{"id":25955,"date":"2023-09-12T21:50:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T21:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=25955"},"modified":"2023-09-12T21:59:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T21:59:25","slug":"pivot-to-ai-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2023\/09\/12\/pivot-to-ai-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"Pivot to AI: Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we&#8217;ve done another of these. <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2023\/06\/03\/crypto-collapse-get-in-loser-were-pivoting-to-ai\/\">Here&#8217;s part 1<\/a>. This new one is over at Amy&#8217;s site. [<a href=\"https:\/\/amycastor.com\/2023\/09\/12\/pivot-to-ai-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain\/\"><em>Amy Castor<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>In this edition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s time for another AI winter &#8212; this time on the venture capitalists&#8217; credit cards<\/li>\n<li>AI is made of people<\/li>\n<li>The LLM is for spam<\/li>\n<li>The technology is running out of steam<\/li>\n<li>The technology often just doesn&#8217;t work<\/li>\n<li>And to finish, some bitcoin!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Supertoys last all summer long.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2023\/09\/12\/pivot-to-ai-pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain\/hal9000\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25956\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25956\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/hal9000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/hal9000.jpg 680w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/hal9000-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/hal9000-348x215.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LLM is for spam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3515],"class_list":["post-25955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-ai"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/hal9000.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25955"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25960,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25955\/revisions\/25960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}