Sam Altman bragged today about how many words OpenAI generates. He got less applause than he expected.

[highplainsdem]

And btw, he's now trying to raise $7 TRILLION for more AI chips - GPUs - to power OpenAI and his mad ambitions: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218666304 .

Today, on Twitter:

Link to tweet

Sam Altman
@sama

openai now generates about 100 billion words per day.

all people on earth generate about 100 trillion words per day.

So proud of himself, that his company is already supposedly generating 1/1,000 of the words generated on the planet.

Some of the responses:

now give me 7 trillion dollars and i will turn the 100 billion words/day to 100 trillion words/day


How many of those words are in AI hallucinations (I.e., factually incorrect statements)?


We no longer speak, people, we generate content.


All 100 trillion words in the second category represent thought.
How many of the 100 billion words in the first group do, Sam?


It's not a competition Sam



But it obviously is for him.

[dalton99a]

1. Altman is trying hard to emulate Elon Musk

"Make me a trillionaire and I will change the world"

[DBoon]

2. I don't want to live in your world and you are not worth a fraction of a trillion dollars

[Fichefinder]

3. Every single thing about AI makes me fell like we are living in a Vonnegut short story

[highplainsdem]

5. It's a dystopian story, for the most part, with tragicomic elements.

But we're all supposed to be so dazzled by AI tricks controlled by Big Tech that we don't notice what's being stolen from us.

[Hugin]

7. Infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters...

Yep, you nailed it. Tragicomedy.

I seriously don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

[BootinUp]

4. What a strange comparison for Altman to make. nt

[highplainsdem]

6. Not when you realize how desperate he is for the AI company he controls to have

the one AI model that rules them all.

As some of the replies on Twitter pointed out, that comparison is an element in his pitch for trillions in funding.

[limbicnuminousity]

8. You can't ever have enough of something you don't need.

That's the heart of addiction. It's almost as if technocratic capitalists want the consumer addicted to AI, incapable of critical thought.

[hatrack]

9. Whatever, Aspirational Sauron . . .

Or was that supposed to be Peter Thiel? I forget.

[Hugin]

11. I would say I would like some of...

What he’s on, but I suspect it’s Crypto. That stuff is brown acid, man.

[highplainsdem]

13. He's on crypto + an ambition to control the IDs of everyone in the world, via his Worldcoin company:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217746655

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218119322

[hatrack]

15. Crypto, NFTs, Web3.0, the Metaverse . . . . malignant outrgrowths of Stupid Money . . .

That is, the results of decades of low interest rates, tossed with a generous serving of spicy Libertarian Bullshit Sauce and a sprinkling of God Complex Crumbs.

[highplainsdem]

12. "Aspirational Sauron" - love it!

[Mad_Machine76]

10. #words don't impress me

The quality of the content is what matters to me the most. As any teacher would say, a 1000-word essay is only as good as the content.

[highplainsdem]

14. Gary Marcus today: The world has to learn to say No to Sam Altman.

Link to tweet

[Brainfodder]

16. Artificial Stupidity just peeking out for the hu$tle while the getting is g00d?

Why should I care when climate change and the indickables have flooded the GOP leadership and raised the level of toxicity to unsafe levels among other things, what is this really going to do for the people of earth, the majority of which are not doing well?



Really just sick of all of it to the point of depression overload once I add IRL issues.

[gulliver]

17. ChatGPT probably helped improve ten times the number of words it generated

I'm very hopeful about the LLMs. We've already been living with a tremendous problem of "artificially magnified natural intelligence." Ignoramuses, jerks, lost people, narcissists, criminals, etc., have been Googling and TikToking and tweeting and Facebooking us all over the place. They are low- or negative-value natural intelligences with (unfortunately for everyone) big transmission weapons. ChatGPT is a better contributor to human wellbeing than them by a long shot.