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OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by HenryBemis »

Gothmog69 wrote: post #544
brap wrote: post #529

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sam also ran a crypto scam called WorldCoin. Their secret sauce was tricking poor people in Africa.

How did they trick them by giving them free money?

They are paying 'one worldcoin' (I've read sold about $50) to places that give zero value to their privacy (too difficult to care for privacy when starving to death and the monthly salary is $10). They are targeting poor countries (South America, Africa).

Once they have collected 'enough' faces to use on their AI, they could possibly pull the plug or keep it as a social experiment.

I was thinking, there is no way Russia or China will allow them to operate in their countries, and (combined) they got 1.5bn people.

I can also see them trying that to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other autocratic ..stan places, where the local dictator would only allow this if they got to use the data for their own nefarious purposes.

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Post by rifty »

I don't doubt that Ive can make a product team that will deliver something, but how does something so clearly aware it was going to evoke feelings of Jobs' Apple, end up so cluelessly narcissistic in delivery in such a non Jobs way. Are they infatuated about the product and the experience or what partnering up means to these two men's self-image?

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Post by laser »

Given it’s a stock deal the question simply put is does bringing the highest profile technology designer in the world along with his team into OpenAI increase its terminal value by more than ~2%? If so, the acquisition is a success. Discussions of revenues and valuations and egos have little bearing on this question. To me it seems like an easy win on talent alone, let alone optics, network, and impact on future talent and capital conglomeration.

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Post by asadm »

anonzzzies wrote: post #514

So does openai know how to widen the context window without it taking more money? Otherwise Google wins, again. And this is all boring. Gemini 2.5 pro preview where you can just insert all files you have and actually it doesn't compress and has it in memory is just what you want. All the compression tricks etc really are shit compared. 32k input tokens is a joke now once you tried this. As in bearish on openai if the…

bingo. chatgpt does some summarization/memory thing recently. It's meh tbh.

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Post by xdennis »

sumeno wrote: post #557

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Not the same person, but as an example, I got banned from r/europe for posting just "I'm proud to be a Romanian!". That was on a post about Romania overtaking Poland to become number one at some anti-woke metric western Europeans care a lot about.

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Post by lysace »

tmpz22 wrote: post #550
dowager_dan99 wrote: post #496

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so Altman's nerd-equivalent of a sexual conquest?

Oh there's a lot of sex cults in the SV investor sphere I assure you. Those "conquests" are happening too. Ask young women who have spent sufficient time and had exposure to the space.

This v2 Sorkin movie is way overdue.

"The Social Network" (2010) seems so innocent now.

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Post by subsaharancoder »

echelon wrote: post #565
brap wrote: post #529

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sam also ran a crypto scam called WorldCoin. Their secret sauce was tricking poor people in Africa.

Growing up in a strong Southern Christian / Baptist / Pentecostal household [1], WorldCoin feels like the most "Mark of the Beast" plot I've ever seen. 1990's televangelists like John Hagee and Pat Robertson would be screaming to high heaven about Sam Altman being the antichrist if they were still around. Transacting with your eyeball? Directly out of the Book of Revelations! [1] I took a strong interest in biochemis…

John Hagee is very much alive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hagee
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