Masayoshi Son says superintelligence could become super dangerous. The same day, seven European countries endorsed a US declaration that drops the term AI.
Wework had an interesting if not scalable idea, it could be worked in the right market if they basically turned it into temporary autoshops or machining workshops. Need a place to do business for a day or two then rent it keep it clean and you don’t need long term leases or anything, problem was they didn’t go for that niche all that well and grew way too quickly.
Honestly the hypergrowth and collapse seems to be the main killer for good if flawed ideas like Wework where it’s not necessarily a bad concept but it sure as shit wasn’t worth more than a couple million accounting for assets.
Given how much he invested in WeWork, I don’t think this guy is qualified to talk about intelligence of any kind.
Well, the WeWork thing wasn’t half half as bad as the money burning Slop Machine.
Wework had an interesting if not scalable idea, it could be worked in the right market if they basically turned it into temporary autoshops or machining workshops. Need a place to do business for a day or two then rent it keep it clean and you don’t need long term leases or anything, problem was they didn’t go for that niche all that well and grew way too quickly.
Honestly the hypergrowth and collapse seems to be the main killer for good if flawed ideas like Wework where it’s not necessarily a bad concept but it sure as shit wasn’t worth more than a couple million accounting for assets.