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Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by PunchTornado »

smt88 wrote: post #42
linkage wrote: post #3

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> face of AI amongst low-information luddites This is condescending and unfair. Altman, OpenAI, and the media have spent years making Altman the face of AI. His company has (by far) the largest market cap, does the most deals, and has the most users. I suspect Anthropic/Claude will become as much of a household name as ChatGPT, but it's not even close yet. ChatGPT is almost a generic term for AI chatbots at the momen…

An impostor is an impostor, no matter what the media makes them. Tbh, it's ok that the plates brake into his head since he has done so many bad things previously, he deserves it.

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by VectorLock »

stvltvs wrote: post #105
VectorLock wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because I hope that someone who's hands were required to assemble the recipe didn't blindly add ingredients like "bleach" if the AI happened to hallucinate them.

A naive hope perhaps, but this ignores the risk of LLMs just creating a bad recipe based on the blind combination of various recipes in their training data.

As the parent comment said the people seemed to be enjoying the food otherwise so the LLM didn't create an unpalatable combination, and I can't think of any combination of edible and unharmful ingredients that might combine to something harmful (when consuming a reasonable amount)

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by senordevnyc »

lexicality wrote: post #69
boznz wrote: post #37

I guess this is what we get when the media and politicians go all in with their AI populist hate. I don't think I've seen a positive AI headline outside of the tech press, and even then they are pretty thin. Abundance and growing the pie for everyone is also an outcome if this is done right.

> Abundance and growing the pie for everyone is also an outcome if this is done right. Do you genuinely believe there's any chance that's going to happen?

Looking at the last few hundred years of our civilization, absolutely!

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by layer8 »

MontyCarloHall wrote: post #12

I don't think most people in tech are quite aware of the level of visceral AI hatred amongst non-techies. I've personally witnessed the worst Thanksgiving dinnertable fight I've ever seen (after someone revealed that their recipe was AI-generated, a couple people literally spat out the food they were enjoying and threw their plates in the trash), and a divorce (a very solid marriage between two people who were once b…

From a recent NBC News poll, “the only topics that were less popular than AI were the Democratic Party and Iran”: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-majority...

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by wak90 »

pixel_popping wrote: post #91
therobots927 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. Americans need a job to get healthcare 2. Robots take away jobs from Americans and the proceeds to go the owner (investor) class 3. Americans no longer have healthcare Understand?

I understand (I'm not from the US), however, wouldn't healthcare in the US would get drastically cheaper (even eventually free?) if hospitals/clinics were composed of humanoids instead of humans?

Lol no

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by ikkun »

ctoth wrote: post #84
ikkun wrote: post #51

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I could see being concerned about food safety; I wouldn't trust an AI recipe to tell me how long/what temperature to cook chicken, and I might not trust someone who uses AI to generate recipes to know either.

Hi! I love to cook! I also use AI to brainstorm recipes sometimes! Wanna try asking Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or even Grok what temperature chicken needs to be cooked to? I just asked Claude: 165°F (74°C) internal temperature. Where does this come from?

if you ask that question alone, AI is most likely to get it right, but the usual pitfalls of AI apply; they sometimes randomly get things wrong, people are more likely to miss wrong information when it's surrounded with correct information, and LLMs are specifically good at making text that seems correct on the surface. and in my experience, people often use AI specifically because they don't have a lot of knowledge in an area. if you do already know plenty about cooking, I'm sure using AI is probably fine, I just see it as a red flag.

cooking is also a form of art, with a strong social aspect. using AI for it has a similar ick factor to using generative AI for pictures. I'm not saying I immediately distrust anyone using it, but I do think it's a sign that maybe the person cares a bit less about what they're doing.

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by layer8 »

strongpigeon wrote: post #36

It is a bit scary how people seem to genuinely be OK with violence (see this reddit thread [0]). Is just me or does it feel like the overall "temperature" has gone up. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1shugf8/firebomb_t...

It used to be a little less violent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEMbp6Epfz8

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by boznz »

lexicality wrote: post #69
boznz wrote: post #37

I guess this is what we get when the media and politicians go all in with their AI populist hate. I don't think I've seen a positive AI headline outside of the tech press, and even then they are pretty thin. Abundance and growing the pie for everyone is also an outcome if this is done right.

> Abundance and growing the pie for everyone is also an outcome if this is done right. Do you genuinely believe there's any chance that's going to happen?

I do, because the alternative is unthinkable.

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by thevinter »

wak90 wrote: post #137
layer8 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I interpret it as an expression of disgust. Similar to how people will stop reading and throw away a good book when they learn the author is a morally reprehensible person.

Like, I wouldn't spit the food out. But I would be disgusted. Someone told me they planned their vacation with an llm and I couldn't help but express disdain for this friend of mine. Why are we outsourcing creativity and research and interest in discovery to an llm?

Probably because the person wasn't interested in planning their vacation and wanted just to enjoy the end result?

Let's not assume different people find the same parts of the process enjoyable.

Re: Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by MiguelX413 »

senordevnyc wrote: post #143
lexicality wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Abundance and growing the pie for everyone is also an outcome if this is done right. Do you genuinely believe there's any chance that's going to happen?

Looking at the last few hundred years of our civilization, absolutely!

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