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Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI

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Post by Yizahi »

atemerev wrote: post #68
Yizahi wrote: post #49

Imagine calling your machine learning startup names like "Anthropic" or "Humane". The lack of self-awareness in some executives is mind boggling.

Why not? If we want to build AGI, that’s a good name to choose.

Neural Networks are basically a Chinese room and it is not AGI. And there is nothing "humane" in these developments. Yes, they are inevitable, yes we would have to live with them. And maybe they will improve lives of a few millions of humans, while degrading lives of billions of others. Long term effects are particularly interesting and unpredictable.

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Post by Yizahi »

samwillis wrote: post #81
Yizahi wrote: post #49

Imagine calling your machine learning startup names like "Anthropic" or "Humane". The lack of self-awareness in some executives is mind boggling.

I suppose the alternative it to go completely the other way and call it "sky net".

Yes Dave, that would be a great name. :)

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Post by dpkirchner »

xena wrote: post #40
alexb_ wrote: post #35

If someone released a chatGPT/characterAI with NSFW content enabled it would eat into a big share of their users (and for characterAI, maybe take all of them). Seriously, look into what people are posting about when it comes to characterAI, and it's 80% "here's how to get around NSFW filters". Unsure why nobody is taking this very very obvious hole in AI tech.

The main reason why companies don't allow NSFW content is because of puritan payment processors that see that stuff and then go absolute sicko mode and lock people out of the traditional finance system.

I think it's equally likely that they just don't want their product to be known as "the porn bot".

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Post by sharemywin »

gear54rus wrote: post #63
xena wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main reason why companies don't allow NSFW content is because of puritan payment processors that see that stuff and then go absolute sicko mode and lock people out of the traditional finance system.

This comment right here can be shown to snobs who still denounce crypto btw

crypto + NSFW generative AI = ????

that's not going to lead to a whole lot of black market images.

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Post by wongarsu »

omneity wrote: post #62
preommr wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it? I think the recent release of ChatGPT has skewed perceptions. There's no guarantee that there's going to continue to be as ground breaking shifts that have happened recently with llms and diffusion models. To continue with the popular comparison, there were a lot of apps when the iphone first launced the app store before it tapered off. If you looked at just the first year, you'd think we'd have an app for eve…

Here's the catch, people are still adapting to GPT tech, still figuring out ways to make use of it, to include it in their workflows, etc. Social impact of ChatGPT even in its current form is only getting started, it doesn't need to progress at all to be super disruptive. For example, see the frontpage story about the $80/h writer who was replaced by ChatGPT, and that just happened recently, months after ChatGPT's fi…

But is that because of rapid breakthroughs in tech, or in marketing?

GPT 3 is nearly three years old at this point, and was pretty capable at generating text. GPT 3.5 brought substantial improvements, but is also over a year old. ChatGPT is much newer, but mostly remarkable for the better interface, the extensive "safety" efforts, and for being free (as in beer) and immediately accessible without waitlist and application process. Actual text generated by it isn't much different from GPT 3.5, especially for the type of longform content you hire a $80/h writer for. ChatGPT was just launched in a way that allows people to easily experiment and create hype.

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Post by alberth »

Google invested $400M into Anthropic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34663438

Investors include:

- Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO/Chairman), Series A

- Sam Bankman-Fried, lead investor in Series B

- Caroline Ellison, Series B

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34664963

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Post by tough »

PartiallyTyped wrote: post #43
tough wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, very recognisable, too polite and servicial for any real human

I am willing to bet that a model finetuned on HN will be the bombastic and arrogant enough to pass just fine. The bullshit is already there.

I can confirm, you can see the LLM generated cracked news that someone shared a couple days back. LLM generated articles, comments, and the full suite.

It sounded very real even with funny sounding topics lol

https://crackernews.github.io/

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