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Venkat Venkatraman's avatar

Perfection finally achieved on this auspicious date!

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Ryan W.'s avatar

Can’t wait to see this reposted on LinkedIn😂

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Fred Simkin's avatar

What was depressing this morning was the number of people who took it seriously.

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Lance Khrome's avatar

Given the recent funding-round upward valuation of OpenAI, it seems as though true believers well outnumber the few remaining skeptics.

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Fred Simkin's avatar

Actually the funding round feeding frenzy reminds me of the early days of the web when domain names were a hot commodity. A partner and I wanted to see how bad the crazy was. So we pitched a site called bubkis.com. We would be asked “what is the site for” and we would reply “bubkis” and they would smile and try to write a check. Bubkis means “nothing” in Yiddish.

My perception is that the number of skeptics is increasing as more and more people realized how systemically and legally flawed LLM based applications are and difficult it is to “fix” those flaws.

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Panayotis Mavromatis's avatar

Maybe. But outnumber shouldn’t mean outweigh.

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Ari's avatar

Softbanks involvement is comforting

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Rukundo Kevin's avatar

I nearly posted this in the Company slack channel 😂😂

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Ryan W.'s avatar

Damn I should have stayed quiet

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Spartacus's avatar

Done! 😂😂😂

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Ronald Ashri's avatar

damn you Marcus - I was steering clear of all April’s fool jokes but this was perfect clickbait 😂

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Charles Fadel's avatar

"Poisson d'Avril", as they say in France ;P

At least 50% chance it finds its way to uncritical media LOL

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Norman Fischer's avatar

Or, even better, aggregated by Chat GPT into Gary's profile!

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Richard Foxall's avatar

It will become the authoritative source cited by all AGI for when it became operational.

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Gerben Wierda's avatar

LOL. And the price is $0.02/month for unlimited use as it is running on a cluster of three Google Willow quantum computers.

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Tom Austin, Sr.'s avatar

You should have changed the font to Foolscap.

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Hilary Sutcliffe's avatar

It took me a minute, very good Gary!

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Alex's avatar

Uh….. happy April fools? Or I’m getting on meds stronger than caffeine and bolting the door

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Gary Marcus's avatar

🤣

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Michael Wood's avatar

Happy April Fools to you too Gary!

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Ted Morris's avatar

Damn it Gary my heart nearly stopped. Then I remembered what day it is.

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Max's avatar

Perfect day for it to finally happen, isn’t it? 😎

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Yulia Sandamirskaya's avatar

)) Best one of the day so far!

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Yulia Sandamirskaya's avatar

How bad things are: I was rolling my eyes when reading the post, thinking it was a "sincere" opinion, only when I saw the authorship I knew it was a joke. The world went nuts.

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Jonathan's avatar

😂 well played, sir

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Jennifer Judge's avatar

hahaha perfect! thanks for the laugh

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Michael Taylor's avatar

April 1st

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Jim's avatar

great news ;-)

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