OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it::The man behind ChatGPT is wooing the UAE to invest in energy-hungry AI. But if it turns out his tech can’t fix the world, he’s got his escape plan

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    9 months ago

    A phone is a product, and it solves a lot of problems.

    I used to print out mapquest directions to wherever I drove. Now I can just use navigation so I seldom miss turns on dark streets anymore.

    Products can solve problems, that’s why people pay for them

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      9 months ago

      I think they mean existential problems, like our belligerent lumbering towards the violent self-destruction of humanity.