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The echoes of Y2K resonate in today's AI landscape as executives flock to embrace the promise of cost reduction through outsourcing to language models.

However, history is poised to repeat itself with a similar outcome of chaos and disillusionment. The misguided belief that language models can replace the human workforce will yield hilarious yet unfortunate results.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Wait, Nvidia is worth more than Amazon? The whole of Amazon?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I was surprised as well given how huge Amazon is.