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Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI

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Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI

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Post by andy_ppp »

ska wrote: post #345
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #282

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It was good in the 00s but now it’s rickety and antiquated and the GPU acceleration was never implemented correctly. Figma could build an illustrator killer in 6 months if they wanted to and it would be obliterated. If they actually tackled this task people would be kicking themselves for putting up with the shambles that is illustrator for this long.

> Figma could build an illustrator killer in 6 months if they wanted to and it would be obliterated Statements like this are almost always wrong, if for no other reason that a technically superior alternative is rarely compelling enough by itself. It that weren’t the case you would see it happen far more often…

Well that wasn’t true when Figma just completely replaced Sketch. The sharing features and realtime multiuser interface is worth a lot to people.

Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI

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Post by yunwal »

Certhas wrote: post #382
monero-xmr wrote: post #351

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I’ve been in crypto since 2010 and HN hasn’t predicted anything. At least with AI the congnoscenti here is on board. With crypto / blockchain the current plan is to pretend it doesn’t exist and never speak of it, as the industry never imploded as was long predicted.

Meh. Crypto is still a waste of resources that had no reason to exist. The modern art market hasn't crashed yet either, and homoeopathy is booming, too last I checked. Just because it's stupid and useless doesn't mean you can't sell it. (And if you underestimate the possibility of selling useless things, you end up incorrectly predicting the demise of the market a lot.) Not wanting to be part of that is just having s…

Homeopathy has a long history of contributing to modern medicine. Read the WHO’s article about it: https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/traditi...

There are definitely still homeopathic treatments that work, but have not received the investment necessary to go through clinical trials (or haven’t caught on due to lack of recognition from insurance companies).

Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI

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Post by yunwal »

MyFirstSass wrote: post #318
samstave wrote: post #312

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> Many/most of the GenAI companies have interesting ideas but no real business plan - This is most likely the reason being the SAMA firing, to be able to re-align to the MIC without terrible consequence, from a PR perspective. no criticism here aside from the fact that we will see the AI killer fully autonomous robots will be here and unfettered by 'alignments' much sooner than we expected... And the MIC is where all…

> no criticism here aside from the fact that we will see the AI killer fully autonomous robots will be here and unfettered by 'alignments' much sooner than we expected... What exactly do you mean with this sentence? That less woke/regulated companies will suddenly leapfrog the giants now? What timeframe are we talking here? And do you mean for example non public mil applications from US/China or whatever or private m…

I don’t think the bottleneck is the talent pool. There are plenty of folks smart enough to do what OpenAI did, the question is, did they have enough access to capital?

Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI

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Post by trickstra »

anonylizard wrote: post #97
trickstra wrote: post #92

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Well, that means his replacement will be a money shark, enshittyfying Stability AI for higher profits.

There's nothing to enshitify, their models were open sourced. Now they may no longer release future models for free, but its entitlement to think we'll just get free improvements forever. Also not all CEO replacements turn out bad. Uber certainly has turned itself around.

What I'm saying is that if it's really true that he is going out because "the people that matter don't think Emad was going to be able to turn it around" then it's very likely that the replacement will be more able to turn it around, because that will be the selection criteria.

Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI

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Post by stolsvik »

spxneo wrote: post #105
tymscar wrote: post #69

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Not twitter but here he is talking about that: https://youtu.be/BdZo4JUBSQk

You know it never ceases to amaze me how even the most respected fall prey to this money laundering scheme. If people even spent some time to read about Tether they would not touch this stuff. It's blood money.

You should probably post some citations to that. Tether most probably have backing for every single dollar they have, and then plenty more. What about it is “blood money”?

Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI

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Post by ska »

andy_ppp wrote: post #421
ska wrote: post #345

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> Figma could build an illustrator killer in 6 months if they wanted to and it would be obliterated Statements like this are almost always wrong, if for no other reason that a technically superior alternative is rarely compelling enough by itself. It that weren’t the case you would see it happen far more often…

Well that wasn’t true when Figma just completely replaced Sketch. The sharing features and realtime multiuser interface is worth a lot to people.

That’s a different scenario: could a system be built to eat X’s lunch.

The scenario I was calling out is more: Company A is great at X, so clearly that technology could be used to easily be great at Y, and doom company B in 6 months. The problem with that thinking is that often the technology is the easy part (and sometimes superficial similarity, also).

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Post by sigmoid10 »

mirekrusin wrote: post #343
ajb wrote: post #277

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Openai had a more distributable algorithm: https://openai.com/research/evolution-strategies But given that they don't seem to have worked on it since, I guess it wasn't too successful. But maybe there is a way

Yes, if there was something interesting there you'd think since 2017 something would happen. Reinforcement Learning (that is compared with) is not particularly famous for its performance (it is it's biggest issue and reason for not being used that much). Also transformers don't use it at all.

OpenAI has turned for profit and stopped releasing any tehcnical details regarding architectures or training. So how do you know that nothing has happened? Because they didn't release it? Do you see the issue here?

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Post by sigmoid10 »

mirekrusin wrote: post #341
sigmoid10 wrote: post #244

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Your gradient descent is an operation on a directed acyclic graph. The graph itself is stateless. You can do parts of the graph without needing to have access to the entire graph, particularly for transformers. In fact this is already done today for training and inference of large models. The transfer bottleneck is for currently used model sizes and architectures. There's nothing to stop you from building a model so…

Your DAG is big. It's stateless for single pass. Next one doesn't operate on it anymore, it operates on new, updated one from previous step. It has fully connected sub DAGs. There is nothing stopping you from distributing assembly/machine code for CPU instructions, yet nobody does it because it doesn't make sense from performance perspective. Or amazon driving truck from one depo to other to unload one package at a t…

Remember the famouse Tannenbaum quote:

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

It's only a question of scale and not of any principles.

Re: Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI

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Post by abvdasker »

rvz wrote: post #10

Looks like many AI startups are experiencing a bit of some turbulence and chaos in the recent months: First the OpenAI rebellion in November, then the Inflection AI acqui-hire from Microsoft not willing to pay the over-valued $4B and deflected that to $600M instead (after making $0 revenue) and now a bit of in-stability at Stability AI with the CEO resigning after many employees leaving. What does that say about the…

The big companies fighting to win gen AI have forgotten how to build good products. There seems to be enormous confusion about AI applications — few seem to be willing to commit to a singular focus or application, instead trying to be everything to everyone. The tried and true way to build something big is to bootstrap a killer app that solves a real problem and then expand horizontally to other problem spaces. These companies are trying to do too much too soon (probably because they have too few financial constraints). A lack of focus.
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