What a trash click bait headline. That’s not how the statement “saying the quiet part out loud” works. This isn’t a secret and it’s not unspoken and it certainly doesn’t not reveal some underlying motive.

Based on $ usage, I’m assuming usd.

120k euros is a lot more than 120k usd and might be worth an already damaged soul.

$120k is tech worker minimum wage for any major metropolitan area.

They wrote the legislation that allowed themselves to operate self driving vehicles. Every one of these vehicles is a symbol of the oligarchy at work.

The problem is the harvesting.

In previous incarnations of this process they used curated data because of hardware limitations.

Now that hardware has improved they found if they throw enough random data into it, these complex patterns emerge.

The complexity also has a lot of people believing it’s some form of emergent intelligence.

Research shows there is no emergent intelligence or they are incredibly brittle such as this one. Not to mention they end up spouting nonsense.

These things will remain toys until they get back to purposeful data inputs. But curation is expensive, harvesting is cheap.