[ExI] stargate

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On Wed, 22 Jan 2025, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 at 01:00, spike jones via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> When I heard of this Stargate on the radio today, my first thought was: Ah jeez, some big scandal, they caught Trump colluding with space aliens now?
>>
>> But it is some kind of AI initiative.  One would think they would know better than naming anything government related as anything-gate.
>> spike
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> Odd? Your first thought should have been about the famous Stargate
> science fiction film and TV series.  :)
> But the Stargate AI project seems real.
> 500 billion USD! They are going for AGI super-intelligence or bust!
> I hope our AGI overlords treat us nice.
> BillK
>
> <https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/>
> Quote:
> The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500
> billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for
> OpenAI in the United States.

Fascinating! Given all the money that has been invested, I wonder what 
return on investment they are counting on and how long the investment 
horizon is?

Will be a spectacular implosion if/when we hit the next AI winter!

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