Here's part 1 of this week's Better Offline. I walk you through how impossible it will be for OpenAI to stay alive - and how SoftBank’s attempts to help are materially harming the company. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline - ThreadSky

edzitron.com • 4 days ago

Here's part 1 of this week's Better Offline. I walk you through how impossible it will be for OpenAI to stay alive - and how SoftBank’s attempts to help are materially harming the company.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=1000703690047
https://Linktr.ee/betteroffline

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datafolx.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah, it’s not looking promising.

pug-pirate.bsky.social•3 days ago

Another good episode @edzitron.com. it got me wondering, so I asked ChatGPT how many free uses per day globally it would take to bankrupt OpenAI. It does not have the numbers you do as it started it's output with a claim of net annual profitability. But it did conclude it's possible....

matthopeart.bsky.social•4 days ago

But Ed surely the social media arm will bring in so much money immediately

edzitron.com•4 days ago

ya social networks classically don't lose money either

matthopeart.bsky.social•4 days ago

Not once. Never happened.

tmoney2007.bsky.social•4 days ago

The break from this style of episode was a good idea. You came in hot.

"OpenAI, they got doo-doo ass."

Art.

edzitron.com•4 days ago

That's a finance term

grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's based on an old Dutch term for "I don't see a lot of money here"

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katiesisneros.bsky.social•3 days ago

I want to listen to this podcast but I’m afraid to start now because I feel like I’ll be a bit lost! How far back should I go to get a solid footing and then catch up?

quetzal1234.bsky.social•2 days ago

I think you can start with this episode. He does a good job of explaining the context with each episode, I don't think you'll be lost.

dustinn.bsky.social•4 days ago

For a hot second I thought “Masayoshi Son’s dickshit reckless gambles” was part of the 2 WSJ quotes it was sandwiched between, and I think it might make me subscribe to WSJ if it was

missingfutures.bsky.social•4 days ago

SoftBank is known for its amazing investment acumen in the tech sector, so I can only imagine this stuff will all pan out.

-sent from my hotdesk at WeWork

mudakun.bsky.social•4 days ago

Western AI dominance risks a
"Steve-Bannon-Flood-The-Zone-With-Shit" Gap.

White Cat? Black Cat? Cartoon Cat with Tits? Who cares as long as China controls a bigger firehose than the West.

“Taiwan has been Chinese territory since ancient times,”

https://linguasinica.substack.com/p/_china_chatbot_15

mudakun.bsky.social•4 days ago

By eliminating the need for anything but grey goo in the output, one approaches the use case for LLMs

Truly a new Moloch.

derrickwb.bsky.social•4 days ago

The way you said "Garfield with giant knockers" will be forever impressed in my memory.

wuwave.bsky.social•4 days ago

grogan.bsky.social•4 days ago

you talk at length about big titty garfield but not one word about big titty *goth* garfield

hardwarelust.bsky.social•4 days ago

Great stuff Ed! I listen to a dozen podcasts a week, and I always look forward to yours.

edzitron.com•3 days ago

Thanks so much for listening!

quillbo.bsky.social•4 days ago

Now I'm no businessologist but providing a service where you lose money each time someone interacts with your service as intended seems... bad.

curtismaurand.bsky.social•3 days ago

It was a goid one. I look forward to part 2. I see AI as the latest IT hype bubble.

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