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A year ago Sam Altman was going around trying to convince people we all needed to drop 7 trillion dollars to build hundreds of fabs and nuclear power plants to
by dralley 2y ago
A year ago Sam Altman was going around trying to convince people we all needed to drop 7 trillion dollars to build hundreds of fabs and nuclear power plants to fuel his AI ambitions. Only a week ago he was triumphantly announcing 500 billion dollar deals with our new President.
The (regrettably temporary) ousting of Sam Altman looks like the right call, in hindsight. Of course some amount of showmanship is expected, but the extreme nature of this self-serving BS is just laughable.
6 months from now we may be looking at Sam Altman the way we look at Adam Neumann.
- anotherhue 2y agoReality can rarely compete with good showmanship. Weren't we discussing HyperNormalisation just yesterday?
- romanovcode 2y agoThe timing with the 500b deal is just perfect
- deegles 2y agoOr Elizabeth Holmes....
- Animats 2y agoLatest word from The Leader: "Even as some U.S. tech stocks plunged on Monday after it appeared that DeepSeek could produce similar results as rival models with a system that was cheaper to build, Trump projected confidence, calling it “very much a positive development.” He reasoned that American companies would be able to adapt and evolve based on DeepSeek’s demonstration that effective systems can be developed more easily than some assumed."
- azinman2 2y agoIt’s not wrong
- imtringued 2y agoThe bitter lesson was never about hardware scaling being the only ingredient. It was about favouring generalist approaches that can scale with your hardware budget over carefully handcrafted bespoke solutions that conserve the "cheap" resource. I'm not seeing anyone at OpenAI abandon the static weights model and yet they have audacity to claim that they just need to scale more?