• Tar_Alcaran
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    382 months ago

    A few thousand days? What loser, when Musk promises me vaporware, he always fails to deliver by next year.

    • @athairmor@lemmy.world
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      102 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.

    • @o7___o7
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      152 months ago

      Right? What a weird way to put it. It sounds, i dunno, very L. Ron Hubbard-ish?

      • @froztbyte
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        152 months ago

        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

      • @istewart
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        152 months ago

        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.

        • David GerardOPMA
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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.

          • @istewart
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            82 months ago

            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
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        52 months ago

        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”

    • @servobobo@feddit.nl
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      62 months ago

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

    • @Soyweiser
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      72 months ago

      Yes, people. I wouldn’t be surprised if Sam calls being lazy dogfooding.

  • @froztbyte
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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

  • @imadabouzu
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    152 months ago

    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?

  • @BigMuffin69
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    142 months ago

    if you wanna be a top tier forecaster, just never be able to be proven wrong

    • beefbot
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      52 months ago

      Tried and true strategy! But then, all Geminis think that. ESTJs, though, we know better!

    • @istewart
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      92 months ago

      Imagine if he turned up among the guest cast on Star Trek. He’d probably play a Bajoran who narc’d out to the Cardassians

      • @o7___o7
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        82 months ago

        The rich guy that the Enterprise found in cryo-stasis who kept asking for the manager till Picard told him off.

  • kbal
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    92 months ago

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

  • @froztbyte
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    62 months ago

    at the risk of inducing a kneejerk seizure in the more internet-seasoned among us, a cross-post featuring some marvellously timed exit strategy

  • @gerikson
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    62 months ago

    Good ole 1,000 day Reich