Gary Marcus at the University of Edinburgh

"Scaling compute" is AI industry jargon for spending more and more money on data centres and the chips (typically GPUs made by NVIDIA) inside those data centres. So called hyperscalers like OpenAI, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, xAI and Anthropic aim to spend nearly a trillion dollars on compute this year, more than a dozen times the cost of the Manhattan project. Professor Gary Marcus will argue that this is a bad bet, unlikely to pay off, filled with numerous downsides for society, and that it may well lead to a recession.

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