Readit Newswaldohatesyou commented on The Gentle Singularity blog.samaltman.com/the-ge... · Posted by u/firloop
The "fundamental limiter of human progress" is not energy/intelligence lol. No - surprise, it's people. Bear in mind he builds this "gentle singularity" in the great progressive UAE.
How is it not? In the grand scheme of human history, energy usage constantly goes up. What other measure could you possibly use to measure progress?
I feel this is part of a larger and very old business trend.
But do we need 20 companies copying each other and doing the same thing?
Like, is that really competition? I'd say competition is when you do something slightly different, but I guess it's subjective based on your interpretation of what is a commodity and what is proprietary.
To my view, everyone is outright copying and creating commodity markets:
OpenAI: The OG, the Coke of Modern AI
Claude: The first copycat, The Pepsi of Modern AI
Mistral: Euro OpenAI
DeepSeek: Chinese OpenAI
Grok/xAI: Republican OpenAI
Google/MSFT: OpenAI clone as a SaaS or Office package.
Meta's Llama: Open Source OpenAI
etc...
I don't think they're actually the same thing, I definitely feel like Claude is much better with code than ChatGPT is so there are clearly differences in the capabilities of these models. One analogy that I find helpful here is the idea that these AIs are like animals. Just like there are animals of the same family (meaning they're genetically related to some degree) they still adapt to different niches. I see all these AI companies ultimately creating models analogous to that.
Some AIs will be good at coding (perhaps in a particular language or ecosystem), some at analyzing information and churning out a report for you, and some will be better at operating in physical spaces.
Oh I can make it work; but it’s definitely not as easy as they claim for business users and that was my point.
They have sufficient control over their model that they can presumably tailor it to their needs. Perhaps if you acquired analogous control, you’d have more success.
Requiring benefit is a huge step from where we are. Perhaps it would be easier periodically determine the n most harmful and dissolve them. Predation is known to make an ecosystem healthier.
This would sidestep the problem of:
> but what about all the stuff in the middle
What do you think the top 10 worst companies are? How likely do you think it is that your list matches mine or anyone else’s?
Closing off any future French-speaking (read: sharing more Quebec values) Western expansion was (and really, still is) actually a big deal.
Wait isn’t it the opposite? Manitoba was founded as a French Canadian province wasn’t it?
Are there any serious objections to that line of reasoning?