alt Hacker NewsIf Altman seriously believes his role is to create AGI then ask how to make the company profitable, he should get removed from his position of leadership asap. That’s crazy territory.
It’s a grift, “AGI will save us” is the same as Musk’s “Mars colony”, it’s not supposed to ever happen, it’s supposed to be a goal post they ever move further
Replies
tim333 • today at 8:19 PM
>It’s a grift, “AGI will save us” ... goal post...
It's not really like that, at least the fundamentals, not necessarily what Altman / Musk say.
The significant point is when AI/robots can do what we do without us and improve themselves even if humans disappear. That'll be a new era on Earth.
He said the following in 2019, at a StrictlyVC event, “The honest answer is we have no idea, we have never made any revenue, we have no current plans to make revenue, we have no idea how we may one day generate revenue. We have made a soft promise to investors that once we've built this sort of generally intelligent system, basically we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return for you.
It sounds like an episode of Silicon Valley it really does I get it, you can laugh, it's all right, but it is what I actually believe is going to happen”
Whether or not that’s his current view, who knows, but everyone who’s invested in OpenAI since should have known that this was at least part of his mental model.
https://youtu.be/gjQUCpeJG1Y?is=--fubVyvQnC8rgse