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ML is an interesting technology. AI is a cult. Some people are in really deep.

by shirro 2y ago

ghaff 2y ago
Before the current phase there was certainly a radical transparency cult. See “The Circle” which wasn’t as obviously satirical as it probably should have been. But also lifestreaming etc.
- xwolfi 2y ago
  I don't know if that was as asinine, all-pervasive and exhausting as the AI one. Altman bought millions of dollars of video game cards to make a website that can invent sentences by parsing hundreds of years of human work to guesstimate what passes for expected, and now each time I go to a meeting like "Algo trading, onboarding client X" in my company just yday, a frigging asshole always asks: "And AI, have you thought of AI to trade algorithmically". And the head of algo, a PhD in mathematics, C++ developer, actual money maker, sigh one more time "yes, we're studying what it can do ofc, since it's the future of everything". The asshole asking that question is always the same: optimal level of incompetence, insecure about his position, aggressive with anyone "resisting change" when we try to save him from himself, and gone within 2 years. Sigh, the time we lose, and as I grow older and navigate those hypes, I feel half of humanity is some sort of social scamming parasite. I just am too shy to try and be one myself.
  - not_really 2y ago
    I enjoyed your comment
xwolfi 2y ago
And Altman is a disgusting guru, it's so painfully obvious but somehow he gets the same amount of pushback as Enron "Electric Jesus" Musk, but for half the accomplishment: at least Enron built cars, lots of cars. Shitty cars, but cars. Mr Altman (whom everyone calls Sam like he's their friendly post-human overload) is just a cringe VC scammer, not very sure why he's there in the first place, sending "Her" to create some hype 2 days before being called out like a pervert by an actress :D It's hard to see a train going full speed towards a wall and everyone congratulating the pilot for his ability to go that fast, sigh.

ML is an interesting technology. AI is a cult. Some people are in really deep.

by shirro 2y ago

ML is an interesting technology. AI is a cult. Some people are in really deep.

Before the current phase there was certainly a radical transparency cult. See “The Circle” which wasn’t as obviously satirical as it probably should have been. But also lifestreaming etc.

xwolfi 2y ago
I don't know if that was as asinine, all-pervasive and exhausting as the AI one. Altman bought millions of dollars of video game cards to make a website that can invent sentences by parsing hundreds of years of human work to guesstimate what passes for expected, and now each time I go to a meeting like "Algo trading, onboarding client X" in my company just yday, a frigging asshole always asks: "And AI, have you thought of AI to trade algorithmically". And the head of algo, a PhD in mathematics, C++ developer, actual money maker, sigh one more time "yes, we're studying what it can do ofc, since it's the future of everything". The asshole asking that question is always the same: optimal level of incompetence, insecure about his position, aggressive with anyone "resisting change" when we try to save him from himself, and gone within 2 years. Sigh, the time we lose, and as I grow older and navigate those hypes, I feel half of humanity is some sort of social scamming parasite. I just am too shy to try and be one myself.
- not_really 2y ago
  I enjoyed your comment

xwolfi 2y ago

And Altman is a disgusting guru, it's so painfully obvious but somehow he gets the same amount of pushback as Enron "Electric Jesus" Musk, but for half the accomplishment: at least Enron built cars, lots of cars. Shitty cars, but cars. Mr Altman (whom everyone calls Sam like he's their friendly post-human overload) is just a cringe VC scammer, not very sure why he's there in the first place, sending "Her" to create some hype 2 days before being called out like a pervert by an actress :D It's hard to see a train going full speed towards a wall and everyone congratulating the pilot for his ability to go that fast, sigh.