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Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI

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Re: Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI

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Post by swader999 »

busymom0 wrote: post #79
gniv wrote: post #10

Wow. What could possibly have caused him to quit so soon after coming back? I hope this is not accurate but I'm afraid it is: https://x.com/signulll/status/2067446889956430273

This reads like an episode of Silicon Valley. I wish that show was rebooted, they'd have so much funny material nowadays.

I think real life has far eclipsed the absurdity of the original show. They might have a hard time competing with just the news now days.

Re: Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI

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Post by eloisant »

efficax wrote: post #107
karmasimida wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He is close or already a billionaire, not sure much more money will be do much heavy-lifting

you'd be surprised! people seem to have a limitless appetite for that money stuff. they just can't get enough of it, i've found

Most are happy and stop at multimillionaires, but of course we don't hear about them. The focus on hungry billionaires is survivor bias.

We don't hear about Tom from MySpace.

Re: Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI

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Post by applfanboysbgon »

swader999 wrote: post #182
applfanboysbgon wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The case is so blatantly frivolous it should have been thrown out. Nobody should have to spend legal fees defending claims that they're responsible for somebody killing themselves over saying "come home to me".

Won't they get those fees back if dismissed or if the plaintiff doesn't prevail?

My understanding is that this is generally not the case in the US.

Re: Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI

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Post by dude250711 »

cubefox wrote: post #146
gzer0 wrote: post #48

Some context for people who haven’t followed the full loop: Shazeer was a long-time Google researcher, joined Google in 2000, and was one of the co-authors of “Attention Is All You Need.” He left Google in 2021 to co-found Character.AI. In 2024, Google brought him and some Character.AI researchers back via a licensing/talent deal with Character.AI (reportedly around $2.7B). He was then made a Gemini co-lead. Now he’s…

> Exciting times! What is exiting about this?

Maybe he figured out a good way to short AI companies?
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