Eric Meyer:
Today I learned about Mozilla's new AI startup from my gas pump. Stop the future, I want it to be less stupid.
We go now live to Mozilla HQ:
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This makes sense, because Large Language Models are also a petroleum product.
Eric Meyer:
Tags: computers, corporations, doomed, grim meathook future, mad science, mpegs, nscp
8 Responses:
i can't stop watching the attached mpeg
Neither can I
Hey, back off, they don’t save enough money from their hundred-million-per-year budget to set up an endowment to finish Servo or anything else with Firefox so moon-shots like this every other year is all we’re going to get.
In fact, if the moonshots don’t pan out, they might even go bankrupt if there’s any hiccup in funding!
How could you do this to them?
Baker and the board going all "notice me, senpai" to the libertarian greenwashing funding machine.
I want to invest, but does it run on blockchain?
I have been reading, unfortunately, Marc Andreessens' substack, and AI is starting to feel like the next crypto.
The single strongest point in favor of the "AI is snakeoil" hypothesis is that Balaji Srinivasen is all-in on it, having nearly pivoted away from cryptocurrency boosterism the minute that the saudi money spigot turned off for crypto pitches.