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Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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mad_tortoise wrote: post #188
sho wrote: post #120

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> GPT-4 is still king, but not by that much any more Idk, I just tried Gemini Ultra and it's so much worse than GPT4 that I am actually quite shocked. Trying to ask it any kind of coding question ends up being this frustrating and honestly bizarre waste of time as it hallucinates a whole new language syntax every time and then asks if you want to continue with non-working, in fact non-existing, option A or the equall…

That's interesting, because I have had exactly the opposite experience testing GPT vs Bard with coding questions. Bard/Gemini far outperformed GPT on coding, especially with newer languages or libraries. Whereas GPT was better with more general questions.

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Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by MenhirMike »

Jensson wrote: post #354
joenot443 wrote: post #290

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Wow - that earnestly gave me goosebumps. I'm a Googler myself and it's humbling seeing him casually describe, 10 years ago, a technology the industry was still in the early stages of developing, which has since taken the world by storm. What a rockstar.

Neural networks were already big 10 years ago, you have to go back 15 years to see before they started being popular. From wikipedia: > Between 2009 and 2012, ANNs began winning prizes in image recognition contests, approaching human level performance on various tasks, initially in pattern recognition and handwriting recognition. That was when Neural networks became a big thing every tech person knew about, 2014 it w…

For reference, AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol in March 2016, which was another reminder to a broader non-tech audience how far things had gotten.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by mring33621 »

ignoramous wrote: post #345
pixl97 wrote: post #302

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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.

> a way to bury yourself in deep piles of gold Unfortunately, no deep piles of gold without deep piles of corpses. It is inevitable, though. Prompted by the US military, other countries have also always pioneered or acquired advance tech, and I don't see why AI would be any different: Never send a human to do a machine's job is as ominous now as it is dystopian as machines increasingly become more human-like.

There will always be corpses.

Do you want American corpses? Or somebody elses?

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by vonjuice »

inglor_cz wrote: post #297
berniedurfee wrote: post #273

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It is indeed tragic that virtue is a childish trait among adults.

That assumes that being a pacifist when living under the umbrella of the most powerful military in the world is, in fact, a virtue. I don't think so. In order to be virtuous, one should have some skin in the game. I would respect dedicated pacifists in Kyiv a lot more. I wouldn't agree with them, but at least they would be ready to face pretty stark consequences of their philosophical belief. Living in the Silicon Va…

That's kind of like saying that not being a murderer only has moral value if you're constantly under mortal threat yourself.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by vonjuice »

hef19898 wrote: post #196
phreeza wrote: post #187

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Given how fast the valuation of the company and the scope of their ambition (e.g. raising a trillion dollars for chip manufacturing) has been hyped up, I think it's fair to say "You live by the hype, you die by the hype."

Just time your exit correctly!

RIP vim users

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by vonjuice »

stickfigure wrote: post #374
Anon84 wrote: post #335

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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 sca…

You probably don't care about the porn cause I'm assuming you're a man, but it can ruin lives too.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by chpatrick »

aantix wrote: post #365
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…

He should start a Patreon account.

I don't imagine he's short on cash...

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by mikhailfranco »

bigyikes wrote: post #305
jorvi wrote: post #300

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Yup. There is probably a few dozen (if not hundreds) of 3b1b out there with just as much polish, the algorithm just didn’t bless them.

Do you have any examples? I find this hard to believe.

3blue1brown runs Summer of Math competitions to highlight other creative math videos. Many, but not all, use the same 3b1b 'manim' animation software, so they often have the same look'n'feel. Here are the results from 2022, and the huge YT playlist:

https://www.3blue1brown.com/blog/some2

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnQX-jgAF5pTZXPiD8ciE...

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by mandeepj »

next_xibalba wrote: post #48
bbor wrote: post #43

I'm judging from his pinned tweet, "The hottest new programming language is English", that "those of you who know me know what I'm working on ;)" message at the end of this seems like a nod to developer tools of some kind. Which would track for a tech visionary, a hacker can't resist making himself better tools I guess. Anybody have better info than my idle guess?

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

> LLM based OS

Isn't that is what Rabbit R1 is? https://www.rabbit.tech/

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by lolc »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #371
throwboatyface wrote: post #349

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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.

If we're going to be reductive, at least include the other main roadblock to a solution which is the current government of Israel.
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