It’s technically true but not the whole truth. Those calculations leave out certain costs such as the value of the stocks given to employees, the cost of training new models and revenue shared with partners like Amazon. It’s not that uncommon practice with technology companies when wanting to show inverstors a cleaner picture of the core business but it does not mean that the company as whole has become profitable.

Generally the benchmark for AGI has been “human level intelligence” meaning that from there on AI is also the best AI researcher and human input is no longer needed in developing it. That’s where the concept of singularity or intelligence explosion stems from.

The narrative here tends to be that it goes from AGI to ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) very rapidly but in my view there’s not a significant difference between the two. AI that is as intelligent as a human but not more would still process information about a million times faster so effectively it would still be superintelligent.

That’s perfectly reasonable. I mostly take issue with the people claiming absolute certainty either way.

What good could hundred thousand of the world’s best scientists do for me if they had decades to study every question I asked and could answer them immediately?

Nothing I guess if you absolutely want to figure it all out by yourself.

That article reports that Anthropic told investors it expected one profitable quarter in 2026. It does not claim the company as a whole had become profitable.

Anthropic has raised large amounts of money by giving investors special instruments that can later turn into stock. When the company’s overall value rises a lot, the value of those instruments also rises. Accounting rules require the company to record that increase as a loss on its books, even though no cash actually went out the door to anyone. This explains about 72 of those 80 billion. It’s not actual money spent.

Anthropic has committed to spending at least $518 billion over a decade on cloud services, computing and infrastructure.

They’re betting everything on AGI. I don’t think anyone there at any point has even hoped that the tiny initial revenue streams would cover the absolutely gigantic upfront costs of setting everything up.

Now, whether they’ll actually reach AGI before this thing implodes is anyone’s guess. The people who claim that they absolutely will are full of shit just like the ones claiming they absolutely will not. Nobody knows and only time will tell.

It’s pretty clear the author here is misinformed and thought that those are rocket engines. Just like they were misinformed about why the caps are attached to the bottles.

Them creating this cartoon and posting it online produced CO² as well. Nothing survives that purity test.

Those thrusters use compressed air.

Ofcourse they own more when they’ve had more time to accumulate wealth.

I still want to live longer and I find it quite insane to oppose technology that could achieve this.

Who would’ve thought that the notion of extending human lifespan would receive this level of cynicism and opposition.

I just had a 100 year old customer and they didn’t look a day over 80. He retired two years before I was born.

I don’t think there’s any secret to it. They simply have exceptional genes.

so you can keep some in the sink until you do the dishes.

That’s how they get dull. Knife should never be stored wet for even 10 minutes.

Just keep any knife that cost over 10 bucks as far from that thing as you possibly can. These absolutely annihilate the edge.

I never quite figured out what people need multiple knives for when I get by perfectly fine with a single high quality santoku chef knife.

I’ve probably done something correctly in my life since I can’t say I even know what that sounds like. I think I’ve done one video call ever when I was getting my permit for hot work. I don’t remember what app I used for that.

You’re not trying to remove a moral status but deny it in the first place. That’s different but the end result of it still seems the same.

We used to justify the mistreatment of animals with the assumption that they had no subjective experience either. I’m not suggesting AI does but I’m also not claiming it with absolute certainty does not either, and the more we develop those systems, the more likely it seems to me that at some point there’s a good chance that they will.

The psychological drive behind the urge to call something with a derogatory term is the same in both cases.

That is how slurs tend to be used: as a tool to dehumanize something we wish to grant no moral value to.

My hot take is that anyone intentionally being mean to an AI is not a psychologically stable person and similar behaviour can most likely be observed in other parts of their life as well.

This is why “Westworld” would never work. Whether the robots there actually feel anything is beside the point. We’d simply view the people who go there to take pleasure in abusing these human-like machines as the sadistic psychopaths that they are.

I order most of my stuff from ebay or aliexpress so I’m used to weeks long waits. When the package finally arrives I have often already forgot what I ordered.

I just ordered a longsword a week back and the esimated delivery was in 60 days.

I don’t consider this NSFW content. I just know some people feel uneasy at the mere sight of blood so I just wanted to give them a heads up before clicking the thumbnail. Now I realize though, that some apps probably expand the images automatically.