OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it::The man behind ChatGPT is wooing the UAE to invest in energy-hungry AI. But if it turns out his tech can’t fix the world, he’s got his escape plan
Tech billionaires trying to solve the world’s problems is a bit like a cancer trying to save its host from organ failure
they are not trying to solve anything really, they just think they are the next best thing earth has ever seen so they have the right to do everything
I’m working with a douchebag billionaire directly right now on a complex project related to the ransomware encryption of a healthcare provider. Because he’s part of the private equity firm and a billionaire, he thinks he knows how to drive the resolution better than I and my team of techs do.
All he does is drag me into more meetings and force me to get my techs to do shit that’s not conducive to restoring their systems.
He’s a giant waste of self aggrandized trash.
Why don’t you tell him (using nicer words)?
I have. He knows better. /s
Oof. I’m gonna use that. 👏
Well, Altman isn’t even a billionaire…
You’re playing checkers, not chess.
I’m not 100% sure what you mean by that, but I’m trying to say that, if Altman is a problem due to his wealth, then the bar to becoming a problem is substantially lower than a billion dollars.
That poster is not implying he’s a tech billionaire, he’s saying tech billionaires are jerking themselves off to throw money at AI because it’s good for business.
Fair enough, that wasn’t clear to me.
Serious question: why does everyone in silicon valley have a god complex?
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I think it’s Steve Jobs’ popularity and following, where his own god complex was an important trait. Then some people realized that if you imitate it, you get more money and publicity, and normies will believe you more. Then, of course, with power it’s not hard to really develop one.
Yes.
I’m glad perspectives has stopped treating Sam Altman like a tech God. dude is second coming of every FAANG CEO and Elon combined. there’s no way that guy isnt up to no good.
I get strong “ends justify the means” vibes.
The more I’m hearing, the more it sounds like the former board was justified in axing him
The problem is they went about it in a profoundly stupid way. The way they acted made it seem like he done something explicit and then they refused to actually elaborate. We still don’t know what really happened.
oh they absolutely were. just how that shitshow went down with the M$ offers and the decision reversal showed that it was power politics in play to kill reason
Socialism for monopolies but not for starving and sick people.
I have no patience for things I’m not interested in: parties, most people. When someone examines a photo and says, ‘Oh, he’s feeling this and this and this,’ all these subtle emotions, I look on with alien intrigue.
Is he describing sociopathy?
Just confirming he has what it takes to be CEO. I wonder if there are other skills or that’s it.
Definitely the guy we want running the company that decides what the human race needs from computers, then.
Is that “it” talking about itself? Then don’t let it bullshit you, it’s trying to communicate, but by being manipulative. So ignore it.
Fuck these people.
If he wants $7tn, he better pay for all the content he stole to do it. Fuck these guys, wanting to become unfathomably rich off other people’s labour.
This is a face born to be punched. Much like the Zuckfuck or the Muskrat.
They should use that non-creepy picture of him.
Hm? Oh. Oh right.
A “product” of any kind will not solve our problems.
A phone is a product, and it solves a lot of problems.
I used to print out mapquest directions to wherever I drove. Now I can just use navigation so I seldom miss turns on dark streets anymore.
Products can solve problems, that’s why people pay for them
I think they mean existential problems, like our belligerent lumbering towards the violent self-destruction of humanity.
This is exactly what I meant.
A product is something created by an organization ( in our case corporations) to make money. Period.
The fact it can make our lives easier is a secondary side effect. The way these products are made can ( and usually do) exacerbate our problems.
Solutions ? Nah.
The US collects about 5 trillion in revenue a year. This fucker wants a budget on the scale of the biggest revenue of a country on earth. That’s more power than the president has. Fuck this guy. Nobody deserves that much trust.
I’m GLAD we don’t Tax him OR his TRILLION dollar company!
Bruh
I’d be jumping on the ceiling with 700 AUD. The hell is he gonna do with 7000000000000 USD?All AI needs to be shut the fuck down until it can be properly regulated. Making up the rules as we go is just fucking stupid.
Who are you expecting to regulate it? How are you envisioning those regulations working? Who and how is that getting enforced?
It’s like trying to regulate 3D printing. Sure, you can probably find some agency that can pretend to be in charge, but unless they have monitoring software installed on every 3D printer including consumer and DIY units, they aren’t going to know what anyone does in their basement.
Lol by who? Octogenarian Congress members who get more bribes than emails?
Bribes are the only way to get their attention since they don’t read their emails
It’ll be shut down for decades then. Governments around the world are dynamically doing bugger all about it.
I’d be fine with that. As long as it’s contained.
Problem there is that we don’t really don’t know what rules we need until we mind of have it. Governments do need to be much faster with making these rules when they appear needed, though, and AI companies should require a LOT more government supervision.
I’m just sick of seeing his jerkoff face.
