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Elon just said they are launching an AI game studio. Does this mean they will be building games that are mostly built with AI, or will they make AI tooling available for anyone to build games easily? Probably the former, but it would be nice if they would make it fully available to everyone.
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My wife has found ChatGPT extremely useful when dealing with her mother - who has bipolar and is obsessed with other people's health. I've got a terminal cancer diagnosis and handling my mother-in-law has been extremely difficult - nearly to the point of no longer having any communication with her. ChatGPT has a single conversation with all the back story and has put some useful points across when discussing how diff…
I'm sorry for your situation. > she watched a operation that failed for me for entertainment, for instance You make your own choices, but cutting a person like this off would be very reasonable
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The government puts money into his corporations, maybe you could elaborate on what extent said "success" is dependent on this relation?
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For the same reason I doubt Einstein's abilities as a painter. History is littered with the stories of smart people who tried to treat government dysfunction like corporate dysfunction and failed spectacularly.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/01/17/richard-feynman-of...
Off topic, but just in case: is there a good reference on how people actually use LLMs on a daily basis ? All my attempts so far have been pretty underwhelming: * when I use chatbots as search engines, I'm very quickly disappointed by obvious hallucinations * I ended up disabling github copilot because it was just "auto-complete on steroids" at best, and "auto-complete on mushrooms" at worst * I rarely have use cases…
The sister comments contain quite a few specific examples. But the many back-and-forth arguments here on HN about whether LLMs are useful for coding suggest that understanding how they might or might not be used may be the biggest challenge at this point. I myself use them a lot, though I constantly feel that I would be able to get more out of them if only I were smarter.
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An llm isn't software any more than a matrix is. What do you think an open source matrix should look like?
A compiled executable is not any less software than the source code. But the point of open source code is not the ability to see the CPU instructions though, is it? Its about reproducibility and modifiability. Compiled executables (and their licences) lack that. The same as these downloadable blobs.
You can absolutely have open source machine code.
The issue is and always has been that you need to have access to the same level of abstraction as the people writing the source code. The GPL specifically bans transpilers as a way to get around this.
In ML there is _no_ level of abstraction other than the raw weights. Everything else is support machinery no different to an compiler, and os, or a physical computer to run the code on.
Linux isn't closed source because they don't ship a C compiler with their code. Why should llama models be any different?
I don't understand how and why Grok would be related to "understanding the nature of the universe", as Musk puts it. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but they basically just burned more cash than any human should have to buy Nvidia GPUs and make them predict natural language, right? So, they are somewhat on-par with all the other companies that did the same. This is not innovation, this is baseless hype over a mediocr…
There are two answers to this. Answer 1: Some people think that LLMs are a path to the singularity, a self-improving intelligent program that will vastly exceed human intelligence and will be able to increase its knowledge exponentially, quickly answering all answerable scientific questions. Answer 2: LLM companies need to keep the hype train rolling. I didn't watch the whole clip; I jumped around a bit, but I notice…
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I feel like that's part of what Elon is flexing. Teslabot was late comer compared to competitors like BD. Elon is showing off he can marshal enough resources and talents to be on par (kinda) with state of the art products in crazy time. That's been most of his superpower so far - not breakthrough tech that didnt exist before. We've had rockets before.
I don't like Elon either, but not only has SpaceX created breakthrough tech that didn't exist by landing an orbital class rocket, as of today still nobody else has done it. Landing a rocket was considered impossible and unthinkable 10 years ago, and then SpaceX completely changed the game. And they're reinventing rocket tech again with Starship by catching it midair.
Grok has gotten to the top of one benchmark: https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1891706264800936307 It's been said before but it is great news for consumers that there's so much competition in the LLM space. If it's hard for any one player to get daylight between them & the 2nd best alternative, hopefully that means one monopolistic firm isn't going to be sucking up all the value created by these things
Who cares about benchmarks? These things still cost me time because of hallucinations.