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Jonathan Kamens 86 47
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@jik@federate.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Planet Money gets AI wrong (again)

In its ongoing quest to provide cover for the AI bubble, Planet Money ignores the fact that rigged markets aren't efficient and that data centers built specifically for AI are useless for anything else.

https://blog.kamens.us/2026/01/11/planet-money-gets-ai-wrong-again/
#PlanetMoney #NPR #economics #AI #bubbles

#planetmoney #bubbles #npr #economics #ai
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@pospi@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

@jik useless for anything else? That amount of highly parallel compute is great for attacking cryptographic hashes and increasing surveillance capacity, though...

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