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Re: Rippling Co-founder tweets notes of convo with Sama then deletes

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Post by ablatt89 » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 8:10 PM UTC

theGnuMe wrote: post #9

ablatt89 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not an expert in ML theory, but from my perspective, I think more compute would cause better fitting for a model, but possibly overfitting if more parameters are not added. For some problem space, adding additional parameters introduces another degree of freedom, which should allow a larger domain for the inputs mapping to outputs (more answers to questions). And if we define AGI as a network that can answer ques…

We know more parameters improves generalization so that is why it's unclear to me what they mean by more training flops.

One new parameter = 1 new node on the crpto nutter's network to do additional compute for the parameter? Lol I can see many ways these crypto nutters can attempt to weakly justify purchasing into their network.

Re: Rippling Co-founder tweets notes of convo with Sama then deletes

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Post by tluyben2 » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 10:11 PM UTC

I wish some of these ‘big names’ would make an effort to define all the terms. Which people are not into hyping but could be part of defining what AGI is, so we can put this ‘we have it in a couple of months’ to bed?

Carmack is doing an AGI startup; maybe he can offer a definition of what it is exactly his company will attempt to deliver and how we can recognise it when/if it does?

Re: Rippling Co-founder tweets notes of convo with Sama then deletes

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Post by ablatt89 » Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 10:14 PM UTC

whoami_nr wrote: post #10

ablatt89 wrote: post #2

All these tech "influencers" and CEOs have such laughable opinions on AGI. First, they cannot really seem to give a formal definition of AGI (are we talking about some network that can problem solving in n > 2 problems or defining and creating consciousness)? Second, it's clear many of these people are just bandwagoning onto the hype. They started with crypto, then maybe some VR, and now are moving to AI/AGI coat-tai…

While what you are saying is mostly true for most of the "influencers", this guy was a 2x icpc world finalist back in the day, so probably knows a thing or two. Having said that, I read through the excerpt and it is actually outright wrong on some stuff.

Makes sense. While he certainly seems to be smart given his accomplishments, I think it's really up to the general educated populace to keep those who are in power and have technical understanding of things in check. It seems clear that there's an ever growing of "influencers" who do have technical skills, but are saying largely quixotic and exaggerated statements to boost their own self image or products.