re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg

Interesting thread on the hyping of AI -

You may be wondering: why are some of the very people who develop and deploy artificial intelligence sounding the alarm about it’s existential threat? Consider two reasons— https://t.co/6OgG03HlXG

— Ryan Calo (@rcalo) May 30, 2023

tl;dnr
The hyping makes AI and their products sound much more powerful. But does not affect their business models.
So, basically, maybe increase the revenue because people have an inflated idea of what it can do. And maybe even get paid on the side by the government to not do things that they were not going to do anyway.