Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
by KolibriFly on Thursday May 22, 2025 @03:11AM
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Altman clearly has vision and a sense for where the puck is going with AI, but being a design editor is something else entirely
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Clearly? I don’t think that’s certain at all.
Altman is a new era conman, he does not have any vision whatsoever.
Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
by binary132 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @07:30AM
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thank you
The branding is all you need to know about his vision: "Open"AI..
Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
by osigurdson on Thursday May 22, 2025 @07:54AM
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For me, OpenAI's venture into AI adjacent things (Windsurf, JI's company), is a signal that they are no longer seriously pursuing AGI.
They never seriously persued AGI. It's all a hype, a scam. When will people finally understand this?
Re:OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
by osigurdson on Thursday May 22, 2025 @12:57PM
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My take is they persued what was possible and hoped that would lead to AGI. They and probably everyone in the space then used hype to get continued investment and maybe to some extent believed it themselves. It isn't all a scam however, ChatGPT is useful.
It was always marketing and never serious
He's very good at doing startup/scaleup management, in a ruthless/snakey skill level. I think that's something everyone can agree.
But vision? I'm not so sure, he had great company and help along the way, and now that he has been left alone (arguably due to his own actions) he's selling the image of competence in areas that he hasn't demonstrated skills whatsoever. We'll see.