Would love to see the investment (as a percentage of income) in renewing a service over time of all the public services that got privatised versus those that stayed private.

I think it would be illuminating to see how low that investment really is. I suspect its a lot.

"Please train our algorithm" its for your benefit 🙄

The perfect deliveroo food business, you don't even have to pay the phone bill

Did Microsoft agree to this yet? I thought they were preventing them from going public?

Also after all that he still didn't get it. Steam is successful because they have great games at fair prices with regular sales and a good return policy. All the other stuff is icing on the cake, but none of it is why Steam has endured so long

I believe its referencing this story from a while back. The problem is all over Amazon Marketplace

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All of this is predicated that LLMs are not going to collapse due to financial weight required to do the most basic things and they can figure out how to do complex, multi-step actions.

Neither of which looks likely to be solved anytime soon.

Ultimately, we built websites to help people do things, learn things and share human moments. The open web isn't a database to mine, it's humanity. Sometimes companies were involved, but that was entirely optional and contextual. This future isn't human, it's corporate and full of empty promises.

Companies have never put people before profits.

Building an open web to hand it over to companies for them to be the gatekeepers, manipulators and arbiters of what information they deem acceptable seems dumb to me.

AI Agents aren't for the good of mankind. They are propaganda machines for money

If you put an "all knowing" machine in the middle and just accept the answers, you are surrendering a lot.

There is nothing whatsoever to stop a company boosting "anything" they want to be "that thing" you requested from the AI Agent because it benefits them, not you.

Consider the number of actions you perform to do a new task.

How did I find out about the thing?
What is the thing?
Why is it useful?
When is it useful?
How do I know the information I just consumed is reliable?
What is the cost of consumption?

Etc.

This article unravels quickly for me. Firstly, the assumption you already know "the thing" you want to do. Its a huge problem with all the future AI fantasing.

Apparently in the future no-one does due diligence we just accept the first answer we get. Which is problematic on a number of levels.

NOT 13 Cows thats too big. Chop them up a bit, and bring them back to me in smaller pieces.

Microsoft are already pushing gamers to Cloud Gaming and deliberately away from Xbox to justify their server spend. If they sell Xbox, i'm assuming this push would still continue to prop up its AI spend just under another brand perhaps...