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0 pointskLADh232Ha1y ago0 comments

I think Musk (probably using his Saudi admirers yet again) wants to buy OpenAI because he needs a working chatbot right now. For example, he is gutting the General Services Administration and wants to install a GSAi chatbot to replace the workers:

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-chatbot-ai-first-agenda/

Perhaps "big balls" and the other geniuses he hired haven't managed to come up with a working solution.

Musk needs chatbots for his technocracy movement because they are great for faking progress in efficiency without understanding any of the systems they replace and destroy.

He may also need them for online bot campaigns to convince MAGA voters that layoffs, deregulation, H1Bs and supporting billionaires are really in their best interest.

That said, considering he overpaid for Twitter, perhaps OpenAI should consider his offer.

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easton1y ago

Putting aside that LLMs can’t replace people that way, it would be infinitely cheaper to just license one vs buying OpenAI. And you could say “but Elon wants government money”, but it’d take so long to make it back because inference is so cheap (and probably running at a loss if you’re OpenAI).

esafak1y ago

This makes no sense. Republicans work for the government too. How are they going to get re-elected if they fire their base?

oskarkk1y ago

> I think Musk (probably using his Saudi admirers yet again) wants to buy OpenAI because he needs a working chatbot right now.

But I think Musk does have a working chatbot right now? Haven't used it so I won't speak from experience, but Grok by xAI is working and is not that much behind OpenAI, maybe like half a year behind, judging by LLM Arena[0] and other benchmarks that I've seen.

[0] https://lmarena.ai

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