It's a market where line has to go up, so bad behaviour is demanded.
Giving OpenAI $30 billion, so that they can spend $30 billion on GPUs, so that you can now report your own $30 billion as revenue is market manipulation and an attempt to get others to invest in this "$300 billion" market, so OpenAI can pay their bonuses and can give Nvidia their 40%.
LLMs might be really good at converting your USB debugging script from Python to Go, and it might do a passable enough translation that you don't need to use Google translate but that's not a $300 billion market.
Are all the people who are super duper worried about GenAI and safety in reality a planted foil? Men cowering in front of the fake paper tiger, so men further away say “this tiger is powerful, just look at how those men are cowering before it”.
I think Altman—and most billionaires it’s in fashion to dislike r.n.—truly mean well. It seems closer to cult-like thinking. Most folks joining a cult are trying to improve their lives. They end up in a thought bubble though that often leads to worse decision making.
I think AI is useful but I don’t think it’s the multi-trillion dollar cash geyser the some of these billionaires are hoping for.
zerosizedweasle•4mo ago