• “The web” is an open protocol aimed for interoperability
• “The AI” is a bunch of competing, mostly closed and private services

That will be interesting to see how this difference impacts the bubble explosion.

AI is perfect for fueling a financial boom: great narrative, incredible promises in short and long term, huge needs and potential, and high risk that it will go terribly wrong. Bankers love that and can create unlimited credit to fuel the fire. But since they constantly create new gambling products, one can also bet that it’s not fueled enough and is about to crash. Total schizophrenia.

Techbros got a bit too excited with Moore’s law: they want everything they touch to grow exponentially. Specially money.

Thanks but strangely i didn’t recognize that same token ;)

Seriously i doubt that Nadella was just talking about strings of chars. An interesting paper was published the day before Nadella’s talk (https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/topics/emerging-technologies/ai-tokens-how-to-navigate-spend-dynamics.html):

Business leaders should treat AI economics with the same rigor as energy or capital allocation, recognizing tokens as the new currency

Nadella keeps on talking of “tokens” generated by the data centers that must be infused everywhere. Surely a new BS buzzword but what is it? Since the target of such talk is finance executives, is it about the merge of crypto-currencies and AI, i.e. how to make out of gigantic investments?

Not sure i understand the idea taking over an open source project when one can contribute or even fork it.

Anyway, it looks like France is quite Open Source friendly. For ex. the “DINUM” (gov. IT agency) has quite a few FOSS projects, finally could support financially Matrix, and there’s also quite a push for open data (https://www.data.gouv.fr/). About surveillance i suppose it’s quite bad indeed, but i don’t think it matters if the software has a licence like AGPL.

Finally, i doubt there’s a safe haven for privacy nowadays, but please prove me wrong :)