https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/1889784565935317169

The hardware AI landscape is accelerating at a breathtaking pace. Tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon spending $528 billion on AI infrastructure in 2024 to pursue artificial general intelligence (AGI). Leaders like Dario Amodei and Sam Altman predict AGI could arrive within 1-2 years, promising breakthroughs in health and energy but also warning of job losses, inequality, and societal risks. Despite challenges like electricity and chip shortages, the post calls for urgent global discussions to ensure equitable outcomes as humanity approaches this transformative era.

Anthropic is eating OpenAI's market share

https://x.com/itsandrewgao/status/1885144792323285183

Top use of Claude Inference is for Engineering. Through the Anthropic Economic Index, Anthropic will track how these patterns evolve as AI advances.

This research from Gratient Update analyzes the impact of AGI on human wages, concluding AGI can fully substitute for human labor, and it might cause wages to crash, below subsistence level. The author thinks humans will eventually lose their wealth through expropriation or through violent revolution. If this occurs, AGI will be negative for human welfare.