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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

I hope it all fucking fails.

[–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 116 points 1 day ago (2 children)

OpenAI 2015 - non-profit.

OpenAI 2025 - no profit.

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OpenAI 2027 - Dead.

That's my hope atleast.

[–] Shameless@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At this rate its us or them

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago

Don't be so pessimistic, it's quite possible it'll be the and us if they take the world economy down with them.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

More like 0 BILLION profit

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Usually I don't judge an organization by their profits, since it isn't very indicative of its products' and/or services' value.

But yeah, in this case it makes sense and is absolutely hilarious.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How many of those we could build with $1.5 trillion...

[–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago

Enough for each to be crafter by luxuary designer personally for each billionaire.

Or just build a single cheapest one and reuse for each billionaire, giving away $1.5 trillion to the normal people.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

More than we would need for single use on billionaires.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago

I earn five digits per day: £100.00 😎

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago

And how much does this ass gets paid again?

[–] PastelKeystone@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wish business “journalists” would stop calling these 10 year old companies “startups”.

It’s like calling that 10-12 year old kid who was still breastfeeding on Game of Thrones “my baby”.

They did this with Uber, AirBnb, & Spotify as well.

[–] tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 20 hours ago

I think "startup" is an industry term that means something on their relationship with investors. The next step is "unicorn" and in that stage i think a board is formed that can influence the company.

[–] atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works 8 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Don’t encourage them. Making a profit would mean ads on ChatGPT.

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 8 points 21 hours ago

Good, I don't want chatgpt to be a good product. I want the experience to suck so the world can stop pretending it's useful

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

"Before I answer your question, have you heard about today's sponsor, Raid Shadow Legends?"

[–] atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works 7 points 22 hours ago

Or when people ask about products and options for services, that certain services can pay to be more likely to be mentioned defeating the whole purpose of actual comparison.

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

"Sure, that mysterious downstairs rash will probably clear up. But why wait on biology when you could unleash the all-new Ford™ F-150 with a face-melting 720 HORSEPOWER? It doesn't just drive-it obliterates problems, rashes included."

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 day ago

Breaking even would be a huge improvement for them. They can only dream of zeros.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

“We made ten digit profits! Zero is a digit.”

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm going to start saying I'm on a 7-figure salary.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

In Zimbabwe Dollars, I am a trillionaire.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They built a solution in search of a problem, which isn't uncommon.

But, the AI can't solve anything without climbing over the guardrails and hallucinating. Turns out the only thing it's good for is art, music, and writing, but only if you accept that it's not very good at any of those, either.

I think the LLM method is a dead end. I think they've all figured that out, and now they're panicking because they've gone neck-deep into debt to fund this virtually useless tech. I hope the entire thing goes tits up this year, and used GPUs flood the market.

[–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

On my opinion, there is absolutely nothing wrong with ai as a thechology. The problem comes from corporations trying to sell it as a solution for non-existent problem, also not caring about that most people dont need it.

[–] eta@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the capabilities are alright, it's just way too expensive to run and now they are struggling to pay for that cost.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Exactly. The capabilities are nice. The issues come up when we talk price. The capabilities are not $99/month nice. And they're not "Mark Zuckerberg knows everything I search for" nice, either.

So we wait and watch the bubble wobble, while I put pennies in my GPU savings jar.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Building a company on the assumption some technological miracle will fall into your lap might not be the best business plan. Ignoring reality is pretty common in those circles too. Or maybe that's just living in a different reality from say the bottom 99% of the wealth curve.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Thats our plan for climate change right now so...

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I wish reality agreed with you.

Tell it to the richest man in the world.

Full self driving 2030 guys I swear.

[–] babyfarmer@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Pete Davidson is gonna play him in the shitty movie, isn't he?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Nah, probably Jared Leto.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

They will get the revenue when scalping all their GPUs and nVidiaPUs... and RAM and PSUs ...

[–] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People were making the same jokes about Spotify and Uber for 10 years, good to see nobody learned

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No they weren't. At all. The jokes about spotify et. al. were about paying rent for something you used to own, not that the idea was completely useless and unprofitable.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

lol are you trying to gaslight me?

that doesn’t even make sense about uber, paying for what that you used to own?

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

How do you fail to understand that that specific point applies to Spotify?

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

because you said

The jokes about spotify et. al.

What do you think et. al. means?

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

"and others". Why do you think that must project to where it doesn't make sense? Almost like you're too dumb to understand implication and context...

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

We are discussing my own experiences over the last 10 years with people saying uber et. al. are unprofitable and will therefore eventually go broke, the OP looks to be repeating this

If you are unable to understand what we’re talking about and use words you don’t understand maybe spend less time being a snarky fuck and more time thinking about what you type

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

lol your projection of stupidity won't be doing you any favors.