The return of 'YOLO': The 2010s meme is back and shaping the AI industry
Drake in 2022. Prince Williams/Wireimage "YOLO" is making a comeback. This time, it's shaping the AI industry. The term has been used to describe huge investments and fast-moving AI development. That YOLO culture presents a risk for a technology that can have far-reaching implications. The term "YOLO" was cool once, made so in 2011 by Drake in his hit song, "The Motto." Then it slipped into the domain of the unhip and out-of-touch. Well, it's now back. This time, it's being used by the AI vanguard to describe the state of the industry, which is a tad worrying to those concerned about AI's far-reaching implications for the world. Last week, at The New York Times DealBook Summit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei took a dig at his competitors, like OpenAI and Meta, when he said, "There are some players who are YOLO-ing, who pull the risk dial too far, and I'm very concerned." In other words, their approach to developing A...
