"Because if you’ve built your entire identity around software and tech, around being a programmer, around being a tech person who works to enable “progress” and drive the world to the future, you’re going to have a bad time after being pushed out of that role and seeing your former industry studiously dismantle everything you thought you were building."
Jeez, thank god I was just doing all this for the money.
Yeah, you should definitely sell all Google stock you may hold, immediately, to me, before it's too late. I'm just a sucker, I'm happy to buy from you.
Agreed... I already played Alyx years ago and there's no other game of similar quality... love the hardware, but it's hard for me to imagine dropping a grand on this
I feel like this whole thing was very obviously a marketing stunt. It feels like they set up their agent to do this, in the same way Nikola set up their car to "drive" by putting it on top of a hill. And knowing Sam Altman, it's absolutely something they would do.
Tend to agree with Ben's thesis RE Demis and DeepMind not really being focused on the agentic coding race. That being said, it remains to be seen whether Sergey and Koray can inspire the foot soldiers in the same way that Sama and Dario do. I'm not too optimistic, and that's to say nothing of the fact that Google cannot possibly hope to compete with these other companies on potential employee upside.
> Google cannot possibly hope to compete with these other companies...
It's possible Google has intentionally decided to take a more conservative blended approach than purely competing at the bleeding edge of the frontier. If so, they obviously have no incentive to state it publicly but the recent departures and financials are consistent with the idea. It also makes sense that a company so much bigger, longer-term and (somewhat) more diversified than pure-play frontier labs would play the game to align with their strengths (capital, balance sheet, breadth, etc).
In their position, why not take an 'arms supplier' strategy in the near-term while drafting behind the frontier labs as a fast follower in AI, essentially betting the AI race is more akin to the Indy 500 than a quarter-mile drag race. If they're wrong and it IS more like a drag race, Google is in a better position to absorb and adjust than a frontier lab, for whom current valuations and capex spending requirements nearly require this to be a relatively short, winner-take-all race.
I think the linked semi-analysis piece is about right. Google is more focused on protecting its 4.2 trillion dollar golden goose than pushing cutting edge which leads to a bureaucratic nightmare that researchers simply dont need to engage with when openAI/anthropic are offering even more money. Why waste time dealing with bureaucracy at google when you can be top dog at openAI or anthropic?
This is not a serious prediction... this is just Altman's way of saying that things are going to be very futuristic in a decade. He is NOT predicting physics and engineering breakthroughs that specifically will enable a boom in space exploration. I think it's disingenuous of the media to take this quote and run with it... it's really kind of taken out of context.
Just like your comment wasn't a serious comment, anyone defending this rich asshole has no idea what he's actually saying.
This was a backhand to anyone not born rich and in a CS program that he's purposely trying to make a permanent burger flipper. It's the exact same vain as Biden's "coal miners should learn to code" shit.
Under the present circumstances and given the nature of his product, the things he's done to create it and other details, the comment itself is absurdly idiotic, dismissive and almost a parody of the deluded billionaire with his head up his ass.
Are you really trying to say that these models aren't going to get better from here? You think that the insane progress of the last 5 years just stops right here?
Jeez, thank god I was just doing all this for the money.