Futureism- Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over

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6. The layoffs ARE about AI. These companies have all pissed away hundreds of millions of dollars

chasing after AI, but none of them have figured out how to make any money with AI yet. They can't get that money back, so their only options are to cut payrolls or else report huge losses.

And the META cutbacks are particularly big. But that is because Zuckerberg's hallucination about turning everybody's lives into VR went nowhere. Nobody wants that shit, so 5 years and billions of dollars later, he is shutting it down.

On the AI front, there are now hundreds of open source LLMs that a person can download for free. They don't have to use Altman's AI or Musk's AI. It is hard to compete with free.

The companies that will survive this AI hysteria are the ones who don't try to swallow the whole Internet into their LLM, but instead curate their model to do something particularly well. For example, we have seen dozens of occasions where lawyers have submitted AI-generated briefs that have all sorts of garbage, cases that never existed. That's because the LLMs simply vacuumed up every bit of garbage they could find on the Internet. A company that trains their LLM with tightly curated, high-quality legal resources (like an updated version of LEXIS) will probably be successful. Likewise for a LLM that aims to offer good medical advice. Or engineering advice. Or tax advice. Or whatever..

Evidently Altman, Musk and Zuck never thought about these things.