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Re: Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

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That seems to be changing. I've seen an uptick in criticism against the usa for unnecessarily (according to top military advisors, experts, generals etc at the time) dropping the atom bomb on Japan for example.

Absolutely. The bombing of Dresden has been viewed as a mistake - verging on a war crime - in Britain for the last 20 or so years.

By some people - that's certainly not a universal view.

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Here is a thought experiment for you. First think of the people you trust the most in this world, then imagine if they stopped speaking about whats on their mind with you. Would your trust in them increase or decrease?

They don't say nearly everything they think; nobody does.

Question is...Would your trust for them increase or decrease if they started speaking less openly?

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We've been struggling with costs because our application chains together multiple calls to GPT to generate the output we want, and it was starting to be ~$0.08 per call which obviously isn't feasible for high volume applications. This just made our business way more viable overnight lmao

lmao?

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Do you have any recently updated examples, blog posts, whatever showing that DALLE is worse than modern stable diffusion? I was still under the impression that DALLE was better (with better meaning the images are more likely to be what you asked for, more lifelike, more realistic, not necessarily artistically pleasing), with the downside of it being locked away and somewhat expensive. And my understanding is that sta…

> I was still under the impression that DALLE was better (with better meaning the images are more likely to be what you asked for, more lifelike, more realistic, not necessarily artistically pleasing), “Artistically pleasing” is often what people ask for. > with the downside of it being locked away and somewhat expensive. Those are enormous downsides. Even if DALL-E was better in some broadly relevant ways in the bas…

I don’t disagree about the downside of DALL-E being locked away and expensive. It’s been exciting to see the Cambrian explosion of improvement to stable diffusion since its initial release. This is how AI research should be done and it’s sad that “Open AI” is not actually open.

That being said, for a business use cases, where I want to give it a simple prompt and have a high chance of getting a good usable result, it’s not clear to me that stable diffusion is there yet. Many of the most exciting SD community results seem to be in anime and porn, which can be a bit hard to follow. I guess the use cases that I’m excited about are things like logo generators, blog post image generators, product image thumbnail generators for e-commerce, industrial design, etc.

But please prove me wrong! I’m excited for SD to be the state of the art, it’s definitely better in the long term that’s it’s so accessible. I‘m sure a good guide or blog post about what’s new in stable diffusion outside of anime generation would be an interesting read.

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Yeah that is actually true. Yeah that’s probably truest. But I’m more scared for some than others short term. I’m less immediately scared for anyone doing work that interacts with the physical world. Weird how it turned out the robotics was harder than the thinking

Yes, short term agreed. AI has flipped on its head much of what we thought early AI would be like with creativity being one of its most successful targets. I suspect the surprises will only continue to be, lets say, more surprising. I've actually written a lot about that recently as well. FYI https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things

Will check this out!

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We have got to find a word for plans that are plainly harmful yet advantageous to their executors that's more descriptive than "smart..."

Uberly?

I prefer Webvan-esque. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan:

> The company's investors pressured it to grow very fast to obtain first-mover advantage. This rapid growth was cited as one of the reasons for the downfall of the company.

IMO, selling at a loss to gain market share only makes sense if there are network effects that lead to a winner-takes-all situation. Of which there are some for ChatGPT (training data when people press the thumbs up/down buttons), but is that sufficient?

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Yeah we're in an AI landgrab right now where at- or below-cost pricing is buying marketshare, lock-in, and underdevelopment of competitors. Smart move for them to pour money into it.

We have got to find a word for plans that are plainly harmful yet advantageous to their executors that's more descriptive than "smart..."

Economists call this price dumping
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