Andrew Marantz

So a lot of it is going into data centers.

Data centers, right.

So they're building one in the UAE that is going to be seven times as big as Central Park and use about as much electricity as Miami.

Yeah, perfect for the environment.

But don't worry because AGI is going to fix the environment.

Where you get your funding for a movie is...

is different than where you put, as some people call it, a country of geniuses in a data center.

In other words, if you really think that you're growing a new form of superintelligence... You want to keep it in the family.

Exactly.

Yeah, I think it's important to grasp how much of the initial pitch for this was based on this view of the world that has completely flipped over time.

Because we think of it through the lens of, sure, businesses put out nice press releases and they say we're not going to be evil.

And then they redefine what they think is evil over time.

This is not that.

Altman went to great lengths.

to write blog posts, to convince people, to take people out to dinner, to say, I am the person you can trust to usher this technology into existence without literally killing everyone on Earth.

That was literally the pitch.

So then for him now to say, we don't need to worry about all that Doomer stuff, it's kind of one of those either you were lying then or you're lying now.

He might, but he didn't.

What he says is he redefines the problem.

Yeah.