• baller_w@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    Worth a read if anyone is interested: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know-either

    My favorite part is Anthropic has a bot in the cafeteria that orders what staff request and if the bank balance goes to zero or negative, then it loses and has to close up shop.

    This far, nearly all employees have a 1” tungsten cube on their desk that some managed to get for free with a fake 100% off coupon.

    It’s a fun experiment in what happens when these agents start doing things in the real world and I commend Anthropic for putting it on display. A real hype train killer.

    As a technologist, I work with them all day, every day. I wouldn’t trust them to do my laundry without oversight, let alone run a business.

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    10 hours ago

    Eh I was wondering whose turn was it to claim it this year. Turns out it is another guy who is balls deep invested in AI.

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    1 day ago

    This guy has completely lost the plot. I don’t think it’s possible to be even more disconnected from reality.

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      Fun fact: if true AGI were a thing, those AI programs would be people and not paying them for their work would be slavery.

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        19 hours ago

        This is honestly one of the scarier parts about the rhetoric, they’re basically implying they would happily enslave a sentient being.

        • a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca
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          In theory, you could imagine a totally unconscious intelligence, that can make intelligent decisions but has no conscious experiences / is not sentient. Of course I don’t know if such a system would be actually possible. But it is at least conceptually possible to separate the two ideas (consciousness/sentience vs intelligence)

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    These fuckers will claim whatever nonsense to keep themselves relevant enough to take on more debt before they collapse.

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      9 hours ago

      They are going to create a success story where someone becomes a billionaire with an AI doing everything. Then idiots will chase that dream for a hundred years and fill these rich fucks bank accounts.

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      Looking at their history they were always able to create markets for their GPUs and AI has been obviously incredible for them. There will be the next hot thing after AI and they’ll try to have that, too. The alternatives to CUDA are not there yet, ROCm is still lacking and fiddly. I see a lot of things happening but NVIDIA collapsing for whatever reason is not part of that.

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      2 days ago

      I agree, they start to sound desperate to keep their current momentum going. I think the bubble will burst soon. Things look solid until they’re not.