> be Google in 2017
> small team drops “Attention Is All You Need” on arXiv
> execs nod politely, go back to selling ads for socks
> let Transformer gather dust for 5 yrs like a vintage Beanie Baby
> be Noam Shazeer, OG wizard
> quits, builds AI-boyfriend app “https://t.co/KRAcLptABl”
> millions of lonely hearts pay $9.99 to e-date 2B from Nier
> Google HR: “any chance you wanna come back?”
> Shazeer: “busy, my e-gf is calling”
> 2022, OpenAI drops ChatGPT
> world loses its mind, Google stock does bungee jump
> Sundar holds all-hands: “guys, we need a response by Q2”
> team ships Bard in 3 weeks using 12 interns, 2000 TPUv4s, and pure panic
> Bard hallucinates that the earth is flat
> Wall Street: “sell sell sell”
> Sergey hears the screams from his yacht
> flies back on a carbon-negative jet, reclaims unofficial crown
> merges GoogleBrain + DeepMind like Dragon Ball fusion
> axes Bard, slaps Gemini sticker on everything
> Gemini launches, immediately generate a black Abraham Lincoln
> Twitter dubs them “Bing’s woke cousin”
> Shazeer finally answers HR’s 47th email
>“fine, but I want my own parking spot and unlimited LaCroix”
> returns, waves wand, Gemini 2 & 2.5 drop
> context window so big it can summarise the Bible + your group chat
> Google processing 980T tokens/month, equal to 40 % of human SMS traffic
> someone sneezes “Nano Banana” into the Play Store
> overnight it’s #1 app, turns ur selfie into big-tiddy anime waifu
How many more model releases do we need for folks to realize we are not getting to magical superintelligence with what we got?
How many times do you have to see a model benchmaxxing to realize Humanity's Last Exam is a freaking idiotic name and that answering questions on it doesn't tell us shit about the true intelligence of the model?
How many models do we have to see demonstrating superficial intelligence but utterly failing at long running, contextual understanding for people to wake up and realize that AI is just another tool?
A good tool, a useful tool, a wonderful tool but not magic and not the end of all jobs and not the end of humanity or any other absurd fantasy of fools and dreamers.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
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