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It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 1 day ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (3 children)

When that major drama unfolded with him getting booted then re-hired. It was super fucking obvious that it was all about the money, the data, and the salesmanship He is nothing but a fucking tech-bro. Part Theranos, part Musk, part SBF, part (whatever that pharma asshat was), and all fucking douchebag.

AI is fucking snake oil and an excuse to scrape every bit of data like it's collecting every skin cell dropping off of you.

[–] Rogers@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'd agree the first part but to say all Ai is snake oil is just untrue and out of touch. There are a lot of companies that throw "Ai" on literally anything and I can see how that is snake oil.

But real innovative Ai, everything to protein folding to robotics is here to stay, good or bad. It's already too valuable for governments to ignore. And Ai is improving at a rate that I think most are underestimating (faster than Moore's law).

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

I think part of the difficulty with these discussions is that people mean all sorts of different things by "AI". Much of the current usage is that AI = LLMs, which changes the debate quite a lot

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Martin Shkreli is the scumbag's name you're looking for.

From wikipedia: He was convicted of financial crimes for which he was sentenced to seven years in federal prison, being released on parole after roughly six and a half years in 2022, and was fined over 70 million dollars

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Thank you!

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

It's not snake oil. It is a way to brute force some problems which it wasn't possible to brute force before.

And also it's very useful for mass surveillance and war.