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Why I Joined OpenAI

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Re: Why I Joined OpenAI

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Post by nextaccountic »

trhway wrote: post #87
pillefitz wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue is that you're doing lot, but not saving the planet. What do you think is happening with the efficiency gains? You're making rich people richer and helping AI to become an integral (i.e. positive ROI from business perspective) part of our lives. And that's perfectly fine if it aligns with your philosophy. It's not for quite a few others, and you not owning up to it leads to all kinds of negativity in the co…

>What do you think is happening with the efficiency gains? may it happen that the efficiency gains decrease demand and thus postpone investment into and development of new and better energy sources? If one couldn't get by just by bringing 20 trucks with gas turbines, may be he would have invested in fusion development :)

> may it happen that the efficiency gains decrease demand

What mechanism would make this happen?

Demand could decrease if AI became worse, but efficiency doesn't make AI worse - it actually makes possible at all to run bigger, better models (see the other comment with a link to Jevon's paradox), which increase, not decrease demand (more powerful models may have new capabilities that people want to use)

Alternatively, AI demand could decrease through political pressure (either anti-AI sentiment takes a foothold on the public, and/or government regulation strangle demand on the sector like it did for eg. on tobacco industry). But another way to reap the benefits of more efficient AI datacenters is to make it a talking point on how AI environmental impacts can be mitigated, which could curb anti-AI sentiment.

Either way, those possibilities don't decrease demand for AI - they are either neutral, or increase demand instead.

Re: Why I Joined OpenAI

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Post by xnxnxkx »

laluser wrote: post #104
jhhh wrote: post #92

Did the article intentionally start with a LLM cliche to filter out all the people who hate reading obviously generated content? I would say it worked.

I have been attempting to write a lot more with AI, but it's so gimmicky. It's always spitting lines like this: " it's not just about x – it's about y." like in this post. I find it so frustrating that no matter the prompt I throw at it, it eventually repeats itself again after some time. Good technical and succinct writing is almost impossible to iterate on with AI for me.

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Re: Why I Joined OpenAI

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Post by pstuart »

biggggtalkguy wrote: post #63
indigodaddy wrote: post #31

This article is so full of itself I can hardly stand to read it. I had to just sort of skim it instead. Sorry! This style just doesn't do it for me.

Not the first time either. See this person's previous blog when leaving his earlier company. Lots of Kim kardashian vibe of self inflated self worth.

The guy is pretty much god-tier in performance engineering -- I'm not seeing the kardashian vibe at all. There's an element of "dear diary" but it reads (to me) as just trying to catalog what he thinks is important to note.

Re: Why I Joined OpenAI

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Post by rotis »

UltraSane wrote: post #21
amluto wrote: post #12

> She was worried about a friend who was travelling in a far-away city, with little timezone overlap when they could chat, but she could talk to ChatGPT anytime about what the city was like and what tourist activities her friend might be doing, which helped her feel connected. She liked the memory feature too, saying it was like talking to a person who was living there. This seems rather sad. Is this really what AI i…

I use it as something to talk to about incredibly nerdy and/or obscure things no one else would be willing to talk about.

Asking ChatGPT about safety of someone traveling instead of asking that person is the nerdy thing to do. Somehow a hairstylist doesn't invoke image of a nerd in me. That is why I find this story implausible.

Re: Why I Joined OpenAI

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Post by mawadev »

jhhh wrote: post #92

Did the article intentionally start with a LLM cliche to filter out all the people who hate reading obviously generated content? I would say it worked.

I like how my eyes went over the first sentence, barely parsing it and already discarding the information, because its obviously ai generated. Its like the circumstances we live in added a new layer of perception to my brain to guard itself against the flood of useless information!

Re: Why I Joined OpenAI

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Post by throwa356262 »

selfawareMammal wrote: post #117

> it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet. I have joined OpenAI to work on this challenge directly. I couldn't go on reading.

Reminds me of the TechCrunch episode of Silicon Valley TV show. Everyone was there to make the big buck but all collectively pretended they were doing their work for the good of humankind.

This guy and Rob Pike should have a talk.

Re: Why I Joined OpenAI

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Post by padolsey »

The AI industry, and SV tech generally, has a pattern of recruiting talent by flattering people's self-image as builders and discoverers, which makes it psychologically very difficult for those people to reckon honestly with downstream harm.
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