Post Ac0FMUelGIWI3j2PeC by dickon@splodge.fluff.org
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(DIR) Post #Ac07WUAR8UM7nx6j0i by cawhitworth@mastodon.online
2023-11-17T21:23:33Z
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Jesus that Sam Altman getting fired from OpenAI thing is absolutely wild. What on earth is going on there.
(DIR) Post #Ac07WV7daNi8lYo0Ho by cawhitworth@mastodon.online
2023-11-20T14:44:02Z
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Of all the explanations for this, the one I least expected was "the board absolutely shat the bed, completely fucked it, totally destroyed the company without thinking things through at all"
(DIR) Post #Ac07WVml7UbWp62qNk by penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2023-11-20T14:46:51Z
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@cawhitworth Isn't that normally the way companies go - albeit not quite so dramatically?
(DIR) Post #Ac07eRDK06ayxfFUS8 by cawhitworth@mastodon.online
2023-11-20T14:48:18Z
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@penguin42 in my experience they get bought by a much larger company for their technology, who then get scared of being sued by another equally large company, and kill the product they bought the company for.
(DIR) Post #Ac0FMUelGIWI3j2PeC by dickon@splodge.fluff.org
2023-11-20T14:48:06Z
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@cawhitworth https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/11/18/pivot-to-ai-replacing-sam-altman-with-a-very-small-shell-script/ is worth a read.
(DIR) Post #Ac0FMVlX8bWzV1DKqG by cawhitworth@mastodon.online
2023-11-20T14:50:19Z
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@dickon It's quite the thing if Sam "Worldcoin" Altman was the *sane* one on that board
(DIR) Post #Ac0FMWTqTqybiRwiuW by dickon@splodge.fluff.org
2023-11-20T15:00:18Z
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@cawhitworth Yup. I don't know what they're putting in the water over there, but it can't be healthy...
(DIR) Post #Ac0FMXFLdEyS5mAex6 by penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2023-11-20T16:14:41Z
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@dickon @cawhitworth The water plant is controlled by an AI driven filtration system....