I’ve heard someone call it billionaire brain rot. I think at some point you end up with so much money and not enough people telling you no, that it literally changes your brain.
Seems likely.
TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion
Submitted 1 month ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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cybersandwich@lemmy.world 1 month ago
noobface@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Imagine never hearing the word “No.” as a complete sentence ever again in your life.
normanwall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or when you do just assuming you can override them eventually
We had a guy like that at work, he said basically “how far above you do I have to go to get what I want”
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think it’s also likely that it’s very hard to amass billions unless you already have some sort of brain rot.
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
$7trillion is three times the GDP if Brazil. It is bigger then the US federal budget. Seriously it is insane.
vonxylofon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This guy is an absolute lunatic.
“Gimme all of the world’s money several times over for this fancy T9 that I’m playing with.”
If someone wrote a cartoon villain using his quotes, it would be dismissed as unbelievable and rubbish.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A-and all that money is basically scammed out of hype over something that won’t be the thing people think it will be, because that would be a magic wand for everything.
When they mean artificial intelligence, they mean some kind of self-designing civilization, except it does their bidding. Goethe’s Zauberlehrling comes to mind.
And a lot of money does find a way to do things, just like a lot of effort applied does find a way to break something. Except the curves are not linear, and no amount of effort and money has allowed us to settle Mars yet.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He is an empty husk of a man who has completed his transformation into a pure PR machine
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
His involvement in the infamous WorldCoin provides useful insight into Altman.
An oligarch and a degenerate (outside the US many oligarchs have a more or less sober understanding of who they are).
FatCat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lol
2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Open AI has a projected revenue of 3 Billion this year.
It is currently projected to burn 8 Billion on training costs this year.
Now it needs 5 Gigawatt data centers worth over 100 Billion.
And new fabs worth 7 Trillion to supply all the chips.I get that it’s trying to dominate a new market but that’s ludicrous. And even with everything so far they haven’t really pulled far ahead of competing models like Claude and Gemini who are also training like crazy.
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There is no market. This whole thing is a huge speculative bubble, a bit like crypto. The core idea of crypto long term make some sense but the speculative value does not. The core idea of LLMs (we are no where near true AI) makes some sense but it is half baked technology. It hadn’t even reached maturity and enshittification has set in.
OpenAI doesn’t have a realistic business plan. It has a griftet who is riding a wave of nonsense in the tech markets.
makyo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
IMO it’s even worse than that. At least from what I gather from the AI/Singularity communities I follow. For them, AGI is the end goal - a creative thinking AI capable of deduction far greater than humanity. The company that owns that suddenly has the capability to solve all manner of problems that are slowing down technological advancement. Obviously owning that would be worth trillions.
However it’s really hard to see through the smoke that the Altmans etc. are putting up - how much of it is actual genuine prediction and how much is fairy tales they’re telling to get more investment?
And I’d have a hard time believing it isn’t mostly the latter because while LLMs have made some pretty impressive advancements, they still can’t have specialized discussions about pretty much anything without hallucinating answers. I have a test I use for each new generation of LLMs where I interview them about a book I’m relatively familiar with and even with the newest ChatGPT model, it still makes up a ton of shit, even often contradicting its own answers in that thread, all the while absolutely confident that it’s familiar with the source material.
Honestly, I’ll believe they’re capable of advancing AI when we get an AI that can say ‘I actually am not sure about that, let me do a search…’ or something like that.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
yeah, i really hate this. i have shares of multiple tech companies, like nvidia, intel, AMD, TSMC, etc. and because of the AI bubble idk how much they are really worth. the market is all warped and one day a company us doing well, the next day it seems to be in peril. i would like to know how much they would be worth after the bubble bursts, but there us no way to know.
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
This guy is losing touch of reality
Tramort@programming.dev 1 month ago
I know musk is bipolar. Is Altman too?
Bipolar can cause this kind of request. It’s called a delusion of grandiosity.
downhomechunk@midwest.social 1 month ago
I think it’s a delusion of grandeur.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh wow I didn’t actually know he was bipolar. I knew he was on the autism spectrum.
I can’t imagine those 2 play nice together.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The climate? What climate? Who cares about the climate?
Bookmeat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“But the breakthrough will come just as soon as the chips no one can make are delivered.”
Probably.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
You can buy a lot of Twitters for that money
rimu@piefed.social 1 month ago
Middle Eastern money
Something tells me the Saudis don't want AI for the betterment of *all* humanity.
Could be the human rights abuses, dunno.
Speculater@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Imagine an AI bound by Sharia law, the current ones limited by American puritanical bullshit are already bad enough. “How did prostitution during the gold rush affect the economy of mining towns?”
ERROR THIS QUESTION VIOLATES GUIDELINES
quant@leminal.space 1 month ago
Which is why China is also pushing hard for AI as well.
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It needs lots of energy.
Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
The Bloomberg podcast series ‘Foundering – The OpenAI Story’ is quite insightful in regard to Sam Altman’s psyche.
There are five episodes, first is here:
Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
He will get that. The ultra rich ignore all healthy limits.
2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 1 month ago
[deleted]Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It seems that the ~$3.7 billion revenue figure is from this NYT article.
Some interesting background:
Roughly 10 million ChatGPT users pay the company a $20 monthly fee, according to the documents. OpenAI expects to raise that price by $2 by the end of the year, and will aggressively raise it to $44 over the next five years, the documents said.
It will be interesting to see if their predictions turn out to be true. $44 a month seems steep for an LLM, not to mention there will likely be a lot of competition both from cloud LLM providers and local LLM initiatives.
MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The day AWS starts a Mistral-as-a-service is when OpenAI dies.
interurbain1er@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
$44 a month. Good luck with that. Google will offer Gemini for free until open AI dies of starvation and they will soon have hard time justifying the $20 for most user.
I also doubt their Apple deal last 5 years, I would be surprised if the control freak company sees it as anything more than a temporary belt because they were caught with their pants down.
stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I could maybe see people using it professionally for $44 a month. I don’t see them being successful marketing to the casual, curious, and hobbyists for 3x a streaming subscription.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I can’t wait for the AI bubble to burst.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We are all waiting. If they don’t come up with proven revenue opportunities in the next ~18 months, it’s going to be difficult to justify the astronomical capex spend.
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This podcasting bro is NOT chasing revenue (yet).
He wants power.
He wants to collect 11-12 figure sums of venture capital and then built things that let him rule the world.
And afterwards, maybe revenue.
john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Another year of this shit? I don’t think we can take it, honestly
rollerbang@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mah, won’t happen like this. It was similar with Facebook 10 years ago and look at where it is now.
ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 1 month ago
What does this even mean?
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Which tech titan does it take with it?
My money is on Microsoft as owners of OpenAI, but most have sunk more into it than they should.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I doubt anyone that big will fall, Microsoft have so many fingers in so many pies, they can afford to take a hit like this. Plus, with the Office suite of products, they’re probably in the best place to make something back, even if they don’t make all their money back.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Microsoft are bullet proof. Their share price will take a big hit, and an exec or two will take a golden parachute, but they’ll bounce back very quickly. The bigger problem is that along the way they’ll balance the capex with multiple rounds of cutbacks and layoffs in other departments, and that’s before they’re finally forced to layoff everyone actually connected to this AI nonsense (who isn’t a senior manager or c-suite; they’ll all be fine).
frezik@midwest.social 1 month ago
Nvidea. Their share price would be a fraction of what it is without AI. Just like the last two cryptocurrency bubbles, they went all in and then acted surprised when they popped.
At the same time, they’ve lost a lot of goodwill with gamers, formerly their core audience. With the AAA industry pulling back, games might not be pushing the limits of GPU tech anymore. Microsoft still has their old core products, but Nvidia may return to it to find a wasteland.