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Didn't you see the crowd Wooo-ing and clapping when Sam Altman said "Today, we're announcing Dots"?

The crowd lost their minds before Sam even told them what Dots were.

He even called them out on it when announcing 6.1 Sol "You don't even know what it is yet"

Aren’t these crowds mostly people that work at the company? So you’re really cheering for the thing you built?

(I remember that being the explanation of why people would cheer at very lame things at Apple events.)

If that's true that restores my faith in humanity maybe they're cheering for stuff their friends were working on. Otherwise, the consumerism has reached a point where giving up on society and waiting for the next flood seems like a reasonable option.

Yeah, the front dozen rows were reserved for OpenAI employees.

It’s called a circle jerk.

> The crowd lost their minds before Sam even told them what Dots were.

Maybe they were cheering on The Muppets inspired AI avatars, resembling Kermit, Scooter etc.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1002033/...

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