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Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

davidatbu wrote: post #202
kingkongjaffa wrote: post #179

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> creating magic everywhere they go Like specifically what has he done?

I can spare a minute :). This isn't exhaustive because this is just stuff I know of, obviously. - At Stanford, Led research on the first (to my knowledge) crop of joint image/text models. Super widely cited work. - At Tesla, led their whole self driving effort for a while, came up with critical techniques that allowed them to make progress (e.g., the concept of "auto labelling": using a much larger NN to generate tra…

The auto labeling work (which has been partially described/presented at Tesla AI day events) seems more like engineering than research, a grab bag of techniques that I would guess the whole team must have contributed to. For example, they auto label low resolution/indeterminate objects (image segments) by temporal continuity... Something that is a low-res blob in the distance becomes a hi-res and easy to identify object when you drive by it, so by tracking objects backwards across frames you can learn how to more confidently label the lo-res blob. Things like this are useful, but it's the sort of stuff that engineers and developers are coming up with every day.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by slashdave »

NitpickLawyer wrote: post #128
cute_boi wrote: post #86

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Honestly, if Skynet were possible, Anthropic would probably build it first and claim they had to because OpenAI is bad.

And then regulatory capture it to death. Seriously, Anthropic is top notch in their coding models, but they are not the good guys in the tech vs. product for humanity's sake debate.

So... do you see a problem with regulating skynet to not kill us all?

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by siren2026 »

cute_boi wrote: post #86
dwa3592 wrote: post #8

Karpathy is talented and to me he always seemed like someone who would be against building something like skynet. Anthropic is lucky to have him.

Honestly, if Skynet were possible, Anthropic would probably build it first and claim they had to because OpenAI is bad.

Exactly.

This good guy ("AI Safety") versus bad guy is all marketing gimmicks. I'm old enough that it reminds me of Google "don't be evil".

What I find worse is that some people actually believe Anthropic are really the good guys.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by trollbridge »

mjg2 wrote: post #386
davidatbu wrote: post #202

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I can spare a minute :). This isn't exhaustive because this is just stuff I know of, obviously. - At Stanford, Led research on the first (to my knowledge) crop of joint image/text models. Super widely cited work. - At Tesla, led their whole self driving effort for a while, came up with critical techniques that allowed them to make progress (e.g., the concept of "auto labelling": using a much larger NN to generate tra…

Tesla still hasn't achieved their 2016 self-drive goal by their self imposed deadline of 2017, even now a decade later. So, politely, is that accolade merited?

The current vehicles sure seem to come close. I'm not entirely clear on how they've missed this goal, but the current models can do full self driving where I live, including parking.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by trollbridge »

achierius wrote: post #387
aykutseker wrote: post #295

the glorified marketer framing in this thread is missing the bigger signal. karpathy publicly pausing eureka labs to join anthropic is an ai founder of his caliber effectively conceding that verticals get eaten by frontier upgrades.for everyone here building on top of foundation, that's the actual news

"that's the actual news", "the bigger signal", etc. -- this has a lot of the hallmarks of AI generated text but with overt stylistic simplification layered on top (nocaps, some weird spacing)

I mean, who hasn't put "stop using emdashes" into their prompt yet?

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by siren2026 »

scottyah wrote: post #120
cute_boi wrote: post #86

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Honestly, if Skynet were possible, Anthropic would probably build it first and claim they had to because OpenAI is bad.

Anthropic has drawn lines with the most powerful organization in the world, that OpenAI capitulated on within hours for a small contract.

Let me rephrase this.

Anthropic played a really well orchestrated marketing gimmick so that they would be in the headlines for a couple days bringing awareness to non-tech people on how they are supposedly the good guys. They then backpedaled all of this and are in contract with the DoD once the headlines passed.

But this obviously worked as you now believe they are the good guys

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by [deleted] »

toxik wrote: post #409
alexandre_m wrote: post #401

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> Its a bit concerning when someone supposedly intelligent still speaks somewhat highly of someone so clearly not. Have you considered the possibility that someone you regard as extremely intelligent is speaking from real-life experience and direct proximity when they say another person is smart? Or perhaps your bias toward Musk make that impossible to even consider.

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Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by trollbridge »

United857 wrote: post #412
Yajirobe wrote: post #334

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I wonder what's his net worth - probably 100M+?

He’s a founder of OpenAI —- likely a billionaire if he held on to his share

It's still quite interesting to me how a founder of a nonprofit can become a billionaire by having shares in it.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by peyton »

quaddoggy wrote: post #429
ActorNightly wrote: post #382

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Yes, the world absolutely needs more purity tests. Would you like to take the lead? Oh, and shaming. We should definitely be shaming more people because it has proven to be so productive.

It’s Manichaeism. A proselytizing religion for those without religion.
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