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Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by CRConrad »

christianqchung wrote: post #166
solardev wrote: post #117

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I wish more of us would run for Congress. I'd much rather have a government of technocrats of various stripes than ex lawyers and rich business types. IMO governments, like websites, should be boring but effective, focused on small day to day improvements, not all flash and empty marketing chasing cultural trends...

If you like this idea, read the Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis (he also wrote the Big Short which you may have seen). The book essentially argues that this is already the case in many (crucially not all) government departments. I like to TL;DR the book to other people as "the deep state is good, actually". Of course, the government itself is absolutely not helmed by technocratic politicians.

Quentin? Your second given name, I mean. Mine is Romanus. (Just idly curious, since we share the first.)

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by CRConrad »

zxexz wrote: post #198
gdiamos wrote: post #81

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That would be strong terms, but then they would need to find a way to spend $1B. Here's a proposal. Send $500M to NVIDIA for GPUs. Send $100M to AMD to balance the odds. Spend $100M to build a new chip as a hail mary. Spend the rest on $10M comp packages. How close did I get?

Seems pretty reasonable! Not sure that's the easiest path for them to maximize profit though. I'd probably say they should: - allocate the $500M to the new chip, $100M to each of AMD and NVIDIA, then: - never officially hire any more staff (these founders are 10E6X devs!) - start "subtly" liquidating the AMD and NVIDIA chips after a year ("Tell HN: IlPathAI are liquidating their GPUs? >I bought a used GH200 off eBay…

> The fans thought it was suddenly 1773, ran in reverse so fast the whole device melted

1) Then the fans should start to get ready for the American Revolution, only three years to go...

2) But actually, all the fans will by that time have read your above comment, so they'll be prepared for what's to come.

3) But actually actually, fans running in reverse will only suck in cold air through the exhaust port and blow out warm through the intake (a bit like politicians?), so they'll still be cooling devices.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by smegger001 »

jonasdegendt wrote: post #141
smegger001 wrote: post #124

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I don't know, while lawyers and MBA's are not who I would choose to run the country, I am not sure the I would pick people with the motto "run fast and break things" in charge either.

But what if we implemented agile and scrum? :^) Imagine the retros!

>But what if we implemented agile and scrum?

thats what i am afraid of.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by smegger001 »

nindalf wrote: post #244
LightBug1 wrote: post #232

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Doesn't pay enough? I believe the basic pay is £86k. They're not brain surgeons or rocket scientists, so even that is not that bad. But I believe the average gravy train bumps this up 3X with extras. It's a literal gravy train of subsidies and expenses and allowances! Sure the basic pay is, well, it's arguably not that bad ... but the gravy on top is tremendous. Not to mention the network contacts which plug their gr…

> They're not brain surgeons or rocket scientists Yeah, voters don't want to pay MPs more. Yet when voters are asked, they want highly intelligent, motivated people. They want them to have technical expertise, which means time spent in higher education. Then they want them to work a full time job in Parliament during the week, but also be open to constituency concerns on the weekend. And once all of this is pointed o…

Voters want people representatives that will work out of civic duty. but is H.O.A.'s have taught us anything its that the people who claim to be acting out of civic duty to make a better place are mostly petty tyrants.

sure it would be nice if we could have Aristotelian philosopher kings style politicians but that's not human nature.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by dragonwriter »

solardev wrote: post #333
samgtx wrote: post #160

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This is like saying more lawyers should be writing software. Lawyers have extensive education and experience in the law and so work with..the law.

Well, that's how you get "laws by lawyers, for lawyers", like "software by engineers, for engineers". Maybe Congress needs the equivalent of UX and product types who actually care about what the people want... and can explain how it works to us in fancy how-to videos.

> Maybe Congress needs the equivalent of UX and product types who actually care about what the people want...

Members of Congress have plenty of support devoted to both what people say they want and what they actually positively respond to. That’s...the entire political side of the operation.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by rangestransform »

paganel wrote: post #180
laborcontract wrote: post #42

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Hm, well, I see on his resume that he was a founder of OpenAI, recruited to be Tesla's head of AI, went back to OpenAI, and also has the most viewed educational videos in this space. So, he has made theoretical contributions to the space, contributions to prominent private organizations in the space, and broadly educated others about the space. What more are you looking for?

Tesla fumbled big on AI, and as for his work at OpenAI, he just left, had he been good enough they would have made him a financial offer that would have made him continue. But, I'll give him that, he seems to be a really good teacher.

many SOTA papers for multi-camera deep fusion/birds eye view perception in autonomous driving were based on copying teslas homework after their AI day 2022 talk

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by llamaLord »

jjtheblunt wrote: post #396
llamaLord wrote: post #57

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Non-deterministic outputs... For one (rather important) thing.

non-deterministic outputs from what? I'm misunderstanding your idea.

My point was that non-deterministic outputs make LLM's fundamentally a BAD foundation for something like an OS.

Natural language interfaces belong at the periphery, as the interface between the human and the machine. Other than that, I want my computers dumb as rocks, really fast, any totally predictable - which is basically the opposite of what you get from LLM's.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by wrsh07 »

d--b wrote: post #233

> My immediate plan is to work on my personal projects and see what happens. Those of you who’ve followed me for a while may have a sense for what that might look like Does anyone here know?

He was building small, efficient versions of gpt 3 in a video series

You can check his GitHub: https://github.com/karpathy

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by antonvs »

Keyframe wrote: post #357
CuriouslyC wrote: post #329

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If you can't get GPT4 to do coding questions you're prompting it wrong or not loading your context correctly. It struggles a bit with presentational stuff like getting correct HTML/CSS from prompts or trying to generate/update large functions/classes, but it is stellar at producing short functions, creating scaffolding (tests/stories) and boilerplate and it can do some refactors that are outside the capabilities of a…

so, mundane trivial things and/like web programming? I got it eventually to answer what I needed but it always liked to skip part of the code, inserting // TODO: important stuff in the middle, hence 'laziness' attribute. Maybe it is just lazy, who knows. I know I am since I'm prompting it for stuff.

Fyi, I've never encountered what you're describing, whether with GPT 3.5 or 4.

It may be that you're expecting it to do too much at once. Try giving smaller requests.

Re: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

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Post by lobocinza »

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

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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.

It's more dangerous if it's uncommon. It's knowledge that protects people and not a bunch of annoying "AI safety" "researchers" selling the lie that "AI is safe". Truth is those morons only have a job because they help companies save face and create a moat around this new technology where new competitors will be required to have "AI safety" teams & solutions. What have "AI safety" achieved so far besides making models dumber and annoying to use?
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