OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever reportedly likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company.
  • cheeseburger@lemmy.ca
    15·
    10 months ago

    So the scientists are being portrayed as lunatics now instead of the crazy business assholes scheming to maximize their golden goose? Right.

  • egeres@lemmy.world
    9·
    9 months ago

    “Feel the AGI! Feel the AGI!” employees reportedly chanted, per The Atlantic, a refrain that was led by Sutskever himself. The chief scientist even commissioned a wooden effigy to represent an “unaligned” AI that works against the interest of humanity, only to set it on fire.

    Rant about how they are crazy and all, but I wish my company did such meaningful team building experiences, our last off-site was some meh hike with casual talk, I want to see my manager chanting creepy stuff while a wooden sculpture burns in the background :/

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      8·
      10 months ago

      One of the great benefits of working from home has been the zero chance of motivational chanting, pep talks, or team-building golf or paintball or novelty competitive challenges. I always came out of those less motivated than I went in. Your company’s team-building thing of just going for a walk sounds like my sort of level actually.

  • SuiXi3D@kbin.social
    55·
    10 months ago

    If you look into who and why AI has been so heavily researched, it’s literally because these idiots see God as the end result. They’ve been making AI based on how they think God works, should work, etc.

    Scary shit.