[OpenAI CEO Sam] Altman brags about ChatGPT-4.5’s improved “emotional intelligence,” which he says makes users feel like they’re “talking to a thoughtful person.” Dario Amodei, the CEO of the AI company Anthropic, argued last year that the next generation of artificial intelligence will be “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner.” Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google’s DeepMind, said the goal is to create “models that are able to understand the world around us.” These statements betray a conceptual error: Large language models do not, cannot, and will not “understand” anything at all. They are not emotionally intelligent or smart in any meaningful or recognizably human sense of the word. LLMs are impressive probability gadgets that have been fed nearly the entire internet, and produce writing not by thinking but by making statistically informed guesses about which lexical item is likely to follow another.
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Google search isn’t a grift. Microprocessors isn’t a grift. Video games aren’t a grift. Social media isn’t a grift.
Only some of the tech that comes from silicon valley tech bros is grifts. Some of it was legitimately revolutionary.
It’s an important distinction that while tech (generally speaking) isn’t a grift, there are a lot of grifters in the tech industry, those are the tech bros the comment you’re replying to mentions. They don’t see tech as a tool for their users, they see it as a vessel to extract money from investors until they get enough users from whom to extract money so they don’t need investment money any more
I don’t think it anymore applies in all cases of silicon valley tech entrepreneurs
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_bro