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Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs

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  1. 2ss · · focus · HN ↗
    2 things can be true:

    -LLMs profoundly change society -The LLM business is mangled in terms of ROIC vs CoC

    Such a business already exists - airlines.

    This nuance is what many here refuse/find difficult to understand.

    1. elzbardico · · focus · HN ↗
      Frankly, outside of coding there's no much real use for AI, which is basically NLP.
      1. aeon_ai · · focus · HN ↗
        "Generate me an explainer video of someone holding a sign stating "I have no idea what I'm talking about" being educated about the realities of time, labor, and 'good enough'"

        You're right. I didn't even need AI to get my point across.

        1. applfanboysbgon · · focus · HN ↗
          If that's your idea of "real use", you're really reinforcing their point.
          1. margalabargala · · focus · HN ↗
            Explainer videos aren't real use?

            I mean, if self education isn't a "real use", I wonder why all those libraries decided to dedicate all that shelf space to nonfiction books?

            Wikipedia could probably save a lot of hard drive space too.

            1. applfanboysbgon · · focus · HN ↗
              Absolute slopshit "explainers" are not real use, no.
              1. aeon_ai · · focus · HN ↗
                On every objective measure, quality is improving and the trendline is clear.

                I'm by no means citing that AI is perfect, or that there are no problems or challenges ahead, but the self-lobotomizing AI doomerism/rejection is turning otherwise intelligent people into a horde of anti-AI lemmings that are afraid to apply the critical thinking they believe is being lost by AI users.

                These things are puppeteering blender to model things for gods sake. Are you all blind?

                1. owebmaster · · focus · HN ↗
                  > On every objective measure, quality is improving and the trendline is clear.

                  Where? I can't find one company that did "AI layoffs" and their app/services got better. Give me just one good example please

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