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That's why I bake my cake at 2608°C for ~1,8 minutes, it just works™

AGI is not in reach. We need to stop this incessant parroting from tech companies. LLMs are stochastic parrots. They guess the next word. There's no thought or reasoning. They don't understand inputs. They mimic human speech. They're not presenting anything meaningful.

lol, because if they work 40-hour weeks they might create it a couple of weeks later

"Work 50% longer weeks so you can make something that'll both make me richer AND cost you your jobs!" is not the motivational speech he thinks it is.

If it can be reached in 60 hour work weeks it can be reached in 40, but nah mfs should rush to get themselves replaced

If it's within reach of a 60 hour week then it's within reach of a 30 hour week.

This LLM copycat bullshit is never going to be it though. It's not thinking, it's looking up the answers at the back of the book.

lol no way AGI is within reach. He is just trying to hype investors. Bet he has a scheduled stock sale soon.

Just for information: We know, from multiple studies, that working more than 40 hours a week for longer periods of time is extremly unhealthy for you. A week has 24*7 = 168 hours and you should sleep 8 hours. That are 56 hours and if you're working 60 hours, that leaves you with 52 hours or 7,5 hours per day for stuff like "commuting to work", "buying groceries", "brushing your teeth" , "family", "friends", "sport" or "this important appointment at the dentist".

And that 7,5 hours are without a weekend. This will kill you. You might be younger and feel strong, but this will kill you.

"Man who works 10 hours per year tells underlings to work 60 hours per week."

This is almost too depressing to be funny.

He can fuck all the way off.

Thought this was an Onion article!

Hey plebs! I demand you work 50% more to develop AGI so that I can replace you with robots and fire all of you and make myself a double plus plutocrat! Also, I want to buy an island, small city, Bunker, Spaceship, And/Or something.

I’m really getting sick and tired of these rich fuckers saying shit like this.

1. we are no where close to AGI given this current technology.

2. working 50% longer is not going to make a bit of difference for AGI

3. and even if it would matter, hire 50% more people

The only thing this is going to accomplish is likely make him wealthier. So fuck him.

If you need 50% more person-hours, hire 50% more people.

What if they just work 30 hour weeks for twice as many weeks?

Let's work 20 hour weeks then. Who wants AGI other than war pigs and billionaires?

Or just hire 50% more engineers? Or wait 50% longer?

If it's in reach working 60 hour weeks, it's also in reach working 40 hour weeks, it will just take 1/3rd longer. ;)

Yup... Work your ass off guys, so we can fire you sooner! Great deal.

I bet Sergey Brin doesn't even work half that.

Or you could hire 50% more employees for the holy grail of having more wealth than any other company ever after this program.

But even for something this big (that, incidentally will end humanity) they are too scrooge to even pay their employees a normal wage for normal hours

Fuck these assholes, burn in hell

Or if you hire more personnel. Overtime work is more expensive anyway.

Btw, the overwhelmingly positive field study in the UK over the 4-day week...

We can make the AI slave, we just need the humans to be more slave-like to do it.

AGI requires a few key components that no LLM is even close to.

First, it must be able to discern truth based on evidence, rather than guessing it. Can’t just throw more data at it, especially with the garbage being pumped out these days.

Second, it must ask questions in the pursuit of knowledge, especially when truth is ambiguous. Once that knowledge is found, it needs to improve itself, pruning outdated and erroneous information.

Third, it would need free will. And that’s the one it will never get, I hope. Free will is a necessary part of intelligent consciousness. I know there are some who argue it does not exist but they’re wrong.

So this is how you use AI to get these promised productivity gains.

They talk about AGI like it's some kind of intrinsically benevolent messiah that is going to come along and free humanity of limitations rather than a product that is going to be monetised to make a few very rich people even richer

Who gives a fuck what Sergey brin thinks

Anyone else feel hungry?

When exactly was this pivotal moment when Google became a cult not a company ?

Or, y'know, he could hire 50% more programmers / contractors, instead of overworking his current staff

Oh shit, here we go again. Time to short alphabet stock until they bury all that AI garbage like the rest of it.

They warn us about AGI while simultaneously attempting to sell it to us.

Just a few more hours bro.

"Work 60 hour weeks."

Sure, if we get paid the same as you.

I don't believe a single word of this bullshit.