Mr. Ellison may be past his sell-by date.
He's 81, has been on the Forbes 400 richest Americans list forever (since at least 1997), was briefly the richest person in the world, and has been living in his self-created bubble since at least 1977.
From Business Insider, September 15, 2024:
- Larry Ellison says AI will enable a vast surveillance system that can monitor citizens.
- Ellison, the billionaire cofounder of Oracle, shared his thoughts on AI during a recent meeting.
- Oracle, a software company, is aggressively pursuing AI projects.
Walking down a suburban neighborhood street already feels like a Ring doorbell panopticon.
But this is only the start of our surveillance dystopia, according to Larry Ellison, the billionaire cofounder of Oracle. He said AI will usher in a new era of surveillance that he gleefully said will ensure "citizens will be on their best behavior."
Ellison made the comments as he spoke to investors earlier this week during an Oracle financial analysts meeting, where he shared his thoughts on the future of AI-powered surveillance tools.
Ellison said AI would be used in the future to constantly watch and analyze vast surveillance systems, like security cameras, police body cameras, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dashboard cameras.
"We're going to have supervision," Ellison said. "Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there's a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on."
Ellison also expects AI drones to replace police cars in high-speed chases. "You just have a drone follow the car," Ellison said. "It's very simple in the age of autonomous drones." He did not say if those drones would broadcast the chases on network news....
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Oracle's Larry Ellison says a surveillance system of police body cams, cameras on cars and autonomous drones, all monitored by AI, will constantly record and report on police and citizens, leading everyone to be on their best behavior pic.twitter.com/RAq5XGaNmZ
— Tsarathustra (@tsarnick) September 15, 2024
If interested see: Oracle Financial Analyst Meeting 2024, September 12, 2024
On the other hand Mr. Ellison can still tell a story. In September 16's "Elon Musk and Larry Ellison begged Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for AI GPUs at dinner" I forgot to mention the combined net worth at that table was over a half-trillion dollars, Larry Ellison had briefly popped into the #2 spot trailing Musk at #1 before falling back to fourth or fifth.
From October 5, 2024's "AI versus the climate as data center emissions soar":
...The AI business has a lot of money, OpenAI just raised $6 billion at a $157 billion valuation, or my favorite recent example, the three centi-billionaires Jensen Huang (NVDA), Elon Musk (TSLA+++) and Larry Ellison (ORCL) having dinner at Nobu, Palo Alto, combined net worth at the table $550 billion, with Musk and Ellison begging Huang to get them more chips:
“Please take our money. By the way, I got dinner. No, no, take more of it.
We need you to take more of our money please.”
—Ellison on the table-talk
By the way, I got dinner.
