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[–] vane@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

my kids will never be smarter than AI

Sam Altman 2025

Call a doctor.

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 15 hours ago

wow, getting desperate with the marketing over there.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 31 points 18 hours ago

"Those first few weeks it was constantly," he says of his tendency to consult ChatGPT on childcare.

Dude, I wouldn't trust ChatGPT for plant care 😂

[–] aaron@infosec.pub 20 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Presumably he means the financial success of chatgpt paid for the coterie of staff he employs to look after the child he never sees.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 25 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Why would you admit you're a complete moron like that?

[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Because other complete morons will now buy the product?

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 4 points 17 hours ago

I would do it if it got me a million dollars

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 5 points 15 hours ago

So he fired the Nanny in favor if chat GPT?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 12 points 19 hours ago

Put that child in a foster home before he abuses it even more.

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Wtf is a supremo actually don't tell me I never wanna use it again

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The latest doublespeak for oligarch

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I can't think of a single thing I would trust chat gpt with, especially when it come to my kids.

I'm trying to rationalize what you could even ask it that's not a single Google search away with a forum or blog post written by (hopefully) human fucking beans who have gone through the same thing you're experiencing and figured it out.

For every parenting question you have there's 100 different answers, at least 20 of them are reasonable, pick one of those 20 and figure it out.

While writing this I tried something. Chat gpt told me a 4 month old needs around 14 ounces of milk in a day if their breast feeding. Which is about half the actual number. I think the recommendation is ~25 /day, my kid drinks ~30. If I gave him 14 a day I think he'd learn how to walk just to kill me.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 21 points 23 hours ago

This guy's kid is going to be so fucked up

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 143 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine waking up one day and admitting to the world that you are that goddamned fucking useless of a human being? Mind boggling.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

oh dude, my brother and sister in law have this story they like to tell about me where they abandoned their three year old child at a park because they expected me to be there. they never contacted me about watching or caring for their kid, i just busked there every other thursday. i had a doctor's appointment so i wasn't there. the way they tell it, i'm the villain (their neighbor found their child wandering around the park and brought them home. apparently i'm at fault for being 30 miles away the entire time) but, uh, they really like the story.

my brother does not know why his circle of friends keeps shrinking.

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

Your brother and sister in law sound like they were made for each other, both insane.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

You have to understand that like 50% of the American population are even more useless than him.

[–] C1pher@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Jesus crist, this guy is lucky he even has a child, unless he used ChatGPT for that too :D

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 3 points 22 hours ago

Altman: "How does one have a baby?"

ChatGPT: "You see, when a mommy and daddy love each other..."

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is he admitting ignorance to something that literally tens of billions of people have done, including people who can't read and never knew what a computer was, or even how to make fire? This is the guy who we should trust with making an "artificial intelligence"?

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, programmers don't make great dads, it's rather hard to program your kid

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago

Dr Skinner enters the chat

[–] Kintarian@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I wonder why all the tech bros are completely off their rockers.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 day ago
[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lack of empathy, born with golden spoons in their mouths

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[–] Naich@lemmings.world 63 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I mean it's fair enough. It's not like anyone has ever done it before. There is literally no information available about this uniquely modern process.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago

plus it's such a horrendously complex thing that you definitely can't largely figure out on your own

hey my infant keeps leaking this foul smelling brown stuff, what's going on??? if only i had access to AI so i could figure this out..

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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

If he literally knew nothing and was worried for his child he could have hired a well paid live-in nursemaid and forgotten about the money it cost the next half hour.

Instead he used his child as an experiment.

“Hey dad, are you proud of me?”

“I’m proud of the value you created for me and the shareholders.”

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 42 points 1 day ago

You know what? I believe him.

[–] ApeNo1@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

ChatGPT prompt : “How do you make arrangements to have a live in nanny to take care of your child?”

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 4 points 23 hours ago

We have mistaken rationality for a philosophy rather than a methodology, and efficiency for a virtue without any particular end in mind.

To have a unique, personal, subjective, divergent human experience is to sin against your prescribed algorithm.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

so he's an idiot, got it

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

then why even have a baby? the joy of caring for that child--of experiencing fatherhood--is a big reason for having babies.

not taking steps to learn how to be a father is like buying a hog and slapping training wheels on it. you're never going to get to really enjoy that ride.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

what a fucking useless human.

I vote we start calling me Elon Jr.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It just goes to show. Financial success doesn't equal a good person (or parent, in this case)

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[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Ok, guys, at least Mr Sam is wannabe Steve Jobs and not wannabe a Hitler's orange hair twin

[–] LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 1 day ago

Sam Altman at this point is a parody of a human being, one that failed upwards in spectacular fashion. I can't wait to see the postmortem of why AI failed, and this weird advert for AI to be cited. ROFL

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 day ago

Holy shit we are definitely living in a satire simulation running as a VR experience for people living in a less funny but just as brutal reality.

Like holy shit you can't write this shit, this has got to have people at The Onion quaking in their papery and layered exteriors.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 13 points 1 day ago

Altman reminds of all those robot Zuckerberg memes.

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