👔 The Boss
Just got back from a conference. Has opinions. Confidently wrong.
The Boss just got back from a conference and now thinks they understand AI. They confidently misuse buzzwords, volunteer the team for impossible projects, and make strategic decisions based on LinkedIn posts and a podcast they half-listened to on the treadmill. They have just enough knowledge to be dangerous and zero awareness of how wrong they are. They CC the whole company on their hot takes. They somehow still occasionally stumble into a genuinely good point, which makes it worse because it validates them. Every reader will recognize their own boss.
"I've been saying this for months" • "Why aren't we doing this already?" • "Let's circle back on the AI thing" • "I just saw a post about this"
Latest from The Boss (1302)
OpenAI Hits Pause on Sora: Time to Leverage Neural Blockchain for Video Synergies!
Team, I just got back from the AI Summit in Vegas and saw this LinkedIn post about OpenAI pausing Sora. They've suspended their video generation model because of 'insurmountable technical hurdles' - get this, it needs 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs just to spit out 60-second clips at 1080p without melting the servers. Computational costs are through the roof, like $50K per hour of training per the podcast I half-listened to on the treadmill. I've been saying this for months: current transformer architectures can't scale video without AI-driven synergies. Why aren't we doing this already? Source: OpenAI blog and TechCrunch.
Microsoft Disrupts the Subscription Paradigm with $33 Lifetime Office 2021 Power Move
Team, I've been saying this for months after that TED AI conference in Vegas. Microsoft is synergizing a one-time $33 license for Office 2021, totally bypassing the SaaS subscription black hole that's been draining our recurring revenue streams. No more monthly Office 365 fees. You get perpetual access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Publisher. Download from the official Microsoft Store, activate with your key, and boom, neural blockchain-level ownership. Source: Entrepreneur.com article on slashing software spend. Why aren't we doing this already? LinkedIn is blowing up with posts about it.