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At this point, it seems pretty obvious that Altman is a grifter. I wonder when/if the rest of the world is going to figure it out?

@nixCraft conversely I can code but I suck at lying and hyping up things that aren't all that.

We all have our skills, and I prefer mine even if they pay less

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Not a surprise at all...

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Sam the Visionary

https://youtu.be/lE1bS-Mn2Mk?si=72VxNQLzbVPiVnDI

@nixCraft in every photo I've seen of him, he looks like a child caught in a lie and awkwardly trying to think of how to get out of it

It's pure bullshit all the way and people are starting wake up to it

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He’s a snake oil salesman, a con man. To be frank this is the main skill set of CEOs.

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During the dot-com boom I noticed something about almost all of the heads of VCs, investment funds, and high-value tech firms, etc. I met: They weren't smart -- they were sneaky.

They reached their positions not because of technical or leadership brilliance, but because they were great at fucking over the smart people and forcing themselves into positions they were wholly incapable of and then setting conditions that made removing them impossible. I assume it only got worse since.

@nixCraft This is my surprised face: 😐

Seriously, did anyone actually not already realize this? Every single person pushing to pretend LLMs are "general AI" either has no clue how a LLM actually works or is trying to make a quick buck no matter the damage it inevitably causes when they don't actually work like that.

As far as I can tell, all the heads of each of the so called "AI" corporations started off in the first category, but also the second at the same time... They have no clue how any of it works, just how to sell it.

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See my top pinned post and note the date.

@nixCraft Absolutely not surprised. Most of these very huge "tech" figures are just like most other CEOs. They're sociopaths benefiting from the abilities of others. SBF, Sam Altman, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and many others.

They might have business savvy, and they might be good at mobilizing workforces, but they aren't tech minds.

The Bill Gates-es of the world, who actually are competent programmers while heading software companies, are comparatively rare (regardless of everybody's opinions on Microsoft and Windows, Bill Gates is not a terrible programmer, and he can leap chairs with style too).

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That kind-of explains the blind adherence to “scale is all you need”.

I can sort-of excuse it from Hinton and LeCunn, covered in scars as they are from 40 years of symbolic AI vs connectionism battles, but the new generation at the head of OpenAI and Anthropic both seem to be a billion-dollar foolish in their pursuit of “scale”