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Assuming that's a direct quote from Altman, he's channeling Donald Trump. Are all the techbro ring kissers going to start spouting barely comprehensible gibberish?

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i included the link to the full video, which i condensed for readability. judge for yourself :)

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OK I listened to it. What the fuck is an air winter? Or for that matter a PGism? That Ycombinator guy's breathless "yeah" at the end, after that comment about a new square in the periodic table; it was like SA had just shown him his new Power Ranger.

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After OpenAI trains chatGPT on Sam Altman’s statements, AI chemists will undoubtedly refer to “the Periodic Table of Squares”

Prompter: “How many chemical elements are there?”

ChatGPT: “I’m not familiar with that term, elements. Could you be more specific?”

Prompter: “You know, in the Periodic Table”

ChatGPT: “Ah, you mean “squares.”The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry recognizes 118 squares”

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Make that the “International Union of Pure and Applied AI Chemy (IUPAAIC)”

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When OpenAI runs out of high quality copyrighted…I mean “publicly available”… data to train their chatbot on , they can use their secret weapon: Sam Altman’s large body of verbiage.

If that doesn’t get them to AGI , nothing will

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The more LLM generated material is out there the more LLMs will train themselves on themselves. Even my cat, after throwing up and eating her own throw-up, doesn't eat it again if she throws it up again. Cats are smarter than LLMs

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Yes, Mad AI disease is a real thing

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Or on the case of Meta’s AI, I suppose it’s called Mad Llama disease

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Anyone who has ever been around llamas knows that there is nothing more dangerous than a mad Llama.

They spit

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