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Depends on the reason for the outage. If it is an application error, like OOM or other performance issue, then yes, they might be directly tied to the root cause and solution. If it's an infra issue, then maybe not so much. I once spent an entire weekend swapping shifts trying to keep the main server of an AI company up because the devs deployed on friday and were unreachable to fix their memory error. The best thing…
I get everything except Snowflake.... Anyone care to elaborate on why they have snowflake in their stack?
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#152Slightly funny but also slightly concerning, they were also having service issues a few days ago that resulted in ChatGPT giving me answers to prompts I wasn’t submitting. I reproduced this 30 or so times just to see the different results and it was interesting, everything from answering questions about mental health to marketing tips, to a request to write a thesis over social media and it’s negative effects on our…
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#153LLM's are incredibly expensive to run. I imagine the huge demand that ChatGPT is seeing would make any cloud vendor sweat if you were to suddenly lump it on top of the usual demand. To me it's entirely unsurprising that OpenAI would have trouble keeping up. Good luck to them.
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Note: I assume you mean the Tesla K80. It's actually 2 GPUs on one card. But yes, it's a very good value.
I just checked ebay and they are shockingly cheap. I can't even get DDR3 memory for the price they're selling 24GB of G DDR 5 ... with a GPU thrown in for free. Why is this? Did some large cloud vendor just upgrade? Are there any deals like this on AMD hardware? Not having to deal with proprietary binary drivers is worth a lot of money and reduced performance to me. A lot.
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Why stop there, when many of them could transform it into something that is allowed in-flight?
This is wonderfully terrifying and devious. Everybody, as far as anyone could tell, in complete agreement with the regime, all the time. Signing and encryption will come in useful. But not sure of much good it will do under an authoritarian regime.
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Can you think of any non-weapons examples where centralization/gatekeeping of a tech meaningfully and causally benefited society or a technology itself? Actually, thinking about my own question I'm even inclined to remove the non-weapons qualifier. The most knee jerk response, nuclear weapons, is perhaps the best example of unexpected benefit. The 'decentralization' of nuclear weapons is undoubtedly why the Cold War…
I really don’t like the argument that you should make things free just because it makes the world better. What happened to ownership and respecting the effort it takes to create something? I see a similar line of reasoning can be used to justify theft from the rich.
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"OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact.
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As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world. We’ll freely collaborate with others across many institutions and expect to work with companies to research and deploy new technologies."
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My mocking about OpenAI(tm)(c) was not just juvenile "Micro$oft" type nonsense. At some point they discovered they could make a buck, and their ideology suddenly shifted 180. I have no qualms whatsoever about businesses pursuing profit, but the entity currently known as OpenAI couldn't be much further from the principles and values OpenAI was founded on, and their name itself is rapidly trending towards becoming a "Don't Be Evil" type of sardonicism. If this was Microsoft, Google, or other such companies operating in this way - I wouldn't have any expectation of anything besides what OpenAI is doing.
Companies tend to get quite a lot of credit when claiming some socially motivated interest, probably much more than deserved. So when they turn against those ideals, it should be noted - loudly.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is wonderfully terrifying and devious. Everybody, as far as anyone could tell, in complete agreement with the regime, all the time. Signing and encryption will come in useful. But not sure of much good it will do under an authoritarian regime.
related: https://xkcd.com/2015/
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#159Slightly funny but also slightly concerning, they were also having service issues a few days ago that resulted in ChatGPT giving me answers to prompts I wasn’t submitting. I reproduced this 30 or so times just to see the different results and it was interesting, everything from answering questions about mental health to marketing tips, to a request to write a thesis over social media and it’s negative effects on our…
This is why Amazon begs employees not to leak corporate secrets to ChatGPT: https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-begs-employees-chatgpt
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you think of any non-weapons examples where centralization/gatekeeping of a tech meaningfully and causally benefited society or a technology itself? Actually, thinking about my own question I'm even inclined to remove the non-weapons qualifier. The most knee jerk response, nuclear weapons, is perhaps the best example of unexpected benefit. The 'decentralization' of nuclear weapons is undoubtedly why the Cold War…
I really don’t like the argument that you should make things free just because it makes the world better. What happened to ownership and respecting the effort it takes to create something? I see a similar line of reasoning can be used to justify theft from the rich.
Ironic taking into consideration that the current generation of AI are more or less copyright laundering for the big corporations. Github Copilot being an extreme example of using GPL projects to generate "proprietary" closed source code. What happened to ownership and respecting the effort it takes to create something?