The first to AGI, or a close approximation, is the winner. That’s what the investors in Anthropic and OpenAI are betting on.

I’d be willing the bet that the Venn diagram of investors in those two companies is nearly a circle.

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lukan 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"The first to AGI, or a close approximation, is the winner. "

But why? Assuming there is a secret undiscovered algorithm to make AGI from a neuronal network ... then what happens if someone leaks it, or china steals it and releases it openly tomorrow?

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devmor 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Are these investors high? Or just insane?

	▲	fc417fc802 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Neither. It's the most severe FOMO in history. The best case scenario is equivalent to attempting to pick future winners just prior to the industrial revolution really kicking off. Except this time around the technological timelines appear to be severely compressed and everyone is fully aware of what's at stake. And again, that's the best case scenario.
	▲	saintfire 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Its just market euphoria.

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svnt 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This depends on a fantasy cascade of functional consequences of AGI, whatever that acronym even means anymore.

It is just cargo cult financing at this point.