• m13@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    There are plenty of bosses like him out there. Completely high on their own shit. He reads about technology in a sci-fi book, and thinks he can Steve Jobs into bullying workers into making it a reality. Completely deludes himself into thinking it’s real and sells it to investors with full confidence. He has no idea of the actual technical challenges and fully convinces himself his genius brain could figure it out if he wasn’t so “busy” all the time. Everything is perpetually just 6 months away.

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      7 months ago

      The worst part is that he doesn’t even understand the sci-fi he consumes. He said this not too long ago:

      Grok is an AI modeled after The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so intended to answer almost anything and, far harder, even suggest what questions to ask!

      Every AI in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was broken, an asshole or both. Douglas Adams clearly thought the idea of a “human-like” AI was abhorrent. Especially one developed by a giant corporation.

      Also, he thinks the name of the main character in Blade Runner is “Bladerunner.”

      https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-main-character-blade-runner

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        7 months ago

        And the word grok comes from stranger in a strange land, not hitchhikers guide.

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          7 months ago

          True, and since part of the meaning of grok in the book was ‘to love,’ naming your “anti-woke” AI after that suggests he also didn’t understand that book.

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        7 months ago

        Every AI in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was broken,

        Wow, I’m a huge fan of Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, and I never really thought of that, but you are 100% right.
        Wonderful comment thanks. 👍 😀

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        7 months ago

        I don’t think he meant an AI from the book, I think he meant the actual Hitchhiker’s Guide. The one that says don’t panic on the cover

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          7 months ago

          Which, again, was incredibly corrupt and run by a soulless corporation that didn’t actually care about the truth.