86 points

I heard openai execs are so scared of how powerful the next model will be that they’re literally shitting themselves every day thinking about it. they don’t even clean it up anymore, the openai office is one of the worst smelling places on earth

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46 points

dude. the AGI will simply vanish the evidence wherever they’re standing

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27 points

Better than that, AGI will figure out a way to exponentially increase the value of their soiled pants. Blows your fucking mind.

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23 points

for every one of me that shit my pants the AGI is simulating ten million of me that didn’t, so on average i’m doing pretty ok

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11 points

JK Rowling intensifies

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15 points

Remember when wizards magicking away their shits was the stupidest thing to come out of Rowling’s mouth? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

(Seriously, I was not prepared for Rowling’s TERFward Turn)

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5 points

That or the twitter office after the sink was let in

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43 points

really stretching the meaning of the word release past breaking if it’s only going to be available to companies friendly with OpenAI

Orion has been teased by an OpenAI executive as potentially up to 100 times more powerful than GPT-4; it’s separate from the o1 reasoning model OpenAI released in September. The company’s goal is to combine its LLMs over time to create an even more capable model that could eventually be called artificial general intelligence, or AGI.

so I’m calling it now, this absolute horseshit’s only purpose is desperate critihype. as with previous rounds of this exact same thing, it’ll only exist to give AI influencers a way to feel superior in conversation and grift more research funds. oh of course Strawberry fucks up that prompt but look, my advance access to Orion does so well I’m sure you’ll agree with me it’s AGI! no you can’t prompt it yourself or know how many times I ran the prompt why would I let you do that

That timing lines up with a cryptic post on X by OpenAI Altman, in which he said he was “excited for the winter constellations to rise soon.” If you ask ChatGPT o1-preview what Altman’s post is hiding, it will tell you that he’s hinting at the word Orion, which is the winter constellation that’s most visible in the night sky from November to February (but it also hallucinates that you can rearrange the letters to spell “ORION”).

there’s something incredibly embarrassing about the fact that Sammy announced the name like a lazy ARG based on a GPT response, which GPT proceeded to absolutely fuck up when asked about. a lot like Strawberry really — there’s so much Binance energy in naming the new version of your product after the stupid shit the last version fucked up, especially if the new version doesn’t fix the problem

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You forgot the best part, the screenshot of the person asking ChatGPT’s “thinking” model what Altman was hiding:

Thought for 95 seconds … Rearranging the letters in “they are so great” can form the word ORION.

AI is a complete joke, and I have no idea how anyone can think otherwise.

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27 points

I’m already sick and tired of the “hallucinate” euphemism.

It isn’t a cute widdle hallucination, It’s the damn product being wrong. Dangerously, stupidly, obviously wrong.

In a world that hadn’t already gone well to shit, this would be considered an unacceptable error and a demonstration that the product isn’t ready.

Now I suddenly find myself living in this accelerated idiocracy where wall street has forced us - as a fucking society - to live with a Ready, Fire, Aim mentality in business, especially tech.

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14 points

I think it’s weird that “hallucination” would be considered a cute euphemism. Would you trust something that’s perpetually tripping balls and confidently announcing whatever comes to them in a dream? To me that sounds worse than merely being wrong.

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19 points

[ChatGPT interrupts a Scrabble game, spills the tiles onto the table, and rearranges THEY ARE SO GREAT into TOO MANY SECRETS]

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14 points

teased by an OpenAI executive as potentially up to 100 times more powerful

“potentially up to 100 times” is such a peculiar phrasing too… could just as well say “potentially up to one billion trillion times!”

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I’d love to get an interview with saltman and ask him to explain how they measure “power” of those things. What’s the methodology? Do you have charts? Or does it just somehow consume 100x more power as in watts.

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Orion is so powerful and dangerous it can write a memetic virus that mindwipes any reader who sees it. It is beyond science. If you use it within three meters of a lit candle it will summon the devil.

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It’s crazy how these guys will burn billions of dollars and boil the oceans to speak to their invisible friends, when all you really need is a tea candle and 3 cc of mouse blood.

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13 points

I just use a phone to talk to friends who are out of sight.

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11 points

The reception in the Seventh Circle of Hell is pretty shite though, I think they’re still on 3G

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4 points

tea candle and 3cc of mouse blood

Is there something you know that I don’t?

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39 points

So how many ChatGPT 4s have they precariously stacked up on top of each other this time?

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16 points

HOW MANY HAVE WE GOT

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10 points

Err 4 I suppose 🤷

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13 points

According to the totally unintentional and legit executive leak, they stacked 100 them!

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34 points

It’s the least of this thing’s problems, but I’ve had it with the fucking teasers and “coming soon” announcements. You woke me up for this? Shut the fuck up, finish your product and release it and we’ll talk (assuming your product isn’t inherently a pile of shit like AI to begin with). Teaser more like harasser. Do not waste my time and energy telling me about stuff that doesn’t exist and for the love of all that is holy do not try and make it a cute little ARG puzzle.

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Ah, you must be one of the shareholders, keep up the pragmatic pressure

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15 points

are you lost?

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