If they're trying to act like they're "saving the world" they're doing a terrible job. It's honestly gross how much money is going into an industry that at best doesn't touch any real problems for humanity, and at worst amplifies the worst among them.
And I don't really think they sound like they're trying to save the world. They sound like they're trying to get rich.
Real innovations are often boring, but they transform human lives. So far, AI has not cleared that bar. I keep hearing that AI may go rogue and exterminate humanity, but for now I'm not even sure what it will enable me to do that I couldn't do before.
Altman is not an AI founder. He's a business owner and investor. He doesn't even have an undergrad degree! The actual AI founders are the ones building the tech, and OpenAI has chased many of them away.
There are a lot of smart people in the tech industry without undergrad degrees.
The problem is, in the current generation of tech workers, there's two kinds of people without degrees:
1) The grinder who has a knack for whatever part of the field that they work in and made their name through hard work and building a portfolio of work through practical experience
and
2) The (usually) guy who went to a college prep school, got into Stanford, and encountered a SV VC with exponentially more money than sense, who then told the 21-year-old that they were not a college student, but, in fact, Jesus Christ, and promised more money than the average person could comprehend to "pursue their dreams".
Altman falls into the latter category. Actually, a lot of the founder set does. I say (usually) guy because Elizabeth Holmes also falls into this category.
AI is all about show business, but it still requires hard work and a hell of a lot of Oompa Loompas, so Sam Altman should hire Deep Roy, the hardest working man in show business.
Yeah there's literally no useful applications outside first drafts of code, but don't worry just a few hundred billion more and it'll cure cancer and solve physics!!
duped|1 year ago
And I don't really think they sound like they're trying to save the world. They sound like they're trying to get rich.
ForHackernews|1 year ago
I posted this yesterday, but "AI is failing the Indoor Plumbing Test": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42840785
Real innovations are often boring, but they transform human lives. So far, AI has not cleared that bar. I keep hearing that AI may go rogue and exterminate humanity, but for now I'm not even sure what it will enable me to do that I couldn't do before.
tensor|1 year ago
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Jimmc414|1 year ago
I don't either. Am I disallowed from calling myself a founder?
lenerdenator|1 year ago
There are a lot of smart people in the tech industry without undergrad degrees.
The problem is, in the current generation of tech workers, there's two kinds of people without degrees:
1) The grinder who has a knack for whatever part of the field that they work in and made their name through hard work and building a portfolio of work through practical experience
and
2) The (usually) guy who went to a college prep school, got into Stanford, and encountered a SV VC with exponentially more money than sense, who then told the 21-year-old that they were not a college student, but, in fact, Jesus Christ, and promised more money than the average person could comprehend to "pursue their dreams".
Altman falls into the latter category. Actually, a lot of the founder set does. I say (usually) guy because Elizabeth Holmes also falls into this category.
paulddraper|1 year ago
Bill Gates is a tech founder.
DonHopkins|1 year ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Roy#:~:text=He%20played%2...
>In referencing his workload during production, director Tim Burton called Roy the "hardest-working man in show biz".
Becoming Oompa-Loompa | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J7Dg-mUJHE
JumpCrisscross|1 year ago
They’ve literally been pitching themselves as capable of destroying it.
diamond559|1 year ago