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OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by earthnail »

chairhairair wrote: post #124
nickrubin wrote: post #7

OpenAI announcement: https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/

Altman: "Jony was running a design firm called LoveFrom that had established itself as really the densest collection of talent that I've ever heard of in one place AND HAS PROBABLY EVER EXISTED IN THE WORLD." I felt physically sick from second-hand embarrassment watching this.

German has a word for second hand embarrassment. Fremdschämen. Comes in very handy here. If Sam continues like this it won’t be long until it becomes part of the regular English language like other German words such as Kindergarten.

And I’ll be happy that I don’t have to explain Fremdschämen anymore. Everything has its upsides.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by zhobbs »

seatac76 wrote: post #35

That is an insane amount to hire Johnny Ive. Just to signal to the market that OpenAI is getting into hardware, what on earth could they be building towards. They’ve been writing some big checks off late, these costs will have to be justified soon enough.

Totally insane, $6.5B acquihire. But also, all stock deal and OpenAI appears to have an unlimited number of investors waiting to give them money if/when needed.

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by dismalaf »

sidewndr46 wrote: post #203
digianarchist wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no post-LLM story. This consolidation is both building product and user-capture before that becomes wildly admitted. I think LLMs will become more useful and more efficient over time as models refine but these aren't the (AI) droids you're looking for.

what does LLVM mean here?

Probably LLM.

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Post by make3 »

sidewndr46 wrote: post #203
digianarchist wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no post-LLM story. This consolidation is both building product and user-capture before that becomes wildly admitted. I think LLMs will become more useful and more efficient over time as models refine but these aren't the (AI) droids you're looking for.

what does LLVM mean here?

like when Linda McMahon called AI A1

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Post by tim333 »

qgin wrote: post #142
whynotminot wrote: post #78

These product-focused moves feel like a tacit admission that AGI is further away than they’ve been preaching. If it was close at hand, spending precious resources on anything other than pursuing AGI wouldn’t make sense.

If we’re talking about the singularity robot takeover fast takeoff, maybe that’s true. But Sam and others have said they see AGI is an uneven process that may not have a clear finish line. The intelligence is spiky and some parts will be superhuman while other parts lag.

Can't do a singularity robot takeover without robots and you may as well use designer ones.

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karaterobot wrote: post #30

Sometimes two collaborators make each other better than either are alone. I get the sense that's how Steve Jobs and Jony Ive were. I've not seen anything Ive has done since be as good as what he did before. Someone has to hold the spike so the other one can swing the hammer. My guess is that's not how this relationship with Altman will work. And that picture is terrifying, please take it down and destroy the camera t…

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