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The Open AI corporation is owned by a non-profit.
Open Ai is a cash grab that's shitting on everything the open source movement used to stand for. They have single handedly done more damage to the open source ecosystem in 4 years than Microsoft did in 40.
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"Loss-leader" is the term, I believe
No, that's something different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader The thing being talked about doesn't have a widely-used nickname, though "Blitzscaling" is probably the closest.
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It's not just about the model, it's about the integration. Copilot is easy to use because it's basically automatic in vscode. So it isn't a 'flow breaker'. That is in some ways its primary benefit: it gives you something similar to searching for the solution a problem without having to leave the editor. (At the loss of being able to see the context of where the solution comes from, of course.)
This is a thread about hallucinations. >ChatGPT craze has wore off for me, because of constant hallucinations when you ask for something slightly more esoterical. And I can't justify paying 20$ for GPT-4 to have more convincing hallucinations Integration has nothing to do with hallucinations.
I also pay for copilot and don't for chatGPT.
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The Open AI corporation is owned by a non-profit.
Irrelevant. The non-profit is controlled by the same people, and only existed to class their massive startup capital as 'donations.'
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It's caused by "a business that loses billions of dollars a year for over a decade isn't a sustainable business" mentality. The US is the exact opposite. Even OpenAI, however amazing it is, is not a business (yet?). It's a money sink.
Can you point to an example of a country that had/has a similar mentality to the US and it backfired?
Note: I'm not talking only about OpenAI. You can look at YConbinator's own top companies and try and find businesses that are profitable for longer than a year, and not with a history of "for a decade they were losing a billion dollars a year but are now finally profitable with 10 dollars of profit"
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No, that's something different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader The thing being talked about doesn't have a widely-used nickname, though "Blitzscaling" is probably the closest.
Oh, I see, yeah maybe not the exact right fit is "loss leader" but it sounds good. Hmm. It's more like domination via attrition?
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Saying that ChatGPT sucks after trying only the free version is like saying that pizza sucks after trying only the frozen pizza because you don't want to spend $20 on a pizza in a good Italian restaurant.
Replying from Italy right now, $20 easily buys you two pizzas, just sayin'.
i highlighted this last night which seems to be making the rounds - https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1699369076529971545 Alec's CV ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/alecradford/ ) seems to be: - 2011-2016 BSc Eng from Olin College - 2013+ started a data/AI consultancy as a sophomore that turned into a vague startup/product? - 2015 first paper on GANs coauthored with soumith https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06434.pdf%C3 - 2016 f…
yale applied math grad (2013) ceo of startup (2011-2017) openai director then promoted to openai vp (2017-2020) google director (2020)
this is 7 years out of undergrad
he left google director position (7 digits/year btw) to become founder ceo of adept ai, which is now valued at $1 billion
this guy is more impressive in terms of career progression (not research)
> “In order to take advantage of the transformer, you needed to scale it up,” says Adam D’Angelo, the CEO of Quora, who sits on OpenAI’s board of directors. Ah, OK. So Quora is probably an input data source for OpenAI. Hadn't seen that connection before. Edit, yes, they explicitly say it a little further down: > To build it, they drew on a collection of 7,000 unpublished books, many in the genres of romance, fantasy,…
... where does one find 7000 unpublished books of acceptable quality?
> Riding with Altman, I can almost hear the ringing, ambiguous chord that opens “A Hard Day’s Night”—introducing the future. Last November, when OpenAI let loose its monster hit, ChatGPT, it triggered a tech explosion not seen since the internet burst into our lives. Suddenly the Turing test was history, search engines were endangered species, and no college essay could ever be trusted. No job was safe. No scientific…
I might be a mediocre developer but I find ChatGPT invaluable for my job. It finds potential problems in my code, suggests solutions, helps with libraries I don’t know about, helps in drafting solutions when given a high level description of the problem. It makes mistakes but I don’t expect it to be perfect. As a non native speaker, it also helps me with my English (didn’t use it for this comment).
It's worrying that many people are starting to use it as their default. The day that everyone uses an AI to sanitise and write all of their speech, which is in itself an expression of your personality and experience, is the day that the soul is sucked out of all human communication.
Just to add, I think AI tech is great in of itself, I just don't see the value in everyone using it to turn into some amorphous nondescript communication medium. There's a lot of value in imperfections and quirks.