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I cannot express in words how much I HATE the narrative that "a single company will rule the age of AI". (and to be clear, this is nothing against Pedro himself; he just happens to be falling into the same narrative trap I see others falling for)
AI is literally a transformation of our species.
Companies and corporate structures are 17th-century constructs based on pre-industrial models of allocation of scarcity in the face of risk.
The future of humanity is one of physical abundance for our biological forms, but UNLIMITED UPSIDE for our cognitive and spiritual essences.
I refuse to submit my & my childrens' future to the lazy inertia of existing economic paradigms.
We failed to secure open innovation in software, and we failed to lock the Web open. Instead we produced trillion dollar companies that held our data captive to create surveillance and attention economies, rather than empowering end users and fostering the development of end-user creativity and innovation.
Two generations of investors are now completely hooked on this model of extractive network effects. SO MUCH of this growth was fueled by the gift economics of nerd communities producing open-source software and cohering de facto OPEN STANDARDS which neither governments nor BigCo nor academia could produce. These Schelling points that balanced risk, utility, and user needs are brilliant examples of alternative economic models for an abundant, regenerative future.
And yet, just a few years into the AI era, we are allowing the narrative to be hijacked by investors, tech journalism fluffers, and an entire hype engine, to set up a paradigm and frame that "only the biggest XYZ" can win. This entire landscape is built on human ecologies that were the OPPOSITE of winner-take-all: thousands of unsung heroes in open collaboration, tirelessly hacking on code late at night and on weekends.
And now a portion of the tech ecosystem - profiteers and marketers - have the panache to attack "open source".
WAKE UP NERDS. The future can be abundant and all you need is a laptop, power, and ping. We can't let the narrative get hijacked. It doesn't have to be "winner take all", and looking to create "winner take all" dynamics is exactly what will lead to suboptimal configurations of the possibility space.
cc @teoliphant @martin_casado @balajis @chacon @lexfridman @EricRWeinstein @jim_rutt
Pedro Domingos@pmddomingos
Google is a disaster, Microsoft is dependent on OpenAI, OpenAI is a tangle: the race to be the company that rules the age of AI is wide open.
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