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Re: OpenAI API

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Post by chabad360 »

jorgemf wrote: post #45
mcrider wrote: post #25

Whoa -- Speech to bash commands? That's a pretty novel idea to me with my limited awareness of NLP. I could see this same idea in a lot of technical applications -- Provisioning cloud infrastructure, creating a database query.. Very cool!

It is not a novel idea and I don't think it is practical. If the natural language was practical for bash we would already have already "list directory" instead of "ls" and so on. "ls" is just 3 keystrokes while the natural language option is 15, 5 times more.

It could be useful for learning tho (but at that point it could also become a crutch).

Re: OpenAI API

#52

Post by chillee »

kamikazehosaki wrote: post #49

OpenAI seems like a completely disingenuous organization. They have some of the best talent in Machine Learning, but the leadership seems completely clueless. 1) (on cluelessness) If Sama/GDB were as smart as they claim to be, would they not have realized it is impossible to run a non profit research lab which is effectively trying "to compete" with DeepMind. 2) (on disingenuity) The original openAI charter made Open…

Why is it "impossible"? Academic labs are non-profit, and they are also effectively trying "to compete" with DeepMind.

Re: OpenAI API

#53

Post by gobengo »

eggsnbacon1 wrote: post #47

OpenAI started as a non-profit, went for-profit. Still owned by the big players.... Something isn't right. Is OpenAI just a submarine so the tech giants can do unethical research without taking blame??? Its textbook misdirection, nonprofit and "Open" in the name, hero-esque mission statement. How do you make the mental leap from "we're non-profit and we won't release things too dangerous" to "JK we're for-profit and…

It looks like a similar organizational structure as Mozilla Foundation + Mozilla Corporation.

Re: OpenAI API

#54

Post by kredd »

jorgemf wrote: post #45
mcrider wrote: post #25

Whoa -- Speech to bash commands? That's a pretty novel idea to me with my limited awareness of NLP. I could see this same idea in a lot of technical applications -- Provisioning cloud infrastructure, creating a database query.. Very cool!

It is not a novel idea and I don't think it is practical. If the natural language was practical for bash we would already have already "list directory" instead of "ls" and so on. "ls" is just 3 keystrokes while the natural language option is 15, 5 times more.

I was imagining more of a "list of files that contain word "hello" in them at least 5 times". Would be useful to easily write longer and pipe-chained commands, especially for people that don't use bash-like scripting on a daily basis.

Re: OpenAI API

#55

Post by ape4 »

eggsnbacon1 wrote: post #47

OpenAI started as a non-profit, went for-profit. Still owned by the big players.... Something isn't right. Is OpenAI just a submarine so the tech giants can do unethical research without taking blame??? Its textbook misdirection, nonprofit and "Open" in the name, hero-esque mission statement. How do you make the mental leap from "we're non-profit and we won't release things too dangerous" to "JK we're for-profit and…

If that's the case, they need to change they're name.

Re: OpenAI API

#56

Post by dna_polymerase »

chillee wrote: post #52
kamikazehosaki wrote: post #49

OpenAI seems like a completely disingenuous organization. They have some of the best talent in Machine Learning, but the leadership seems completely clueless. 1) (on cluelessness) If Sama/GDB were as smart as they claim to be, would they not have realized it is impossible to run a non profit research lab which is effectively trying "to compete" with DeepMind. 2) (on disingenuity) The original openAI charter made Open…

Why is it "impossible"? Academic labs are non-profit, and they are also effectively trying "to compete" with DeepMind.

Have a look at this discussion and the article from earlier today [0]. Of course, a singular lab could compete with something DeepMind does, but not without massive amounts of money in their pockets. The state of the art has become pretty expensive, really fast.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23486163

Re: OpenAI API

#57

Post by dreamer7 »

jorgemf wrote: post #45
mcrider wrote: post #25

Whoa -- Speech to bash commands? That's a pretty novel idea to me with my limited awareness of NLP. I could see this same idea in a lot of technical applications -- Provisioning cloud infrastructure, creating a database query.. Very cool!

It is not a novel idea and I don't think it is practical. If the natural language was practical for bash we would already have already "list directory" instead of "ls" and so on. "ls" is just 3 keystrokes while the natural language option is 15, 5 times more.

But the character length would matter less when you can move to the speech domain.

ls is 2 syllables list dir is also 2 syllables with more meaning.

Ultimately, with natural language, the effectiveness seems to be when it is coupled with speech-to-text

Re: OpenAI API

#58

Post by spookyuser »

typon wrote: post #30

This is incredible. I can't tell how much this is cherry-picked examples vs. revolutionary new tech.

Yeah I can't tell exactly which ones but I really feel like some of the OpenAI demos of products could be potentially huge if fleshed out.

Re: OpenAI API

#60

Post by azinman2 »

wildermuthn wrote: post #36

In one of their examples, they note “They saw ratings hover around 60% with their original, in-house tech — this improved by 7-8% with GPT-2 — and is now in the 80-90% range with the API.” Bloomberg reports the API is based on GPT-3 and “other language models”. If that’s true, this is a big deal, and it epitomizes OpenAI’s namesake. The largest NLP models require vast corporate resources to train, let alone put into…

It's only Open™️ if I can run the API on my own machines.
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