• Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    How about giving billions to those guys simulating brains of a small worms and fruit flies, so we can have very slow “brain in a bottle” that will be equally useless.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      You know what? Sure, fuck it, why not? I don’t even have a problem with OpenAI getting billions of dollars to do R&D on LLMs. They might actually turn out to have some practical applications, maybe.

      My problem is that OpenAI basically stopped doing real R&D the moment ChatGPT became a product, because now all their money goes into their ridiculous backend server costs and putting increasingly silly layers of lipstick on a pig so that they can get one more round of investment funding.

      AI is a really important area of technology to study, and I’m all in favour of giving money to the people actually studying it. But that sure as shit ain’t Sam Altman and his band of carnival barkers.