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I thought "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product" is the most accepted wisdom on HN? At least when it comes to services from FB or Google. But if that comes from China they are the "good guys"?
Good luck "productizing" a model running on the GPU in my basement with no Internet access. I wouldn't use them via a cloud provider, though.
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Yes - but - ironically - he did that _before_ joining them. IIRC he literally started collaborating and helping them while being at a different company.
That seems surprisingly common to me. Visionary engineer has solution to problem, gets hired, solves the broad strokes in the first year, then spends N more years in meetings with exec stakeholders and worrying about schedules/hiring/financials instead of _doing the vision work_.
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yeah but i don't think there's any large org which is 'good guys'. Anyone who wants to become a monopoly or very very large is probably suffering from some sort of a neural condition (psychosis, if plural) which we will study 100 years from now. Right now they are rewarded but I think our little minds forget to take the negative externalities into account. I am working on a short story on this topic which is set in 2…
The difference is that Anthropic pretend they're the good guys, while the rest don't.
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I don't think that's the parents implication. Generally, when a "good" developer has a huge public presence and reputation, that's quite valuable to a company when they're competing in a tough space. Many a time, more so than the (very high) technical skill of the developer in question. I've seen large funded companies gather good popular developers like pokemon cards and just have them go around give talks and write…
Yea, I say this as a marketing agency owner, not a developer or AI researcher, that besides Sam Altman, Dario, Demis and Elon, that Karpathy is one of the most influential I follow. There’s a lot of value for the business world in learning AI from someone who has been at the top of their game but now is doing a general service by being a great educator and translator between the fields. His recent Wiki approach may b…
Here's an example wiki in a public repository for a dictionary I have been having Claude build for the past few months:
https://github.com/tkgally/je-dict-1/blob/main/planning/wiki...
He moves around quite a bit. Less than 2 years on average if you take away the longest and shortest jobs. It feels like this is just a celebrity hire to help raise IPO value, and then he'll move again when the tech hits another real-world scaling wall. Expect another short stint (stunt) with Anthropic.
Even if that's true, 2 years is a huge amount of time to make real impact right now. By 2 years, we could have a clear winner of the AGI/ASI race.
No, you won't get your double lifespan or miracle cures and will die like the rest of us plebs.
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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.
Totally. They are the only ones who said no to letting their tech being used for illegal use cases. This doesn't automatically make them the great virtuous team. It just means the rest of the pack are toxic as all hell.
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I read this as a bad sign for Anthropic. Relying yet again on more hype instead of improving products. OpenAI’s hiring recently has been much stronger, whether through luck or structure. The “no-name” guys have actual taste. I love that. I don’t care that they’re no-names. I don’t know Karpathy personally, I won’t speak bad about a man I don’t know. I hope he makes CC better. I just read this as hype. My point is tha…
It feels like these companies are constantly going back and forth on who has the best product constantly. It's such a dynamic time with how fast they are both working.
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I read this as a bad sign for Anthropic. Relying yet again on more hype instead of improving products. OpenAI’s hiring recently has been much stronger, whether through luck or structure. The “no-name” guys have actual taste. I love that. I don’t care that they’re no-names. I don’t know Karpathy personally, I won’t speak bad about a man I don’t know. I hope he makes CC better. I just read this as hype. My point is tha…
This is true for all the UASanian frontier model owners They are all going to get their lunch eaten by the Chinese. In the USA with access to most of the world's capital, they've succumbed to the temptation of "bigger, faster, harder" Whilst the Chinese, with enough capital only, have had to think. The Chinese models are already miles ahead on cost/inference basis and will probably pass all the USAnian companies in f…
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> digital marketing people who were "tech savvy" but had no programming experience who have launched websites that would have cost them thousands of dollars to build. Static Websites have been commoditizatized for decades now. We had : - one-click deploy Open-Source CMS - single page places like Geocities providing own domain - design templates where you just add your own logo, tagline, etc This is just yet another w…
I'm not talking about static websites. I'm talking about tech-savvy non-engineers who have been able to build fully-functional dynamic websites (with user registration, dashboards, integrations with third-party services, etc.) using AI. I think way too many engineers underestimate the ability of tech-savvy non-engineers to use AI to build quite sophisticated applications today. Would these scale to millions of users?…
What do you think a CMS is?