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The AI Revolution Could Be Bigger and Weirder Than We Can Imagine

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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The Future of AI Is Here, Right?

This technology, it's being grown in one million Petri dishes all over the world at the same time. The more powerful these tools get, a number that I heard talking to some people is like, a GPT-6 or 7 supercomputer could theoretically cost on the order of $100 billion. We don't have... Just the thing that powers it will cost more than most large companies that exist in the world. It's not maybe that your job, if you do a lot of like, wrote communication every day is going to go away. It's like you're going to be sort of a middle manager of AI tools, right?

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