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Can we change the title to “GitHub _signs_ deals with Google, Anthropic” ? The original got me thinking it already had deals it was getting out of
But agree that it's better to avoid using idioms on a site that has many visitors for whom English is not their first language.
This is pretty exciting. I'm a copilot user at work, but also have access to Claude. I'm more inclined to use Claude for difficult coding problems or to review my work as I've just grown more confident in its abilities over the last several months.
The speed with which AI models are improving blows my mind. Humans quickly normalize technological progress, but it's staggering to reflect on our progress over just these two years .
Because.. yea, it is. However.. it keeps expanding, it keeps getting more useful. Yea people and especially companies are using it for things which it has no business being involved in.. and despite that it keeps growing, it keeps progressing.
I do find the "stochastic parrot" comments slowly dwindle in number and volume with each significant release, though.
Still, i find it weirdly interesting to see a bunch of people be both right and "wrong" at the same time. They're completely right, and yet it's like they're also being proven wrong in the ways that matter.
Very weird space we're living in.
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Claude is better than OpenAI for most tasks, and yet OpenAI has enormously more users. What is this, if not first mover advantage?
Claude is more restricted and can't generate images.
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Claude is better than OpenAI for most tasks, and yet OpenAI has enormously more users. What is this, if not first mover advantage?
Claude cannot “research” stuff on the web and provide results like 4o does in 5 secs like “which is the cheapest Skoda car and how much”
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The speed with which AI models are improving blows my mind. Humans quickly normalize technological progress, but it's staggering to reflect on our progress over just these two years .
Yes! I'm much more inclined to write one-off scripts for short manual tasks as I can usually get AI to get something useful very fast. For example, last week I worked with Claude to write a script to get a sense of how many PRs my company had that included comprehensive testing. This was borderline best done as a manual task previously, now I just ask Claude to write a short bash script that uses the GitHub CLI to do…
Still i find very little use from LLMs in this front, but they do come in handy randomly.
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Yes, because transfer learning works. A specialized model for X will be subsumed by a general model for X/Y/Z as it becomes better at Y/Z. This is why models which learn other languages become better at English. Custom models still have use cases, e.g. situations requiring cheaper or faster inference. But ultimately The Bitter Lesson holds -- your specialized thing will always be overtaken by throwing more compute at…
> This is why models which learn other languages become better at English. Do you have a source for that, I'd love to learn more!
Cross-lingual transfer learning for multilingual voice agents[2]
Large Language Models Are Cross-Lingual Knowledge-Free Reasoners[3]
An Empirical Study of Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning in Programming Languages[4]
That should get you started on transfer learning re. languages, but you'll have more fun personally picking interesting papers over reading a random yahoo's choices. The fire hose of papers is nuts, so you'll never be left wanting.
[1] https://www.amazon.science/publications/evaluating-cross-lin...
[2] https://www.amazon.science/blog/cross-lingual-transfer-learn...
History has shown being first to market isn't all it's cut out to be. You spend more, it's more difficult creating the trail others will follow, you end up with a tech stack that was built before tools and patterns stabilized and you've created a giant super highway for a fast-follower. Anyone remember MapQuest, AltaVista or Hotmail? OpenAI has some very serious competition now. When you combine that with the recent…
Claude is better than OpenAI for most tasks, and yet OpenAI has enormously more users. What is this, if not first mover advantage?
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Claude is better than OpenAI for most tasks, and yet OpenAI has enormously more users. What is this, if not first mover advantage?
Claude is only better in some cherry picked standard eval benchmarks, which are becoming more useless every month due to the likelihood of these tests leaking into training data. If you look at the Chatbot Arena rankings where actual users blindly select the best answer from a random choice of models, the top 3 models are all from OpenAI. And the next best ones are from Google and X.
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Claude is better than OpenAI for most tasks, and yet OpenAI has enormously more users. What is this, if not first mover advantage?
Claude is only better in some cherry picked standard eval benchmarks, which are becoming more useless every month due to the likelihood of these tests leaking into training data. If you look at the Chatbot Arena rankings where actual users blindly select the best answer from a random choice of models, the top 3 models are all from OpenAI. And the next best ones are from Google and X.
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Claude is better than OpenAI for most tasks, and yet OpenAI has enormously more users. What is this, if not first mover advantage?
Claude is only better in some cherry picked standard eval benchmarks, which are becoming more useless every month due to the likelihood of these tests leaking into training data. If you look at the Chatbot Arena rankings where actual users blindly select the best answer from a random choice of models, the top 3 models are all from OpenAI. And the next best ones are from Google and X.