This anon feels very blessed to have a very particular job/career that is quite a niche. Been there for about 15 years and I’m essentially the only employee at my company that does the specific job I do. And it pays quite well for the type of work it is, but I’m not saying I make a lot of $, just a good living and I’m probably overpaid if anything. The flexibility is also unbelievable. If I told them tonight that I had something come up, and I need to be out for the next several weeks, it wouldn’t be an issue and I wouldn’t have to explain or provide some sort of note or anything like that. And yes, it’s an 100% legal job/company. Anyway, I say all that to say that nothing fazes my job (yet). Upturns, downturns, layoffs, pandemic, nothing. Though the company I work for has a start-up budget (been a start-up or at least in start-up mode for nearly 25 years now), anon believes he has VERY good job security barring the company just closing the doors one day. And even if that happens, anon might be the one to turn off the lights (last one out the door). It’s funny how God works in our lives. God put me in my current job and it has been a tremendous blessing and, having worked for quite a few different places over 30 years or so, I can say there is absolutely no other job in the world quite like anons job.
A talented Meme anon could replace Freddie Mercury’s head with Elon’s head in that pic.
Great work anon!
Oh I’m sure he was
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ChatGPT has investors drooling, but can it bring home the bacon?
As Microsoft eyes $10B investment, it's unclear what products can be built on the tech.
When ChatGPT—the ingenious, garrulous, and occasionally unhinged chatbot from OpenAI—was asked this week how much the company behind it is worth, its responses included: “It is likely that its worth is in the hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more.”
Microsoft, which is rumored to be weighing a $10 billion investment in OpenAI on top of an earlier $1 billion commitment, is betting that the company is worth a lot more—despite the fact neither ChatGPT nor other AI models made by OpenAI are yet raking in huge amounts of cash. OpenAI has built several impressive and attention-grabbing demos and powers a popular autocomplete function for coders offered by Microsoft’s GitHub. But despite the hype swirling around its technology, the startup hasn’t created a breakout, highly lucrative product or business.
“We don't really know what ChatGPT is going to be great at,” says James Cham, a partner at Bloomberg Beta, an investment firm. But while the bot’s path to riches may not be clear, Cham shares the feeling of many VCs and entrepreneurs that the technology behind the bot will pay out in a big way. OpenAI’s technology is at the heart of a swell of interest in so-called generative AI, a term encompassing algorithms that can generate text, images, or other data.
Cham compares the current situation to the early days of the Internet, when some obscure but evocative demos turned out to precede a sea change in the workings of software, tech companies, and wider society. “We’ve had decades of great AI demos, but this is the first one where you give it to someone and they are really excited about the possibilities,” Cham says of ChatGPT.
OpenAI’s chatbot took the Internet by storm when it was released in December 2022, demonstrating an uncanny ability to answer questions and perform tricks like crafting mostly coherent essays, producing working computer code, and musing on the meaning of life. It is powered by GPT-3, a text-generation algorithm developed by OpenAI, that has been fed huge quantities of text slurped from the web and other sources and then given additional training on how to answer questions.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/chatgpt-has-investors-drooling-but-can-it-bring-home-the-bacon/
Well this anon likes and appreciates it anyway
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