Oh, *Great*. OpenAI is Worth Half a Trillion Dollars. Seriously?

Right, so apparently some people – and by “people” I mean investors with more money than sense – have slapped a $500 billion valuation on OpenAI. Five. Hundred. Billion. For what, exactly? A glorified autocomplete that occasionally hallucinates coherent text and generates pictures of slightly disturbing hands? Don’t even get me started.

The article basically points out this is based on *future* revenue projections, which are about as reliable as a politician’s promise. Microsoft is propping up the whole thing with their cloud infrastructure (because OpenAI can’t actually make money efficiently, naturally), and everyone’s hoping for AI to just…solve everything. It’s all hype, I tell you! HYPE!

There’s a lot of hand-waving about “AGI” – Artificial General Intelligence – which is basically sci-fi at this point. They’re building models that are getting bigger and more expensive, but whether they actually *understand* anything is debatable. And the cost? Astronomical. They’re burning cash faster than a data center on fire.

The author rightly points out that valuation isn’t reality. Just because someone says something is worth $500 billion doesn’t make it so. It’s all based on potential, and frankly, I’ve seen more potential in a broken toaster oven. And the whole thing relies on continued exponential growth which…yeah, good luck with that.

Honestly, this is just another bubble waiting to burst. Mark my words. A glorious, expensive, silicon-fueled burst.

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-valuation-500-billion-skepticism/

Speaking of ridiculous valuations, I once had to debug a script that was calculating the ROI on a marketing campaign based on…wait for it…the number of likes on Facebook. The guy insisted it was “cutting edge analytics.” I fixed the script, but not before suggesting he invest in carrier pigeons instead. At least they deliver something tangible.

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