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Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by actionfromafar »

aydyn wrote: post #104
uargos wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very little people seem to understand that. And actually there is no need to go as far as “universe” to get to something that can’t be captured by language. Human existence is such an example. For this reason I don’t think llms are going to be good film makers for instance. Sure an llm will be able to spit the scenario of the next action movie, those already seem to be automatically generated anyway. But making a fil…

That's what people said about AI art, yet here we are.

Where is that?

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by light_triad »

> We partner closely with X Corp to bring our technology to more than 500 million users of the X app.

Investors paid about $12 per X user/bot.

Interesting they are opting for a spinoff rather than doing this in house. Perhaps to capitalise on the hype and attract researchers who don't want the baggage of being associated with polarising brands?

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Post by gehwartzen »

leobg wrote: post #126
lionkor wrote: post #6

> The company’s mission is to understand the true nature of the universe. I yawned so hard my jaw unlocked. Can't wait to see groundbreaking... checks notes ... "advancements in various applications, optimizations, and extensions of the model". Do these companies only hire yes men?

My take is that Elon’s basically saying: We don’t give a s%#* about people wanting to use AI to write SEO spam, automate their customer support or generate content to keep the kids quiet. We want to use this tech as a tool to solve real world problems in a way that, looking back 500 years from now, people will see this as a time of innovation, rather than a time of decline. Wether he’ll succeed is a different questio…

This is probably the response Elon is looking for when he simply writes something vague that can elicit the imagination of any applicant’s specific worldview.

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Post by jazzyjackson »

aydyn wrote: post #104
uargos wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very little people seem to understand that. And actually there is no need to go as far as “universe” to get to something that can’t be captured by language. Human existence is such an example. For this reason I don’t think llms are going to be good film makers for instance. Sure an llm will be able to spit the scenario of the next action movie, those already seem to be automatically generated anyway. But making a fil…

That's what people said about AI art, yet here we are.

ai doesn't make art tho, it paints whatever it's told to

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by defrost »

throwup238 wrote: post #122
defrost wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Are you aware of the recent issues with BYD and other Chinese EV brands? No, but I'd like to know more. > Entire dealerships have gone up in flames from dangerous vehicles. Not lone incidents but tens of dealerships at least, in just this month. Wow! Here's one: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2544ndvkepo ( Although no brand is given and it's a " possibly " on being caused by an EV ) Can you provide links to 19…

> However, an investigation later revealed that the fire was started accidentally by a diesel vehicle. https://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/fire-service-has-rea... Oops.

To be clear that wasn't the dealership fire this month in the Uk that was "possibly" started by an EV .. it was an "and also" story tacked on the end:

    Last October, it was claimed that an electric or hybrid vehicle had started a huge blaze at Luton Airport’s car park, which destroyed 1,400 cars and much of the building structure.

   However, an investigation later revealed that the fire was started accidentally by a diesel vehicle.
So .. we're still shy 19+ dealership fires this month started by Chinese EV's, but at least we can scratch that one from last October's monthly tally.

I heard on social media that a witch turned someone into a newt.

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Post by andy_ppp »

Intralexical wrote: post #78
lionkor wrote: post #6

> The company’s mission is to understand the true nature of the universe. I yawned so hard my jaw unlocked. Can't wait to see groundbreaking... checks notes ... "advancements in various applications, optimizations, and extensions of the model". Do these companies only hire yes men?

Hopefully incompetence can save us from the megalomania.

The combination of incompetence and megalomania is probably more likely unfortunately.

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Post by Kina »

aydyn wrote: post #104
uargos wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very little people seem to understand that. And actually there is no need to go as far as “universe” to get to something that can’t be captured by language. Human existence is such an example. For this reason I don’t think llms are going to be good film makers for instance. Sure an llm will be able to spit the scenario of the next action movie, those already seem to be automatically generated anyway. But making a fil…

That's what people said about AI art, yet here we are.

Is where we are any good? I think one of the more germane issues with generative AI art is that it is distinctly not creative. It can only regurgitate variations of what it has seen.

This is both extremely powerful and limiting.

An LLM is never going to give you some of the most famous films like "Star Wars" which bounced around before 20th Century Fox finally took a chance on it because they thought Lucas had talent. Is what we want? A society that just uses machines to produce variations of the same thing that already exist all the time? It's hard enough for novel creative projects to succeed.

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by vidarh »

DoctorDabadedoo wrote: post #128
belter wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your technical interview is way too easy....

Indeed, please write an algorithm to reverse a linked list in O(1).

Assuming I can choose linked list implementation, that is trivial:

It's a doubly linked list where the head contains a pointer to the tail, and a flag that determines which pointer in the nodes is forward and which is backward.

Re: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

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Post by dagmx »

klunger wrote: post #120

> xAI will continue on this steep trajectory of progress over the coming months, with multiple exciting technology updates and products soon to be announced. There is a lot of potential for using AI in drug discovery and development, biotech more broadly and chemistry/material science. Pharma is investing heavily in this right now. If useful, the output here could potentially also support Neuralink and even SpaceX. C…

The “true nature of the universe” bit is that Elon believes that competing LLMs are too neutered because they disallow certain terms etc. (his words are much more politically charged and I do not agree with his take on this and many other things)

Therefore he believes that Grok can be an LLM trained on the voices of the people using his alleged free speech platform:X.

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