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Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by aaron695 »

chambo622 wrote: post #2

What is the bull case here? They close the gap to Anthropic and become a 4th place player?

> What is the bull case here?

The real bull case - Elon doesn't kowtow to mentally ill basement nerds and the media/politicians trying to not lose power.

Can you image someone running in to tell Elon the fat nerds on HN are in a tizzy about Grok telling people to eat rocks?

Other bull case he's obviously silo-ing Twitter for unique training data. Reddit can only ask nicely you don't train off them.

Twitter with a good AI could become quite strong. I'm not as bullish on this, but... Twitter is all the cutting edge news. ChatGPT was happy to be years out of date.

No one cares Russia has finally manned up and launched a tactical nuke 24 hours after it happens, something new will be trending. This is Twitters strength, to the minute data. One of the AI's will have to specialize in this.

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by sangnoir »

belter wrote: post #156
dagmx wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elon is a megalomaniac who fancies himself an engineer (yes he used to be one, but his with then is oft disparaged) Even if he had the best names in the industry attached, he would always put himself first. I don’t think it’s wrong he’d do so either , because he has a cult of personality that would make him the biggest feature (positive/negative) of any company he is involved with. Hence why I specifically only ask f…

When was he an Engineer?

I heard he was doing code reviews at Twitter... on code printed on paper to determine of he ought to fire or keep the author.

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by belter »

vidarh wrote: post #139
DoctorDabadedoo wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, please write an algorithm to reverse a linked list in O(1).

Assuming I can choose linked list implementation, that is trivial: It's a doubly linked list where the head contains a pointer to the tail, and a flag that determines which pointer in the nodes is forward and which is backward.

It's a trick question. Ask if its on Space or Time complexity ;-)

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by Intralexical »

netsharc wrote: post #154
keyle wrote: post #92

What could have they possibly shown to the investors to get that kind of cash thrown at them? Asking for a friend... Did x.ai just become worth more than x.com? We must be nearing the bubble popping...

I wonder if the investors are just like crypto-bros and pyramid-schemers. Knowing it's bullshit, but hoping the next dumbass will come tomorrow, next week, etc, to buy it off them where they can make a profit... Considering the price of e.g. BTC, maybe thinking "People with money can't be this dumb!" is the dumbass move...

  That’s when SBF told Sequoia about the so-called super-app: “I want FTX to be a place where you can do anything you want with your next dollar. You can buy bitcoin. You can send money in whatever currency to any friend anywhere in the world. You can buy a banana. You can do anything you want with your money from inside FTX.”
  Suddenly, the chat window on Sequoia’s side of the Zoom lights up with partners freaking out.
  “I LOVE THIS FOUNDER,” typed one partner.
  “I am a 10 out of 10,” pinged another. 
  “YES!!!” exclaimed a third.
  What Sequoia was reacting to was the scale of SBF’s vision. It wasn’t a story about how we might use fintech in the future, or crypto, or a new kind of bank. It was a vision about the future of money itself—with a total addressable market of every person on the entire planet.
  “I sit ten feet from him, and I walked over, thinking, Oh, shit, that was really good,” remembers Arora. “And it turns out that that fucker was playing League of Legends through the entire meeting.”
  “We were incredibly impressed,” Bailhe says. “It was one of those your-hair-is-blown-back type of meetings.”
https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-spotlig...

Humans with money are mostly just humans that are much less likely to face real consequences if they eff it up.

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by 3abiton »

antman wrote: post #152
lionkor wrote: post #6

> The company’s mission is to understand the true nature of the universe. I yawned so hard my jaw unlocked. Can't wait to see groundbreaking... checks notes ... "advancements in various applications, optimizations, and extensions of the model". Do these companies only hire yes men?

Seems like the Nigerian Prince bayesian model as analysed by Microsoft. Due to many false positives within the thousands of potential responders pool, they emit a signal that only a real easy victim would fall for to reduce the costs of their final filtering process. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

It was a very enjoyable read for a scientific publication.

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by belter »

newswasboring wrote: post #157
belter wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elon Musk is planning to invoice the AI ....to Tesla and X a la Adam Neumann.... https://www.ft.com/content/2a96995b-c799-4281-8b60-b235e84ae...

Isn't that ... illegal? He's just using one investor's money to another.

It worked for Adam

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by 3abiton »

shreezus wrote: post #162

Nvidia just added $6B in revenue. We’re witnessing an arms race for compute, as compute will likely be the primary constraint for building AGI.

> as compute will likely be the primary constraint for building AGI.

Zuck argues it's energy, and I seem to line up behind him.

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by Arnt »

aydyn wrote: post #104
uargos wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very little people seem to understand that. And actually there is no need to go as far as “universe” to get to something that can’t be captured by language. Human existence is such an example. For this reason I don’t think llms are going to be good film makers for instance. Sure an llm will be able to spit the scenario of the next action movie, those already seem to be automatically generated anyway. But making a fil…

That's what people said about AI art, yet here we are.

Yes... I'm not sure what the archetype of intelligence is, but for practical purposes I'd say: Humans have some of it. And it's not clear to me that what humans have is very far from what AI is starting to have. The hallucinations are weird and wonderful, but so are some of the answers I saw from below-average students when I was in university. Can't tell whether the two weirdnesses are different or similar. Exciting times lie ahead.
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