Whenever I see OpenAI's Sam Altman with his pseudo-innocent glance, he always reminds me of Carter Burke from Aliens (1986), who deceived the entire spaceship crew in favor of his corporation, with the aim of getting rich by weaponizing a newly discovered intelligent lifeform.
@metin@Nonya_Bidniss In a weird way, correlating people based only on their appearance is something the current crop of AIs are really well suited for.
@metin except if Aliens was like real life, he'd have been the last survivor due to everyone else taking all the risks, and would have made an absolute packet before a "security incident" involving the xenomorph super-soldiers wiped out half the galaxy, but only the unpopular impoverished bits of it where he didn't live.
@sesquipedality 🙂 It's been many years since I last saw Aliens, but I believe Burke managed to escape with a spacecraft. I guess that's fairly realistic. Altman will probably escape to space along with his fellow billionaires, once they really messed up Earth. 😏
Burke was far smarter, and a better liar. He also had an actual business plan, instead of two IPOs in a trenchcoat. Sure he was evil, and stupid, but he had a whole concept and just had terrible follow through on the details.
Altman's business plan is basically 'Get lots of hype and buzz and popularity, and then try to sell the hot potato off because there's literally no way this ever makes money'.
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