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Because Sam Altman is a con man with a business degree. He doesn't work on his products, he barely understands them which is why he'll throw out wild shit like "ChatGPT will solve physics." as though that isn't a completely nonsensical phrase, and uncritical tech press lap it up because his bullshit generates a lot of clicks.

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>Sam Altman is a con man with a business degree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman

Early life and education: ... In 2005, after two years at Stanford University studying computer science, he dropped out without earning a bachelor's degree [end of transmission, no more education]

I stand corrected. He's a con man.

I feel that drop outs are presented as if they are beyond education, they’re too smart to waste their time in school. While that could be true in theory, I resist taking that for granted. You can always look at it the other way around as well: unable to finish things or looses interest quickly. It’s all a meaningless interpretatin after all but all I can say is for sure that Mr Altman does not have a degree.

I wouldn't go quite so far but I would settle for being able to use Sora before they "solve physics"...

I don't even know when I watched the shitty lightbulb head Sora clip but that feels so long ago now and nothing?

I just want to make crazy experimental AI film no one will watch. What is the hold up?

Just waiting for "This technology is just too dangerous to release before the US elections" --Sam Altman

I mean I've said it before and I'll say it again: you do not need AI images/video for faking political spin shit. That was done LONG before chatGPT/Midjourney/Sora existed because the people you're targeting want to believe that Obama eats babies or whatever the fuck, they don't need a 4K photo-realistic rendering of it to buy in, you just tell them he's doing it and they're on board.

People still believe GamerGate was about ethics in journalism when we have screenshots of the posts where the dickheads responsible for it made fun of the people they would trick with that lie before they told it and they still believe it. Motivated reasoning is a hell of a drug.

Let's at least try to not devolve into name calling.

It's not name calling, it's a description. He is actively selling tech he doesn't fully understand, that is fundamentally not capable of doing what he is selling it to do. LLM's have a place, they have for decades at this point, but they are not intelligent, not in the way he goes out of his way to evoke with what he says, and certainly not in the way his audiences believe. I don't know enough to have a proper opinion on whether true AI is possible; I have to assume it is. But nothing OpenAI has shown is that, or has the potential to be that, nor is it worth anything near 150 billion dollars. It's an overvaluation among overvaluated companies making up an overvaluated industry and when it goes, not if, when, it will have ramifications throughout our industry.

I'm sure it won't though for Mr. Altman. He's done a fantastic job failing-up so far and I have no reason to assume this will be any different.

What else would you call it?

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