Came across this article and noted its casual use of an eyebrow-raising phrase:
trained their own LLMs on a corpus of 3 million medical records
That's legal? :-o
https://a16z.com/the-messy-inbox-problem-ai-apps-wedge-strategies/
Reading on, the usual investor-bait appears, like
replace human labor with LLMs
Also an amusing diagram that's worth seeing, just for the silliness of it, which is supposed to illustrate AI's power - by literally swapping messy squigglly lines with straight lines in an otherwise identical flowchart. Hlarious. To save you a click, yes the squiggly lines come from humans.
Upon reflection, I find articles like this depressing, as the intent clearly reflects this modern form of oligarch capitalism - the investor class, not workers, controling the means of production in society, replacing the workforce as much as humanly (pardon the pun) possible regardless of the consequences.
We already have this, in a subtler form, in Social Media - oligarchs owning and exerting control over social interactions for their own benefit. Anything that goes wrong is someone else's fault. Example being how $billions are lost every every year by individuals to scammers using those platforms - that make $billions for the owners with zero consequences for them. Note how banks are regulated to at least try to address such incidences, something conspicuously absent from the platforms that enable it.
Similarly, they will push AI as far as possible because "disruption" - which simply means move fast to keep ahead of regulation because that's where the money is, and bugger (i.e. socialise) the consequences.
I feel that, with AI, the concentration of economic and political power to corporations away from workers will only accelerate. Regulation will continue to lag years behind the technology, during which the damage is done and the ologarchs move on to the next unregulated money funnel that governments / taxpayers need to clean up later. What the solutoin is I have no idea, but the problem seems evident.
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