AI is currently being used as a political tool to help counter china's growing AI industry as its more easy for them to build AI data centers than America as America is fell too far behind when it comes setting up new factories and other places of business. America and a lot of countries are racing to build these data centers because pretty much everyone by this point knows there's a looming threat coming that's about to turn into an all out war.
Everything you know about business gets thrown out the window when dealing with the top major powers. Its a whole different ball game from here on out.
It's likely not stopping in the foreseeable future because it's a proxy war between world powers, like the space race, governments are injecting infinite money into this shit in the hopes of getting a weapon over each other, unless a new weapon with more potential presents itself in the digital landscape, it's not going away and these companies will keep being funded.
The goal is not to have a 'usable' product, the goal is to have the ultimate weapon of thought control/surveillance. Propaganda and misinformation are more important than ever, you've seen this shit with ukraine/palestine. It's not going away no matter how fucking shit the consumer market product is.
think about all the money that was poured into space exploration, all the factories, companies and industry being propelled by all that funding, was there ever a return of investment from the astronomical amounts of money spent by the USA during the cold war? No, they never gave a shit how much money they threw to the problem because the prize was too tantalizing -> information gathering, weaponizing space.
The space race only ever stopped because USA 'won' by landing on the moon and the public lost interest on it, which made difficult to justify the money spent on that shit vs other possible avenues of weaponization.
But AI is not the same, digital 'space' is so deeply rooted into people's daily lives that the return of investment is enormous compared to the space race, autonomous control over digital landscape through AI could give governments control over peoples perception of reality and made them do whatever the fuck you want.
Corporations and gov agencies could already do that shit, but the main bottleneck was the amount of people/resources required to monitor such systems, but AI could eliminate that bottleneck, plus all the uses of needing le
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