OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it::The man behind ChatGPT is wooing the UAE to invest in energy-hungry AI. But if it turns out his tech can’t fix the world, he’s got his escape plan
Wake me up when “ai” makes the amount of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere trend downward. Generative AI is just a way to burn electricity to take value produced by humans and then replace those same humans, all to line the pockets of the companies that can afford to churn all the data in the world.
For the handful of genuinely cool and interesting things it can do, the number of extremely awful costs and externalities is like 1000x worse.
Wytch@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Tech billionaires trying to solve the world’s problems is a bit like a cancer trying to save its host from organ failure
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 months ago
they are not trying to solve anything really, they just think they are the next best thing earth has ever seen so they have the right to do everything
Orbituary@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m working with a douchebag billionaire directly right now on a complex project related to the ransomware encryption of a healthcare provider. Because he’s part of the private equity firm and a billionaire, he thinks he knows how to drive the resolution better than I and my team of techs do.
All he does is drag me into more meetings and force me to get my techs to do shit that’s not conducive to restoring their systems.
He’s a giant waste of self aggrandized trash.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Oof. I’m gonna use that. 👏
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well, Altman isn’t even a billionaire…
Orbituary@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’re playing checkers, not chess.