https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-consumers-turned-off-products-ai

  • Owl [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    It has to be purely digital (finance capitalism hates manufacturing), and enable a new set of makets (neoliberalism demands it) that allows infinite growth (silicon valley ideology) and requires a lot of GPUs (the tech giants funding this only want technology they have a competitive advantage on, and their competitive advantage is having enough money to fill data centers full of GPUs).

    Best I can think of is cloud gaming, but I don't really think it quite works.

    • Mesophar@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Cloud gaming has already come and gone, but wouldn't be surprised to see it take off again

      • Owl [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Yeah, and it also doesn't quite fit because making games is a huge amount of work. The companies in question would rather provide a cloud gaming platform that they control and third parties make games on. But then that immediately falls over because they're all providing the same non-service and can't win the market from one another.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      I just want tech to know its place. I don't want the entirety of the US economy to just be a one-trick pony with tech.

      I roll my eyes at the current state of things where everyone and their mother wants to be a tech company. Domino's practically rebranded as a tech company that sells pizzas.

      • wheresmysurplusvalue [comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        Domino's practically rebranded as a tech company that sells pizzas.

        That's basically Dodo Pizza's schtick:

        Ovchinnikov states that the company views itself as an IT-driven retail company based on the principle of transparency. Dodo Pizza uses a cloud-based system known as Dodo IS that collects and processes operations data, reports real-time business analytics, and helps kitchen and delivery staff to be more efficient by allowing for more informed decision-making.