Big Tech Is The Enemy of Innovation
Better Offline
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
As the AI bubble collapses, it's time for the tech industry to repent, and to recognize that the future cannot be decided entirely by four or five trillion-dollar firms that are no longer capable of innovation, only copying other people's ideas. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the generative AI boom shows how little big tech cares about actual innovation - and how this might eventually lead to their collapse.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.6 | Cool Zone Media. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello. |
| 0:11.3 | Hi. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome to Better Offline. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm your host, Ed Zittron. |
| 0:32.7 | Better Offline. For weeks now I've been writing and speaking about what I believe to be an inevitable and possibly imminent collapse in generative AI. |
| 0:38.1 | In the last episode, I talked about the early signs of disquire, particularly among investors who were growing increasingly uncomfortable about the many billions being spent by Microsoft, |
| 0:42.2 | Google and others to support an industry that does not appear to make anyone much money and |
| 0:46.6 | cost so much more than it makes. |
| 0:49.7 | And I believe that this is a moment for the tech industry to atone and to learn and to change in |
| 0:54.6 | the wake of what I think is in a hundred billion dollar group psychosis. A big, nasty waste |
| 1:00.7 | that I will now get to in agonizing detail. Generative AI was always unsustainable, and it was |
| 1:08.4 | always dependent on reams of training data that necessitated stealing |
| 1:12.0 | from millions of people, with its utility vague and its ubiquity overstated. |
| 1:17.3 | The media and the markets have tolerated a technology that, while not inherently bad, |
| 1:22.2 | was implemented in a way so nefariously and wastefully that it necessitated theft, |
| 1:28.7 | billions of dollars in cash, |
| 1:32.0 | and the double-digit percent increase in hypers' emissions. |
| 1:36.2 | The desperation for the tech industry to have something new has led to such ruinous success, and if this bubble collapses, |
| 1:39.9 | it'll be a result of a shared myopia in both big tech dimwits like Satchin Adela and Sundar Pishai |
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