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> I advise government and enterprise on post-2020 AI like OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5, and Google’s ongoing Pathways and Gemini models. OpenAI's GPT-5 that they've

> I advise government and enterprise on post-2020 AI like OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5, and Google’s ongoing Pathways and Gemini models. OpenAI's GPT-5 that they've said they're not making yet? Does anyone actually read this guy or is this what they call puffery?

moffkalast 4y ago
Well he did say "upcoming", so it's not wrong I guess?
SanderNL 4y ago
SanderNL doesn’t know if he is just jealous, but he thinks it kind of odd to talk about one’s self on one’s own website like this: “A contributor to the fields of human intelligence and peak performance, he has held positions as chairman for Mensa International, consultant to GE and Warner Bros, and memberships with the IEEE and IET.” He doesn’t mean to degrade the guy as he doesn’t even know him. It’s just.. ah, well.
- version_five 4y ago
  It's not that weird in a professional bio. For example if you read someone's bio in journal article (some ieee articles ask you for this) it will be 3rd person. Same for of you're a speaker at a conference.
  - SanderNL 4y ago
    I know.. but at the end of every (website) article?
    - kalimanzaro 4y ago
      To each his antidepressant. He probably (rightly) thinks that these are more effective than an equivalent helping of SSRIs. When you cannot degrade him, pity him!
- walrus01 4y ago
  In my personal experience anyone that claims they have anything to do with Mensa should be avoided. It's nothing but a pay some money per year club for bragging rights to claim you're superior to other human beings.
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yieldcrv 4y ago
This article is from February, Sam saying OpenAI wasn't working on GPT-5 was April, like 3 days ago. I think these are important details. We should probably make a new rule for AI article, where the (Month Year) is posted if the article is older than a month.
rvz 4y ago
What companies say publicly, is different to what they are actually doing internally. Surely you don't believe everything that a company says straight out of their PR spin room? O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com knows that they cannot let the DALL-E 2 situation (with Stable Diffusion interrupting their rollout) happen again with the GPT releases and they have to cement their lead with another surprise announcement to throw everyone off. I'm expecting them to acquire an AI accelerator and hardware company or at least add further investment in that chosen company.
gardenhedge 4y ago
This guy's site is hilarious. 20+ testimonials about how great he is - all from 2022 onwards. Pre-2022 his books seem to be non-AI related. One of them is "Best: A practical guide to living your best life" and another is a book for gifted toddlers. An older description of him says "Dr Alan D. Thompson is a world expert in the fields of child prodigies, high performance, and personal development. " Now he is a "world expert in artificial intelligence (AI)". Looking forward to see his next world expertise.
- yieldcrv 4y ago
  counterpoint, the amount of hubris and gatekeeping in the entire AI/ML space has been a decade long setback. there is an assumption that PhD's in Machine Learning are necessary, like at all, for every single random AI startup, when that's not the case, at all. Until this year the same has been true for raising capital, since nobody could tell that off the shelf tools could be used by any junior dev to train these things but now we all know the emperor has no clothes. I'm glad that moat is getting disrupted faster than starving artists.

moffkalast 4y ago

Well he did say "upcoming", so it's not wrong I guess?

SanderNL 4y ago

SanderNL doesn’t know if he is just jealous, but he thinks it kind of odd to talk about one’s self on one’s own website like this: “A contributor to the fields of human intelligence and peak performance, he has held positions as chairman for Mensa International, consultant to GE and Warner Bros, and memberships with the IEEE and IET.” He doesn’t mean to degrade the guy as he doesn’t even know him. It’s just.. ah, well.

version_five 4y ago
It's not that weird in a professional bio. For example if you read someone's bio in journal article (some ieee articles ask you for this) it will be 3rd person. Same for of you're a speaker at a conference.
- SanderNL 4y ago
  I know.. but at the end of every (website) article?
  - kalimanzaro 4y ago
    To each his antidepressant. He probably (rightly) thinks that these are more effective than an equivalent helping of SSRIs. When you cannot degrade him, pity him!
walrus01 4y ago
In my personal experience anyone that claims they have anything to do with Mensa should be avoided. It's nothing but a pay some money per year club for bragging rights to claim you're superior to other human beings.
- deleted 4y ago
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yieldcrv 4y ago

This article is from February, Sam saying OpenAI wasn't working on GPT-5 was April, like 3 days ago. I think these are important details. We should probably make a new rule for AI article, where the (Month Year) is posted if the article is older than a month.

rvz 4y ago

What companies say publicly, is different to what they are actually doing internally. Surely you don't believe everything that a company says straight out of their PR spin room? O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com knows that they cannot let the DALL-E 2 situation (with Stable Diffusion interrupting their rollout) happen again with the GPT releases and they have to cement their lead with another surprise announcement to throw everyone off. I'm expecting them to acquire an AI accelerator and hardware company or at least add further investment in that chosen company.

gardenhedge 4y ago

This guy's site is hilarious. 20+ testimonials about how great he is - all from 2022 onwards. Pre-2022 his books seem to be non-AI related. One of them is "Best: A practical guide to living your best life" and another is a book for gifted toddlers. An older description of him says "Dr Alan D. Thompson is a world expert in the fields of child prodigies, high performance, and personal development. " Now he is a "world expert in artificial intelligence (AI)". Looking forward to see his next world expertise.

yieldcrv 4y ago
counterpoint, the amount of hubris and gatekeeping in the entire AI/ML space has been a decade long setback. there is an assumption that PhD's in Machine Learning are necessary, like at all, for every single random AI startup, when that's not the case, at all. Until this year the same has been true for raising capital, since nobody could tell that off the shelf tools could be used by any junior dev to train these things but now we all know the emperor has no clothes. I'm glad that moat is getting disrupted faster than starving artists.