Feeding the dreams of AI venture capital: if you want the VC money, just promise magic
Stupendous amounts of venture capital money are still floating around, desperate for a home. The VCs want you to promise magic with technology. They will shower you with cash. Delivering on the mag…
The "fix your data" line matters a lot here. However hard the job is it's entirely feasible for a person to do it. Like, this isn't a case where we need magic to solve the underlying problems, and in a lot of cases there are real advantages to solving them. But doing so would require admitting they had previously done (or are currently doing) stupid or evil things that need to be fixed and paying someone a fair chunk of money to do so.
the entire pitch is not having to spend money on employees
True, but I want to be absolutely clear that this isn't some kind of "efficiency" or "profit motive" or whatever. Making ever more obscene amounts of money is part of the goal, of course, but I think there's a deeper motivation rooted in not wanting to acknowledge their responsibility for the problems they're trying to solve without giving up the power they have over those institutions and organizations where those problems exist.
Next step is to do it without employees and datacenters. We will contact Turing (for the lesswrong fans, we will contact Von Neumann) via a seance (for a reasonable fee of course).
