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Did he say that?

by p1esk 1y ago

Did he say that?

omnicognate 1y ago
https://youtu.be/xXCBz_8hM9w?si=KjaolnjTJd2Lz82k https://youtu.be/xXCBz_8hM9w?si=KjaolnjTJd2Lz82k 46:12 > What are you excited about in 2025? What's to come? > AGI. Excited for that.
- MattRix 1y ago
  That was a joke, how do people not understand that?
  - omnicognate 1y ago
    Because it wasn't. It was said firmly, with a straight face in response to a simple, serious question, after an interview in which he claimed OpenAI know exactly how to get to AGI and it's just a matter of execution. Of all the possible defenses of this remark, I didn't expect that one.
    - MattRix 1y ago
      If you know how sarcasm works, that’s exactly what it looks like. Afterwards he immediately pondered the question and then gave his real answer (about looking forward to having a kid). Besides all that, think about it: if this wasn’t a joke, then why has he never said the same thing again?
      - an0malous 1y ago
        He has, many times. And when he doesn’t say it directly he insinuates it. > OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in January: “We are now confident we know how to build AGI.” This is after he told a Y Combinator vodcast in late 2024 that AGI might be achieved in 2025 and tweeted in 2024 that OpenAI had “AGI achieved internally.” https://fortune.com/2025/08/25/tech-agi-hype-vibe-shift-superpowered-ai/ https://fortune.com/2025/08/25/tech-agi-hype-vibe-shift-supe... Oh it’s all just jokes though, jokes that Sam has profited enormously from.
      - burnerzzzzz 1y ago
        calm down, in some cultures (american) sarcasm must be clearly telegraphed. In other, it would ruin the joke (british)
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- tim333 1y ago
  I took that as he's excited to be working towards AGI. The one word answer is fairly ambiguous. For context in the same interview he says: >... from here to building an AGI will still take a huge amount of work there are some known unknowns but I think we basically know what to go what to go do and it'll take a while, it'll be hard but that's tremendously exciting... (38:59) which to me doesn't sound like we'll be done within a year.
  - omnicognate 1y ago
    That's a more realistic defense of the remark than "it was a joke". A CEO ought to be a little more circumspect when talking about the future performance of the $150bn company he runs, though. But we live in the era of Elon Musk, so what the hell. I'm going turn my belly button fluff into infinite gold next year. Can I have a few billion?
    - tim333 1y ago
      Sure, I'll see what I can do. Though Musk and Altman only really get away with it because they had past successes - zero to market leader in evs/rockets for Musk and 100 million users in two months for Altman.

Did he say that?

by p1esk 1y ago

Did he say that?

https://youtu.be/xXCBz_8hM9w?si=KjaolnjTJd2Lz82k https://youtu.be/xXCBz_8hM9w?si=KjaolnjTJd2Lz82k 46:12 > What are you excited about in 2025? What's to come? > AGI. Excited for that.

MattRix 1y ago
That was a joke, how do people not understand that?
- omnicognate 1y ago
  Because it wasn't. It was said firmly, with a straight face in response to a simple, serious question, after an interview in which he claimed OpenAI know exactly how to get to AGI and it's just a matter of execution. Of all the possible defenses of this remark, I didn't expect that one.
  - MattRix 1y ago
    If you know how sarcasm works, that’s exactly what it looks like. Afterwards he immediately pondered the question and then gave his real answer (about looking forward to having a kid). Besides all that, think about it: if this wasn’t a joke, then why has he never said the same thing again?
    - an0malous 1y ago
      He has, many times. And when he doesn’t say it directly he insinuates it. > OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in January: “We are now confident we know how to build AGI.” This is after he told a Y Combinator vodcast in late 2024 that AGI might be achieved in 2025 and tweeted in 2024 that OpenAI had “AGI achieved internally.” https://fortune.com/2025/08/25/tech-agi-hype-vibe-shift-superpowered-ai/ https://fortune.com/2025/08/25/tech-agi-hype-vibe-shift-supe... Oh it’s all just jokes though, jokes that Sam has profited enormously from.
    - burnerzzzzz 1y ago
      calm down, in some cultures (american) sarcasm must be clearly telegraphed. In other, it would ruin the joke (british)
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tim333 1y ago
I took that as he's excited to be working towards AGI. The one word answer is fairly ambiguous. For context in the same interview he says: >... from here to building an AGI will still take a huge amount of work there are some known unknowns but I think we basically know what to go what to go do and it'll take a while, it'll be hard but that's tremendously exciting... (38:59) which to me doesn't sound like we'll be done within a year.
- omnicognate 1y ago
  That's a more realistic defense of the remark than "it was a joke". A CEO ought to be a little more circumspect when talking about the future performance of the $150bn company he runs, though. But we live in the era of Elon Musk, so what the hell. I'm going turn my belly button fluff into infinite gold next year. Can I have a few billion?
  - tim333 1y ago
    Sure, I'll see what I can do. Though Musk and Altman only really get away with it because they had past successes - zero to market leader in evs/rockets for Musk and 100 million users in two months for Altman.