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Noam Shazeer was one of the lead authors of the seminal paper "Attention Is All You Need", which introduced the transformer architecture. (From Wikipedia)
This understates his criticality. The author list was randomized, but the critical idea was truly his. Wonder what this says about GDM …
https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1u8xc9m/most_l... Seems like there are some insights here! edit: it seems the post has been removed but comments are viewable. 1 liner summary: To put it lightly, the dude was politically outspoken and held strong beliefs.
Its getting pretty lame that we talk about the these guys like they're football players transferring teams.
Its getting pretty lame that we talk about the these guys like they're football players transferring teams.
It could be the opposite. Those are really useful people, they deserve this more than football players
What they're working on is just making peoples jobs, skills obsolete and trying to invent machines that will concentrate the worlds wealth into the hands of the people who own those machines.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
money. but it eventually runs out
A little IPO is the solution. Don't we all want to (automatically) and passively invest in a company losing billions of dollars ? At least we can diversify our portfolio from SpaceX.
Its getting pretty lame that we talk about the these guys like they're football players transferring teams.
I hope this doesn't impact Google's progress on open models.
Is Shazeer known to be opposed to open-weight releases?
I wouldn't expect OpenAI to start releasing open weight competitive models again, but I could be wrong.