The worst job I have ever had was six months in IT business services around the time ChatGPT went public.

The bullshit use cases being developed for AI (still happening) were well summed up in the Goldman Sachs analysis ‘what trillion dollar problem is this trillion dollar solution able to solve’.

The power consumption, the water consumption, the biases, the disinformation, the damage to the creative arts and the plagiarism of thousands upon thousands of authors’ work (including me - it’s been trained on four of my books) and the fact that is creating a financial bubble that when it pops will blow up large parts of the economy vastly outweigh the ‘benefit’ of inaccurate summaries of meetings and reports or the ability to code quicker.

Thiel is pushing it because he doesn’t see the point of people, and has been quite open about that. But hey, we’re about to outsource much of our healthcare data systems to him. Great.