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Unique data set. And Elon. And with Elon, comes a great set of talent. From https://x.ai/about https://x.ai/about > Our team is led by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla
by blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
Unique data set. And Elon. And with Elon, comes a great set of talent. From https://x.ai/about https://x.ai/about
> Our team is led by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Collectively our team contributed some of the most widely used methods in the field, in particular the Adam optimizer, Batch Normalization, Layer Normalization, and the discovery of adversarial examples. We further introduced innovative techniques and analyses such as Transformer-XL, Autoformalization, the Memorizing Transformer, Batch Size Scaling, μTransfer, and SimCLR. We have worked on and led the development of some of the largest breakthroughs in the field including AlphaStar, AlphaCode, Inception, Minerva, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4.
They are already competitive despite the late start:
https://x.ai/blog/grok-1.5v https://x.ai/blog/grok-1.5v
- threeseed 2y agoBut we know from Google that unless you can definitively solve the "is this sentence real or a joke" datasets like Twitter, Reddit etc are going to be more trouble than they are worth. And Elon's recent polarising nature and the callous nature with which he disbanded the Tesla Supercharger team means that truly talented people aren't going to be as attracted to him as in his early days. They are only going to be there for the money.
- LegitShady 2y ago>Twitter Supercharger team interesting.
- lynx23 2y agoI still fondly remember the story an OpenAI rep told about fine-tuning with company slack history. Given a question like "Can you do this and that please." the system answered (after being fine-tuned with said history) "Sure, I'll do it tomorrow." Teaches you to carefully select your training data.
- jokethrowaway 2y agoThe datasets should not be used for knowledge but to train a language model. Using it for knowledge is bonkers. Why not buy some educational textbook company and use 99.9% correct data? Oh and use RAG while you are at it so you can point to the origin of the information. The real evolution still has to come though, we need to build a reasoning engine (Q*?) which will just use RAG for knowledge and language models to convert its thought into human language
- dagmx 2y agoHow does one differentiate knowledge from the language model in an LLM? At least in a way that would provide a benefit?
- kolinko 2y agoYou use formal verification for logic and rags for source data. In other words - say you have a model that is semi-smart, often makes mistakes in logic, but sometimes gives valid answers. You use it to “brainstorm” physical equations and then use formal provers to weed out the correct answer. Even if the llm is correct 0.001% of the time, it’s still better than the current algorithms which are essentially brute forcing.
- dagmx 2y agoI’m still confused as to the value of training on tweets though in that scenario? If you need to effectively provide this whole secondary dataset to have better answers, what value do the tweets add to training other than perhaps sentiment analysis or response stylization?
- infotainment 2y agoDoes it, though? That was probably true pre-X™, but it seems like the primary selection metric has gone from “competence” to “doesn’t ever contradict Elon”
- talldayo 2y agoI mean, he can try. The world already has a number of AI corporations headed up by totalitarian megalomaniacs though, the market may eventually reward some other course of action.
- klyrs 2y agoIf there's one place Musk has proven his worth, it's entering a crowded market late and taking the same approach as the competition. Ah, nevermind. He's just pissing away investor money. Must be fun!
- bagels 2y agoWhat unique dataset? Tweets?
- LeoPanthera 2y agoYup. They're going to have the greatest training set of trolls, shitposts, and propaganda. The only universe they're going to end up understanding is the one inside Elon's head.
- duskwuff 2y agoI, for one, eagerly await the new insights into the universe which will be unlocked by training an AI on dril's tweets.
- sundalia 2y agoUnique? You mean tweets? Yeah sure It's 6B down the drain. Saying grok 1.5 is competitive is a joke, if it was any good it would be ranked well in chatbot arena (https://chat.lmsys.org/ https://chat.lmsys.org/). Elon is a master in hyping underperforming things and this is no exception.
- nomel 2y agoNo, there is no ranking for Grok. It’s not participating. It would be hard to judge rate of improvement at this point, since the company has only been around for 1.25 years, and grok 1.5 is yet to be released for general access.
- joeberg8 2y agoYou really think investors like sequoia and a16z are dumb enough to fall for Elon hyping things up? They know who he is and They’ve seen him operate at levels basically no other entrepreneur can snd are betting on that
- croes 2y ago>Collectively our team contributed some of the most widely used methods in the field, So they hired some guys from other AI companies.