He should be panicked, but I think instead he’s doing a lot of coke.

That would explain so much.

You should buy my book on the topic…

It happens a lot.

I often choose my HVAC, plumber, electrician and lawn care teams in the same manner.

I call all of them. None answer. Few have voicemail set up. I leave voicemail with full contact info. I submit all of their web forms. Maybe one of them answer the phone, or calls back, or replies to the web form. I usually go with that one, if I haven’t already fixed it using YouTube, by then.

Always Sunny memes are perfect for modern international politics.

And I guess we’re maybe all going to die because we keep letting idiots lead our countries.

I would get politically active to try to help, but that feels like Charlie work.

The transition to an AI-focused business world is proving to be far more challenging than initially anticipated.

No shit, Sherlock.

Plus the halucination risk.

It’s seen tech talks by Twitch’s engineering team. Some of those folks are scary smart.

Not that it takes that much cleverness to avoid using CloudFlare, of course.

But might be related. Twitch had some clever fallbacks and work-arounds for slow Internet, in that tech talk.

They can crash on my couch, if they need to.

It seems like the forbidden fruit of knowledge is giving us problems instead of only solving them.

It does often feel that way. I take comfort that understanding we have problems is the first step to improving things.

But also - the 1990s were way better than any era before, or since. (Edit: Since tone is hard to convey in text: This is a joke. Treating LGBTQ+ folks with any decency has come a long way since the 90s. I wouldn’t go back.)

We just should not use cloudflare. Why is everybody still trying to use cloudflare.

Counterpoint: I find networking challenging, and I’m not particularly accountable for the natural consequences of not knowing how stuff works.

This could end fine for everyone? Maybe an AI will understand it for me. (This is sarcasm. I agree with you.)

Good! I was considering stopping my monthly donation.

Ditto. I don’t want to overreact, but it’s not a good look.

Wherever we’re going, we’re making great time!

Haha. Fine by me, if it’s clearly labeled.

Edit: I’m not eating any bugs, if I know they’re present…unless they’re truly delicious…

Except they want “natural” dyes used instead which do the same thing. but “natural” does not necessarily mean better or safer.

Yeah. I mean, yes - there’s a brain worm damaged person heading the FDA.

Food dye is used to cover up a lot of food crime.

source? i did a brief search but didn’t see anything about.

I was specifically alluding to The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. More generally, modern food production is often still disgusting.

Most of us wouldn’t eat food that needs to be dyed to look safe to eat, if it weren’t dyed, if we had a choice.

so you could argue food dye prevents food waste. if there’s nothing actually wrong with the food other than appearance.

Fair point, which is why I favor labeling. Let people make their own call, with clear labels providing enough information.

setting the precedent to remove expert opinion of federal law and replace it with court opinion is not good.

No disagreement from me.

My point is that we might not be as quick to hand over control to bull-in-china-shop brain-worm victims if we actually regulated things. We missed that window a long time ago, but it needs to be part of the conversation if there’s to be a recovery.

Discouraging use of artificial dye is a good idea. It interferes with people’s ability to make health conscious choices. Requiring labeling would be a great start.

Food dye is used to cover up a lot of food crime. Most of us wouldn’t eat food that needs to be dyed to look safe to eat, if it weren’t dyed, if we had a choice.

Using AI to fast track food regulations is a terrible idea.

Edit: Good point that “artificial” is part of their witch hunt wording. I only mean we could probably do with less dye use, or clear labels on what has been dyed.

I assume that any venture backed company riding the crest of a hype wave is doing all three of those things, (because many past venture backed companies riding the crest of a hype wave have turned out to be doing all three of those things.)

There are more con-artists at an average technology investment conference, than there are free vendor labeled give-away USB drives.

But OpenAI is still a real tool, and actually does some interesting stuff. (Contrasted with many past venture investment hype waves that were 100% pure bullshit, such as various “risk free” finance products, and some “no one asked for this” BlockChain apps.)

That said - as others in this thread have pointed out - while the revenue quote is a surprising number, it’s not completely implausible, by any means. I personally know plenty of people who find an AI product subscription worth a few dollars each month.

Good point.

That would put OpenAI around #5 on this list (by estimated subscriber count): https://largest.org/technology/largest-saas-businesses-by-number-of-subscribers/

Less than Microsoft, Google, SalesForce and Zoom - but higher than Slack, DropBox, and Adobe Creative Cloud.

It’s surprising and rare for a relatively new company to jump that high in user base this quick.

It’s surprising, but it’s plausible. OpenAI and derived products do anecdotally seem about that popular, this year.

It’s…weird? Not normal, anyway.

Usually $10 billion worth of revenue has obvious products, services and outcomes it to point to.

$10 billion is a difficult to understand amount of money, and unusual for a relatively new software as a service company.

• The first iPhone release completely transformed society within a few years…and earned about 1/10th that much revenue (6 million units at $700.00, if I’ve got my sums right). (Although I imagine Apple makes much more from the app store, than the devices.)

• $10 billion is about 1/4 of the annual revenue of SalesForce, one of the most successful software as a service companies. SalesForce generates sales, which companies tend to be quite happy to pay for, of course.

So OpenAI doubling in revenue and hitting those kinds of numbers this soon is, odd. Unexpected.

To speculate a bit, it may be the kind of fortune enjoyed by folks who sold mining equipment to gold diggers during the gold rush.

There is presumably lots of speculative investment money flowing to companies that are promising big rewards from novel applications of the OpenAI technology. Of course they have to purchase the technology today, to deliver the huge novel profits next year…

I base this speculation the observation that there’s usually sizeable amounts of money chasing hot new technologies.

These two raging assholes just want easier monopolies.

Anything either of those two says, the rest of us can be sure it’s not to our benefit.

we’re maaaaaybe 3% of the market on a good day, so they say “fuck it”

So true. And worse than that, we’re probably also the 3% most likely to skip buying a game that requires anti-cheat, anyway. Many of us are famously un-friendly toward closed source code running with invasive permissions.