https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the... that Sam Altman.
This post should be higher.
This Reddit post from 8-years ago, reads eerily similar to what happened at OpenAI … and Sam is the common denominator at both.
Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
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#152> The fact that we did not lose a single customer will drive us to work even harder for you, and we are all excited to get back to work. I'm not a big customer, but I am starting the process of moving away from OpenAI in response to these events
why would you not use the best model because of their internal drama?
Especially now that its clear they are completely backed by Microsoft, everyone in that company has a job at Microsoft tomorrow if they need it.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was a tweet that from an engineer at OpenAI that they're working on the problem that ChatGPT has become too "lazy" - generating text that contains a lot of placeholders and expecting people to fill in much more themselves. As for the general brain damage from RLHF and the political bias, no word still.
Using the api, I've been seeing this a lot with the gpt-4-turbo preview model, but no problems with the non-turbo gpt-4 model. So I'll assume ChatGPT is now using 4-turbo. It seems the new model has some kinks to work out--I've also personally seen noticeably reduced reasoning ability for coding tasks, increased context-forgetting, and much worse instruction-following. So far it feels more like a gpt-3.75-turbo rathe…
id be willing to bet all they're doing behind the scenes is cutting computation costs using smaller versions and doing every business' golden rule: price discrimination.
id be willing to bet enshittification is on the horizon. you don't get the shiny 70b model, that's for gold premium customers.
by 2025, it's gonna be tiered enterprise prices.
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#154There was a time when Google Translate was the only game in town but now every single time, I find DeepL to be far superior. This can happen to OpenAI? If not, why not? Is some of the research not open? Also, even if DeepL is subjectively better, how did they or someone can do that? I mean some key papers+data+cloud budget to train are the three main ingredients to replicate such a translation model? If yes, that's a…
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#155Who is driving the company (companies)? Certainly not the board, when it can be ousted on the whim of one person. Might as well just get rid of the board (all boards in this organization) as any decision made can be overthrown by a bit of publicity and ego. Perhaps it about getting rich at the expense of any ethics? Those who work for this company should bear this in mind, they are all expendable!
Hacker News represents hackers, not Boards of Directors. The hackers of OpenAI overwhelmingly demanded Sam back. Everyone here should be happy.
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#156> The fact that we did not lose a single customer will drive us to work even harder for you, and we are all excited to get back to work. I'm not a big customer, but I am starting the process of moving away from OpenAI in response to these events
Why? If the product is useful (it is to me), then why do you care so much as to the internal politics? If it ceases to be useful or something better comes along, sure. But this strikes me as being serially online and involved in drama
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#157Re: Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
#158Do we have any more insight into why he was fired in the first place?
Not really, here is a prediction market on it: https://manifold.markets/sophiawisdom/why-was-sam-altman-fir... I think the percentages don't add up to 100% as multiple can be chosen as correct.
the only report out is some employee letter to the board about Q*
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gonna be hilarious when AGI turns out to be analagous to like a sassy 8 year old or something? Like "AGI, do all this random shit for me!" AGI: No! i don't wanna!
"Why?" Ad infinitum.
It's actually interesting this is a universal phase of children.
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#160> The fact that we did not lose a single customer will drive us to work even harder for you, and we are all excited to get back to work. I'm not a big customer, but I am starting the process of moving away from OpenAI in response to these events
I hope you find a competitor as good as chatgpt. We desperately need competition in this space. google/fb tossing billions still hasn't created anything close is starting to worry me.