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- ngrilly 3y ago> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. Understanding the true nature of intelligence would be a good start, and also a better fit for a company with AI in its name.
- ActualHacker 3y agoCircle that drain
- skilled 3y agoIf only Elon hadn't splurged the 40+ billion on Twitter, he could've been stacked with H100's right about now.
- gabereiser 3y agoThat’s really his beef with Zuckerberg. He’s upset he bought old tech right before new tech changed the game, now he’s stuck. Cage matches, d$ck measuring, it’s all the ego of a petulant child upset that he bought a cookie instead of cake.
- ilc 3y agoCage matches against a Gold Medalist in BJJ is a sign of stupidity unless you are trained in such things. Last I knew Elon wasn't. And yeah he's bigger, but that much skill is hard to overcome. For the cage match I'm team Zuck.
- gabereiser 3y agoAs someone who has studied martial arts and seen video of Zuck, I’m team Zuck as well. Elon, if it ever happens, will resort to illegal moves or cheap shots. If he survives zucks arm bar.
- hkatx 3y agoThe total deal was at 43 Billion. 13 billion is on twitter books. He has pledged to spend 20bills through sale of tesla stock, got a loan of 6.25bills secured by his tesla stock and ~7 bills came from other investors. His tesla stock has appreciated considerably since the acquisition and while he has pledged to refrain from selling any more stock till(I am hazy on this detail end of 2024) he can still secure a loan against his stock to purchase hardware he pleases. I recall every tesla has a gpu on board(dont recall the spec), and for their computer vision models their staff is potentially already has access to gpu's that could be dedicated to x.ai's research.
- flangola7 3y agoThe GPUs have to be in close proximity with high bandwidth connections to be useful for training.
- simondotau 3y agoPerhaps, though if Tesla's Dojo project proves successful, they wouldn't really have much need for H100s.
- petecooper 3y ago>x.ai Some historical bedtime reading for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_dom...
- choppaface 3y ago... not to be confused with X the moonshot factory? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(company) )
- eole666 3y agoAn AI made to "understand the true nature of the universe"... Not a word about physics, or mention of physicists in the team and this is led by Elon Musk, the man who think he can send persons to Mars by 2029. This looks so promising.
- option 3y agoalso a man who built monopoly on launches to space
- eole666 3y agoWell, he's a fine businessman but maybe a little bit overconfident about a lot of things
- satvikpendem 3y agoHow is it a monopoly? He made it cheap but others are also trying to compete, they're just not as good as SpaceX yet.
- Veedrac 3y agoSince SpaceX entered the market, ULA has stopped selling both its flight ready rockets with no replacement ready, Ariane has finished flying with no replacement ready, the Space Shuttle has stopped flying and its role has been replaced by SpaceX, Soyuz is no longer available for US and many other markets, China's rockets are similarly unavailable in the US, and a great many new competitors continue not to have vehicles that exist. Electron and some small number of less robust small launch players fly but compete in a market segment SpaceX abandoned in 2009. SLS exists but has zero commercial customers and will never have more. India and Japan's rockets exist but have near-zero market presence. The strongest sense in which SpaceX is not a monopoly is that other companies let you order flights on vehicles that don't exist yet, but hopefully may soon.
- satvikpendem 3y agoNone of those are the fault of SpaceX. Perhaps they simply couldn't compete with the lower prices being offered.
- dwaltrip 3y agoFor those in the know, any comments about the team? Looks impressive to my uniformed eyes.
- BryantD 3y agoHard for me to tell — the links all go to Twitter and I don’t have a Twitter account, so I can’t see what’s there.
- oska 3y agoYou can put the listed names in any search engine Here's some links I found for the 3 names I searched on Igor Babuschkin : * https://babushk.in/index.html https://babushk.in/index.html Yuhai (Tony) Wu : * https://yuhuaiwu.github.io/ https://yuhuaiwu.github.io/ * NeurIPS Chats — Yuhuai Wu: LMs for Math (Minerva) + the Future of Bootstrapping Reasoning [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4DFvgs810o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4DFvgs810o Toby Pohlen : * https://github.com/TobyPDE https://github.com/TobyPDE
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoAnyone use the original x.ai? The scheduling thing? I liked it!
- paxys 3y ago> We are actively recruiting experienced engineers and researchers to join our team as members of our technical staff in the Bay Area. It's funny that after all the talk of remote work, tech globalization and the SF/Silicon Valley exodus in the last few years (including much of it from Musk himself), we end up with pretty much all mainstream AI companies – OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia, Scale AI, Midjourney, and now this one – primarily hiring in-office in the Bay Area. The technological center of world continues to be a hundred square miles in Northern California, whether people like it or not.
- starshadowx2 3y agoMidjourney is not entirely based in SF, it's a global remote team without an in-person office.
- duxup 3y agoEspecially for startups / small orgs I think it can be critical to work closely with the first or specific employees in person as much as possible.
- esalman 3y agoMusk tried but probably couldn't make it in Texas.
- coffeebeqn 3y agoAll hat but no cattle?
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- systemvoltage 3y agoAs opposed to all needles and no high?
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- md_ 3y agoWasn't X.ai a calendar-scheduling assistant back when non-LLM-based chatbots were, like, a hot thing in the Valley? There's some fucked up irony here that their domain name probably ended up being their most valuable piece of IP, and it gets bought up by Elon Musk to tout his...whatever the fuck this is.
- alaskamiller 3y agoGood memory, x.ai indeed was a calendar bot in place of a virtual assistant before chatbots were a thing.
- satvikpendem 3y agoIndeed, it was bought then shut down. As someone also working in the scheduling space, they seemed like a competitor but it turns out their service wasn't as good as they hyped. I wonder why Elon didn't use his x.com domain though, it's still sitting there. https://www.bizzabo.com/blog/xai-sunset https://www.bizzabo.com/blog/xai-sunset
- ipsum2 3y agoFrom the page: Relation to X Corp We are a separate company from X Corp, but will work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission.
- satvikpendem 3y agoYeah but the x.com domain still doesn't have any info on it as one would expect from a marketing page.
- ipsum2 3y agoYup. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=x.ai https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=x.ai
- duxup 3y agoI can’t tell what this company does. Does anyone know?
- david927 3y agoThe goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe.
- jowea 3y agoThey found a way to make philosophy profitable?
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- gooseus 3y agoMy guess would be PR and myth-building for Elon, et al
- adoxyz 3y agoI feel like the myth-building stuff really fell apart for Elon after he exposed himself with the Twitter stuff. For a good half-decade in the 2010's he was real-life Tony Stark. Rockets, self-driving cars, clean energy, super unrealistic goals that somehow he kept delivering on despite everyone saying it's impossible, and then then since like 2018 he's just been on a downward spiral. So sad.
- npteljes 3y agoI feel the same, but PR works, and so people can change their public persona successfully.
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- kstrauser 3y agoFive years ago, I would have leapt at this. Today, there's no way I'd want to be anywhere near a Musk-based tech company.
- vippy 3y agoYeah, I'm not going anywhere near this. Musk had the world beating a path to his door, until he outed himself as a petulant man-child and a fascist.
- flangola7 3y agoI am so so so glad people are seeing this human shitbag for who he is. I've been telling people for years he is an egomaniac bastard with a cult of personality.
- SerpentJoe 3y agoHe's shown us his character as a leader so many times at this point. When he called Vern Unsworth "pedo guy", I didn't know how to square it with my image of him, so I mostly forgot about it. Took a while to realize it's who he is.
- blitz_skull 3y agoWhat makes him a fascist exactly?
- stubybubs 3y agoOh you know. Stuff like limiting voting rights to people with children. https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/elon-musk-appears-support-limiting-right-vote-parents https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/elon-musk-appea...
- lo_zamoyski 3y agoJust because you don't like the idea doesn't mean it is "fascist". I don't find using that word flippantly contributes to intellectually substantive discussion. Frankly, it is lazy. It is better to provide reasoned criticism, but that may require revisiting some assumptions you're making, and that may be uncomfortable. Most people are not especially disciplined in interpreting historical realities through the lens of the day. The result is that we form anachronistic and sloppy views of the past. Take, for example, women's suffrage. If we view the pre-suffrage US through the lens of the radical individualism we embrace today, then we more easily conclude, that 19th century America was a "woman-hating" land and all the usual polemic. But if you interpret the vote as one vote per family, then things start to look differently. The family, and not the individual, taken as the basic unit of society as has almost always been the case, with the husband/father as head and representative of his family and its good in society, becomes the natural voting entity. Maybe you don't like that, or think it needs some exceptions, but logically, this basic idea is coherent and it makes sense. Now, even if you think Musk's views deserve criticism, you can, at least, appreciate the idea, especially in light of what he's said about demographic collapse and the tendency of parents to be more future- and other-oriented--given that their children will need to live in that future--than atomized individuals, who have a greater tendency to live only in a self-indulgent now (celebrated, unsurprisingly, by New Age). You can expect parents with children to vote in ways that prioritize long-term good in a way that atomized individuals would not. It's harder to not give a shit about where things are headed when you have children. It's important not to let your sensibilities and biases get in the way of the truth, or to confuse sensibilities with reason.
- nimbius 3y ago"Our team is led by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX." the same Elon Musk who dropped 44bn on Twitter and fought like a child to weasel out of the sale for almost six months? You mean that same sink-dragging guy who fired everyone once he took over at Twitter, locked everyone out of the office, and unbanned Andrew Tate and Kanye West? People still let this guy "lead" anything?
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- flangola7 3y agoThere is no way this question is in good faith. The reasons are abundantly clear, and even if this was somehow true ignorance, a single google search will answer it.
- lambdaba 3y agoYeah it is. I was specifically asking if the poster knew the details because I didn't. It's just that I suspect that many don't.
- almost 3y agoBullshit
- jrflowers 3y agoI like that you’re familiar enough with Andrew Tate that you feel it necessary to point out that you’re not a “supporter” but not familiar enough with him that you need strangers on HN to explain him to you.
- lambdaba 3y agoI'm familiar enough with Tate to not be interested in him, but I don't know enough about him why he is such a disaster to have on Twitter. There are many such people, so I'm asking if you know why exactly he was banned and why we should be kept off. Beyond that you don't like him, which I don't either, that's not the point.
- haswell 3y agoIt has been the collective goal of the many fields of science, throughout the history of humankind, to understand the true nature of the universe. There's something that feels incredibly ostentatious about the opening sentence "The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe.". Not because I think it's a bad goal, or a goal that no company can claim, but because of the broader context around AI and Musk's antics. I'm genuinely curious to see what comes out of this, but it also gives me the same queasy feeling in my gut that I got when looking at various crypto initiatives over the years. I don't doubt that there are incredibly smart people getting involved. It's just a bit difficult to take it seriously. I hope to be proven wrong.
- jrm4 3y agoEh, I'm comfortable taking this further and dismissing it out of hand. This looks like a scam. Not the typical regular person type of scam, but the kind specifically targeted to "wealthy Silicon Valley idiot."
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- madmaxmcfly 3y agoI was going to say, this seems more like a Super PAC to fund his other "hobbies".
- civilitty 3y agoThey've even got a disclosure on the front page. > We are a separate company from X Corp, but will work closely with X (Twitter), Tesla, and other companies to make progress towards our mission. You know, just in case any investors decide to sue afterwards based on misrepresentation.
- burkaman 3y agoThat's obviously straight from Elon. He said he bought Twitter to help humanity and started SpaceX to protect the light of consciousness.
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- paxys 3y ago> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. Who wants to bet it's going to end up launching a "me too" generative AI product. Maybe Musk should first take these skills to Tesla's self driving division then worry about the rest of the universe.
- md_ 3y agoMy money is on shipping the OpenAI API, wrapped with a prompt like, "Below is a conversation between an intelligent AI assistant which deeply understands the true nature of the universe, and a human."
- caeril 3y agoThe OpenAI API is slightly less constrained than the ChatGPT interface, but it still has plenty of guardrails, regardless of what you put in the system prompt.
- machdiamonds 3y agoI would bet on this not happening.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Who wants to bet it's going to end up launching a "me too" generative AI product. You mean after Musk explicitly, piblicly said that’s what he was going to do, and make it anti-woke as its main differentiating feature? Pretty good bet.
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- 4gotunameagain 3y ago> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. That is.. a bit vague ? What is the purpose, and what does it have to do with AI ? Why launch such a teaser without announcing the (actual) goal ? They cannot really think that they will be able to understand "the true nature of the universe" ?
- md_ 3y ago> Why launch such a teaser without announcing the (actual) goal ? We're talking about it, right? Musk has all the money in the world, but it seems to me that what he really wants, if he cannot have your love and respect, is your attention.
- erlend_sh 3y agoI count a dozen dudes. I don’t think we’re gonna figure out the true nature of the universe via that kind of monocultural uniformity.
- fassssst 3y agoThat was my first thought too. That’s a lot of dudes!
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- systemvoltage 3y agoHaha, just read all the comments here to get an idea of intellectual diversity.
- saagarjha 3y agoPosting flamebait and then editing your post to goad people into downvoting it for being flamebait so you can cry about Hacker News trying to silence you is intellectually dishonest.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoI was downvoted first, and then edited it. Way I see it, what I responded to is flamebait, and what I said it common sense. I think it says a lot you're trying to spin it the other way around. No, no one wants to get his comment downvoted and cry about it. That's an assinine misrepresentation. But what could I expect from the permanently offended brigade.
- saagarjha 3y agoSeems pretty familiar to me. First you post something that you want to say and hope people agree with it. They don't, so you then put something on the end like "the woke liberals disagree with this". Obviously this just makes everyone upset, both the actual woke liberals and people who are not woke liberals but don't care for this kind of drivel, and they downvote you even harder. Then you can point at your comment and now go "I was going to speak something profound but the woke liberals brigaded it. Obviously it would be upvoted if they didn't come here and target me!"
- satvikpendem 3y agoWell, hopefully it doesn't go the same way as "Open"AI, also started by Elon.
- chasing 3y agoWhat Musk needs to do is fund smart people to do interesting stuff and then get out of the way. If that's what this is, great. If it's just another opportunity for him to do something high-profile and half-baked to massage his weirdly fragile ego: Ugh.
- paxys 3y ago> What Musk needs to do is fund smart people to do interesting stuff and then get out of the way. So, OpenAI? The problem is always that his ego gets in the way. He wants to be recognized as the messianic figure behind AI, but the ship is sailing ahead without him. Hence all the new efforts (Tesla AI robot, XAI) and grandiose promises ("understanding the nature of the universe").
- buildbot 3y agoUnless I am missing something, the current company is literally 100% men - not unexpected given Musk's alleged chauvinism: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/12/09/elon-musk-sexism-row-ex-twitter-staff-say-women-targeted-layoffs/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/12/09/elon-musk-se...
- ipsum2 3y agoAnd yet he hires women to be CEOs at SpaceX and Twitter. Maybe it's not a gender thing?
- mpalmer 3y ago> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. "and if we make a few bucks along the way, hey, mission accomplished."
- kklisura 3y agoHuh. I thought _understanding universe_ would require research in quantum mechanics, string theory, astrophysics… you know - physics. Not _AI_.
- cma 3y agoAI may start contributing new math and science fairly soon.
- kklisura 3y agoSure, but are we at the point where science is now just a "data problem", as in: we have a lot of data we can't interpret, so we need AI help there? I honestly don't know, but would guess that that's not the case.
- jimlongton 3y agoThe people who could instruct such AI and evaluate its outputs would be domain experts. Without them how would you even start to approach those problems?
- cma 3y agoHave you looked at the papers and C.V.s of the people on the front page of x.ai? Many have already worked on machine guided proofs and I see people with pure math and physics backgrounds.
- pms 3y agoFormal verification research is conducted since 30+ years and LLMs aren't really good at math and logic, so based on what grounds can we expect a breakthrough in machine guided proofs anytime soon?
- cma 3y agoVarious recent math olympiad results from deep mind and openai. I think we'll see something analogous to the classification of the finite simple groups collaboration, but where some core researchers will do several proofs in the area to show it the kinds of things needed and it can help fill in others. Things where there is a large volume of similar work to be done.
- nabla9 3y agoXAI : because understanding driving was too easy.
- rcarmo 3y agoI wonder if this can understand Twitter. I'm also curious as to how it can possibly "even out" his portfolio even as it tanks in value, and how he got those folk to join up at this stage...
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- uoaei 3y ago"The true nature of the universe" is either about cosmology or it's (wrongly) about ontology/metaphysics. Both seem like interesting pursuits. Fitting cosmological models to massive datasets from astonomical observations seems laudable and not entirely out of reach (one approach: space- and time-localized NeRF fitting on the entire visible universe accounting for relativistic effects). It would be strange to describe discovering ontologies as learning the "true nature" of things unless you were a hardcore idealist/Platonist, but that seems more appropriate given the starting points afforded by the current state of the field and the hype that surrounds LLMs.
- PeterStuer 3y agoI remember grasping the 'true nature of the universe' some night in a bar called 'the professor' in the late 80's. No, I'm not joking or being sarcastic. I wasn't on any substances besides a mild dose of alcohol. I just whish I could remember/ relive it rather than the tenuous grip of that moment I still preserve.
- bo1024 3y ago> And then one day, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl, sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realised what it was that had been going wrong all this time and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no-one would have to get nalied to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass and so the idea was lost forever.
- PeterStuer 3y agoSure dude. To be explicit. I'm not claiming what I felt/experienced was 'the thruth' or even 'real'. Just think it was for me the most 'clear' vision in my life, and that I feel a mild sadness it was so fleeting.
- bo1024 3y agoDidn't mean to be negative toward you, it just reminded me strongly of that passage. Later (in a sequel?) the girl is introduced and she refers to the memory of that moment in a similar way.
- PeterStuer 3y agoMy appology. I shouldn't have read ill intent in your quote.
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- blitz_skull 3y agoI just want to see a definition of done. What the hell does it even mean to “understand the true nature of the universe”? What makes us think we can understand it? How would we know if we could or could not?
- jackmott42 3y agoI would guess it means trying to use AI to come up with an overfit grand unifying theory of physics.
- seydor 3y ago"understanding" is a human invention. we just want to have a model of the external world (if it exists) that makes us feel satisfied. we re basically looking to fool ourselves
- wilg 3y agoThere's something amazingly Silicon Valley of asking for the "definition of done" of understanding the universe.
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- paddw 3y agox.ai/api/v1/answer "returns 42"
- smrtinsert 3y agoThe question is whether they will start quitting once he asks them to guarantee his "freedom of speech" in the inferences.
- seydor 3y agothere is no moat
- systemvoltage 3y agoThat’s why we start companies to build a moat.
- jimlongton 3y agoSmart businesses use the government to build a moat for them. [1] [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65616866 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65616866
- systemvoltage 3y agoDefinitely
- efields 3y ago> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. … and then what?
- atleta 3y ago> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. That's kind of what the whole natural sciences community is doing. Like that is one way to define what natural sciences are about. That's basically the biggest goal anyone could mention. Like your cliche "world peace" answer that no beauty contestant ever says any more.
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- miqueturner 3y agoWhy are there no women involved? (Please not trolling, I am curious.)
- tootie 3y agoMaybe unrelated but Musk is boosting a Tucker Carlson interview with Andrew Tate on his other thing right now.
- npteljes 3y agoMy guess is that since Musk doesn't like "woke" too much (example in AI context here https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1603836383885332480 https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1603836383885332480), they don't do the "corporate diversity" thing where they try to evenly include different people in the PR shots. As to why women never made into the team organically, I have no idea specifically. I experienced that in tech, women to men ratio is around 1:10, so if there isn't even a single one in a group of dozen isn't suspicious to me.
- jchw 3y agoNot really sure why this stands out to so many people. I believe the percentage of programmers who are women is something like 5-8%. Even being kind of generous, out of 12 people that would still not make an entire person. Demographics might differ for AI researchers or other STEM fields adjacent but in general it seems odd to be surprised when it's literally how things have been for at least decades. Not saying this is a good thing, that I know why it is like this, or what should be done if anything, I have no idea. But why act surprised? The gender ratio is super off balance for a lot of jobs. My career isn't that long but across four jobs, as far as I can remember, the ratio has remained about as skewed as publicly available metrics suggest it would be, not that I personally pay all that much attention.
- kstrauser 3y agoFor me, it’s because the idea of “understanding the true nature” of anything, with no perspective from half the planet’s population, is ludicrous.
- Giorgi 3y agoyeah, I am going with Musk's another FoMO, which he abandons as soon as a trend slowly fades away, anyone remember doge coin? yeah, exactly.
- topspin 3y ago> anyone remember doge coin $9.17b market cap and traded $148m today. Been trading in a stable range for the last year. I'm not involved with it, but since you cited it as if it were some lost artifact of history I thought I'd look it up.
- stillsut 3y ago> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. People are misinterpreting this as the research goal. No, it's an implicit negation of an ethos - AI Ethics, Trust & Safety, ESG, Politically Correct - that have dominated decision making in product and hiring in tech for the past decade. Whether or not you agree with him, it's hard to deny that Musk is the only one offering researchers an escape from the bowing to the orthodoxy while also offering an A+ pedigree institution.
- sterlind 3y agoare the researchers allowed to disagree with Musk? if the supposedly-objective AI they produce contradicts Musk's views, will he accept that he's wrong? or will he call it a bug, or pressure his researchers into training it to support his ideologies? in short: do you really believe this is Musk producing an objective truth-aligned AI and not just a Musk-aligned AI?
- andreygrehov 3y agoWhat makes you believe that one cannot disagree with Musk?
- sterlind 3y agohis conduct at Twitter, primarily, as he rapidly abandoned his promises of free-speech absolutism and started to micromanage its moderation to benefit himself.
- andreygrehov 3y ago> he rapidly abandoned his promises of free-speech Hm, I don't think that's true. How does that manifest itself? > started to micromanage its moderation to benefit himself Has anyone been banned from the platform? + we are talking about Twitter, right? Elon uses Twitter for fun, it's pretty obvious from many of his troll tweets. Do you have any evidence that people cannot disagree with him when working directly in a professional environment (eg office, zoom call, etc)?
- meetpateltech 3y ago12 July 2023 = 12+7+23 = 42 42 is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
- machdiamonds 3y agoRelated: https://youtu.be/dEv99vxKjVI?t=1909 https://youtu.be/dEv99vxKjVI?t=1909
- wslh 3y agoThe question I have is how this technology will do the physical experiments to test hypotheses. Because it is not enough with the theory.
- agnosticmantis 3y ago> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. Genuinely curious: Does anybody take this stuff seriously? I just feel embarrassed to be working in tech (in Silicon Valley of all places), being associated with these charlatan clowns peddling nonsense like this and being praised for it.
- harisec 3y agoSame here, this is ridiculous
- pms 3y agoIn AI research, the acronym XAI stands for eXplainable AI [1]. To understand anything about the universe, AI will need to (i) make accurate predictions about some parts of the universe and (ii) explain the laws and the models it used to make these predictions, just like natural sciences do [2]. I believe eXplainable AI can get us there one day. However, I'm surprised that, despite it's name, xAI doesn't mention eXplainable AI and the team doesn't seem to have experience in eXplainable AI, which makes me think it's just another deep-learning AI venture. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explainable_artificial_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explainable_artificial_intelli... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
- _han 3y agoI'm curious as to how this 3-letter Twitter handle was heisted.
- EamonnMR 3y agoI wonder if the 'true nature of the universe' refers to the simulation hypothesis? There's a belief in some circles that a sufficiently powerful AGI would be able to 'hack the simulation.'