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Sam Altman: The superintelligent AI is coming in just ‘a few thousand days’! Maybe. (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 3 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

that's one tiny thing I'll give Altman - he doesn't seem to have run this through ChatGPT.

That said, VCs generally use ghost writers.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

Yeah, "thousands of days" seems like a first-draft attempt at "let's choose a unit of smaller magnitude to make this seem more serious to the plebs." And everyone around him drowning their brains in GPT slurry shouted, "excellent turn of phrase, sir!"