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I use chat-gpt almost every day and find it very usefull
Competitors are catching up and one day the chat API providers will race the prices to bottom
That’s not the same thing as chat gpt being vaporware.
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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.
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So you’re happy to continue forever with the system we have now - governments printing with no consequence?
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I don't think you can be considered a programmer if you can't write your own syscall firmware code in assembly.
I don't think you can be considered a programmer if you can't perfurate your own punch cards.
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> socials groups like e/acc Good riddance.
Hey, let me know when the doomers have built anything that has mattered because they choose to, and not because they are forced to my market forces. At least the open source AI people have code that you can use, freely without restriction. The doomers, on the other hand, don't do anything but try and fail to prevent other people from releasing useful stuff. But, in some sense I should be thanking the doomers because…
Not being e/acc doesn’t make one a doomer. It means being someone with a healthy relationship with technological progress, who hasn’t given up on the prospect of useful regulation where it’s helpful.
The US is great but the best AI researchers aren’t gonna want to live here if it becomes a hyper libertarian hellscape. They want to raise a family without their kids being exploited by technologies in ways that e/accs tell us we should just accept. It’s not sustainable.
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I use chat-gpt almost every day and find it very usefull
And how you gonna verify chat-gpt's result? By googling?
Here's an example of some thing I tried at random a few weeks ago. I have a bunch of old hand written notes that are mind maps and graphs written on notebooks from 10+ years ago. I snapped a picture of all of the different graphs with my phone, threw them into chatGPT and asked it to convert them to mermaid UML syntax.
Every single one of them converted flawlessly when I brought them into my markdown note tool.
If you're using chatGPT as nothing more than a glorified fact checker and not taking advantage of the multimodal capabilities such as vision, OCR, Python VM, generative imagery, you're really missing the point.
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Not twitter but here he is talking about that: https://youtu.be/BdZo4JUBSQk
You know it never ceases to amaze me how even the most respected fall prey to this money laundering scheme. If people even spent some time to read about Tether they would not touch this stuff. It's blood money.
I suspect a lot of them know it's a scam, they just want in on it and don't want to admit it.
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#179The underlying reason is that current AI businesses and models are failing to capture any significant economic value. We're going to get there, but it will take some more work. It won't be decades, but a few more years would be helpful
Midjourney is the most popular discord channel by far with 19.5M+ members, $200M in revenue in 2023 with 0 external investments and only 40 employees. The problem has nothing to do with commercializing image gen AI and all to do with Emad/Stability having seemingly 0 sensible business plans. Seriously this seemed to be the plan: Step 1: Release SD for free Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit The vast majority of users couldn'…
Leonardo.ai have basically done exactly this and seem to be doing OK.
It’s a shame because they’re literally just using stable diffusion for all their tech but built a nicer front end and incorporated control net. No-where else has done this.
Controlnet / instantID etc are the really killer things about SD and make it way more powerful than Midjourney, but they aren’t even available via the stability API. They just don’t seem to care.
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For a founder maybe , definitely not for employees . AI startups need not an insignificant amount of startup capital , you cannot just spend weekends to build like you would a saas app . Model training is expensive so only wealthy individuals can even consider this route Companies like that have no oversight or control mechanisms when management inevitably goes down crazy paths, also without external valuations optio…
As a counter-point, with no VCs there's more equity left for employees.
As a counter-counter-point that gets rarely discussed on HN, VCs aren't taking as much of the pie as people think. In a 2-founder, 4-engineer company, it wouldn't be unusual to have equity be roughly:
20% investors 70% founders 2-3% employees (1% emp1, 1% emp2, 0.5% emp3, 0.25% emp4) 7% for future employees before next funding round