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alumnus, Hard Knocks Institute of Technology
"Sam Altman sympathizes with mathematicians, but..."
-sigh- Do I have to tap the sign again?
STOP ANTHROPOMORPHIZING AI EXECUTIVES.
For fuck's sake, they just keep overselling these things. Do they *really* expect us to believe, 4 years into this tsunami of horseshit, that an AI executive can "sympathize" with human concerns now?
Sam Altman is as capable of sympathy as your toaster is.
Please stop anthropomorphizing AI company executives.
They're not sentient and they can't actually think. They just predict token sequences using statistical patterns scraped from LinkedIn, X and the Financial Times. The apparent "understanding" is simply a parlor trick: They produce text strings that *sound* plausible, but they don't actually have any understanding of the world.
I'll grant that they became a lot more technically impressive when Reinforcement Learning from Investor Sentiment pipelines were introduced, but fundamentally they're still just stochastic bullshit generators. Giving them access to the internet will end up being the most expensive mistake in the history of technology.