If I wanted to spend WAY more on AI, what would I spend it on? — LessWrong

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If you're having trouble coming up with tasks for 'artificial intelligence too cheap to meter', it could be because you are having trouble coming up with tasks for intelligence period. Just because something is highly useful doesn't mean you can immediately make use of it in your current local optimum; you may need to seriously reorganize your life and workflows before any kind of intelligence could be useful. There is a good post on the front page right now about exactly this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7L8ZwMJkhLXjSa7tD/the-great-data-integration-schlep Most of the examples in it do not actually depend on the details of 'AI' vs employee vs contractor vs API vs... - the organization is organized to defeat the improvement. It doesn't matter whether it's a data scientist or an AI reading the data if there is some employee whose career depends on that data not being read and who is sabotaging it, or some department defending its fief. (I usually call this concept "automation as colo

x If I wanted to spend WAY more on AI, what would I spend it on? — LessWrong AI Frontpage 53 [ Question ] If I wanted to spend WAY more on AI, what would I spend it on? by Logan Zoellner 15th Sep 2024 1 min read A 5 16 53 Supposedly intelligence is some kind of superpower. And they're now selling intelligence for pennies/million tokens. Logically, it seems like I should be spending way more of my income than I currently am on intelligence. But what should I spend it on? For context, I currently spend ~$50/month on AI: ChatGPT $20/month Github Copilot $10/month Various AI art apps ~$20/month Su

If I wanted to spend WAY more on AI, what would I spend it on? — LessWrong

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