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Re: xAI

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Post by madmaxmcfly »

jrm4 wrote: post #58
haswell wrote: post #19

It has been the collective goal of the many fields of science, throughout the history of humankind, to understand the true nature of the universe. There's something that feels incredibly ostentatious about the opening sentence " The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. ". Not because I think it's a bad goal, or a goal that no company can claim, but because of the broader context around AI and…

Eh, I'm comfortable taking this further and dismissing it out of hand. This looks like a scam. Not the typical regular person type of scam, but the kind specifically targeted to "wealthy Silicon Valley idiot."

I was going to say, this seems more like a Super PAC to fund his other "hobbies".

Re: xAI

#92

Post by almost »

lambdaba wrote: post #79
flangola7 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no way this question is in good faith. The reasons are abundantly clear, and even if this was somehow true ignorance, a single google search will answer it.

Yeah it is. I was specifically asking if the poster knew the details because I didn't. It's just that I suspect that many don't.

Bullshit

Re: xAI

#93

Post by webnrrd2k »

bozhark wrote: post #66
Animats wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It may be drugs. Until he publicly outed himself as a druggie, his decisions were generally good. Since then, not so good.

Drugs aren’t why people are shitty. They’re shitty before the drugs too.

I don't know... I think some classes of drugs amplify someones shittyness. Call it Inherent Shittyness (IS). Time is a big factor, too. The longer they are on drugs, theore shitty they become.

Δ Shittyness = IS x drug amount x duration

Sometimes people get off illegal drugs and become decent again, but

Re: xAI

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Post by atleta »

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

That's kind of what the whole natural sciences community is doing. Like that is one way to define what natural sciences are about. That's basically the biggest goal anyone could mention. Like your cliche "world peace" answer that no beauty contestant ever says any more.

Re: xAI

#96

Post by adoxyz »

gooseus wrote: post #33
duxup wrote: post #14

I can’t tell what this company does. Does anyone know?

My guess would be PR and myth-building for Elon, et al

I feel like the myth-building stuff really fell apart for Elon after he exposed himself with the Twitter stuff. For a good half-decade in the 2010's he was real-life Tony Stark. Rockets, self-driving cars, clean energy, super unrealistic goals that somehow he kept delivering on despite everyone saying it's impossible, and then then since like 2018 he's just been on a downward spiral. So sad.

Re: xAI

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Post by numbers_guy »

dragonwriter wrote: post #44
paxys wrote: 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.

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Re: xAI

#98

Post by ilc »

gabereiser wrote: post #10
skilled wrote: post #2

If only Elon hadn't splurged the 40+ billion on Twitter, he could've been stacked with H100's right about now.

That’s really his beef with Zuckerberg. He’s upset he bought old tech right before new tech changed the game, now he’s stuck. Cage matches, d$ck measuring, it’s all the ego of a petulant child upset that he bought a cookie instead of cake.

Cage matches against a Gold Medalist in BJJ is a sign of stupidity unless you are trained in such things.

Last I knew Elon wasn't. And yeah he's bigger, but that much skill is hard to overcome.

For the cage match I'm team Zuck.

Re: xAI

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Post by oh_sigh »

erlend_sh wrote: post #25

I count a dozen dudes. I don’t think we’re gonna figure out the true nature of the universe via that kind of monocultural uniformity.

I see people from Britain, Germany, Hungary, Canada, China, and America.
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