Fuck those homeless/hungry/sick people I guess.
Fuck AI
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
We could build hundreds of thousands of homes for families that need them, but it goes to stealing water, power, and land instead.
So now that people are boycotting Open AI over their partnership with the US Department of Defense, will that extend to these corporations who are enabling Open AI and their bad policies?
I hope altman fell into unreasonable unending depression.
With that much money? Doubt it.
(And no, before you get all preachy, Sam won't end up poor, just the plebs)
I just upgraded my laptop's ram so I hope that is the last I'll need for a few years.
It'll be gone in 3 months and they'll be asking big daddy gubbment for a handout
I hope that dude chokes on his own puke and dies.
If a RAM stick or my GPU fails in my computer, I’m ruined financially.
Just go outside. Avoid people, but the rest of it isn't terrible if you can avoid the rest of humanity.
I had 32GB ranked ram and one stick failed. I now have 16GB now.
This confirms me that anyone with a cute anime avatar is a huge weirdo. It doesn't even look like him.
This is absolutely insane to me. AI is destroying society.
Now is the time to stand by your principles. And if you don't have principles, maybe raise some. Become anti-consumption and remove yourself from capitalism, as much as possible. Hate those people. You should hate them as much as possible.
It sucks too, because the power for pattern recognition and identification behind Machine Learning is incredible, and if we were being more responsible with it, we could be using it only for truly valuable purposes like early cancer detection, assistant tools, proofreading etc, instead of training it to plagiarise other people's work and kill people somewhere.
They want to destroy society, and build a new one in its place. Preferably one, that comes without this pesky feature called "empathy".
I use my computer so seldomly that I honestly don't care. When it dies I won't be replacing it at all. The Internet quit being fun and interesting a decade ago and my smart phone is a time suck that makes it too easy not to practice music and only brings news that spoils my mood. I genuinely miss the all analog life. Thanks for reminding me. I'm going to go say hi to a stringed instrument now.
my smart phone is a time suck that makes it too easy not to practice music
I felt this on a personal and professional level
Fuck 110 billion.... These people have way too much money to burn. Literally throwing money away for some shit tech that so far hasn't produced any returns and probably never will.
Yeah seriously, $Billions and $Trillions are too common in the media to have the impact they should have.
This one headline is discussing an investment of $110,000 MILLION Dollars. That's enough to let an entire football stadium (either US version or everybody else version) of people retire tomorrow.
40 years of 100,000 people working $15 an hour would just barely make that much. Before taxes. And unpaid sick time. Of course. Sorry to be US-centric but we seem to be leading the way in this whole Road To Dystopia thing.
Sam Altman is a money launderer. he's just holding the money so everyone else can say they don't have money
I'm not sure this is money laundering (that would imply there's a bunch of dirty money to get clean). But it is a scheme for sure.
Most of that cash is going to be spent, either directly or indirectly, on hardware from nVidia and now I bet they're going to use a bunch of cloud services from Amazon too.
Just inflating stock prices all round because for its investment in OpenAI, nVidia probably gets to own part of OpenAI + also one of the biggest end customers for their data center GPUs has more money to either build data centers or rent from existing providers.
So this should satisfy Sam Altman's hunger for a week?
Even micro SD cards have got crazy expensive.
I think some CEOs are starting to slowly realise how unpopular AI is with the public. But at this point their sink costs are astronomical.
I'm an idiot, that goes without saying, but I think that if anything needs another round of investment AND that extra investment is 110 billion of any decently used currency then maybe, just maybe, something is fundamentally wrong with the product in the first place.
However, like I said, I'm an idiot so what do I know.
Their current business model depends on keeping the AI hype going on, so from their perspective it is a good investment.
Hype amongst the public seems to be waning. Look at the woman who recently took over Xbox assuring people it wouldn't get filled with AI slop. They're starting to realise people don't want the shit they're selling. But it's not like the markets have any correlation with reality.
I need a new screwdriver. Do you make screwdrivers?
Linus will sell you one for $80
RAM, like fines for breaking the law, is only for the rich elites.
There is no way to buy RAM this year at reasonable prices. Hoping for the next one. 😭
of course his PROFILE picture is ai GENERATED. i cringe at that cartoonish look that my older bro does with pictures.
It's a faux studio ghibli stile. Which completely misses what is so good about studio ghibli in the first place.
It's easy. You buy a set of ram on Amazon and put your old sticks in the box when you return it.
I upgraded half the parts in my computer this way over a year ago. We really need to promote stealing from large corporations. It's silly how many people are still following the rules of society when they aren't.
Until they decide to sell it again and the next customer gets what you returned instead of what they ordered
Over a year later. Falls under petty theft which has a statute of limitations of a year in my state. I'm not losing sleep over it.
And this is all theoretical for internet points. I'd never actually do something like that. Never never never. Not even once.
I also don't weight every fruit and vegetable at self checkout as a potato (lowest cost per weight item usually). I'd never ever do that.

What if we don't want the tools? And even if we did (which we don't), the tools don't work, can't work, will never work.
110 billion more pumped into a company with no sustainable business model in sight 🫧

Last October I built a new PC for the first time in a solid decade. My aging Intel 6700k has served me well. I had no idea of the missile barrage that I dodged by upgrading when I did.