The Altman Cometh!
The Altman Cometh!
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Don't dismiss this nonsense.
Someone once told me the browser would be the platform of the future for running applications sometime in the mid 90's and I dismissed the guy because he was a BS-talking marketdroid - and also because the idea was completely idiotic on its face. Yet here we are...
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We tend to remember the hits and forget the misses. They said we'd all be plugged into VR and riding around on Segways, too, etc. Those things settled into mature, but minor, technologies, and no doubt genAI will too--but that's not going to generate enough revenue to justify the out of this world valuations of OpenAI, et. al.
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We've been trying to abstract hardware since... C. We've had much better virtual machines, but they never catch on.
Adoption is a feature you can't design.
But for LLMs digging any deeper than they already have, lol no. Microsoft bet the farm and demanded a whole new keyboard key. People see it as an unreliable convenience at best. It's not getting any better until after the bubble pops.
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We’ve been abstracting away hardware details since the invention of punchcards. “Assembly code” is a remarkably high level abstraction above microcode, which is a remarkably high abstraction above logic gate arrays.
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He’s still kinda wrong though. With the exception of corporate desk jobs, the vast majority of computing is done on phones/tablets these days and on those platforms apps are still king.
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Well, it's how the personal terminals in star trek are used most of the time. They don't even have keyboards, not only in the cabins but also the one in Picard's ready room.
On TNG only the nerdiest nerd of all, so much of a nerd to be an android, had a computer with a physical input interface in his cabin, Data.
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ChatGPT... the everything app? I've heard that one before.
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The thing companies don't seem to understand is that the reason why "everything" apps are so popular in the Global South is because people in the Global South dont have the space on their phones nor the resources to have 10 different apps for ten different services so having one service do it all is more convenient for them.
They keep trying to replicate it in the Global North is because having one app to do it all would make whatever company that manages it very very rich, but they fail to consider the other factors, as always.
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Thats makes absolutely zero sense. At this point it is only marketing nonsense.
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The danger to OpenAI here is people will see that and then start to question whether some of their precious insane claims are also just marketing nonsense.
The man behind the curtain should stop humming and tapping his foot if he doesn’t want people looking.
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Hey ChatGPT, where are the project files for the client I’ve been working on?
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Now you have to remember to save and backup your homework.
With AIOS™©® you have to make sure your homework is kept in context, look at a hallucinated Facebook page for too long and all your work is gone.
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And on this server farm we used all the water, AI AI OS
With a drought drought here and a drought drought there...
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Please process my payments for me, too.
And my online shopping in general.
No problems here, nuh huh.
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Perfect Simpsons reference. Sick.
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Tell him to go discover the Black Marker and promptly sink into the ocean already.
I won't be around for the Unitologist takeover anyway.
This reeks of desperation. Almost as if, AGI claims have always been bullshit. Now, they are just scrambling to find a use case.
The only true use case I've found for LLMs is generating acceptable bullshit.
When I needed to let a vendor know that we were not going to renew the contract, I didn't want to have to use my brain power to come up with the business-speak version of "piss off", so I had copilot write the first draft.
It's excellent at bullshit. I'm not sure they can recoup their investment with that. Maybe if they start replacing all the C-suite folks with AI across all industries, it could make a small dent.
They're useful for parsing large documents quickly. I upload a manual for something I'm unfamiliar with and troubleshoot with it.
Doesn't replace me because you still have to know when it's full of shit but it's great for skipping the first 80% of a task.
I like it but I would never pay what it actually takes to run the thing
The only useful thing I've seen come out is my dm being able to put his ideas into fruition quicker and on the fly, everything else has pretty questionable utility from what I've seen
That's great! How much is he paying for that? 'Cause the AI industry needs to recoup a few billion dollars, and every little bit helps.
I think it has a lot more utility than a lot of people here give it credit for. It's just very easily misused.
Edit: I certainly wouldn't want it to be my 'OS'
they are know they are losing money, nvidia investing 100billion seems like a stopgap measure.
nvidia is investing 100 billion in OpenAI so that OpenAI can spend it all on GPUs from nvidia. Sounds like a totally healthy industry