What does that have to do with the current CEO's assessment of the situation?

pinnochio 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nothing. It's just BS rhetoric to bias you against it in favor of The Obvious-to-Everyone-But-the-Laggards AI Revolution.

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hansmayer 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A revolution means radical changes executed over a short period of time. Well with 4 years in, this has got to be one of the smallest "revolutions" we have ever witnessed in human history. Maybe it's revolutionary for people who get excited about crappy pictures they can insert into their slides to impress the management.

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Atlas667 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The AI astroturfing campaign.

If you had billions to gain, would you invest a few 100k or millions in an astroturfing campaign?

	▲	altmanaltman 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		every other day antrophic comes up with a new "AI is scary" marketing campaign. Like https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go (AI blackmails our employee episode) or https://time.com/7335746/ai-anthropic-claude-hack-evil/ (Our model turned evil and hacked us omgg) They put these stories out just to make the general public (who might not understand that this is just bs) but makes AI seem scary so people get a lopsided view of AI and capacities that are straight out of science fiction. Millions is an understatement on how much AI marketing spend is

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venturecruelty 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You definitely want to be standing in front of a chair when the music stops.

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echelon 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

IBM sees the funding bubble bursting and the next wave of AI innovation as about to begin.

IBM was too early with "Watson" to really participate in the 2018-2025 rapid scaling growth phase, but they want to be present for the next round of more sensible investment.

IBM's CEO is attempting to poison the well for funding, startups, and other ventures so IBM can collect itself and take advantage of any opportunities to insert itself back into the AI game. They're hoping timing and preparation pay off this time.

It's not like IBM totally slept on AI. They had Kubernetes clusters with GPUs. They had models and notebooks. But their offerings were the absolute worst. They weren't in a position to service real customers or build real products.

Have you seen their cloud offerings? Ugh.

They're hoping this time they'll be better prepared. And they want to dunk on AI to cool the playing field as much as they can. Maybe pick up an acquisition or two on the cheap.

	▲	hansmayer 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How exactly are they poisoning the well..? OpenAI committed to 1.4 trillion investements...with a revenue of ~13B - how is IBM CEO contributing to that absolutely already poisoned situation? Steve Jobs did not care about naysayers when he introduced iPhone - because his product was so innovative for the time. According to AI boosters, we now have a segment of supposedly incredibly powerful and at the same time "dangerous" AI products. Why are they not sweeping the floor off with the "negators", "luddites", "laggards" etc... After so many hundreds of billions of dollars and supposedly so many "smart" AI researchers...Where are the groundbreaking results man? Where are the billion-dollar startups launched by single persons (heck, I'd settle even for a small team)...Where are the ultimate applications..etc?