Ideally it was thought to have shortened a very expensive war, and may have prevented the USSR from taking over Europe by leveraging its unquestioned postwar conventional forces advantage.
The profit was made by the private sector in supplying goods to the program. Today, private companies do a lot and earn a lot of money from stockpile maintenance.
The Manhattan Project was driven by the U.S. Government, which doesn't need a VC-tier return. The entire business model of VCs is based on the idea that they'll have the occasional 100x return, and if none of the AI companies do that it would destroy the VC model.
Doesn't matter. The Manhattan project was a breakthrough in fundamental science that changed the world. Current generative AI are a solid degree improvement on previous technology that is not remotely as big a leap as the amount of money poured into it assumes it to be.
Ideally it was thought to have shortened a very expensive war, and may have prevented the USSR from taking over Europe by leveraging its unquestioned postwar conventional forces advantage.
Well sure but how much cash did the MaPr corp. make selling their new and improved model implosion-type-u-235?
I don't know how to tell you this, but the government isn't a business and has completely different objectives and operating conditions
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The profit was made by the private sector in supplying goods to the program. Today, private companies do a lot and earn a lot of money from stockpile maintenance.
The Manhattan Project was driven by the U.S. Government, which doesn't need a VC-tier return. The entire business model of VCs is based on the idea that they'll have the occasional 100x return, and if none of the AI companies do that it would destroy the VC model.
About the GDP of the US and Europe over the past 80 years so a few quadrillion dollars.
That's not direct return of VC-invested cash that people are refusing to see past in here.
Doesn't matter. The Manhattan project was a breakthrough in fundamental science that changed the world. Current generative AI are a solid degree improvement on previous technology that is not remotely as big a leap as the amount of money poured into it assumes it to be.
“people … in here” seeing “past it” or not is irrelevant, the VCs won't see past it once they realize that money is lost.
Wait, what? The Manhattan project produced something--multiple somethings in fact. What has this "project" produced?
Completely irrelevant. The Manhattan Project wasn't funded by VCs with an expectation of a return.