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Interaction Models

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Re: Interaction Models

#11

Post by babelfish »

vessenes wrote: post #8

These videos are worth a watch. There are tons of impressive moments, but they had me at the very first one where a woman says: "I'm going to tell you a story," and then pauses for a long, luxurious sip from a cup of coffee, and the model ... does nothing, just waits. Take my money. Speaking of taking my money, what's the economic model for a company like this? They've published a fair amount about their architecture…

they hire leading researchers, and leading researchers won't work for you unless they're able to publish

Re: Interaction Models

#12

Post by SilverElfin »

babelfish wrote: post #11
vessenes wrote: post #8

These videos are worth a watch. There are tons of impressive moments, but they had me at the very first one where a woman says: "I'm going to tell you a story," and then pauses for a long, luxurious sip from a cup of coffee, and the model ... does nothing, just waits. Take my money. Speaking of taking my money, what's the economic model for a company like this? They've published a fair amount about their architecture…

they hire leading researchers, and leading researchers won't work for you unless they're able to publish

Which seems bizarre. Companies can’t afford to just give things away right?

Re: Interaction Models

#13

Post by modeless »

This deserves to be at the top of HN, shame it seems like it's not going to make it. Some of the demos are hilarious. Clearly having the model appropriately choose when to speak is a major thing that has been missing from voice models to date. It seems like the latency is still a touch too high to be truly human-like though.

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#14

Post by rokob »

SilverElfin wrote: post #12
babelfish wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they hire leading researchers, and leading researchers won't work for you unless they're able to publish

Which seems bizarre. Companies can’t afford to just give things away right?

Yes they can. Your research papers are not the whole story. It’s like google could open source their entire monorepo and very little would change. No one else could operate it.

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#18

Post by swyx »

babelfish wrote: post #11
vessenes wrote: post #8

These videos are worth a watch. There are tons of impressive moments, but they had me at the very first one where a woman says: "I'm going to tell you a story," and then pauses for a long, luxurious sip from a cup of coffee, and the model ... does nothing, just waits. Take my money. Speaking of taking my money, what's the economic model for a company like this? They've published a fair amount about their architecture…

they hire leading researchers, and leading researchers won't work for you unless they're able to publish

> leading researchers won't work for you unless they're able to publish

oh, honey.

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#20

Post by edg5000 »

vessenes wrote: post #8

These videos are worth a watch. There are tons of impressive moments, but they had me at the very first one where a woman says: "I'm going to tell you a story," and then pauses for a long, luxurious sip from a cup of coffee, and the model ... does nothing, just waits. Take my money. Speaking of taking my money, what's the economic model for a company like this? They've published a fair amount about their architecture…

In China it's become well known that promising new companies will get an offer from either Alibaba or Tencent. In the US, it's probably simmilar. Everything that's out in the open can get acquired or simply copied. Maybe that is what Thinking Machines is hoping as well?
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