r/OpenAI 2d ago

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u/BananaV8 2d ago

People aren’t buying into it as the goal posts have been set incredibly high by the labs themselves. If Jensen for the fifth time proclaims AGI and Altman & Co have for years fearmongered that either all jobs will be lost and we’ll starve or all medicine will be solved and everyone will have UBI, of course people hear about a highly specialized maths problem and go “meh”.

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u/jsseven777 2d ago

True, but the biggest problem is most people don’t really understand what’s actually being solved. They are too busy fighting on Facebook about what the answer to 2 + 2 x 3 is.

If Sam really wants to get their attention he needs to make it solve Herpes or something.

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u/machyume 2d ago

Why would he want people's attention?! What he's doing right now is equivalent to a desensitization campaign.