Some 8,000 people that just got laid off at Meta disagree.
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That layoff was happening regardless
He’s delighted that the jobs apocalypse is underway when he predicted it wouldn’t happen. Okay, so?
This guy is such a tool. Can’t stand him!
Can we pop this bubble already?
Not until the ultra rich have enough ai robots to protect them from an uprising
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What qualifies this guy to make any predictions that are printable? He's just making random guesses.
It’s not random guesses, it’s intentional fictions to make investing in ‘AI’ companies sound like a good idea.
They think they can lie their way to real AI by convincing investors to pour enough money into them that poof real AI emerges.
They’re not going to get the poof they’re hoping for.
Intellectual property thief is confidently wrong about a task he has no right or expertise to be performing anyway. The LLM didn’t fall far from the tree.
this guy to make any predictions that are printable?
That's what heads of State, heads of Corporations, heads of your HOA - are for: making public statements.
He’s just making random guesses.
Yeah, that's been all the rage for about a decade now.
CEO said a thing
He has money so it must be important. Psychopathy is a virtue I'm told.
Casually betting a trillion on the wrong horse.
Sam Altman is a danger to our entire planet
~~Sam Altman~~ Billionaires are a danger to our entire planet
Just in, guy who allegedly raped his sister is wrong.
Even if those accusations are false, the man still had a billion dollars while his sister was homeless.
~~Wasn't his sister also developmentally disabled? Is that right? CEO Billionaire Sam Altman violently raped his disabled sister then admitted to it like it was a relatable situation?~~
I was thinking of a different rich white guy that raped his sister.
Not every rich white guy, but seemingly always a rich white guy.
Odd. I thought he was gay.
I know there's no rule saying gay people can't rape people.
But for some reason, my brain reacted with "Odd..." 🤔
Rape is usually about power and control more than sex.
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Oligarch tries to walk back claims to prevent backlash from investors and the general public.
"I'm delighted to be wrong" is not something I want to hear from someone who has such an outsized impact on my perception of reality.
He looks so fucking clueless and straight up lost. How is this guy a fucking CEO? Or just a useful idiot for others to complete that Ai circlejerk where everyone is dumping billions into each other companies to pump up the stocks?
How is this guy a fucking CEO?
Wealthy background. Dropped out, got lucky with a startup and sold his stake for a decent sum, gaining enough momentum to keep failing upward.
The guy is absolutely clueless, which can be mathematically proven on the basis of the fact that he invested in a crypto firm.
got lucky with a startup and sold his stake for a decent sum
He didn't get lucky... him and others bamboozled investors into buying Loopt which was never functional, once sold, it shut down in months. Exactly what he is doing right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0K4XPu3Qhg
Early days discussion (what I am referencing here) starts at 2:15
I wish I had no morals... Life is so easy when you don't give a single fuck about what you do to others... It's so infuriating to see how many wealthy people have amazing lives because they simply don't give a single fuck about anything but themselves.
Sociopathy is greatly rewarded in this stupid world we live in. :/
The trick is to be rich. Wealth and power does things to a brain and makes the empathy circuits wither and die, so perfect for getting even more rich.
I didn't really look into what this startup did, but it doesn't surprise me. Elon Musk has a very similar kind of story, bullshitting his way to being a billionaire. The system is very heavily stacked in favour of dishonest people.
The system is very heavily stacked in favour of people with a lot of money to start with. Then, those that are "willing to risk it" can reap outrageous returns when their longshots come in. We don't see the losers, but the ones that hit their longshots are what we have "at the top" now.
I just want to be clear, most CEOs aren't smart. They have a slightly higher median intelligence than the wider population, but by and large CEOs are no more talented than your average used car salesman. While there's certainly outliers (on both sides), most intelligent people don't start careers in a field with an 80%+ chance of failure in the first 5 years. Altman's success in particular is 50% luck, 50% being a very convincing liar. These people aren't geniuses, they pay people to think for them, which is why having a machine think for them sounds like a great idea.
A lot of CEO's could say they have no clue what they're doing and mostly just 'faked it till they made it; and still fake it'
How is this guy a fucking CEO
I think that psychopaths naturally claw their way up to that position, so it checks out
Speaking of looks, why does he look like he's had some unnecessary plastic surgery?
Because he probably did. Most of these people are vain as shit.
Dude seems just so out of touch at this point. You can't make confident threats about the technology and then just go 'oops haha'
"I'm delighted to be wrong about this, I thought there would have been more impact on entry-level white-collar jobs being eliminated by now than has actually happened," Altman told CBA Chief Executive Matt Comyn in a virtual interview at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference in Sydney (via Reuters).
...he says after two years of some of the biggest tech layoffs in history that have impacted numerous tech businesses.
Maybe he just means he knows the companies are lying about layoffs for AI and it's just an excuse to cut labor, but I doubt it.
Yeah the job market is teetering and quite frankly I think the numbers coming out are a little cooked these days, because they paint a rosier picture than I see around me.
Any word on the plumber?
So hard to find a good plumber
So easy to find a goomba.
Sam Altman should shut up. He is partly to blame for this.
Selfish prick.
CEO of tech company talks about slop.
Sam allotment has the eyes of a man the ai has been using as a meat puppet for a year.
This spelling error was brought to you by swype. Any decent keyboards or there?
All the AI ceos are 100% high on their own supply.
Most CEOs likely are, because it tells them what they want to hear, and they have minions to actually make it work.
Real people are likely to see the AI is bullshit,but they're insulated by humans dealing with it
Haha nice one, I have been using Floris Board from F-Droid, really nice so far!
I've been using Heliboard on Android for a while now and like it, basically FOSS swipe keyboard.
Currently uses Google's closed-source swipe library which you have to manually download, but they're actively working on crowd sourcing an open source one which you can contribute to in the app.
I sacrificed auto-completion and went with flickboard
Waiter! Waiter! I'll have my billionaire with a side of politician, please!
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