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Post by qq66 »

bilsbie wrote: post #24

He should have done his own lab. He seems like someone capable of it and might bring some unique ideas.

If you don't actually have the desire to build, lead, and manage a large organization, this is a terrible idea for technical geniuses. A guy like him will instantly raise $1 billion which means hiring dozens of people, which means tons of interviews, management, performance review, planning, board meetings, etc etc.

It's good that there are avenues today for people to make tens or hundreds of $m in salaried positions at companies so that they don't have to do that stuff to get paid their value if they don't genuinely want to.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by zitoshi »

interesting signal about where AI is...

It actually feels like a signal that it is in a tapering phase.

As in, if it was in a growth phase a freeform, solo - collab with who you want, would be more beneficial. But in a tapering phase you'd want structure and to be in the private formal meetings.

just an idea

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by arealaccount »

UltraSane wrote: post #205
gyomu wrote: post #127

We are in the early stages of AI. Anthropic is Altavista and OpenAI is AskJeeves or something. 10-20 years from now the scene will be unrecognizable and all of this will be inconsequential but at the same time it is the fondation on which tomorrow is built.

Google is much better positioned long term with their TPUs and separate enormous revenue from advertising.

So Google remains as Google

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Post by browsingonly »

Avicebron wrote: post #152
Veserv wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, he was [1] director of AI and Autopilot Vision at Tesla, directly poached and reporting to Elon Musk on the most important headline feature of Tesla directly managed by Elon Musk. He had both the technical and executive authority to determine if the product was fit for customer usage. He had direct executive responsibility for the product on the road between 2017-2022. If he, the lead architect and executive res…

I don't the comp sci has the same requirements for ethics coursework like mechanical, aerospace, etc..

Passing a mandatory class != believing in its message and acting on it.

Unfortunately, rather important courses like engineering ethics have become lumped in with mandatory DEI objectives and similar 'grievance studies' requirements, classes which many suffer through quietly, regurgitating the Correct responses while they count the minutes until they can get back to more substantive classwork. Some undergraduates may unfortunately gloss over ethics just as they gloss over lectures on privilege.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by Barbing »

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #188
Barbing wrote: post #159

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But do I leave all my money in US index funds?

Which funds?

Searching “invest $10[0]k into USA index funds low fees”, the Vanguard funds that come up! (Vanguard sounds a little special, maybe they do good marketing. Ah, per Wiki: “Vanguard is owned by the funds managed by the company and is therefore owned by its customers.”)

Looking familiar: VTI or VOO, VTSAX or VFIAX

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Post by yomismoaqui »

sph wrote: post #122
clickety_clack wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve never seen names be big in the industry in this way before. It used to be founders, now it’s personalities.

I'll reserve judgement until I've heard what ThePrimeagen and simonw have to say about this.

I'll reserve judgement until I've read what HN commenters have to say about this.

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Post by UltraSane »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #28
bilsbie wrote: post #24

He should have done his own lab. He seems like someone capable of it and might bring some unique ideas.

> He should have done his own lab Which raises the question: what can he do at Anthropic that he couldn't on his own?

Access to a million GPUs?

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by xmcp123 »

scottyah wrote: post #91
redanddead wrote: post #51

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I read this as a bad sign for Anthropic. Relying yet again on more hype instead of improving products. OpenAI’s hiring recently has been much stronger, whether through luck or structure. The “no-name” guys have actual taste. I love that. I don’t care that they’re no-names. I don’t know Karpathy personally, I won’t speak bad about a man I don’t know. I hope he makes CC better. I just read this as hype. My point is tha…

OpenAI seems to be dumping a LOT of money into marketing on social media at least.

To be fair, Mythos is probably one of the most significant marketing pushes in the industry in both impact and investment.

I am sure there is an element of reality in it's capabilities, but there's also a significant amount of "We don't have the compute to handle this at scale", and "look look, we have the best model. It's so good that you can't even compare it to other models. That is how good we are."

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Post by criddell »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #104
criddell wrote: post #31

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For better or worse, that's where his audience is.

For worse. It’s distinctly for worse.

Eh, as someone who isn't terribly interested in seeing non-stop low effort promotion of garbage AI products, I don't mind that they congregate on a site I rarely visit.
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