[MikeTheRocker]

I suspect for people like Sam who are compulsively ambitious and competitive, it's not about the dollars. It's about winning.

Further, based on anecdotes from friends and Twitter who know Sam personally, I'm inclined to believe he's genuinely motivated by building something that "alters the timeline", so to speak.

[ah765]

Being the guy who built AGI will alter the timeline the most, so I think he'll be much more interested in that than being CEO of Microsoft.

[chx]

AGI is decades if not centuries away. Cranking a plausible sentence generator to be even more plausible will not get there. I do not understand how people suddenly completely lost their minds.

[sensanaty]

The hype wave really is something else, eh? People are suddenly talking as if these advanced chatbots are on the precipice of genuine AGI that can run any system you throw at it, it's absolute lunacy

[chx]

> The hype wave really is something else, eh?

I am old enough to remember the "How Blockchain Is Solving the World Hunger Crisis" articles but this new wave is even crazier.

[nextlevelwizard]

>I am old enough to remember

So, like 15 year old?

[chx]

Here's one from 2019: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/12/26/ho...

[eddtries]

If he was, he signed up to HN at 2!

I do think it's funny how the Blockchain Consultants have become AI Consultants though.