alt Hacker NewsI think we'll find that that asymptote only holds for cases where the end user is not really an active participant in creating the next model:
- take your data
- make a model
- sell it back to you
Eventually all of the available data will have been squeezed for all it's worth the only way to differentiate oneself as an AI company will be to propel your users to new heights so that there's new stuff to learn. That growth will be slower, but I think it'll bear more meaningful fruit.
I'm not sure if today's investors are patient enough to see us through to that phase in any kind of a controlled manner, so I expect a bumpy ride in the interim.
Yeah except that models don't propel communities towards new heights. They drive towards the averages. They take from the best to give to the worst, so that as much value is destroyed as created. There's no virtuous cycle there...