He seems to be the same kind of individual as Musk: able to bring together teams that build great things, but also able to bring about drama and ego. The whole musical chair act with profit/non-profit OpenAI, and getting rid of many of the folks that created the models they are famous for.
TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
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Re: TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no accounting for taste, but keep in mind that all of these services are currently losing money, so how much would you actually be willing to pay for the service you're currently getting in order to let it break even? There was a report that Microsoft is losing $20 for every $10 spent on Copilot subscriptions, with heavy users costing them as much as $80 per month. Assuming you're one of those heavy users, wo…
1) The costs will go down over time, much of the cost is the margin of NVIDIA and training new models 2) Absolutely. Thats like one hour of an engineer salary for a whole month.
> The costs will go down over time, much of the cost is the margin of NVIDIA and training new models
Isn't each new model bigger and heavier and thus requries more compute to train?
Re: TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
#437 trillion is absurd. The recent advancements in AI are real, but not on the order of 7T.
they will be. Looking at the rate of progress (just tried o1mini), its inevitable.
I once read that on the 80s it was believed that female runners would soon outpace male runners because the trend line for them was moving up so fast. This turned out not to be the case because the curve wasn't exponential but "S" shaped - the female runners eventually plateaued. It's easy to assume that exponential growth will continue indefinitely but it's rarely the case that this is true.
Re: TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
#44What PG see in him as a teenager to proclaim
he is 'Michael jordan of listening' or that he knew within 3 mins that sam is next bill gates.
These are actual paul graham quotes not something from Silicon Valley TV show.
Edit: to ppl responding "you should already know know paul graham is a grifter" . I don't believe is the case given his essays about meritocracy.
Re: TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
#45The current AI hype wave has really hit a nerd soft spot - that we're steps away from AGI. Surely if a computer can make plausible-looking but incorrect sentences we're days away from those sentences being factually accurate! The winter after this is gonna be harsh.
Using Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Cursor Composer already shows huge benefits for coding. I'm more productive than ever before. The models are still getting better and better. I'm not saying AGI is right around the corner or that we will reach it, but the benefits are undeniable. o1 added test-time compute. No need to be snarky.
While I get where your fascinaton comes from...
> I'm more productive than ever before.
You realize that another way to read that sentence is "I am a really bad coder".
Re: TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
#46It's ironic that Sam Altman's background is in YC, because this is the opposite of startup thinking. Instead of scrappy disruption he seems to want massive investment upfront with only vague ideas of what the technology could be used for.
The second sentence describes a lot of startups.
Re: TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would pay hundreds of dollars per month for the combination of cursor and claude - I could not get my head around it when my beginner lever colleague said "I just coded this whole thing using cursor". It was an entire web app, with search filters, tree based drag and drop GUIs, the backend api server, database migrations, auth and everything else. Not once did he need to ask me a question. When I asked him "how lon…
So what is his plan to fix all the bugs that claude hallucinated in the code ?
I'm confident you have not used Cursor Composer + Claude 3.5 Sonnet. I'd say the level of bugs is no higher than that of a typical engineer - maybe even lower.
Re: TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Using Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Cursor Composer already shows huge benefits for coding. I'm more productive than ever before. The models are still getting better and better. I'm not saying AGI is right around the corner or that we will reach it, but the benefits are undeniable. o1 added test-time compute. No need to be snarky.
There's no accounting for taste, but keep in mind that all of these services are currently losing money, so how much would you actually be willing to pay for the service you're currently getting in order to let it break even? There was a report that Microsoft is losing $20 for every $10 spent on Copilot subscriptions, with heavy users costing them as much as $80 per month. Assuming you're one of those heavy users, wo…
I would, and I don't use chatgpt as much as other people. I would pay for it for each of my employees.
Re: TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no accounting for taste, but keep in mind that all of these services are currently losing money, so how much would you actually be willing to pay for the service you're currently getting in order to let it break even? There was a report that Microsoft is losing $20 for every $10 spent on Copilot subscriptions, with heavy users costing them as much as $80 per month. Assuming you're one of those heavy users, wo…
I would pay hundreds of dollars per month for the combination of cursor and claude - I could not get my head around it when my beginner lever colleague said "I just coded this whole thing using cursor". It was an entire web app, with search filters, tree based drag and drop GUIs, the backend api server, database migrations, auth and everything else. Not once did he need to ask me a question. When I asked him "how lon…
> 20 year software engineering career is about to change
I have also been developing for 20+ years.
And have heard the exact same thing about IDEs, Search Engines, Stack Overflow, Github etc.
But in my experience at least how fast I code has never been the limiting factor in my project's success. So LLMs are nice and all but isn't going to change the industry all that much.
Re: TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
#50So many weird things going on with this. a) Given how geopolitical semiconductors and AI are right now. Why he is running around the world running his mouth seemingly without the cooperation of the US government. b) What does Microsoft have to say about OpenAI building a parallel cloud. c) OpenAI has zero competence in designing and building their own end to end stack but yet they are going to jump straight to $7T wo…
Didn't you know, according to ___ [insert favorite visionary] if you're not building an impossible moonshot you're a nothing and a nobody.