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Looks like he went to crypto https://x.com/sreeramkannan/status/1771340250801127664?s=46
Decentralized systems, peer to peer, Blockchain, smart contracts, are all important technologies with real use cases. It is not accurate to refer to any of them as simply "crypto" especially in this context.
"AI"s are still pretty much vaporwares like 40 years ago. When people get tired of these toys, the bubble will simply burst, and nothing valuable left.
I love their product, but I was suspect of Emad ever since he said “There will be no programmers in five years.”[0] That just sounds so simplistic that I don't believe he believes it himself. [0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stability-ai-ceo-no-human-193...
The worst thing here is not that he doesn’t believe in it himself, but that he does. As George Costanza said, “it’s not a lie if you believe it”
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There are almost no programmers today (you need to do malloc and low level sys calls in C to be considered a programmer).
I don't think you can be considered a programmer if you can't write your own syscall firmware code in assembly.
"AI"s are still pretty much vaporwares like 40 years ago. When people get tired of these toys, the bubble will simply burst, and nothing valuable left.
I use chat-gpt almost every day and find it very usefull
Emad is such an obvious grifter it’s honestly mad that he attracted so much VC money. He couldn’t even get his own story straight regarding his education and qualifications which should be a pretty clear disqualifying red flag from the outset. The Forbes article from last year was dismissed on here as a hit piece but the steady flow of talent out was the clear sign, capped by the original SD authors leaving last week…
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ChatGPT is 20B according to Microsoft researchers, also the fact that big AI models are trillion parameter models is mostly speculation, about GPT-4 it was spread by geohot.
To be precise, ChatGPT 3.5 turbo being 20B is officially a mistake from a Microsoft Researcher, quoting a wrong source published before the release of chatgpt3.5 turbo. Up to you to believe it or not. But I wouldn’t claim it’s a 20B according to Microsoft Researchers. The withdrawn paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17680 The wrong source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2023/02/17/is... The discussion:…
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The released image generation models run on consumer GPUs. Even the big LLMs will run on a $3500 Mac with reasonable performance, and the CPU of a dirt cheap machine if you don't care about it being slow, which is sometimes important and sometimes isn't. Also, things like this are in the works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39794864 Which will put the system RAM of the new 24-channel PC servers in range of the…
The `big' AI models are trillion parameter models. The medium sized models like GPT3 and Grok are 185b and 314b respectively. There is no way for _anyone_ to run these on a sub $50k machine in 2024, and even if you can the token generation speed on CPU is under 0.1 tokens per second.
Well RIP Stability AI. I love their models and I love how they have changed the entire open source AI ecosystem for the better, but the writing was always on the wall for them given how unprofitable they are. I don't think much of the AI startup scene or socials groups like e/acc would have existed if it weren't for the tech that they just gave away for free. Its interesting how Stability AI and their VC funding have…
Are you aware of smth called criminal code? This is one of the worst advices I've ever seen. Tricking people to obtain money? How's this not fraud?
Really? Because stability AI caused a very large amount of good in the world.
It arguably kicked off the entire AI startup industry.
> Tricking people to obtain money? How's this not fraud?
Its not fraud because you don't have to lie to anyone. You can tell VCs exactly what you plan on doing. Which is to open source all of your code... and... uhhh... yeah that will totally make the company valuable.
There are lots of ways of making sales pitches about open source, or similar, that will absolutely pass regulatory scrutiny and are "honest", and yet still have no hope of commercial success and also provide a huge amount of value to the public. Like what stability AI did.