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The whole situation should make it clear that SV media is beholden to VCs and will print anything they tell them to. Bloomberg, the verge and the information a
by tempusalaria 3y ago
The whole situation should make it clear that SV media is beholden to VCs and will print anything they tell them to.
Bloomberg, the verge and the information all went to bat for Altman in a big way on this.
- zaptheimpaler 3y agoYou could say the same thing if they were rooting for the board instead..
- tempusalaria 3y agoIt’s not the job of the media to root for anyone. The media should dispassionately report the truth. In this case they did not do so.
- _factor 3y agoIn most cases they do not. We haven’t had unfiltered media for a very long time now. Your voice is blocked from a large audience by many many barriers if you mention any forbidden keywords together.
- staunton 3y ago> We haven’t had unfiltered media for a very long time now. When did we have it?
- lajawfe 3y agoYes, I felt the same. In every piece, there was very little news but a lot of fluff to lead the public with opinions. Probably VCs saw their money burning and wanted Sam back at the helm to protect their asset.
- browserman 3y agoKara Swisher was basically working as Altman’s press secretary
- ignoramous 3y agoI don't get the vibe that Swisher particularly likes techbros or billionaires, let alone bat for them.
- bmitc 3y agoHave you read her recent Tweets on the matter? She was definitely editorializing quite subjectively in favor of Altman. That's not exactly unbiased journalism happening.
- WendyTheWillow 3y agoI read her Threads post and do not see the same advocacy you claim here. Just valuable information.
- bmitc 3y agoWell I wasn't referring to her Threads posts. I was referring to her recent Tweets.
- WendyTheWillow 3y agoHer Threads posts are almost certainly of the same tone and substance as her Tweets.
- fatbird 3y agoShe's an access journalist. She'll shill for the biggest voice who'll talk to her.
- ahartmetz 3y agoMy favorite was that part from Financial Times: "Investors were hoping that Altman would return to a company “which has been his life's work”" As opposed to Sutskever, who they found on the street somehow, yeah?
- disgruntledphd2 3y agoI mean, both of them were involved from the beginning of OpenAI.
- vintermann 3y agoI'm also pretty suspicious of people in forums like these who say nothing can compare to GPT4 and they're miles ahead of everyone else etc. How much of that is venture capital speaking? It's not quite where it is (or was) with Tesla, where it was hopeless to know what was sincere and what was just people talking up their investment/talking down their short, but it's getting there.
- tempusalaria 3y agoThere are concrete benchmarks like “how good is it at answering multiple choice questions accurately or “how good is it at producing valid code to solve a particular coding problem”. There’s also a chatbot Elo ranking which crowd sources model comparisons https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboard https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar... GPT-4 is the king right now
- lajawfe 3y agoThe crypto bros switched to AI hype and are now hyping OpenAI/GPT4 hoping to pump MSFT/NVDA. In every HN conversation where someone mentions competing products, there are people talking it down and saying GPT4 is miles ahead, and in a tone to undermine the competition. I see a pattern and it is definitely not sincere.
- xvector 3y agoYou clearly haven't tried GPT-4 if you think people are lying about how much better it is.
- xvector 3y agoI mean, try and compare for yourself. It is quite obviously miles ahead of everything else. I want OpenAI to be absolutely crushed in the free market after this move. But it will take years for anyone to catch up with GPT-4, if even Anthropic is nowhere close.
- OccamsMirror 3y ago