The main tech companies are sinking tens of billions of dollars on the success of generative AI. But what if it isn’t the next big thing? What if it’s failing in almost every way? AI companies burn obscene amounts of money with little return. How long can that last for? AIs dispense useless and sometimes dangerous advice. A recent study showed that tech companies have run out of new training data to improve their AI models. If AI is really so costly, unreliable, and limited, what happens to the industry that has bet so big on it? And what happens to the economies depending on the stock prices of that industry (and your pension)?
I rode the Pictish trail route (not the band) at the end of last summer. Before hitting the start of the actual route, I spent a couple of days exploring Orkney.
This book tells the often surprising, sometimes humorous, always interesting, stories of how human communications have developed. From prehistoric rock art, the alphabet, surveillance techniques gone wrong, strange military experiments (including flushing grenades down aircraft toilets), the first large scale modern network; used to take back control of a countries copper mines, to the modern internet and Wu related conspiracy theories. Find out how communications tools have been used for nefarious means, and the future implications of using these tools.
