Tristan Harris
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I don't remember where that one is, but it's crazy.
There's like an overlay.
Someone can look it up.
There's like an overlay where you can see the size of this data center, and it's almost the size of Manhattan.
And you can ask, I mean, again, there's more money people should just get.
There's trillions of dollars going into this.
There's more money going into this technology than all technologies of the past have ever been built.
And we're releasing this technology faster than we've released every other technology in history.
It took something like two years for Instagram to go from zero users to 100 million users.
And it took two months to go from zero to 100 million users for ChatGPT.
And of course, they're going from chat GPT-3 or 4 to now at 5.2.
And it went from barely being able to finish a sentence with chat GPT-2, like finish a paragraph and do like a coherent text, to GPT-3 could write full essays, to GPT-4 can pass the, you know, the bar exam or the MCATs, to GPT-5.2, I believe, was used to get a gold in the math Olympiad.
And there are quotes from people like inside of OpenAI who believe that they're not just building this like narrow technology that's a helpful blinking cursor.
They want to build artificial general intelligence.
And so what that means is being able to do that everything that a human mind can do.
And the joke inside the company is like, we're going to cover the world in data centers and solar panels.
Like they want to cover the world in essentially these big boxes that have huge clusters of NVIDIA chips that then compute away and ultimately create something like a super intelligent god entity that they believe that they will use to own the world economy, make trillions of dollars.
And from a kind of ego religious intuition, they will have built the God that supersedes and replaces humanity.
I know that sounds insane.