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CEO said a thing
He has money so it must be important. Psychopathy is a virtue I'm told.
Casually betting a trillion on the wrong horse.
Man who can't stand not seeing his name in the news every single day, keeps talking
They didn't even change the photo for the article
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What qualifies this guy to make any predictions that are printable? He's just making random guesses.
It’s not random guesses, it’s intentional fictions to make investing in ‘AI’ companies sound like a good idea.
They think they can lie their way to real AI by convincing investors to pour enough money into them that poof real AI emerges.
They’re not going to get the poof they’re hoping for.
Intellectual property thief is confidently wrong about a task he has no right or expertise to be performing anyway. The LLM didn’t fall far from the tree.
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Sam Altman is a danger to our entire planet
~~Sam Altman~~ Billionaires are a danger to our entire planet
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Fuck off Altman. Seriously. It's unfortunate your dad didn't hug you enough as a child but you didn't have to compensate by growing up to be a fuck head. He's still not going to hug you.
Just in, guy who allegedly raped his sister is wrong.
~~Wasn't his sister also developmentally disabled? Is that right? CEO Billionaire Sam Altman violently raped his disabled sister then admitted to it like it was a relatable situation?~~
I was thinking of a different rich white guy that raped his sister.
Not every rich white guy, but seemingly always a rich white guy.
Even if those accusations are false, the man still had a billion dollars while his sister was homeless.
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CEO says bullshit like it wasn't his fucking job
Can we pop this bubble already?
Not until the ultra rich have enough ai robots to protect them from an uprising
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You joke
Can we start a revolution already? Nope and nope
Let's hope he "sees the light" just before a new "Luigi" rounds the corner behind him.
Fingers crossed
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He looks so fucking clueless and straight up lost. How is this guy a fucking CEO? Or just a useful idiot for others to complete that Ai circlejerk where everyone is dumping billions into each other companies to pump up the stocks?
How is this guy a fucking CEO?
Wealthy background. Dropped out, got lucky with a startup and sold his stake for a decent sum, gaining enough momentum to keep failing upward.
The guy is absolutely clueless, which can be mathematically proven on the basis of the fact that he invested in a crypto firm.
got lucky with a startup and sold his stake for a decent sum
He didn't get lucky... him and others bamboozled investors into buying Loopt which was never functional, once sold, it shut down in months. Exactly what he is doing right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0K4XPu3Qhg
Early days discussion (what I am referencing here) starts at 2:15
I wish I had no morals... Life is so easy when you don't give a single fuck about what you do to others... It's so infuriating to see how many wealthy people have amazing lives because they simply don't give a single fuck about anything but themselves.
Sociopathy is greatly rewarded in this stupid world we live in. :/
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I just want to be clear, most CEOs aren't smart. They have a slightly higher median intelligence than the wider population, but by and large CEOs are no more talented than your average used car salesman. While there's certainly outliers (on both sides), most intelligent people don't start careers in a field with an 80%+ chance of failure in the first 5 years. Altman's success in particular is 50% luck, 50% being a very convincing liar. These people aren't geniuses, they pay people to think for them, which is why having a machine think for them sounds like a great idea.
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It's the token model that will kill it
Honestly trying to treat token like watt is pretty crazy. Like a watt of power truly is a scientific standard. A bit of information is closer but again pretty standard, you know what are sending when you choose to send or receive a bit of data. Trying to apply a standard utilization rate to a unit of information in exchange for a non-deterministic rate, size, or quality back is nuts.
How do you meaningfully show an ROI on that?
Once those bills start hitting company profits, companies will pull back
IF they'rt are dependent on investor funding that demand signals of them using
They will pay the bills with someone elses money so as long as the checks cash
I wonder how long they can keep the circus running though. They were obviously trying to vendor lock enterprise size businesses in before they eventually nuke the cost model, and Deepseek just preemptively slashed their cloud pricing probably knowing that everyone else will just migrate or even run on older cloud hardware which providers can sell by watt (and demand).
China might be behind on hardware, but their biggest wrench in the gears will probably just be popularizing their published LLMs which don't require multiple nuclear powerplants to run lol.
There is an argument that token costs can be recorded as operational expenditure but it's the same argument used for cloud infrastructure, so many companies are going to get hit with multimillion dollar bills for tokens, which will have the effect of reeling in and limiting token usage or moving away from it completely.
Some 8,000 people that just got laid off at Meta disagree.
That layoff was happening regardless
And it’s still fair to call out Meta for using that as bs cover.
"I'm delighted to be wrong about this, I thought there would have been more impact on entry-level white-collar jobs being eliminated by now than has actually happened," Altman told CBA Chief Executive Matt Comyn in a virtual interview at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference in Sydney (via Reuters).
...he says after two years of some of the biggest tech layoffs in history that have impacted numerous tech businesses.
Maybe he just means he knows the companies are lying about layoffs for AI and it's just an excuse to cut labor, but I doubt it.
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He’s delighted that the jobs apocalypse is underway when he predicted it wouldn’t happen. Okay, so?
This guy is such a tool. Can’t stand him!
"I'm delighted to be wrong" is not something I want to hear from someone who has such an outsized impact on my perception of reality.
Oligarch tries to walk back claims to prevent backlash from investors and the general public.
Any word on the plumber?
So hard to find a good plumber
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Dude seems just so out of touch at this point. You can't make confident threats about the technology and then just go 'oops haha'
Sam Altman should shut up. He is partly to blame for this.
Selfish prick.
CEO of tech company talks about slop.
Sam allotment has the eyes of a man the ai has been using as a meat puppet for a year.
This spelling error was brought to you by swype. Any decent keyboards or there?
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