101@feddit.org to People Twitter@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 months agoI thought it was satire, before I look to the source.feddit.orgexternal-linkmessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1377arrow-down13file-text
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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months ago a plucky upstart company actually releases general AI Setting aside the very term AGI is ill defined to the point of meaningless, what prevents the bigger company from simply eating the plucky upstart?
minus-squarebizarroland@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoYou can’t buy what isn’t for sale, I guess.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoHostile takeovers suggest you can.
minus-squarebizarroland@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoYou can only hostile take over a publicly traded company. You can’t walk into a private business and kick the owners out unless you have a lot of manpower and the ability to fend off the police and lawyers and everybody else.
Setting aside the very term AGI is ill defined to the point of meaningless, what prevents the bigger company from simply eating the plucky upstart?
You can’t buy what isn’t for sale, I guess.
Hostile takeovers suggest you can.
You can only hostile take over a publicly traded company. You can’t walk into a private business and kick the owners out unless you have a lot of manpower and the ability to fend off the police and lawyers and everybody else.