@TrueAIHound He is old, rich and circling the drain. Larry is yesterday's news.
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Fhotek
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Paranoid Larry is at it again.
Larry Ellison is a mass-surveillance fanatic and a billionaire psychopath. He's malignantly paranoid about imagined enemies everywhere, which makes him weak and dangerous.
Ellison believes that his fake AI, paid for by the very people that he's spying on, will give him the power he needs to control everyone and eliminate threats to his power. 🙄
The hard reality for power-hungry souls like Ellison is that they don't have the rigorous mental discipline and the brutal honesty of thought to solve AGI. Wicked souls are weak and rotten at the core because they believe in their own lies. Their DL-based, fake AI is chicken shit compared to true intelligence.
Anyone who is wise enough to solve AGI will be orders of magnitude wiser than Ellison and his gang. I predict that, one day, AGI will pop up suddenly out of nowhere and kick their asses. It won't be pretty. 😬😱
I'll be watching the whole thing unfold with a Cuban cigar in one hand, a beer in the other, and a grin on my face. And popcorn, too. Cheers!😁🍺🍿
Dustin@r0ck3t23
Larry Ellison just described the death of the unobserved world. Nobody blinked. Everyone is arguing about AI taking desk jobs. Ellison put it in the sky. Ellison: “A drone spots the forest fire and the drone then drops down and looks around to see if there’s a human being near that heat bloom.” That drone doesn’t call it in. It doesn’t wait for instructions. It descends on its own and hunts for the person who lit it. Ellison: “Either had an unattended campfire that caught fire or it’s arson. We can detect all of that.” Detect. Not film. Not log. Detect. A machine above the tree line is not watching a fire. It is deciding whether that fire was a mistake or a crime. A machine is reading human intent from altitude. No officer. No warrant. No human being involved at any step. Ellison: “That’s all, all done autonomously with AI.” We spent two decades in a public war over cameras on street corners. The entire fight assumed surveillance had boundaries. Cities. Intersections. Jurisdictions. Places with addresses and laws. Nobody planned for the version that grew wings and left for land no law was written to cover. A camera records the past. A human reviews it. A judgment happens later. An autonomous drone judges the present before anyone on the ground knows it’s overhead. The wilderness was the last geography on Earth with no lens pointed at it. The last place a person could go where nothing was watching. That’s gone. You can walk into the deepest forest on the continent. Something above you already decided why you’re there.
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Dario is wrong.
He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market.
Don't listen to him, Sam, Yoshua, Geoff, or me on this topic.
Listen to economists who have spent their career studying this, like @Ph_Aghion , @erikbryn , @DAcemogluMIT , @amcafee , @davidautor
TFTC@TFTC21
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: “50% of all tech jobs, entry-level lawyers, consultants, and finance professionals will be completely wiped out within 1–5 years.”
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Follow Mo - to get in-depth insight into the AI bubble and its many scams.
Mo@atmoio
We're in the AI bubble now
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One thing thing about AI, for better and worse, is that "everything around me is somebody's life work" is no longer a true assumption going forward.
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TechCrunch thought the Allbirds AI pivot was “funny”. CNBC called it “bizarre” but left it at that. CNN made it about Silicon Valley culture. Not a single publication used the word “scam”.
But the scam was hiding in plain sight in their press release. Allbirds “seeks to acquire GPUs”, NOT “will acquire” — they are one level of abstraction away from action.
They have “long term plans to be a GPU cloud provider” — not short term plans.
$50M from an “undisclosed investor”. What’re you gonna do with $50M in AI compute spend in 2026? It’s a total joke.
All the major tech publications kept it politically correct and refused to call the scam out. I on the other hand don’t have advertisers to worry about 😄 enjoy!
Mo@atmoio
We're in the AI bubble now
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Why is nobody looking at the cost of these AI tools ? Costs are literally exploding.
ROI is currently negative in most of these AI tools.
I don’t know a company who says they are having massive ROI from Claude code or code or something like that.
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Anthropic’s CEO keeps talking about AI wiping out jobs because he’s trying to IPO this year.
If he positions Claude as armageddon for jobs, his TAM becomes “all white-collar human labor,” not just AI agents or SaaS.
It’s completely self-interested. All the concerns he’s expressing about job disruptions are fake.
It’s a marketing gambit to create hype and FOMO among the people he needs more than anyone else this year: institutional investors like BlackRock, Fidelity, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds.
If these investors pay for tickets on the hype train—if he can make them believe that AI will eliminate half of white-collar jobs, with Anthropic, as the dominant leader in enterprise AI, positioned to capture the surplus margin—the IPO will be oversubscribed and Anthropic can raise more funds for the company at a higher valuation.
But Dario (or, at least, his bankers) knows that these investors are more fiscally disciplined than they used to be. A lot of them got burned during Covid SPAC-mania and don’t want to risk it again. They’re going to challenge Anthropic about whether it will ever get to sustainably high gross margins, or if its arms race with OpenAI will lead to kilowatt-hours permanently suppressing gross margins. They’re going to ask pointed questions about Anthropic’s massive capex and whether it will ever generate accretive ROIC.
And Dario might not have the answers they’re looking for.
So that’s why—to answer Austen’s smart question—you keep seeing Dario in the news and the podcast circuit, spreading doom and gloom about widespread job loss.
It’s not to make you afraid of losing your job. It’s to get Wall Street afraid of missing out on his IPO.
Austen Allred@Austen
Honest question: Why does he keep saying this?
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@MrEwanMorrison Making these absurd predictions is dangerous and irresponsible. Made to help enrich a few already rich people further.
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They tried claiming that AI superintelligence was close - they failed and were exposed as liars.
Now the AI CEOs are promising BOTH abundance AND universal income funded by AI. More lies & contradictory.
It's garbage hype to make us think AI is powerful before they go to IPO.
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This message is wrong. It's deeply unimaginative. It's dangerous. It's destabilizing.
It's going to get people killed.
It scares regular people for no reason and mobilizes them against AI.
It needs to stop.
TFTC@TFTC21
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: “50% of all tech jobs, entry-level lawyers, consultants, and finance professionals will be completely wiped out within 1–5 years.”
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@ImBreckWorsham It would be a real shame if those data centers burnt down...
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It’s pretty clear at this point that AI was developed to force a universal income.
Replace the people with artificial intelligence, make the people dependent upon the government and force compliance with threats to withdraw funding.
Welcome to 1984.
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@firstadopter You mean they were delaying it because there is lack of inference compute rather than it not living up to expectations?
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Oh look! Anthropic's entire "we are delaying Mythos" narrative was marketing hogwash.
Kudos to FT for confirming what was obvious. Anthropic simply doesn't have the compute.
FT: "Multiple people with knowledge of the matter suggested Anthropic was holding back from a wider release until it could reliably serve the model to customers."
tae kim@firstadopter
Everyone should read what's below. This is why actually knowing your stuff instead of naively regurgitating a particular startup's marketing propaganda bullet points is important. I've also included a screenshot of my Substack writeup of Nvidia's Bill Dally and Google's Jeff Dean GTC session that confirms Gavin's analysis.
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🦔Goldman Sachs reports that companies are blowing past their AI inference budgets by orders of magnitude, with inference costs in engineering now approaching 10% of total headcount costs and potentially reaching parity with salaries within several quarters. KPMG surveyed 2,100 senior leaders and found US companies plan to spend an average of $178 million on AI over the next 12 months, with Asia-Pacific firms budgeting $245 million and EMEA $157 million. The two reports together show companies are spending more than planned and intend to spend even more.
My Take
Inference costs approaching headcount parity is an extraordinary number that most finance teams did not model when they approved their AI strategies twelve months ago. The compute crunch, electrical component shortages, and GPU spot prices up 48% in two months are all flowing into corporate operating costs faster than anyone budgeted for, and Goldman's trajectory suggests it accelerates from here.
What I find hard to reconcile is that $178 million average sitting alongside enterprise data showing eight in ten workers are either avoiding AI tools or not using them at all. Companies are committing to nine-figure inference budgets while their own employees aren't using what's already been deployed.
I've watched this dynamic build all year and my honest read is that a significant portion of this spending is driven by competitive fear rather than demonstrated returns. Nobody wants to be the company that didn't invest in AI when everyone else did. That's how bubbles get funded, and at some point boards are going to demand a number that justifies it.
Hedgie🤗
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The only way this Russian aggression stops is if Putin dies, or is ousted. I'm afraid to say he will just keep going, his war crimes are too great and he has annexed more territory than he is realistically going to take.
He will keep going until the last Russian.
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I feel like Anthropic did this:
- launch opus 4.6
- make it the best
- announce the launch of 4.7
- make opus 4.6 worse
- launch opus 4.7 and say its better
That's it. We are still using old 4.6, only it's not performance limited and it's called 4.7
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@JadeCole2112 I went to my local prediction market shop and made a prediction on a horse race. Let's just call it betting and stop right there.
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“People always talk about AI, just in terms of money and jobs,” MIT physicist Max Tegmark told The Post. “I think most people don’t realize how much of it has to do with the transhumanist ideology of some people in [the] Valley.”
This is what Timnit Gebru and I have been saying!
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Alright, I tried Claude with opus 4.7
Here are my first impressions:
- i did some coding and to be honest I dont see anything changed, it does exactly the same as it did with 4.6
- i wrote some seo articles, same as before, there is nothing groundbreaking
- i tried to oneshot something, it did a good job, but its similar to what i got with 4.6
Its more hype than reality with these updates
they are incremental
I got to admit that Claude is the one app that gets you very fast off the ground.
full disclosure, I havent been able to test Codex properly, because I have everything saved in Claude
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Does codex have skills like Claude does ? I would switch from Claude because I keep hitting the limit after 15 minutes.
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5/ "They recently announced that they were training two more men for the infantry... The tankers are disappearing ingloriously.
Then, most likely, the battalion will be abolished on paper. If there are no men, there will be no tanks, no battalion.
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When I pointed out to the head of the UK's ‘Sovereign AI Fund’, @Jameswise, that previous technologies weren't built by stealing the work of the country's creatives, he ignored the point and called me a “comment guy”.
So I ask him this directly, instead of in his comments:
James - will the Sovereign AI Fund invest in companies that train on copyrighted work without a licence?
This is a yes/no question - and the answer should be no, because doing so is illegal in the UK.
Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex
@Jameswise The steam engine, jet engine and MRI scanner weren’t built by stealing the work of the country’s creatives
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