• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    Like anyone would listen to THIS guy about what is “cool.”

    You know what’s cool? Sociopathic Oligarchs stepping off of high buildings. Give it a try, Sam.

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    Yeah because they’re clinging to what they thought was a world in its last sanest place to them before overzealous CEOs were preaching the choir of AI and how it’ll solve everything. It’s easy for them to say and do the shit they do because they have no worry, the worst that can happen is the AI bubble popping, if ever. Even if it does, they’re still well off because of how much they pocketed by overpromising.

    Everyone else got to watch what was once their dreams, be dashed at that cost.

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    He’s basically saying he needs five more years of US tax payer subsidy before he can start turning a profit. LMFAO.

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    I’d say I really don’t want to hear these people’s dumb bullshit and it’s not worthy of attention, but the limelight seems to be significantly harming them, so send it.

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    At its best AI is a tool like every other tool that came before it. And I don’t ever recall worshipping a fishing rod as much as it wants to drag me up to shore.

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        I thought it was neat at first too, but yeah, have definitely lost interest. I’m surprised when I see people at work actually using it like on purpose.

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      Was it?

      Hummmm…

      Yeah, I guess it was cool for a few months, then it quickly stopped being cool…

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        It was cool just long enough for the novelty to wear off and the facts of how it was developed, how environmentally destructive it is, and what it will be used for to come out

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    Nothing screams disruptive innovation like a billionaire scolding young people for not being excited enough about the technology making entry level jobs disappear. Apparently Gen Z should stop chasing what was cool five years ago and start chasing whatever Sam Altman needs investors to believe is cool this quarter.

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      Historic elite psychopaths: “let them eat cake”

      Late stage capitalism elite psychopaths: “The peasants should welcome our totalitarian dystopia, devoid of cake”

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        More like “the peasants have too many cords of wood at home, they should be forced to give them to us so they can rent the heat and we can have a monopoly on temperature control and baking. Also they can rent cake from us”

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            Putting their following comments as a whole into Pangram gives 100% AI as result (Pangram is known to underreport sooner than to overreport):

            Tap for spoiler

            Nothing screams disruptive innovation like a billionaire scolding young people for not being excited enough about the technology making entry level jobs disappear. Apparently Gen Z should stop chasing what was cool five years ago and start chasing whatever Sam Altman needs investors to believe is cool this quarter.

            Funny how »global allocation efficiency« always ends with everyone renting access from the company whose CEO wants to do the allocating. Local AI offers privacy, independence, and no monthly tollbooth. Apparently the real waste of RAM is letting people control what they own.

            Wall Street spent years pricing every chip company as if humanity would soon need a GPU to make toast. Then Intel mentions that people aren’t buying overpriced PCs, and a trillion dollars evaporates. Apparently the most advanced semiconductor technology on Earth still can’t manufacture realistic expectations.

            Of course it reeks of AI. We all write like AI now. Half the internet sounds like a chatbot trying to pass as human, and the other half is humans desperately trying to sound like chatbots. At this point, sounding natural is probably the biggest giveaway that you’re a bot.

            Cisco just handed a 27 year old unlimited AI tokens and the keys to 98% of its codebase. Somewhere, a senior engineer is quietly updating their resume. Rewriting code is easy. Discovering why that horrifying 1998 workaround exists is the actual final boss.

            Intelligence flagged a possible Chinese spy with access to Nvidia’s CEO, and the response was apparently to worry about Nvidia’s share price? So the chips are too sensitive to export, but the intelligence is too sensitive for the stock market? Very efficient system: national security gets the risk, shareholders get the protection.

            The best part is that we spent 15 years cutting emissions just so a handful of billionaires could burn the savings teaching chatbots to summarize emails nobody wanted to read. Then they’ll sell us AI powered climate solutions, funded by taxpayers, to clean up the mess. Innovation really is a beautiful circle.

            Google spent decades telling publishers to create quality content, then built a machine to read it aloud without sending anyone to the source. Now it’s shocked that the machine makes less money. Congratulations: they’ve invented a search engine that eats both its suppliers and its own business model.

            Musk wanted to be Tony Stark. Somehow he ended up with Vladimir Putin in his fan club. The truly dystopian part isn’t the praise: it’s that one billionaire can turn critical communications infrastructure into his personal mood ring while governments keep treating him like a public utility with a podcast.

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        Honestly, that sounds like a shakedown to me. The case was thrown out, and the family has said she had a variety of mental health issues. She also made a tweet blaming Elon Musk for being homeless, which isn’t a good look for her.

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          Someone else posted on another thread a republican judge threw out case because she medically couldn’t move and she wanted somewhere closer to her. They then claimed the below:

          she refused to appear for an independent medical examination despite warnings that failure to do so would result in the case’s dismissal.

          So in context sounds like they got him off on technicalities. I dont know much else so hopefully someone else fill more.

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          and the family has said she had a variety of mental health issues

          She was raped by her brother. Use your head.

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            She also accuses her brother of hacking her WiFi and spying on her and a bunch of other paranoid sounding things. Not saying this to discredit her but just put it in context

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      Bro you forgot to attribute the quote properly.

      “What a piece of shit” - Altmans Mom, on behalf of the 99%

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      Oh, but Zuck, Thiel and Musk certainly do. Totally no awkwardness with these shining beacons of social competence!