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Yeah, it always seemed like a sad commentary on our world that AIs are devoting their weights to encyclopedic knowledge of Harry Potter, Pokemon, and Reddit trolling.


Why? You gotta provide what your customers want.

And it's far from sad that we have so many resources, we can give everyone a supercomputer in their pocket just to take selfies and talk about Pokemon. Why would our AIs be any different?


Because we really could use all that time, money and uranium to train them on complex problems we need to solve, rather than entertainment.

But you're right, shareholders of OpenAI want profit, not progress, and they'll give us our intellectual Big Mac.


You could say that about any piece of music or movie ever, too. Or any novel.




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