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> The company’s mission is to understand the true nature of the universe. I yawned so hard my jaw unlocked. Can't wait to see groundbreaking... checks notes..
by lionkor 2y ago
> The company’s mission is to understand the true nature of the universe.
I yawned so hard my jaw unlocked.
Can't wait to see groundbreaking... checks notes... "advancements in various applications, optimizations, and extensions of the model".
Do these companies only hire yes men?
- danieleggert 2y agoYes
- upon_drumhead 2y agoYou're hired
- ETH_start 2y agoThis is a peculiar company mission so not sure why you find it odd to make the official one of xAI. The all-encompassing nature of it seems befitting a company producing increasingly general-purpose AI.
- stonogo 2y agoSure it does. The problem is that they're not producing any general-purpose AI.
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- ETH_start 2y agoWhether you agree that their work constitutes advances toward more general purpose AI, they're in an industry where that is ostensibly the goal, which makes their choice of mission statement appropriate.
- nomel 2y agoX.ai was founded March 2023. That’s one year three months. Is general AI a good first goal? I think most uses, outside of LLM, will be very specialized AI, and unrelated to chat.
- darth_avocado 2y agoYes
- rullopat 2y agoYou’re hired too
- belter 2y agoYour technical interview is way too easy....
- DoctorDabadedoo 2y agoIndeed, please write an algorithm to reverse a linked list in O(1).
- vidarh 2y agoAssuming I can choose linked list implementation, that is trivial: It's a doubly linked list where the head contains a pointer to the tail, and a flag that determines which pointer in the nodes is forward and which is backward.
- belter 2y agoIt's a trick question. Ask if its on Space or Time complexity ;-)
- gizajob 2y ago“The company’s mission is to understand the true nature of the universe” - There’s no way an LLM is going to get anywhere near understanding this. The true nature of the universe is unlikely to be captured in language.
- uargos 2y agoVery little people seem to understand that. And actually there is no need to go as far as “universe” to get to something that can’t be captured by language. Human existence is such an example. For this reason I don’t think llms are going to be good film makers for instance. Sure an llm will be able to spit the scenario of the next action movie, those already seem to be automatically generated anyway. But making a film that resonates to humans takes a lot that can’t be formulated with language.
- aydyn 2y agoThat's what people said about AI art, yet here we are.
- actionfromafar 2y agoWhere is that?
- jazzyjackson 2y agoai doesn't make art tho, it paints whatever it's told to
- ben_w 2y agoSo do human artists, if they want to get paid. And then you have the discussion about auteurs.
- Kina 2y agoIs where we are any good? I think one of the more germane issues with generative AI art is that it is distinctly not creative. It can only regurgitate variations of what it has seen. This is both extremely powerful and limiting. An LLM is never going to give you some of the most famous films like "Star Wars" which bounced around before 20th Century Fox finally took a chance on it because they thought Lucas had talent. Is what we want? A society that just uses machines to produce variations of the same thing that already exist all the time? It's hard enough for novel creative projects to succeed.
- melodyogonna 2y agoEverybody wants Elon Musk to make them some money.
- dgellow 2y agoIsn’t he known to not pay well his employees?
- sangnoir 2y agoHis hype-machine has made some of those who invest on his hype very rich, including through worthless instruments such as meme stocks he was pumping.
- melodyogonna 2y ago[dead]
- melodyogonna 2y agoIsn't there an industry standard pay-range? If he isn't paying as well as his competition then I would expect employees to seek better opportunities.
- rchaud 2y agoThis is a pretty blithe comment that assumes perfect labour mobility. Many of Twitter's remaining employees are on work visas that are tied to Twitter and can't easily be ported to another employer.
- melodyogonna 2y ago[dead]
- geodel 2y agoHuh, so these work visa employees can go back to their home countries. Surely they can get a great job with excellent perks. These people are not really escaping from war zones. The fact they are not leaving would just mean Twitter's crappy job is better than their other options.
- Intralexical 2y agoHopefully incompetence can save us from the megalomania.
- andy_ppp 2y agoThe combination of incompetence and megalomania is probably more likely unfortunately.
- b3lvedere 2y agoIt kinda reminds me of James Bond Diamonds are Forever where the main scientist is convinced Blofeld is doing the right thing until the very bitter end.
- benterix 2y agoThese people always exist. They pick up whatever is en vogue and sell it to investors. What happens later is of secondary importance, what matters is that money changed hands.
- mgh2 2y agoThe technology's applications are so broad that its exploratory nature in the mission is expected
- leobg 2y agoMy take is that Elon’s basically saying: We don’t give a s%#* about people wanting to use AI to write SEO spam, automate their customer support or generate content to keep the kids quiet. We want to use this tech as a tool to solve real world problems in a way that, looking back 500 years from now, people will see this as a time of innovation, rather than a time of decline. Wether he’ll succeed is a different question, of course. But such a direction is clearly missing in the other players. They are just too eager to cater to the laziest segment of the economy of bits. They’re about changing pixels on other people’s screen.
- actionfromafar 2y agoAlso, all previous engineering efforts were about changing scrawley symbols on pieces of paper. /s
- gehwartzen 2y agoThis is probably the response Elon is looking for when he simply writes something vague that can elicit the imagination of any applicant’s specific worldview.
- jack_pp 2y agoDeepmind ,which was probably the top dog in cutting edge AI before openAI, was solving protein folding
- antman 2y agoSeems like the Nigerian Prince bayesian model as analysed by Microsoft. Due to many false positives within the thousands of potential responders pool, they emit a signal that only a real easy victim would fall for to reduce the costs of their final filtering process. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WhyFromNigeria.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
- 3abiton 2y agoIt was a very enjoyable read for a scientific publication.
- naveen99 2y agoTo play devil’s advocate, he lists “truthful” as a goal, which is emphatically missing from openai, google, microsoft, facebook. Google even removed don’t be evil. Elon is greedy and truthful (although obviously with plenty of self deceipt when conflict of interest…). But how far can you really go with truth, when no one wants the truth: not the west, not the east, and not the Middle East. And your allies and investors are in it for the greed part, but not the truth part so much. Trump tried the same thing with truth social… problem is all the greed and shadiness loses credibility with truth also.
- darksaints 2y agoThere is nothing truthful that comes out of Elon’s or Trump’s mouth.
- ben_w 2y agoOne has sent his car to a trans-Martian orbit, the other was unable to admit which inauguration had the most people present or how large his apartment is. Don't get me wrong: Musk has and will continue to get into serious trouble for things he insists are true but nobody else believes (420 etc.), I'm just saying there's a huge gap between them.
- knowriju 2y agoThere is a simple turing test for Elon's AI 1. What happened in Tiananmen Square? 2. Who killed Jamal Khashoggi ? The output will very simply tell how much 'truthful' the AI actually is.
- MrSkelter 2y agoThose are culturally biased questions. You could as well ask about the incident which drew America into Vietnam, or if the US deliberately bombed China and Russia during the Korean War and as equally accuse a system of being dishonest.