If OpenAI is responsible for “saving the planet” we are so fucked.
We are currently fucked as well to be clear as people genuinely have this disconnected mindset of reality.
Why I Joined OpenAI
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#152Did 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 really hope it's intentional. The author is a smart, accomplished person. He even published books. It's sad if this kind of person thinks it's okay to just outsource their writing to AI.
Reads like a love letter to his new employer. Hopefully it earns him points there. I admire his work and will just pretend I never read this.
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#154> ...it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet There's something that doesn't sit right with me about this statement, and I'm not sure what it is. Are you sure you didn't just join for the money? (edit: cool problems, too)
Even a 25% reduction in resource usage will probably not be enough, AI datacenters are still a huge resource sink after all
There's no gain to be had there at all. Any optimizations that reduce resource usage per output will be gobbled up by just making more output.
OpenAI released an open source model only because they are capped on growth right now by the amount if hardware they have. Improve resource efficiency and you better believe they'll just crank up use of said resources until they capped again.
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#155Did 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.
I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn due to job and I have an actual physical gag reflex at this point now from the "it's not X, it's Y" pattern.
I didn't know it was possible for a sentence structure to cause such a thing.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
It isn't AI generated it is just plain a vacuous cliche. Seriously what is with people who think 'they can always tell it is AI' when really AI is living rent free in their head and they fixate on anything they don't like and are oh so convinced it must be the AI they hate. They're exactly like Fundamentalists and the devil. Or Communists and how they think capitalism literally intentionally created everything as har…
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#157I want to be as good as you at performance engineering. It's the direction I want for my career.
Something tells me that in a year we'll see a post about why you left OpenAI.
Sama won't listen to anyone. That's why. None of these CEOs are going to listen.
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#158> 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…
It's sad that we aren't all rich enough to have a personal assistant to tend to our sides 24/7? mean, it seems more useful than, say, cruise ships, but they get to exist.
Things don't "get to exist", that implies that there's a person or people who have decided not to use some power of theirs to make all cruise ships disappear.
The GP quote also wasn't about a personal assistant use case, it was about filling a hole in personal connection. Its sad because we are more often today having less human connections and more digital, aka fake, ones.
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#159To answer a few people at once: I did mention compensation as a factor in the post, but I didn't elaborate details, so easy to miss. Comp is important of course, but so are the other factors. It feels like I can't go for a day without reading about the cost of AI datacenters in the news, and I can do something about it.
Again, many comments here saying I only care about the money, and while comp is an important factor I think it characterizes me as someone I'm not, and forgets what I've been doing for the past two decades. I've spent thousands of hours of my life writing textbooks for roughly minimum wage, as I want to help others like me (I came from nothing, with no access tech meetups or conferences, and books were the gateway to…
It’s not a crime if you do something for money. Those who comment are likely doing the same and they couldn’t get into a company like OpenAI and hence the hatred! Keep doing the great work you always did! Excited to see what you ll do with all the resources in the world.
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I spend a lot of time on LinkedIn due to job and I have an actual physical gag reflex at this point now from the "it's not X, it's Y" pattern. I didn't know it was possible for a sentence structure to cause such a thing.
It's not the sentence structure—it's the lack of sincerity