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Re: xAI

#41
post #20

Five years ago, I would have leapt at this. Today, there's no way I'd want to be anywhere near a Musk-based tech company.

Yeah, I'm not going anywhere near this. Musk had the world beating a path to his door, until he outed himself as a petulant man-child and a fascist.

What makes him a fascist exactly?

Re: xAI

#42
> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe.

"and if we make a few bucks along the way, hey, mission accomplished."

Re: xAI

#43
post #29
post #9

> We are actively recruiting experienced engineers and researchers to join our team as members of our technical staff in the Bay Area. It's funny that after all the talk of remote work, tech globalization and the SF/Silicon Valley exodus in the last few years (including much of it from Musk himself), we end up with pretty much all mainstream AI companies – OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia, Scale AI, Midjourney, and…

Musk tried but probably couldn't make it in Texas.

All hat but no cattle?

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#44
post #21

> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. Who wants to bet it's going to end up launching a "me too" generative AI product. Maybe Musk should first take these skills to Tesla's self driving division then worry about the rest of the universe.

> Who wants to bet it's going to end up launching a "me too" generative AI product.

You mean after Musk explicitly, piblicly said that’s what he was going to do, and make it anti-woke as its main differentiating feature?

Pretty good bet.

Re: xAI

#45
What Musk needs to do is fund smart people to do interesting stuff and then get out of the way. If that's what this is, great. If it's just another opportunity for him to do something high-profile and half-baked to massage his weirdly fragile ego: Ugh.

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#47
Huh. I thought _understanding universe_ would require research in quantum mechanics, string theory, astrophysics… you know - physics. Not _AI_.

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#48
post #21

> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. Who wants to bet it's going to end up launching a "me too" generative AI product. Maybe Musk should first take these skills to Tesla's self driving division then worry about the rest of the universe.

If it follows the path of Twitter it will be a "free speech AI" that will censor anything negative about Elon.

Re: xAI

#50
post #29
post #9

> We are actively recruiting experienced engineers and researchers to join our team as members of our technical staff in the Bay Area. It's funny that after all the talk of remote work, tech globalization and the SF/Silicon Valley exodus in the last few years (including much of it from Musk himself), we end up with pretty much all mainstream AI companies – OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia, Scale AI, Midjourney, and…

Musk tried but probably couldn't make it in Texas.

The Texas stuff is working really well. And if I recall, he was expanding California investment at the time he was moving the HQ of Tesla. And Tesla's engineering hub is here in Palo Alto. Overall, I'd say everything there is chugging along.
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