I don’t know whether to take these specific details like this seriously, but something like this will inevitably happen, sooner or later — and absolutely devastate all the data infrastructure investments.

@GaryMarcus Things getting cheaper would help the AI services?

@GaryMarcus Used to be, you could have speed or (compact) space, but not both. The order-of-magnitude revolution predicted here could happen many times, thus reducing today’s size/speed concerns to infinitesimal. Truly a great time to be alive!

@GaryMarcus When it happens, do you think it will be open sourced? If the US government owns a portion of that company as some are proposing, could they force them to?

@GaryMarcus The timing is what makes this hard to plan around

structured data still wins for most use cases but the gap keeps shrinking companies investing heavily in rigid schemas might feel it first

@GaryMarcus They are exagerating, histrionic, just like the guy who was supposedly had a gun and went to his house, just to learn later that it as a fake profile by brockman.

When you understand their game there are no surprises, it is just a power grab.

@GaryMarcus investments depend on no one exploiting the gap between hype and real deployment

that gap is real and its huge

@GaryMarcus the "something like this" phrasing is doing a lot of heavy lifting lol

whats the actual nightmare scenario here?

@GaryMarcus the tone of this is weirdly calm for predicting total collapse

whats the bet big data firms ignore it until its too late?

@GaryMarcus The rush to build before understanding what's coming

entire industries optimizing for a world AI might not need