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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?
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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 t…
Releasing cool open source AI tech doesn't turn the world into a libertarian hellscape.
You are taking the memes way too seriously.
Mostly people just joke around on twitter while are also building tech startups. e/acc isn't overthrowing the government.
Really sad to see. Emad pivoting to posting crypto nonsense on twitter made me think the writing is on the wall for Stability, but I still didn't expect it so soon. I expect they'll pivot to closed models and then fade away.
> Really sad to see. Emad pivoting to posting crypto nonsense on twitter made me think the writing is on the wall for Stability Open-source AI is a race to zero that makes little money and Stability was facing lawsuits (especially with Getty) which are mounting into the millions and the company was already burning tens of millions. Despite being the actual "Open AI", Stability cannot afford to sustain itself doing so…
Previous controversy involving the CEO (2023): https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/06/04/stable-di... “ In reality, Mostaque has a bachelor’s degree, not a master’s degree from Oxford. The hedge fund’s banner year was followed by one so poor that it shut down months later. The U.N. hasn’t worked with him for years. And while Stable Diffusion was the main reason for his own startup Stability AI’s ascent to pr…
> What he is good at is taking other people’s work and putting his name on it, or doing stuff that you can’t check if it’s true. I have to say, this is a quite common ignorant statement that's said about almost every CEO. I'm not sure if there's more to it in this particular case, but no, CEOs aren't stealing your work. Similarly, marketers aren't parasites. Designers aren't there to waste your time. Many engineers s…
Actually that's wrong, even the idea that engineers are smarter than managers is very prevalent here.
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So you’re happy to continue forever with the system we have now - governments printing with no consequence?
He's leaving to work on decentralized AI? That's exactly what Stability AI was doing before it became clear the economics no longer work out in practice, and starting a new company wouldn't change that. (Emad is an advisory board member to a decentralized GPU company, though: https://home.otoy.com/stabilityai/ ) Obviously this is the polite way to send him off given the latest news about his leadership, but this rati…
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Disagree. A few weeks ago, I followed a step-by-step tutorial to diwnlad ollama, which in turn can download various models. On my not-soecisl laptop with a so-so graphics card, Mixtral runs just fine. As models advance, they will become - not just larger - but also more efficient. Hardware advances. Large models will run just fine on affordable hardware in just a few years.
I’ve come to the opposite conclusion personally - AI model inference requires burst compute, which particularly suits cloud deployment (for these sort of applications). And while AIs may become more compute-efficient in some respects, the tasks we ask AIs to do will grow larger and more complex. Sure you might get a good image locally but what about when the market moves to video? Sure chat GPT might give good respon…
The writing was on the wall for Stability AI after they went on the massive anti-adult content tirade for their newer models.
No, that's the sign they're being sensible, since the thing you want is illegal in most countries.
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Tens of millions of freeloaders too.
Every single Ad blocker users is a freeloader to Google/Youtube. Didn't stop them from being extremely successful.
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I think when parsing that statement it's important to understand his (and your) definition of "programmer". We (I) tend to use the term "programmer" in a generic way, encompassing a bunch of tasks waaay beyond "just typing in new code". Whereas I suspect he used it in the narrowest possible definition (literally, code-typer). My day job (which I call programming) consists of needs analysis, data-modelling, workflow a…
There are almost no programmers today (you need to do malloc and low level sys calls in C to be considered a programmer).
Then we invented another AI to tell the assembler what kind of program you wanted, and called it a "compiler". All you had to do was tell the compiler what kind of program you wanted it to tell the assembler you wanted, and it would do all the not-exactly-programming work for you!
And so on...