ah yeah, 10 employees and “worth” $5 billion, utterly normal bubble shit

Sutskever was an early advocate of scaling, a hypothesis that AI models would improve in performance given vast amounts of computing power. The idea and its execution kicked off a wave of AI investment in chips, data centers and energy, laying the groundwork for generative AI advances like ChatGPT.

but don’t sweat it, the $1 billion they raised is going straight to doing shit that doesn’t fucking work but does fuck up the environment, trying to squeeze more marginal performance gains out of systems that plateaued when they sucked up all the data on the internet (and throwing money at these things not working isn’t even surprising, given a tiny amount of CS knowledge)

Eliezer is skeptical, can find flaw in any alignment strategy in 2 minutes: https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1803676608320192617

If you have an alignment plan I can't shoot down in 120 seconds, let's hear it. So far you have not said anything different from the previous packs of disaster monkeys who all said exactly this almost verbatim, but I'm open to hearing better.

you know a company is very serious when it uses game balance terminology to describe its HR practices. "I'm sorry, we're going to have to nerf your salary"

It’s called “safe superintelligence” because they want investors to sign SAFE agreements and feel very smart about it.

Lol. The obvious pump and dump scheme is working as intended.

I’m thinking this is a POSIWID kind of deal. The mission statement of this company should just be: “A. I. Money please!”

Well look if you no longer had a Silicon Valley executive's salary you might have opinions about that situation too.

Weird sort of wartime to be investing new dollars into Israel though I thought?

Oh wait right. https://bdsmovement.net/news/israel%E2%80%99s-most-important-source-capital-california