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Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 69 points 1 week ago (20 children)

OpenAI’s mounting costs — set to hit $1.4 trillion

Sorry, but WTF!? $1.4 Trillion in costs? How are they going to make all of that back with just AI?

I think there's only one way they can make this back: if AI gets so good they can really replace most employees.

I don't think it will happen, but either way it's going to be an economic disaster. Either the most valuable companies in the world, offering services that the next couple of hundred companies in the world depend on, are suddenly bankrupt. Or suddenly everybody is unemployed.

[–] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How is a haunted typewriter supposed to replace all those employees?

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I’ve tried explaining AI to people before and only could get so far before they fall back on “but it’s magic dude” but I love the idea of explaining it as a haunted typewriter.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I call dibs on the ghost of Harlan Ellison.

“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.”

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Glados: “just offer them cake and a fire pit and calm down”

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

holy cow haunted typewriter is punching way above its weight class. Phenomenal.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

i didn't ask how it suplexxed a train, i just stayed out of its way

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