it's interesting that Yud doesn't realize that Cyc is basically what he thought Lenat should have done with Eurisko

~100 snake oil salesmen agree that this here elixir will cure all your ills!

“a journalist goes through your public statements looking for the most damning or hypocritical things you’ve ever said out of context” is an incredibly tricky situation to come out of looking good

only if, you know, your public statements contain lots of damning things

god damn couldn't even get past the first paragraph where he describes himself, while trying to attribute it to others

And by costlier he means power consumption. Ten thousand times more powerful! Still can't do basic math without handing it off to a calculator.

I was about to laugh about 2020 being cyberpunk, but come to think about it 2020 was the most cyberpunk year so far with everyone stuck inside doing everything on the internet.

probably just a pun on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotomat

Well, they used to have 700 customers.

They added those at my work and they are terrible. A picture of the company CEO standing in front of a screen with the text on it announcing a major milestone? "man in front of a screen" Could get more information from the image filename.

Where's the part where they have people play with the game engine? Isn't that what they supposedly are running, a game engine? Sounds like what they really managed to do was recreate the video of someone playing Doom which is yawn.

Huh. That sounds exactly like those work from home scams. Surely an AI company wouldn't do such a thing. Right?

hi, another lurker from reddit here. maybe i'll try posting this time around