Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

twitter.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

371–380 of 472 posts

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

#371

Post by IncreasePosts »

throwboatyface wrote: post #349
IncreasePosts wrote: post #346

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not? Maybe AI is what is needed to finally tear Hamas out of Palestine root and branch. As long as humans are still in the loop vetting the potential targets, it doesn't seem particularly different from the IDF just hiring a bunch of analysts to produce the same targets.

There is no "removing Hamas from Palestine". The only way to remove the desire of the Palestinian people for freedom is to remove the Palestinian people themselves. And that is what the IDF is trying to do.

Hamas isn't the only path to freedom for Palestinians. In fact, they seem to be the major impediment to it.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

#372

Post by onlyrealcuzzo »

famouswaffles wrote: post #324
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Claiming they are losing their luster, because they aren’t shaking the earth with new models every quarter, seems a little ridiculous. If that's the foundation your luster is built on - then it's not really ridiculous. GPT popularized LLMs to the world with GPT-3, not too long before GPT-4 came out. They made a lot of big, cool changes shortly after GPT-4 - and everyone in their mother announced LLM projects and in…

GPT-3 came out 3 years before 4.

GPT-3.5 is when LLMs start to get "main stream". That's about 4.5 months before the GPT-4 release.

Keep in mind GPT-3.5 is not an overnight craze. It takes months before normal people even know what it is.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

#373

Post by mcbishop »

lyapunova wrote: post #60

Let me say, he's a great teacher! I took a CV class with him. He should teach more, and take it seriously. Being a popular AI influencer is not necessarily correlated with being a good researcher though. And I would argue there is a strong indication that it is negatively correlated with being a good business leader / founder. Here's to hoping he chills out and goes back to the sorely needed lost art of explaining co…

The Lex Fridman episode with Andrej was an awesome education. Things explained so clearly.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

#374

Post by stickfigure »

Anon84 wrote: post #335
majora2007 wrote: post #330

Earlier quoted context omitted.

or just photoshop. The only thing these tools did was make it easier. I don't think the AI aspect adds anything for this comparison.

An argument can be made that "more is different." By making it easier to do something, you're increasing the supply, possibly even taking something that used to be a rare edge case and making it a common occurrence, which can pose problems in and of itself.

Put in a different context: The exploits are out there. Are you saying we shouldn't publish them?

Deepfakes are going to become a concern of everyday life whether you stop OpenAI from generating them or not. The cat is out of the proverbial bag. We as a society need to adjust to treating this sort of content skeptically, and I see no more appropriate way than letting a bunch of fake celebrity porn circulate.

What scares me about deepfakes is not the porn, it's the scams. The scams can actually destroy lives. We need to start ratcheting up social skepticism asap.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

#375

Post by huytersd »

sjwhevvvvvsj wrote: post #137
huytersd wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But no one cares about 3.5. It’s an order of magnitude worse than 4. An order of magnitude is a lot harder to catch up with.

What Mistral has though is speed, and with speed comes scale.

I’ll wait 5 seconds for the right code over 1 sec for bad code.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

#376

Post by throw_pm23 »

pixl97 wrote: post #302
bayindirh wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't lose your luster only by not innovating. Altman saga, allowing military use and other small things step by step tarnish your reputation and pushes you to the mediocrity or worse. Microsoft has many great development stories (read Raymond Chen's blog to be awed), but what they did at the end to other competitors and how they behave removed their luster, permanently for some people.

At the end of the day the US.mil is spending billions to trillions of dollars. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by lose your luster, but becoming part of the military industrial complex is generally a way to bury yourself in deep piles of gold.

I think you answered it yourself. The main way from cool to not cool is to be buried in "piles of gold".

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

#377

Post by [deleted] »

dontreact wrote: post #19

Unpopular opinion… but IMO almost all of Karpathy’s fame an influence come from being an incredible educator and communicator. Relative to his level of fame, his actual level of contribution as far as pushing forward AI, I’m not so sure about. I deeply appreciate his educational content and I’m glad that it has led to a way for him to gain influence and sustain a career. Hopefully he’s rich enough from that that he c…

[deleted]

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

#378

Post by throwaway4aday »

lukan wrote: post #51
next_xibalba wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He has speculated a few times about an LLM based OS. That’d be way cool.

Honestly? Sounds like a nightmare. I mean, some LLM integrated into a OS, ok, might make sense, but the OS based on LLM is not something I would want with the current state of the art.

Features like function calling are moving in that direction. Microsoft also seems to have plans to deeply integrate LLMs into its OS and if they do a good job it could become a primary way to interact with its features and programs. Considering the progress made on image generation models I could image a special purpose model that is specifically trained on operating APIs and producing good results. The big hurdle would be building the APIs that don't exist for the tools that people like to use. I'm sure there are interesting ways you could think of generating labeled data for actions in various programs.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

#380

Post by scarecrowbob »

dustingetz wrote: post #248
passion__desire wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Become the next 3blue1brown. He has inspired many. Here's a gem of educator. Check out his other videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhYqflvJMXc

this is disrupting education. you can get a better undergraduate education in STEM on youtube than my paid education 20 years ago. I think those visualizations can even pull forward a bunch of stuff into high school.

Well, I get the point and find it appealing but I don't agree.

When my kiddo was a sophomore in HS he decided that he wanted to be an engineer, and I thought that it would be really good for him to learn calc- my feeling was that if he got out of HS without at least getting through Calculus he'd have a really hard time.

So _I_ learned calculus. I started with basic math on Kahn and moved to the end of the Calc AB syllabus. I have, like, 500K points there. And I've watched a whole lot of STEM on YT.

Yesterday I finished a lab with Moritz Klein's Voltage Controlled Oscillators, where I was able to successfully understand the function of all the sections in the circuit.

I've been trying to follow Aaron Lanterman's Georgia Tech lectures on analog electronics.

The issue is that I have other stuff going on in my life. Like, my son studies more than I work at my full time job.

And I don't really have the pressure on me to learn the more advanced math that he's using. In fact, in the couple of years since he graduated HS, I've not really found a use for calc in my day-to-day work on any of the technical things I've done (mostly programming) and so I've lost a lot of it.

So, by contrast, my son who will be graduating as a BS in ME in May, has a far better and deeper understanding of the engineering material than I do.

And it's not just a time issue- I quit my programming job last summer because I have just enough work as a musician to pay the rent, which leaves me plenty of time to do stuff. And it's not that I don't know how to learn at a college level- I taught in an English Dept for 8 years and quit a PhD in the humities ABD.

That's all just my experience.

I love STEM (and trades education) material on Youtube, but I really think that it's missing something to think that you could get " a better undergraduate education in STEM on youtube".

Post reply on HN