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Sam Altman feels Silicon Valley has lost its innovation culture, saying great research hasn't happened there in a 'long time' (www.businessinsider.com)
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Sam Altman feels Silicon Valley has lost its innovation culture, saying great research hasn't happened there in a 'long time'::"Before OpenAI, what was the last really great scientific breakthrough that came out of a Silicon Valley company?" Altman said on a Wednesday podcast.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The last decade the only innovation that's come out of silicon valley was to just find creative ways to do what an existing industry already does, but through an app and without needing to pay workers full wages.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Or coming up with festive ways to shoehorn a subscription into a service that shouldn't require one. This is all the fault of investors.