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Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers (finance.yahoo.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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“I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit, lamenting that the bot now speaks in clipped, utilitarian sentences. “The fact it shifted overnight feels like losing a piece of stability, solace, and love.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mkumyz/i_lost_my_only_friend_overnight/

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[–] 163 points 11 months ago (7 children)

"we fucked up our massive new generation product launch.. oh well lets invest trillions in new data centers" How do investors keep falling for this shit.

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  • [–] 41 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Don’t they have enough?!? How about they fix and optimize their fancy autocompletion software instead?

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  • [–] 42 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    They took a path they believed would develop into something, and it's a narrow alley they can't turn around in. They have to keep going with more compute and power to continue the chase. Thing is, everyone else seemingly thought they were onto something and followed as well, so they're all in the same predicament where reversing course is suicide. So they hope they can keep selling the dream a bit longer until something happens.

    To be fair, it's a lot more than just autocomplete. But it's a lot less than what they wanted by now too.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    vibe innovation, they are the ones that think AI will be innovative in science by spontaneous generating of new science discoveries, without "researchers, labs, papers"

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    I have seen some people talk like that, and it strikes me as a religion. There's euphoria, zeal, hope. To them AGI is coming to usher in heaven on earth. Singularity is like rupture.

    Sam Altman is one of the preachers of this religion.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It's a pretty clear humble-brag, no? The launch was only botched because people loved the previous personality; it's an estimate of how much people care about the product and how much price gouging they could do later.

    No it wasn't good for OpenAI. But I doubt it changed many investor minds.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Because they already know that once the AI shitbubble bursts, they will switch all the GPUs to start mining Bitcoin and keep grifting the mouth breathers believing all these horseshit.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    How indeed. It's probably a multi-factor phenomenon which requires an anthropological study for a serious answer. (Good luck trying to get the necessary access to study them.) My guess for one factor in this, is that they have more money than they know what to do with.

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