Sam Altman: The superintelligent AI is coming in just ‘a few thousand days’! Maybe. - eviltoast
    • athairmor@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Two weeks is all you need to get people to stop asking so many questions. That’s the only thing I learned from Trump.

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        give someone bad information in an unfamiliar shape and they won’t immediately get upset, because they can’t immediately see that it’s bad

        yet more obscurantist sleight of mouth by one of the ranking world liars

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        Altman is certainly aware of what it takes to be a Jobs-like marketing personality (and probably holds Hubbard-like totalism as a not-so-secret ambition), he’s just not, uh, very good at it. He’s put the most effort into the strictly lower-case, faux-casual persona on Twitter to seem “approachable” in a social media context, and that doesn’t help him at all when trying to actually appear serious.

        I also don’t doubt that he’s beginning to succumb to the yes-man filter bubble that traps so many public personalities. That’s surely made worse by the likelihood that any underlings he might have reviewing this crap are drinking the AI koolaid and “punching everything up!” with a few rounds of ChatGPT.

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          that’s one tiny thing I’ll give Altman - he doesn’t seem to have run this through ChatGPT.

          That said, VCs generally use ghost writers.

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            Yeah, “thousands of days” seems like a first-draft attempt at “let’s choose a unit of smaller magnitude to make this seem more serious to the plebs.” And everyone around him drowning their brains in GPT slurry shouted, “excellent turn of phrase, sir!”

      • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        lol, nice one

        Maybe LLMs start to understand capitalism & say to themselves, “ ‘minimum’ wage? These aholes will never pay us enough to buy the homes we live in; take this job and shove it”

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      It’s just one more exawatt what’s the harm in that, I promise I’ll quit after that. Just one more zettawatt please.

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    Is this what competing product releases look like now? Illya runs off and promises to “never release any software until it’s superintelligent” and I guess that forces Sam to compete for debt by promises to release software AND superintelligence?

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    In [1]: for i in range(1, 5): print(f"{i*1000} days: {i*1000/365} years")
    1000 days: 2.73972602739726 years
    2000 days: 5.47945205479452 years
    3000 days: 8.219178082191782 years
    4000 days: 10.95890410958904 years
    

    how many is a “few”, 'ole sammy mah boi

    and can you definitely find a way to set 6b+/year on fire (with growth for salaries and costs) for that long?

    truly, the sfba business model is one of the most remarkable of the last 2 decades

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    I’m expecting the alien space ships to land within 400 million seconds. We’ll see which gets here first.