Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just remember that Sequoia deleted their Sam Bankman-Fried puff piece.
Have a web archive link? I haven't read it
Generative AI's Act Two
41–50 of 125 posts
Re: Generative AI's Act Two
#42Just a bunch of hype marketing. I didn't read anything of real substance, granted I didn't read the whole thing because it seemed pointless.
Yea I gave up. Ironically it reads like it's (at least partially) AI generated. Long winded and boring without getting to the damn point.
But are you sure you don't want to see "AI Special Forces" in job postings?
Re: Generative AI's Act Two
#43Re: Generative AI's Act Two
#44Re: Generative AI's Act Two
#45Turns out everyone wants to sell shovels
[deleted]
Re: Generative AI's Act Two
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
The counterpoint to this is always "models work with numerical vectors and we translate those to/from words" These things feel sentient because they talk like us, but if I told you that I have a machine that takes 1 20k-dimensional vector and turns it into another meaningful 20k-dimensional vector, you definitely wouldn't call that sentience.
What if I told you I have a machine that takes 1 20k-dimensional vector and turns it into another meaningful 20k-dimensional vector, but the machine is made of a bunch of proteins and fats and liquids and gels? Would you be willing to call it sentient now?
Bro, I can't even do 5 dimensional vector math.
EDIT: I couldn't help but make the joke, but I am certain my brain is doing zero dot products as a type this. What these models do is just different.
We should consider what that means, and the 'sentience' jump is just lazy thinking to avoid that.
Re: Generative AI's Act Two
#47Just a bunch of hype marketing. I didn't read anything of real substance, granted I didn't read the whole thing because it seemed pointless.
Just remember that Sequoia deleted their Sam Bankman-Fried puff piece.
More evidence they are incapable of predicting where the future of technology lies
Re: Generative AI's Act Two
#48> Four decades of the internet (accelerated by COVID) has given us trillions of tokens’ worth of training data. Yeah four decades of stolen intellectual property posted by people on the internet in good will for the world to see, only to have it stolen and monetised by these folks. Wondering, once the good content dies out how will you “train” your “ai”?
Are we not allowed to learn from other's work?
[deleted]
Re: Generative AI's Act Two
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are we not allowed to learn from other's work?
Learn yes, if its legally shared. Copy and earn from it without acknowledging original author and sharing earnings, in most cases, definitely not. As we know, things that often move so fast have law catching up easily after a decade if not more (I am still waiting for a proper slap to FB), and entrepreneurs are well aware of that.
But that's not how it works at all? If I watch 100s of artists cell shade something and build a normal piece of software that mimics the results I owe them absolutely nothing. I've not seen an explanation as to why this is different.
Re: Generative AI's Act Two
#50Just a bunch of hype marketing. I didn't read anything of real substance, granted I didn't read the whole thing because it seemed pointless.
Maybe it's just hype marketing, but I liked two things:
(1) The industry overview infographics. I'm not very familiar with the quickly-changing application layers of AI, so it's nice to see what are the noteworthy companies in the various slices (at least according to this particular VC), and explore some of them a bit more.
(2) I also think the retention point and related metrics are interesting, and maybe some of the metrics are hard-to-find / not very public (? not sure about that). It starkly paints the current challenge in the space.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great piece of marketing for them too.
And basically they're saying - if you can claim one of these little boxes on our infographics, and/or have solved the retention challenge, then we'll fall all over ourselves to invest in you (just like any other VC). So it's a great move on their part.