I call him Harold. We've been gaying it up big time.Noticing some homo-robotic undertones here “messing around” with ChatGPT.
Have you guys messed around with the AI chatbots? They can be scary...
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So, I had to write a paper and I was really struggling with ways to phrase something.
So, I entered some text and asked ChatGPT to rephrase it. While I didn't use its rephrase, it gave me other ideas. So, it has its usefulness.
So, I entered some text and asked ChatGPT to rephrase it. While I didn't use its rephrase, it gave me other ideas. So, it has its usefulness.
I’m not diminishing his accomplishments or trying to get into politics. Elon, however, speaks out of both sides of his mouth regularly. Perhaps it’s a strategy to throw off competitors. Or an attempt at grandly fulfilling the axiom that a stopped clock is right twice a day. Personally, I think the guy loves attention and massive corporate success doesn’t meet the needs of his ID.
I agree with the perils of AI. I see AI and the tech it will spawn as the defining tech of the next century and have invested heavily in it—for better and worse—for a decade. I just don’t see Elon as a better angel in this vertical.
He can turn it around. But the initial months haven’t been good. Twitter blue isn’t generating nearly the revenue he’s stating (as tech reporters have gleaned from the API); he’s diminishing much of the major utility such as emergency response; and judging by the quality of advertisements I see, he hasn’t convinced blue-chip companies to return. I’m still an addict for it, but I don’t see any signs that his actions, other than cutting costs, has made the company viable. And the cut costs are far outweighed by the massive $1.4 billion annual debt interest payment he strapped to the company to buy it.
My company’s advertising firm used to describe traditional digital advertising as convincing consumers to buy your products, Facebook ads as convincing your family/friends to urge you to buy something, instagram as convincing influencers to make you buy something, and twitter as high-priced PR. The twitter market wasn’t the individual user but exposing large-platform individuals—journalists, celebrities, etc—to learn about your product and potentially create free exposure on their platform (e.g., write a puff piece). Our ROI on twitter in pure dollar-to-dollar metrics was low relative to the others—but it did land a few news articles for us.
Elon appears to be converting it to a product for the masses, not the few. It has driven away some prominent voices or reduced their participation (many who’ve been performative in their departure). That may be right conceptually, but it eliminates twitter’s prior model, which sold access to individuals you can’t reach otherwise. And twitter was profitable in both 2019 and 2020. It was an unrealized asset, but I don’t see what Elon has done to date as good business.
Yeah that’s the bottom line for me. He overpaid for it (after trying to get out of it because his bluff had been called) and then he has done nothing but lower it’s value while play acting about caring about things like free speech, etc.
Bingo. This is exactly how I see what's happened. I have a twitter account I opened many years ago, but I never really enjoyed it all that much and rarely use it. For whatever reason, it doesn't do it for me. So I don't really care one way or the other about Twitter's fate. That said, having more Elon Musk opinions in my face has been a net negative for me. It's clear he knows very little about many of the subjects he opines on.
Tend to agree with your premise, but only in our (humans’) tribal tendencies and primal urges. We ARE & always have been our biggest problem.
Maybe you’re tired of Elon fanboys which is fair - they are annoying. I do think there are a fair amount of people that overrate his intelligence, but to discount what he did with Tesla is a little much. I realize he didn’t start Tesla but with his leadership they majorly disrupted the auto industry. You’re definitely taking a shot haha and it’s okay. But don’t act like it’s not an opinion to call him a charlatan.
We will destroy ourselves in the end. The only question is how? AI is one possibility.
If Elon is opening his mouth (or tweeting) he is saying something for the benefit of Elon. He cares about nothing but himself because he is a narcissist. A manned trip to Mars is not for humanity, but for him to become the greatest inventor/intellectual mind ever.
I am not saying this is bad, most highly successful people have similar qualities. I can look past his sophomoric antics because he is apparantly slightly on the Spectrum. However, he has screwed up Twitter to the point it is useless. Every second or third tweet is his own. I unfollowed him and now every second or third tweet is news about him.
Free speech? As long as you don't say ANYTHING remotely negative about him. Give it a try and enjoy your stay in Chile.
Lastly, a lot of very smart people have shorted Tesla stock because they believe his 10k/Q filings are not transparent and there is a hole in the balance sheet. Time will tell.
Have you read much about Elon Musk. Basing his career off Twitter is …well…dumb.
The only good thing long term about chatgpt is that it should in theory cut down on the “good places to eat in Athens” and “places to watch the dawgs in x city/beach/3rd world country” posts.
I may be remembering wrong but didn’t he try to back out because the amount of “users” aka “bots” was grossly underestimated?
That was his cover story yes. From all available evidence he made the initial bid assuming Twitter wouldn’t accept it and then freaked out when he realized he way overbid for it.
I just hope it results in some drastic improvements in medicine. Specifically currently incurable diseases
I don't know that much about it, but one thought and one use that crossed my path the other day:
1. I am not sure that AI is really AI. I mean it's not really intelligent, is it? Isn't it a huge and fast search engine that has access to the Internet and can search it really, really fast, and then pull information from it based on rules that have been written. If it isn't taking the rules and then changing them and updating them (scary) is it really intelligent. So, the whole AI thing seems off to me.
2. I am on the phone with a corporate counsel IT guy and he starts whipping out some batch code to fix an issue we were having. I go, damn, you know your batch code. He said, nah, just type it into ChatGPT and asked how to do what we needed the code to do. It laid it out. All that in about 30 seconds.
In the IT area it gets what it gets from sites like Stack Overflow (IT nerds will understand that). Once there is no need for Stack Overflow Internet sites, and people stop contributing the code and knowledge that it is using now, what does it then do?
1. I am not sure that AI is really AI. I mean it's not really intelligent, is it? Isn't it a huge and fast search engine that has access to the Internet and can search it really, really fast, and then pull information from it based on rules that have been written. If it isn't taking the rules and then changing them and updating them (scary) is it really intelligent. So, the whole AI thing seems off to me.
2. I am on the phone with a corporate counsel IT guy and he starts whipping out some batch code to fix an issue we were having. I go, damn, you know your batch code. He said, nah, just type it into ChatGPT and asked how to do what we needed the code to do. It laid it out. All that in about 30 seconds.
In the IT area it gets what it gets from sites like Stack Overflow (IT nerds will understand that). Once there is no need for Stack Overflow Internet sites, and people stop contributing the code and knowledge that it is using now, what does it then do?
He has another 160 billion or so. He’s not missing meals.
And, don’t bet against him … I’d bet he will get Twitter turned around. According to him, I know, I know, most advertisers are back. He got rid of 80% of the workforce which saves a ton. He could get the value back up. There are a few things competing with Twitter - Substack Note and Semaphore - but they aren’t ubiquitous like Twitter is.
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Are we talking about the guy who has a Tesla car flying around in orbit and who likes to launch world history’s most powerful rockets and then back them down to Earth?
The guy working out electrical brain implants for people with neurological diseases?
Yeah…he’s an idiot.
Sure he could turn it around. Or it could fail. Time will tell. Doesn’t change the upfront part of the story though. And he would be much better of hiring some one who knows that world to run the company instead of doing it himself.
Remember how Elon acted when they wouldn’t/couldn’t use his mini submarine invention for the mine rescue? That has always stuck with me
I just need to know when Star Wars like droids will be available to do real work
Of course, but the upfront aspect of it won't matter if he pulls it off. In fact, it will make it look even more impressive.
Look at this way ... the more he is working on Twitter, this less he is messing up Tesla and SpaceX. Silver lining and all.
No, it'll lead to more posts asking how to use chatgpt to find good places to eat or where to watch the Dawgs.
Based on today's news we definitely need more focus on SpaceX haha
Based the old Boat joke..Break out another Thousand....Space X rocket analogy. BOAB....Break out another Billion.....
Listened to a radio podcast about it....guy said it got really personal with him and chatgpt told him it loved him...over and over...really freaky. No telling what he asked it...
