Ed Zitron

Yeah, it's so secret it's on CNBC every day.

Yeah.

Oh, they're doing secret data centers.

Yeah, it's called Oracle.

It's called Oracle.

That's what Oracle does.

Oracle has a huge class.

That's very well known.

I think people need there to be a conspiracy because otherwise the answer is, which is what I believe, which is none of these companies had a plan.

I think Sam Altman and Dario Amadei thought we're going to throw a bunch of money at this and then God will come out.

Money, money, so much money, and then they will have ASI, AGI, whatever they call it, and then it happened.

And then that didn't.

They hit the diminishing returns at the end of 2024, and since then they've been kind of harnessing non-LLM stuff on top of LLMs in an attempt to make them do stuff.

Yeah.

Like it's just dreadfully boring in comparison.

That's boring.

google will just kind of otherwise would have just kept adding and tweaking in a very like economically uh reasonable way saying forever it's like yeah i thought like the reason that people like llm search is pretty simple that it responds to search how people have always used search which is questions you're like hey what about this and this i've used ai mode with google maybe three times and i always use it as like a trawling expedition to say like

Has anyone ever said anything like this?

And then it would give me a bunch of fake citations.

Like, just that happens every time.