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People are estimating that Meta is buying $8-10B in GPUs this year alone. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/01/18/mark-zuckerberg-indicate...
Yeah, certainly within an order of magnitude of that number.
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Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
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decentralization != coinshit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emad_Mostaque Read his Wikipedia page and tell me he doesn’t sound like your run of the mill crypto scammer. > He claims that he holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in mathematics and computer science from the University of Oxford.[7][8] However, according to him, he did not attend his graduation ceremony to receive his degrees, and therefore, he does not technically possess a BA or an MA.[7]
Pretty simple background check would answer that question. If he’s claiming those credentials without actually having them I would assume it be common knowledge by now.
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Think seti at home. Instead of wasting all the compute on bitcoin we pretrain fully open models which can run on people's hardware. A 120b ternary model is the most interesting thing in the world. No one can train one now because you need a billion dollar super computer.
People are estimating that Meta is buying $8-10B in GPUs this year alone. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/01/18/mark-zuckerberg-indicate...
Yeah, but they are also doing an insane amount of inference and continuously experimenting with developing new sota models.
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> Not only Adobe perhaps knows better than anyone else what is need and workflow of a moviemaker I only ever heard creatives complain about Adobe and their UI/UX and how they don’t understand their customers. Never really used any of their products myself though. Maybe they still are best-in-class. I can’t tell.
Many years ago it was a good offering but it’s becoming increasingly clear with outsourcing and talent drain that the current teams working on the likes of Photoshop, After Effects and Premier do not actually understand how the core tool, both in its inner workings or even how it draws its own UI works at all and couldn’t either recreate it or even change its existing behavior. Every major change in the last 6 years…
It's been like this since at least late 90s. At this point Photoshop is similar to Windows in that it has at least 6 mismatching UIs from 6 different eras in it. (or maybe more)
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I think the following isn't said often enough: there must be a reason why there are extremely few celebrities and artists who are cool with AI, and it cannot be something abstract and bureaucratic as copyright concerns although those are problematic. It's just not there yet. GenAI outputs aren't something audiences wants to hang on a wall. It's something that evoke sense of distress. Otherwise everyone's tracing them…
Most people mix up all the different kinds of intellectual property basically all the time[0], so while people say it's about copyright, I (currently) think it's more likely to be a mixture of "moral rights" (the right to be named as the creator of a work) and trademarks (registered or otherwise), and in the case of celebrities, "personality rights": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights > It's just not th…
> Der Kuss (by Klimt) is widely regarded as being good art,
The point is, generative AI images are not widely regarded as good art. They're often seen as passable for some filler use cases and hard to tell apart from human generations, but not "good".
It's not not-there-yet because AI sometimes generates sixth fingers, it's something another level from Gustav Klimt, Damien Hirst, Kusama Yayoi, or the likes[0]. It could be that genAI is leaving something that human artist would filter out, or because images are too disorganized that they appear to us to be encoding malice or other negative emotions, or maybe I'm just wrong and it's all about anatomy.
But whatever the reason is, IMO, it's way too rarely considered good, gaining too few supportive celebrities and artists and audiences, to work.
0: I admit I'm not well versed with contemporary art, or art in general for that matter
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> Seriously this seemed to be the plan: > Step 1: Release SD for free > Step 2: ??? > Step 3: Profit That’s not true. He was pretty open about the business plan. The plan was to have open foundational models and provide services to governments and corporations that wanted custom models trained on private data, tailored to their specific jurisdictions and problem domains.
Was there any traction on this? I cannot imagine government services being early customers. What models would the want?Military -- maybe, for simulation or training, but that requires focus, dedicated effort and a lot of time. My 2c.
I've heard this pitch from a few AI labs. I suspect that they will fail, customers just want a model that works in the shortest amount of time and effort. The vast majority of companies do not have useful fine tuning data or skills. Consultancy businesses are low margin and hard to scale.
Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
#3072024 is going to shift into a tough year for AI. Business minded folks are already starting to deeply question where the value is relative to the amount of money spent on training. Many/most of the GenAI companies have interesting ideas but no real business plan. Many of the larger AI companies look very shaky in terms of their governance and long term stability. Stability is showing itself to be very unstable, OpenAI has its mess that still seems not fully resolved, Inflection had a bunch of strange stuff go down earlier this week, and more to come.
I’m a huge fan of the tech, but as reality sets in things are gonna get quite rough and there will need to be a painful culling of the AI space before sustainable and long term value materializes.
Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
#308Previous 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…
Thats a hit piece, but whatever, isn't that what the most prominent/funded academics do? As far as i know he is known generally as CEO of the company that makes SD, not as the creator of SD. It does look like without him these models wouldnt have evolved so much
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Emad had the genius idea of essentially paying for the branding rights to an AI model. This was viewed as insane in the pre-ChatGPT era, and only paid off massively in retrospect. Also all those 'controversies' were mostly the result of an aggrieved co-founder/investor who decided to sell their shares before SD1.4's success. Emad may not have proven to be competent enough to run an large AI lab in the long run, but t…
> This was viewed as insane in the pre-ChatGPT era, and only paid off massively in retrospect. Paid off how?
Lots of people have used SD commercially, so we've been paid off collectively
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emad_Mostaque Read his Wikipedia page and tell me he doesn’t sound like your run of the mill crypto scammer. > He claims that he holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in mathematics and computer science from the University of Oxford.[7][8] However, according to him, he did not attend his graduation ceremony to receive his degrees, and therefore, he does not technically possess a BA or an MA.[7]
Pretty simple background check would answer that question. If he’s claiming those credentials without actually having them I would assume it be common knowledge by now.
Someone became a US House Rep while lying about an education they did not have and a completely falsified resume. I wouldn't be so quick to assume that if he was lying everyone would know by now.