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> while the company continues to hire workers for its newly formed superintelligence team, TBD Lab. It's coming any day now! > "... each person will be more

by rdtsc 1y ago

> while the company continues to hire workers for its newly formed superintelligence team, TBD Lab. It's coming any day now! > "... each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” Wang writes It's only a matter of time before the superintelligence decides to lay off the managers too. Soon Mr. Wang will be gone and we'll see press releases like: > ”By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, so the logical step I took was to reduce the team size to 0" ... AI superintelligence, which now runs Meta, declared in an interview with Axios.

czbond 1y ago
I think the step before it came to that would be, Mr. Wang getting the DevOps team to casually trip over the server rack(s) electrical....
- nkozyra 1y ago
  I will accept the Chief Emergency Shutoff Activator Officer role; my required base comp is $25M. But believe me, nobody can trip over cables or run multiple microwaves simultaneously like I can.
  - czbond 1y ago
    I think you're on to something with that C.E.S.A.O. role. Trademark it ha
electric_mayhem 1y ago
It’s only a matter of time before corporations are run by AI. Add that to “corporate personhood” and what do we get?
- deleted 1y ago
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- JTbane 1y ago
  It's funny to think that the C-suite would ever give up their massive compensation packages.
  - doctorwho42 1y ago
    They arent a monolith. They would gladly sacrifice n number of c-suites they dont know, if it increased their networth by 1%.
rvz 1y ago
This is phase 1 of the so-called "AGI". Probably automated themselves out of their roles as "AGI" and now super intelligence "ASI" has been "achieved internally". The billion dollar question is.. where is it?
- fragmede 1y ago
  I'm guessing it's in Gallatin, Tennessee, based on what they've made public. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/meta-brings-data-centers-in-tents-to-gallatin-tennessee/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/meta-brings-data-... But maybe not: https://open.substack.com/pub/datacenterrichness/p/meta-empties-5-data-centers-to-create https://open.substack.com/pub/datacenterrichness/p/meta-empt... Other options are Ohio or Louisiana.
- bird0861 1y ago
  It seems highly unlikely the line from BERT to ASI threads itself with anyone responsible for Llama 4, especially almost back to back.
jsheard 1y ago
> It's coming any day now! I'm loving this juxtaposition of companies hyping up imminent epoch-defining AGI, while simultaneously dedicating resources to building TikTok But Worse or adding erotica support to ChatGPT. Interesting priorities.
- jacquesm 1y ago
  > adding erotica support to ChatGPT They really need that business model.
  - throwacct 1y ago
    I mean, it's a path to "profitability", isn't it?
    - jacquesm 1y ago
      Charging me for stuff I am not using is why I will sooner rather than later leave google. It's ridiculous how they tack on this non-feature and then charge you as if you're using it. For ChatGPT I have a lower bar because it is easier to avoid.
    - monkeynotes 1y ago
      Hardly, they are burning money with TikSlop, they don't even know how to monetize it, just YOLO'd the product to keep investors interested. Even the porn industry can't seem to monetize AI, so I doubt OpenAI who knows jack shit about this space will be able to. Fact is generative AI is stupidly expensive to run, and I can't see mass adoption at subscription prices that actually allow them to break even. I'm sure folks have seen the commentary on the cost of all this infrastructure. How can an LLM business model possibly pay for a nuclear power station, let alone the ongoing overheads of the rest of the infrastructure? The whole thing just seems like total fantasy. I don't even think they believe they are going to reach AGI, and even if they did, and if companies did start hiring AI agents instead of humans, then what? If consumers are out of work, who the hell is going to keep the economy going? I just don't understand how smart people think this is going to work out at all.
username223 1y ago
> ”By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision,..." I got serious uncanny valley vibes from that quote as well. Can anyone prove that "Alexandr Wang" is an actual human, and not just a server rack with a legless avatar in the Metaverse?

by rdtsc 1y ago

czbond 1y ago

I think the step before it came to that would be, Mr. Wang getting the DevOps team to casually trip over the server rack(s) electrical....

nkozyra 1y ago
I will accept the Chief Emergency Shutoff Activator Officer role; my required base comp is $25M. But believe me, nobody can trip over cables or run multiple microwaves simultaneously like I can.
- czbond 1y ago
  I think you're on to something with that C.E.S.A.O. role. Trademark it ha

electric_mayhem 1y ago

It’s only a matter of time before corporations are run by AI. Add that to “corporate personhood” and what do we get?

deleted 1y ago
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JTbane 1y ago
It's funny to think that the C-suite would ever give up their massive compensation packages.
- doctorwho42 1y ago
  They arent a monolith. They would gladly sacrifice n number of c-suites they dont know, if it increased their networth by 1%.

rvz 1y ago

This is phase 1 of the so-called "AGI". Probably automated themselves out of their roles as "AGI" and now super intelligence "ASI" has been "achieved internally". The billion dollar question is.. where is it?

fragmede 1y ago
I'm guessing it's in Gallatin, Tennessee, based on what they've made public. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/meta-brings-data-centers-in-tents-to-gallatin-tennessee/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/meta-brings-data-... But maybe not: https://open.substack.com/pub/datacenterrichness/p/meta-empties-5-data-centers-to-create https://open.substack.com/pub/datacenterrichness/p/meta-empt... Other options are Ohio or Louisiana.
bird0861 1y ago
It seems highly unlikely the line from BERT to ASI threads itself with anyone responsible for Llama 4, especially almost back to back.

jsheard 1y ago

> It's coming any day now! I'm loving this juxtaposition of companies hyping up imminent epoch-defining AGI, while simultaneously dedicating resources to building TikTok But Worse or adding erotica support to ChatGPT. Interesting priorities.

jacquesm 1y ago
> adding erotica support to ChatGPT They really need that business model.
- throwacct 1y ago
  I mean, it's a path to "profitability", isn't it?
  - jacquesm 1y ago
    Charging me for stuff I am not using is why I will sooner rather than later leave google. It's ridiculous how they tack on this non-feature and then charge you as if you're using it. For ChatGPT I have a lower bar because it is easier to avoid.
  - monkeynotes 1y ago
    Hardly, they are burning money with TikSlop, they don't even know how to monetize it, just YOLO'd the product to keep investors interested. Even the porn industry can't seem to monetize AI, so I doubt OpenAI who knows jack shit about this space will be able to. Fact is generative AI is stupidly expensive to run, and I can't see mass adoption at subscription prices that actually allow them to break even. I'm sure folks have seen the commentary on the cost of all this infrastructure. How can an LLM business model possibly pay for a nuclear power station, let alone the ongoing overheads of the rest of the infrastructure? The whole thing just seems like total fantasy. I don't even think they believe they are going to reach AGI, and even if they did, and if companies did start hiring AI agents instead of humans, then what? If consumers are out of work, who the hell is going to keep the economy going? I just don't understand how smart people think this is going to work out at all.

username223 1y ago

> ”By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision,..." I got serious uncanny valley vibes from that quote as well. Can anyone prove that "Alexandr Wang" is an actual human, and not just a server rack with a legless avatar in the Metaverse?