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“The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI Insiders don’t trust CEO
(arstechnica.com)
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Im just sick of the marketing disguised as concern and doomsday warnings.
I dont know how many people here are old enough to remember, but there was a time when everyone knew that the Internet was going to be big, and they were pouring big money into it, but they couldnt quite say why it would be big, or what a normal non-nerd person might actually need/want the Internet for. So, they decided it was going to be recipes. People used to have cook books and boxes of notecards, old magazine clipping, etc with recipes, and having the right recipe was kind of a big deal, and the Internet was obviously an easy way to solve this problem. Everyone in the world could share the same giant cookbook, any time they wanted, just by paying a modest minutely fee to tie up their home phone line for 20 minutes.
The current AI pitch feels like that, except this time the line is that there might be an extinction level famine because everyone will forget how to cook once they see how great this cookbook is.