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I am a bit worried by the various immodest public statements Sam has made in the last few days. A bit more gravitas would be welcome.
by pyb 4y ago
I am a bit worried by the various immodest public statements Sam has made in the last few days. A bit more gravitas would be welcome.
- sfjailbird 4y agoIs he even a 'founder'? As I remember he joined OpenAI as CEO relatively late.
- pyb 4y agoYes, I was referring, among other things, to a recent tweet where he calls OpenAI "his" startup. Some of his coworkers may find that irksome, as he was not there when GPT2 was released. (If I understand correctly)
- mshake2 4y agoNot to mention, the GPT paper comes from Google[0]. His part in this seems very very small. 0. https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-neural-network.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-neural-n...
- pyb 4y agoOk, but I think the transition from Transformers to GPT took a lot of hard work and insight, and the OpenAI research team deserves ample credit for it.
- mshake2 4y agoSure, the research teams involved. I only bring up Google because it's ironic Sam is shitting on them for the tech they shared with everyone and made OpenAI possible.
- bbor 4y agoCurious about your choice of “worried”. Are you rooting for openai? I love chatgpt and dalle but now that they’re effectively a Microsoft subsidiary I’m not empathizing with them in the slightest. Plus Sam has kinda always been like that, no?
- pyb 4y agoWorried in the sense that their products have the potential to be harmful. But yes, otherwise I am rooting for OpenAI. Why not? I don't have a horse in this race.
- bbor 4y agoFair thanks for the response! I guess deep down I kinda am, too. I don’t want to because I find Mr. Altman to be a particularly loathsome capitalist executive, but gosh they’ve just been so exciting the past year or two.
- sidibe 4y agoSimilar to another OpenAI founder who mistakenly thinks his other company's AI is flying by stodgy old Google for the last 7 years.