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OpenAI's plans according to sama

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Re: OpenAI's plans according to sama

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"Cooperate or we'll kill your family". (Just to be clear, this is a hypothetical intelligence agent saying this, not me.) I mean, it's not exactly rocket science, who wouldn't instantly fold to that?

Someone without family?

You know the next step, right?

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Nice to see they are working on reducing the pricing. GPT-4 is just too expensive right now imo. A long conversation would quickly end up costing tens of dollars if not more, so less expensive model costs + stateful API is urgently needed. I think even OpenAI will actually gain a lot by reducing the pricing, right now I wouldn't be surprised if many uses of GPT-4 weren't viable just because of the costs.

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>Dedicated capacity offering is limited by GPU availability. OpenAI also offers dedicated capacity, which provides customers with a private copy of the model. To access this service, customers must be willing to commit to a $100k spend upfront. How many shell corporations are intelligence agencies seeding right now?

I had been putting theories in comments but they kept getting flagged or banned or downvoted to oblivion, but maybe its time has come. I'll keep it tame. If you are curious you can google connections of OpenAI board of directors, Will Hurd, In-Q-Tel trustees, Allen and Company, etc. There is more but whatever. The conspiracy theory is that 'the govt stepped in' during the six month pause after gpt-4 was trained and before it was released.

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I never know if I have an inside scoop or an outside scoop. Has Hyena not addressed the scaling of context length [1]? I know this version is barely a month old but it was shared to me by a non-engineer the week it came out. Still, giving interviews where the person takes away that the main limitation is context length and requires a big breakthrough that already happened makes me seriously question whether or not he…

As someone who is in the field: papers proposing to solve the context length problem come out every month. Almost none of the solutions stick or work as well as a dense or mostly dense model. You'll know when the problem is solved when model after consistently use a method. Until then (and especially if you're not in the field as a researcher), assume that every paper claiming to tackle context length is simply a nic…

What about Meta’s megabyte? Also nice proposal?

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yes i also can't wrap my head around how a ceo of a billion dollar company isn't sincere in his public statements

Really? Even after saying this? "While Sam is calling for regulation of future models, he didn’t think existing models were dangerous and thought it would be a big mistake to regulate or ban them."

Why couldn’t that be true? E.g. even scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project (justifiably) had antipathy toward the much more powerful hydrogen bomb.

It’s possible to think squirt guns shouldn’t be regulated but AR-15s should, or AR-15s shouldn’t but cruise missiles should. Or driving at 25mph should be allowed but driving 125mph shouldn’t.

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I love the tongue-in-cheek paradox myth that the Bitcoin whitepaper was written by a future god-AI to increase demand for GPUs (and thus boost supply) so we are able to assemble the future god-AI.

> I love the tongue-in-cheek paradox myth that the Bitcoin whitepaper was written by a future god-AI to increase demand for GPUs (and thus boost supply) so we are able to assemble the future god-AI. I know it's a joke, but the hole is the god-AI couldn't have been that smart, since cryptocurrency-mining quickly switched to ASICs, which muting the demand increase for GPUs.

But not before ramping up development and production of GPUs.

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> OpenAI will avoid competing with their customers — other than with ChatGPT. Quite a few developers said they were nervous about building with the OpenAI APIs when OpenAI might end up releasing products that are competitive to them. Sam said that OpenAI would not release more products beyond ChatGPT. He said there was a history of great platform companies having a killer app and that ChatGPT would allow them to make the APIs better by being customers of their own product. The vision for ChatGPT is to be a super smart assistant for work but there will be a lot of other GPT use-cases that OpenAI won’t touch.

Can anyone elaborate on this? This is a big issue for me.

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