[HN Gopher] ChatGPT Told Masayoshi Son His Ideas Are Great. Now ...
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       ChatGPT Told Masayoshi Son His Ideas Are Great. Now He's Investing
       Big in AI
        
       Author : agomez314
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2023-06-21 21:10 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | hamasho wrote:
       | This AI bull run will make people like Son and Cathie Wood earn
       | much money. Nothing is wrong with that but I hate those "Why
       | don't you invest in TQQQ are you an idiot!?" people dominate
       | everywhere.
        
       | netsharc wrote:
       | Ha, what magnificent clothes the emperor is wearing!
        
       | anonymouskimmer wrote:
       | > he had been driven to tears by the sense he was nearing the end
       | of his career without having pursued his dreams.
       | 
       | Seriously? He's invested billions of dollars and hasn't even
       | _pursued_ his dreams?
       | 
       | > The answer, he concluded, was to chase his old dream of being a
       | technology "architect" who uses the creative side of his brain.
       | 
       | With all of the money he had access to, why didn't he go to
       | school to do this instead? Or found a company to do it instead of
       | spending all of his money funding companies so _other_ people
       | could do it?
       | 
       | > Often, he said, he wakes up before dawn with an invention in
       | mind. He said he has a team working three shifts that stands by
       | 24 hours a day, ready to respond to his ideas within five
       | minutes.
       | 
       | What a waste of human talent.
        
         | EA-3167 wrote:
         | It really seems like, "Coddled billionaire has a whole team to
         | make him feel special, praise his every utterance, and support
         | his many delusions" has become the new thing for that sort. I
         | wish they still did things like build museums, grand
         | architecture, that sort of thing. Hell, I'll be the last person
         | to compliment Musk, but at least when he burns out on Tesla,
         | Twitter and the rest he'll still have left SpaceX in his wake.
         | I'm not a fan of the Waltons, but at least one of them built
         | that Crystal Bridges museum.
         | 
         | We might not need the likes of Versailles, but at least they
         | look good and draw in the tourists. When Son is all said and
         | done he's going to leave nothing of value behind him.
        
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       | linusg789 wrote:
       | https://ghostarchive.org/archive/G22Xh
        
       | ohgodplsno wrote:
       | I mean, without ChatGPT telling him anything, he invested in
       | WeWork. Surely it can't be much worse.
       | 
       | But then again, Son is the demonstration that wealth is not
       | correlated to abilities.
        
         | anonymouskimmer wrote:
         | He's mostly self-made, so I think he has demonstrated ability.
         | I think this is more a demonstration that ability in certain
         | areas does not equal ability in other areas. And that even
         | talented people make errors.
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son#Early_life_and_e...
        
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