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What if Big Tech’s Massive Bet on AI Is a False Start?

Big tech is spending hundreds of billions on AI. Is it money well spent? Merryn Somerset Webb explains why it could be a colossal false start. ——– Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg Technology on YouTube:   Watch the latest full episodes of “Bloomberg Technology” with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow here:   Get the…

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Big tech is spending hundreds of billions on AI. Is it money well spent?

Merryn Somerset Webb explains why it could be a colossal false start.
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3 Comments

  1. @truevegas

    May 21, 2026 at 4:00 pm

    Yes 😂 LLMs can learn on the job though. At least Claude can. You just need to save relevant information in its Artifacts and Projects

    • @orvn

      May 21, 2026 at 4:47 pm

      Not training on the job, just adding to context, or in best case, accessing a vector storage db in a serial process. The model doesn’t inherently change until training or fine-tuning. There are no inference-training hybrid models at this time. Just elaborate loops.

  2. @orvn

    May 21, 2026 at 4:50 pm

    I go with Yan Lecun’s thinking here: language is too limited of a training set source. We need to simulate human sensory input (in a non-synthetic way)

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