It's time to stop taking any CEO at their word.
Edit: scratch that, the time to stop taking any CEO at their word was 100 years ago.
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
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The best time was 100 years ago. The second-best time is now.
Hear hear!
It's time to take CEO's money away!
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He is a tech bro. Almost everything he is saying is a lie.
*parasite....
Nothing bro about this shit stain..
Almost everything tech bros say is to boost short term share prices. Any resemblance to the truth is coincidental.
*"Podcast-bro"
Yeah. It sucks I had to be downvoted into irrelevance way back when this clown was first becoming worshipped by the tech bros.
I don’t take pride in patting myself on the back, but I was fucking right all along about this douche.
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When that major drama unfolded with him getting booted then re-hired. It was super fucking obvious that it was all about the money, the data, and the salesmanship He is nothing but a fucking tech-bro. Part Theranos, part Musk, part SBF, part (whatever that pharma asshat was), and all fucking douchebag.
AI is fucking snake oil and an excuse to scrape every bit of data like it's collecting every skin cell dropping off of you.
I'd agree the first part but to say all Ai is snake oil is just untrue and out of touch. There are a lot of companies that throw "Ai" on literally anything and I can see how that is snake oil.
But real innovative Ai, everything to protein folding to robotics is here to stay, good or bad. It's already too valuable for governments to ignore. And Ai is improving at a rate that I think most are underestimating (faster than Moore's law).
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Martin Shkreli is the scumbag's name you're looking for.
From wikipedia: He was convicted of financial crimes for which he was sentenced to seven years in federal prison, being released on parole after roughly six and a half years in 2022, and was fined over 70 million dollars
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It's not snake oil. It is a way to brute force some problems which it wasn't possible to brute force before.
And also it's very useful for mass surveillance and war.
I never took him at his word.
Seriously, what dipshit is going, “hmm well now he’s gone too far!”
Really? The guy behind the company called "Open" AI that has contributed the least to the open source AI communities, while constantly making grand claims and telling us we're not ready to see what he's got. We're supposed to stop taking that guys word?
Wow, thanks journalists, what would we do without you.
Should your disappointment here really be pointed at the journalists?
Which group of people uncritically magnified his voice and others like it for years? Tech journalism builds the legacies of people like Musk, Bankman-Fried and Altman.
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Was this not obvious at the very least when his own board kicked him to the curb due to an inability to trust him?
not only does he burn through cash, he burns through resources making life worse now for everybody: AI rivals crypto in resource waisting while not contributing at all to any improvements. I fail to see "brighter future" for us through AI as it is energy-intensive, unsustainable endeavor for which we are woefully unprepared both materially (energy efficiency, semiconductor manufacturing/recycling, etc) and psychologically (ethics etc.). Yeah, grand on paper, terrible in reality
What is really annoying is that there are a lot of really good data modeling applications, they are just in research areas. Generative AI is absolutely a waste of resources, but a ton of money and energy is spent on that instead of on the applications that are actually bearing fruit.
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I’m honestly stunned. If you can’t trust rich capitalists, who can you trust‽
Politicians!
Name a CEO tech bro that isn't a raving douche.
Does Woz count? He's CEO of the Silicon Valley Comic Con (or he used to be anyway).
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the techbros that think that with sufficiently advanced AI we could solve climate change are so stupid. like, we might not have a perfect solution, but we have ideas on how to start to make things better (less car-centric cities, less meat and animal products, more investment in public transport and solar), and it gets absolutely ignored. why would it be different when an AI gives the solution? unless they want the "eat fat-free food and you will be thin" solution to climate change, in which we change absolutely nothing of our current situation but it is magically ecological
I don't think you're imagining the same thing they are when you hear the word "AI". They're not imagining a computer that prints out a new idea that is about as good as the ideas that humans have come up with. Even that would be amazing (it would mean that a computer could do science and engineering about as well as a human) but they're imagining a computer that's better than any human. Better at everything. It would be the end of the world as we know it, and perhaps the start of something much better. In any case, climate change wouldn't be our problem anymore.
That's the thing, there could be a human 10'000x smarter than Einstein telling us what to do... And it would still not happen.
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Oh I'm streets ahead, I never took him at his word in the first place.
Stop trying to make "streets ahead" happen!
Your criticism is so fetch.
Ohh i'm stroads ahead, i never heard of that term.
It's beyond time to stop believing and parroting that whatever would make your source the most money is literally true without verifying any of it.
I wonder what this clowns daily PR budget is?
Each one of these fake news stories are generally 15k a pop
Do you remember when crypto scammer Sam Bankman was running thousands daily for years...
Similar vibes here
News at 10! It was time to stop taking his word for everything. Quite a while back.
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People did that? Lol
He’s the musk in making
The guy that was lying since day one? Why?
You shouldn't judge people on appearances.
... but, I mean, come OOON... he looks like a reanimated Madame Tussaud's sculpture. Like someone said, "Give me a Wish.com Mark Zuckerberg... but not so vivacious this time." And he's the CEO of an AI-related company.
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