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[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago

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

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year 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.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 year ago

In this timeline, we have a number of terms for groups of days... 😶

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] istewart@awful.systems 15 points 1 year 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.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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@awful.systems 8 points 1 year 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!"

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 15 points 1 year 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

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Halfassed swipe at something prophetic, I'm thinking. Fucking techbros. 💩🖕🏼

[-] UpperBroccoli 18 points 1 year ago

Just a few million terawatt hours more and we're as good as there!

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago

90% of LLM training quits just before achieving sentience

[-] servobobo@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year 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.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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

[-] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago

You didn't even ask ChatGPT. How am I supposed to trust your math?

[-] imadabouzu@awful.systems 15 points 1 year 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@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 year ago

Why does he always look like a US sitcom cameo?

[-] istewart@awful.systems 9 points 1 year 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@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 year ago

I was thinking more along the lines of Sheldon's uncle from California...

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

missed his calling

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I hate that POS

[-] kbal@fedia.io 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

The hype is strong with this one

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago

Good ole 1,000 day Reich

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 1 year 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

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] ShakingMyHead@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I believe the future is going to be so bright that no one can do it justice by trying to write about it now.

Uh

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