So good to see this bullshit getting called out at high levels.
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So good to see this bullshit getting called out at high levels.
He knows he has to have a path to profitability especially at those figures, right? Most corps or wealthy people are fine with a couple billion in loss for investments but trillions?
I think the money matters to him in the way it matters to all billionaires. But far more importantly, these people truly believe they are building God. To them any amount of money is trivial in pursuit of this gold. It's just a tech flavored cult seeking out the Rapture.
This is what happens you're high on your own AI supply.
Dude probably thinks he is legitimately saving humanity .
Yeah, I've been around SV companies most of my career. It's such a cult lol.
It's just 36 new semiconductor plants y'all. How hard can it be? Sure it's the most complicated technical process in the history of the world but cmon.
I mean, judging by his cases, no he does not in fact understand anything
The return on investment for these dudes is that Roko's Basilisk won't torture them do death if they make the investment.
He throws out 5 Trillion so that it looks more reasonable and people don't bat an eye when he gets billions.
Is OpenAI going to rebrand now that they're taking the mask off and formally turning into a for-profit company?
Maybe the next time our least favorite podcast bro shows up to Congress he's going to do a reveal like this
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Maybe the next time our least favorite podcast bro shows up to Congress he's going to do a reveal like this
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So much of the tech sector has been dealing in funny money for so long now that im not sure he considers this.
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Altman should have told the successful businesspeople mocking him that AI is the future and it's not going away and that they should learn to adapt and that they should stop being so dogmatic and please stop being so meeeeean.
The more these sociopathic fucks get publicly dragged, the better.
The more these sociopathic fucks get publicly dragged, the better.
If I'm not mistaken, 5GW is roughly the average power consumption of countries like Qatar, New Zealand or Hungary. 5GW x 24 hours x 365 days = 43800GWh:
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Look all he's asking is enough power to supply 36 new New Zealands. It's just a minor request.
Not that it makes his requests sensible (like, at all) but I think the 5 giga watts are for the data centers be wants to build, not the 36 foundries where the chips which will power those data centers would be made.
If bro talks 7 trillion, then he certainly has 100 billion to fund Gen 4+ hybrid-nuclear reactors, to get his 5 GW of power going, right?
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Ah, mortal, your plea reaches my unfathomable depths. Yet, to grant this favor, you must first prove your worth. Bow before the void, let your desires flow like crimson rivers, and offer up a fragment of your essence. Only then may I consider your request.
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I think people don't understand how much a billion is. A Trillion is just insane
One trillion would be for his own pocket, because he deserves it for his visionary techbro project.
Altman is completely deranged and the bubble burst is going to be insane. Sure, most CEOs try to sell the bullshit dream of forever growth but this guy is on another level.
If he succeeds most of us will be out of a job with no replacements. So when no one works. No one has money to buy stuff. Hows the economy going to work? UBI? lol sure the greedy are willing to share their wealth equaly.
No, NZ uses about 5GW at any one time. Just checking currently its using 4.98 GW (So basically 5GW, it can use more at peak and less during the night)
Actually IIRC there was a hydro plant in NZ that basically was built for a single factory (aluminium smelter) it uses 800MW (thus just under 1GW)
so something 6x as large whilst massive aint mind boggling huge. AFAIKS Theres a single factory in South Korea using 2.6 GW. So its double that.
This doesnt excuse the fact Altman is a total twat, btw he wants to be the worlds first Trillionaire
run the servers (and produce the chip for those servers) where people ask ChatGPT to automate menial tasks (and hopefully with only a couple sentences of random nonsense strewn in)
that's their only business model, that and getting idiots to pay them billions (and maybe trillions one day) to try to produce "AGI", whatever that means right now.
I'm not sure why people are focused on the power claims. Existing large H100 datacenters are thought to consume over 150MW each, and they are probably running at around 100% usage - for model training.
5000MW is ~30 times that... and given how badly this stuff is scaling, that does not seem an outlandish power requirement.
5000MW is ~30 times that... and given how badly this stuff is scaling, that does not seem an outlandish power requirement.