing-our-imaginations-its-about-outsourcing-them-the-real-purpose-is-profit

I am tired of AI
https://www.ontestautomation.com/i-am-tired-of-ai/

HN discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41667652

Hacker News discussions sometimes go way off topic, like flaming back and forth about bitcoin, so skim if you read posts there.

Those billions upon billions spent, and valuations in the stratosphere based on "trees growing to the sky" may crash when faced with reality.