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I'm imagining a bunch of Tech Priests doing rituals and chanting in front of the data center to encourage the Machine Spirit to restart.
I believe the chants sound more or less like this: https://youtu.be/0ZZb12Qp6-0?feature=shared&t=76
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The point is, OpenAI spent a lot of money on training on all these copyrighted materials ordinary individuals/companies don't have access to, so replicating their effort would mean that you either 1) spend a ridiculous amount of money, 2) use Library Genesis (and still pay millions for GPU usage). So we have very little choice now. Open Source LLMs might be getting close to ChatGPT3 (opinions vary), but OpenAI is sti…
the choice is to live 2 years behind (e.g. integrate the open source stuff and ride that wave of improvement). for businesses in a competitive space, that’s perhaps untenable. but for individuals and anywhere else where this stuff is just a “nice to have”, that’s really just the long-term sustainable approach. it reminds me of a choice like “do i host my website on a Windows Server, or a Linux box” at a time when bot…
All tech folks should just get a PTO today . #ChatGPT_outage Am I supposed to use Google and Stack overflow ? That’s like going back to roll down windows in a car :)
It's at least nice to see a company call this what it is (a "major outage") - seems like most status pages would be talking about "degraded performance" or similar.
I suspect this is because they don't have contracts with enforceable SLAs yet. When they do, you will see more 'degraded performance'. People get credits for 'outages', but if it is sometimes working for someone somewhere then that is the convenient fiction/loophole a lot of companies use.
It wasn't a happy workplace
The AI “apocalypse” that has been feared may end up being something more like a mass outage that can’t be fixed fast enough
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The point is, OpenAI spent a lot of money on training on all these copyrighted materials ordinary individuals/companies don't have access to, so replicating their effort would mean that you either 1) spend a ridiculous amount of money, 2) use Library Genesis (and still pay millions for GPU usage). So we have very little choice now. Open Source LLMs might be getting close to ChatGPT3 (opinions vary), but OpenAI is sti…
Don't underestimate Big Corp's resistance to using OpenAI's hosted solutions (even on Azure) for anything that's not marketing fluff.
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No, this is silly reasoning. A middle manager somewhere has no clue what Java 5 is. But he does know -- or let's say IMAGINES what he knows about ChatGPT. And unlike Java 5-- he just needs to use his departmental budget and instantly mandate that his team now use ChatGPT. Whatever that means you can argue it. But ChatGPT is a front line technology and super accessible. Java 5 is super back end and very specialized. T…
Honest question: do you really mean Java 5 when you say Java 5? It sounds a bit 2000s to me.
But no, it would not surprise me to find a decent handful of large companies still writing Java 5 code; it would surprise me a bit more to find many still using that JVM, since you can't even get paid support through Oracle anymore, but I'm sure someone out there is doing it. Never underestimate the "don't touch it, you might break it" sentiment at non-tech companies, even big ones with lots of revenue, they routinely understaff their tech departments and the people who built key systems may have retired 20 years ago at this point so it's really risky to do any sort of big system migration. That's why so many lines of COBOL are still running.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The point is, OpenAI spent a lot of money on training on all these copyrighted materials ordinary individuals/companies don't have access to, so replicating their effort would mean that you either 1) spend a ridiculous amount of money, 2) use Library Genesis (and still pay millions for GPU usage). So we have very little choice now. Open Source LLMs might be getting close to ChatGPT3 (opinions vary), but OpenAI is sti…
the choice is to live 2 years behind (e.g. integrate the open source stuff and ride that wave of improvement). for businesses in a competitive space, that’s perhaps untenable. but for individuals and anywhere else where this stuff is just a “nice to have”, that’s really just the long-term sustainable approach. it reminds me of a choice like “do i host my website on a Windows Server, or a Linux box” at a time when bot…
Oof, you reminded me of when I chose to use Flow and then TypeScript won.