I have to admit I'm enjoying OpenAI's progression from "we're building the future of synthetic sentience, we will be the birthplace of a new silicon hypergod, everyone better watch out" to "well, artificial general intelligence is kind of hard to define, maybe that's not a useful term" to "we can't figure out how to make any money selling people personally-tailored pornography generators so we're turning their chatbot girlfriends off."

I'm looking forward to their next big innovation!

@mhoye This last one was a breakthrough! I hope they can continue this innovation by shutting down ChatGPT and the whole company.

@mhoye as the rubber hits the road, we are learning that there is not very much rubber, and not very much road.

the only upside to this mess will be watching the slow-motion car crash as it all falls apart.

@mhoye Sam's Seriously Subprime Slash Discount GPUs, coming soon! All GPUs MUST GO
@aud @mhoye me just hanging on waiting for the flash prices to crash so I can buy SSDs again, while considering whether to sell all the RAM I have and just not use a computer until I can buy it all back at a fraction of the cost
@petrichor @mhoye sometimes I think about seeing how much my RAM is worth... then I think... ehhhh. For now, at least, it's more useful than RAM.

something something, "the retirement RAM!"...
@mhoye Capitalism predominantly prevents true innovation. It just has given us one scam after another. And 27 kinds of hot sauce.
@mhoye I'm looking forward to the point when they realise there's better return on investment running a burger restaurant then building LLMs
@mhoye you can fool some of the people all of the time… #Karma
@mhoye Their next big innovation is powering military industrial genocide at a new larger scale
@mhoye I'm not looking forward to the innovation where they crash the economy.