Gary Marcus

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Score 83
5/17/2024, 9:21:40 PM
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Mike Cane
@mikecane
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613d
In fact, it's almost like that now. With people paying for TOKENS.

When token cost plummets to ZERO, how is money made? Stuffing ADS into the AI? SUBLIMINAL ads?

@BrianRoemmele @GaryMarcus @TamerTSalameh @dromanocpm
Mike Cane
@mikecane
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613d
If this was the 1980s, where people paid a PER-MINUTE price to be online, the AI's Prime Directive would be to sucker humans into staying connected so it would be KA-CHING for the Corporation.
Mike Cane
@mikecane
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613d
Says it all.

Microsoft's @surface Duo failure to commit.

The need for something like the @Humane AI Pin.

Being suckered by a real AI.

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