Meet Your New Strategy Consultant aka Generative Pre-trained Talker, He Costs $300 Billion, Hallucin
Meet Your New Strategy Consultant aka Generative Pre-trained Talker, He Costs $300 Billion, Hallucin
Meet Your New Strategy Consultant aka Generative Pre-trained Talker, He Costs $300 Billion, Hallucin
GPT is more 'Generative Pre-trained Talker' than a practical helper, a polished consultant who talks big but lacks real-world know-how
We need to stop calling it "Artificial Intelligence." It gives the technology too much credit. Instead, let’s call GPT and what it really is: the Generative Pre-trained Talker (or Transformer). If you’ve ever worked in a corporate office, you recognize this personality type immediately. GPT is the fresh MBA graduate who just joined a top-tier consulting firm. He wears a bespoke suit (a slick user interface), speaks with unwavering confidence, and has absolutely no idea how the real world works.
Like that 24-year-old consultant explaining supply chain logistics to a factory foreman who has been there for thirty years, AI is fantastic at "blabbering." It has read every book in the library but has never actually tightened a bolt. It knows how to string words together to sound smart like "synergy," "paradigm shift," "scalable architecture", but if you ask it for actionable advice, it offers a disclaimer that essentially says, "I am just a language model, please don't sue me if this bankrupted your company."
And just like a consulting firm, the bill for this incompetence is eye-watering. As noted by Peter Wildeford of the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy, USA is currently spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure. That is ten times the cost of the Manhattan Project. At least the Manhattan Project delivered a working bomb. Yes, the US is spending the GDP of a small nation (AKA project Stargate) on a chatbot that can write a mediocre cover letter but, as demonstrated in recent robotics tests, literally has its head fall off when asked to perform complex physical tasks.
This is what experts call "Narrow Intelligence." It’s the equivalent of the MBA who is a wizard at Excel shortcuts but can’t figure out how to operate the office coffee machine. Yet, Silicon Valley is betting the farm that this "narrow" capability will magically turn into AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), a hypothetical future where the consultant actually becomes useful.
Until then, we are trapped in the world’s most expensive "circular flow of deals." As the pundits point out, it’s a financial circle-jerk: Nvidia invests in OpenAI, OpenAI pays Oracle for cloud computing, and Oracle buys chips from Nvidia.
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It’s like a McKinsey consultant hiring a BCG consultant to advise a Deloitte consultant. It inflates stock prices and creates a bubble that makes the dot-com crash look like a minor accounting error.
The CEOs of these AI companies are surprisingly candid about the endgame. They admit there is a "one in five chance" their technology might wipe out humanity. In consulting terms, that’s just a "high-risk, high-reward deliverable." Would you get on a plane that had a 20% chance of crashing? No. But if that plane was piloted by a charismatic algorithm that promised to triple shareholder value before impact, Wall Street would buy a ticket in first class.
So, here we sit, waiting for the bubble to pop. If this bet fails, the economy crashes, and the public is left holding the bag. If the bet succeeds, we get AGI, which might solve cancer, or it might go full M3GAN and decide that the most efficient way to optimize the planet is to remove the humans.
But hey, that’s just business. Consultants don't care if their strategy ruins the factory; he’s already looking for his next client. AI is no different. It’s here to impress you with words, drain your budget, and refuse to take responsibility when the world burns down.
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