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every time I see him mentioned now I just think of the first 5 seconds of the Lex Fridman interview YouTube kept pushing on me for a while where he says "Open A

every time I see him mentioned now I just think of the first 5 seconds of the Lex Fridman interview YouTube kept pushing on me for a while where he says "Open AI has been a badly mocked and misunderstood org for a long time" in a whiny voice. Naw dude, I'm not misunderstanding that you decided to rug everyone on open source AI. In 2018 I would have never predicted that in 5 years Facebook would be on the top of my list for people driving the space forward in at least a semi ethical way yet here we are. "I hate to say this, because it sounds so arrogant... " holy shit lol what an absolute tool. What has OpenAI done exactly, invent transformers and GPUs?

Davidzheng 3y ago
Is invention the only way to "do something"
- Capricorn2481 3y ago
  The thread is about innovation
gloryjulio 3y ago
Yeah, it's kinda funny Facebook is the one that released lots of stuff to the wild, not just llama
- coffeebeqn 3y ago
  I guess they don’t see it as their core business so why not win some goodwill and dilute the moats of their competitors who are more leaned into the current AI hype cycle
renewiltord 3y ago
Well, OpenAI was the first to bring fire to the masses. Until then, it was a story described behind closed doors. Google wouldn't let you touch their stuff. Meta wouldn't let you touch their stuff. But OpenAI gave us an API. They were open-access first. Now, of course, Meta and Stability have given us so much more. It's a good time!
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selimthegrim 3y ago
When they interviewed him for the New Yorker, I was posting on Facebook criticizing him about how his favorite person was Hyman Rickover, and lo and behold he was mutual friends with a college friend of mine, and added his two cents on the comment thread complaining about the characterization in the article. I reminded him that his best buddy Rickover who made plenty of enemies in his own right thought in the end that nuclear power didn’t belong outside the military for (among other reasons) precisely because of what happened at Shoreham to the backup turbine generators as documented by Greg Palast.
- bmer 3y ago
  What's this about Rickover and Shoreham? Wikipedia doesn't say much, and at least nothing in connection to Rickover? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Palast#Energy_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Palast#Energy_companies
  - selimthegrim 3y ago
    Shoreham was cancelled ostensibly due to evacuation fears, in reality the locals knew what sort of graft, corner-cutting and union crap was going on in the construction. Palast helped leak the test results of the backup generators (sorry if I said turbines). My point is that sort of shit is why Rickover thought civilian nuclear power was an oxymoron.
faeriechangling 3y ago
The man earned his ego trip.

Davidzheng 3y ago

Is invention the only way to "do something"

Capricorn2481 3y ago
The thread is about innovation

gloryjulio 3y ago

Yeah, it's kinda funny Facebook is the one that released lots of stuff to the wild, not just llama

coffeebeqn 3y ago
I guess they don’t see it as their core business so why not win some goodwill and dilute the moats of their competitors who are more leaned into the current AI hype cycle

renewiltord 3y ago

Well, OpenAI was the first to bring fire to the masses. Until then, it was a story described behind closed doors. Google wouldn't let you touch their stuff. Meta wouldn't let you touch their stuff. But OpenAI gave us an API. They were open-access first. Now, of course, Meta and Stability have given us so much more. It's a good time!

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selimthegrim 3y ago

When they interviewed him for the New Yorker, I was posting on Facebook criticizing him about how his favorite person was Hyman Rickover, and lo and behold he was mutual friends with a college friend of mine, and added his two cents on the comment thread complaining about the characterization in the article. I reminded him that his best buddy Rickover who made plenty of enemies in his own right thought in the end that nuclear power didn’t belong outside the military for (among other reasons) precisely because of what happened at Shoreham to the backup turbine generators as documented by Greg Palast.

bmer 3y ago
What's this about Rickover and Shoreham? Wikipedia doesn't say much, and at least nothing in connection to Rickover? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Palast#Energy_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Palast#Energy_companies
- selimthegrim 3y ago
  Shoreham was cancelled ostensibly due to evacuation fears, in reality the locals knew what sort of graft, corner-cutting and union crap was going on in the construction. Palast helped leak the test results of the backup generators (sorry if I said turbines). My point is that sort of shit is why Rickover thought civilian nuclear power was an oxymoron.

faeriechangling 3y ago

The man earned his ego trip.