• @[email protected]
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    161 hour ago

    Yeah. It sucks I had to be downvoted into irrelevance way back when this clown was first becoming worshipped by the tech bros.

    I don’t take pride in patting myself on the back, but I was fucking right all along about this douche.

  • @very_well_lost
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    It’s time to stop taking any CEO at their word.

    Edit: scratch that, the time to stop taking any CEO at their word was 100 years ago.

    • @GrabtharsHammer
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      The best time was 100 years ago. The second-best time is now.

    • snooggums
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      112 hours ago

      We should never have taken them at their word.

    • Blackout
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      The easiest way to stop him is to walk up to him and whisper into his ear “end computer similation” and he will just disappear.

  • @[email protected]
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    112 hours ago

    Was this not obvious at the very least when his own board kicked him to the curb due to an inability to trust him?

  • @_bcron
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    he declares that the AI revolution is on the verge of unleashing boundless prosperity and radically improving human life

    I think he means productivity will go up 240% and we’ll get 8% raises to match, but we’ll spend all of it getting nickel-and-dimed on ‘premium human concierge’ services whenever we get stuck talking in circles with support chatbots. This is the bad place. I bet in 10 years my insurance plan will no longer cover imaging being interpereted by a radiologist

    • Southern Boy
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      I bet in 10 years my insurance plan will no longer cover imaging being interpereted by a radiologist.

      That’s a very sharp prediction, thanks. I will run that by some people.

  • @UnderpantsWeevil
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    The best time to stop taking Altman seriously was ten years ago.

    The second best time is now.

    • @Valmond
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      *“Podcast-bro”

    • sunzu2
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      *parasite…

      Nothing bro about this shit stain…

  • @[email protected]
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    242 hours ago

    not only does he burn through cash, he burns through resources making life worse now for everybody: AI rivals crypto in resource waisting while not contributing at all to any improvements. I fail to see “brighter future” for us through AI as it is energy-intensive, unsustainable endeavor for which we are woefully unprepared both materially (energy efficiency, semiconductor manufacturing/recycling, etc) and psychologically (ethics etc.). Yeah, grand on paper, terrible in reality

    • TipRing
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      What is really annoying is that there are a lot of really good data modeling applications, they are just in research areas. Generative AI is absolutely a waste of resources, but a ton of money and energy is spent on that instead of on the applications that are actually bearing fruit.

    • @[email protected]
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      AI is worse than crypto. Most crypto projects use proof of stake which is way more resource efficient than mining. Also the mining that does happen usually happens where there is excess generation instead of azure datacenters

    • Optional
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      Seriously, what dipshit is going, “hmm well now he’s gone too far!”

  • @kinsnik
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    the techbros that think that with sufficiently advanced AI we could solve climate change are so stupid. like, we might not have a perfect solution, but we have ideas on how to start to make things better (less car-centric cities, less meat and animal products, more investment in public transport and solar), and it gets absolutely ignored. why would it be different when an AI gives the solution? unless they want the “eat fat-free food and you will be thin” solution to climate change, in which we change absolutely nothing of our current situation but it is magically ecological

    • @[email protected]
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      32 hours ago

      $ GPT how do we solve climate change?

      GPT: command not found

      $ cd /home/chatgpt

      cd: command not found

    • @[email protected]
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      I don’t think you’re imagining the same thing they are when you hear the word “AI”. They’re not imagining a computer that prints out a new idea that is about as good as the ideas that humans have come up with. Even that would be amazing (it would mean that a computer could do science and engineering about as well as a human) but they’re imagining a computer that’s better than any human. Better at everything. It would be the end of the world as we know it, and perhaps the start of something much better. In any case, climate change wouldn’t be our problem anymore.

      • @Eheran
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        That’s the thing, there could be a human 10’000x smarter than Einstein telling us what to do… And it would still not happen.

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          I disagree with you, because a modern human could offer the people of the distant past (with their far less advanced technology) solutions to their problems which would seem miraculous to them. Things that they thought were impossible would be easy for the modern human. The computer may do the same for us, with a solution to climate change that would be, as you put it, magically ecological.

          With that said, the computer wouldn’t be giving humans suggestions. It would be the one in charge. Imagine a group of chimpanzees that somehow create a modern human. (Not a naked guy with nothing, but rather someone with all the knowledge we have now.) That human isn’t going to limit himself to answering questions for very long. This isn’t a perfect analogy because chimpanzees don’t comprehend language, but if a human with a brain just 3.5 times the size of a chimpanzee’s can do so much more than a chimpanzee, a computer with calculational capability orders of magnitude greater than a human’s could be a god compared to us. (The critical thing is to make it a loving god; humans haven’t been good to chimpanzees.)

          • @[email protected]
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            11 hour ago

            Imagine Jesus Christ as a time traveler, going back from a dying planet to just about the dawn of both roads and also safer sea travel than previously, those two connecting what would become the entire modern world.

            Jesus: like, forget all this “religion” crap about what foods to eat & where & when & with who, and like, just be excellent to one another dudes & dudettes

            Everyone since then, especially those who borrow His actual fucking name to label themselves: um… how about “no”?

  • sunzu2
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    I wonder what this clowns daily PR budget is?

    Each one of these fake news stories are generally 15k a pop

    Do you remember when crypto scammer Sam Bankman was running thousands daily for years…

    Similar vibes here

  • IninewCrow
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    22 hours ago

    How do we not know that this isn’t an AI generated Sam Altman?

  • Sibbo
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    23 hours ago

    Who is Sam Altman?

    (This is a rethorical question)

    • snooggums
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      He is the cousin of Sam Mainman, who is an actual human being.

      • Lvxferre
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        21 hour ago

        And also the cousin of Sam Neuman. Another con artist, but this one relying on novel techniques.

  • dindonmasker
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    I would like to be able to listen to someone who is at the top of their game since it’s most likely them who know the most. If they are the CEO of a company about the thing, that would make sense. I’ve seen plenty of enthusiasts start their own company because they had a lot of knowledge on the subject. Who do i look for the best information about the tech of tomorrow if not the people who are making it?

    • @brucethemoose
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      Sam is actually a liar though.

      Everyone in open source AI has been calling him a snake ever since llama1 came out. If you want a more authoritative source, look to the CEO of huggingface, oldschool AI researchers and such.