Comment by eximius
5 days ago
How many trillions of dollars have we spent on these things?
Would we not expect similar levels of progress in other industries given such massive investment?
5 days ago
How many trillions of dollars have we spent on these things?
Would we not expect similar levels of progress in other industries given such massive investment?
I’m not sure even $1T has been spent. Pledged != spent.
Some estimates have it at ~$375B by the end of 2025. It makes sense, there are only so many datacenters and engineers out there and a trillion is a lot of money. It’s not like we’re in health care. :)
https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report/econo...
I wonder how much is spent refining oil and how much that industry has evolved.
Or mass transit.
Or food.
Or on "a cure for cancer" (according to Gemini, $2.2T 2024 US dollars...)
10 year survival is 50% in 2024 in the UK. It was 25% in the 1970s.
Age-standardised deaths in the US are down by a third since the 1990s.