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Must've been a difficult decision with him being a cofounder and all, but afaik he's been the highest ranked safety minded person at openai. He says it's not be
by Version467 2y ago
Must've been a difficult decision with him being a cofounder and all, but afaik he's been the highest ranked safety minded person at openai. He says it's not because openai leadership isn't committed to safety, but I'm not sure I buy that. We've seen numerous safety people leave exactly because of that reason.
What makes this way more interesting to me though is how this announcement coincides with Brockmans sabbatical. Maybe there's nothing to it, but I find it more likely that things really aren't going well with sama.
Will be interesting to see how this plays out and if he actually returns next year or if this is just a soft quitting announcement.
- meiraleal 2y agoTh reality is that every other person in tech now is hoping for Sama to fail. The world doesn't need AI to have a silicon valley face. Anthropic is doing a much, much better PR work by not having a narcissist as CEO.
- thfjdtsrsg 2y agoContrarily, I think the reality is that most of us couldn't care less about this AI soap opera.
- danielbln 2y agoI want the best model at the lowest rate (and preferably lowest energy expenditure) and with the easiest access. Anything else is just background noise.
- bookaway 2y agoSome people are wary of enabling ceos of disruptive technologies become the richest people in the world, take control of key internet assets and -- in random bursts of thin-skinned megalomania -- tilt the scales towards politicians or political groups who take action that negatively affect their own quality of life. It sounds absurd, but some are watching such a procession take place live as we speak.
- Geezus_42 2y agoI still haven't seen it do anything actually interesting. Especially when you consider that you have fact check the AI.
- RHSman2 2y agoIt spends money really well.
- lambdaba 2y agoI'm continously baffled by such comments. Have you really tried? Especially newer models like Claude 3.5?
- dartos 2y agoI have, yeah. Still useless for my day to day coding work. Most useful for whipping up a quick bash or Python script that does some simple looping and file io.
- somenameforme 2y agoTo be fair, LLMs are pretty good natural language search engines. Like when I'm looking for something in an API that does something I can describe in natural language, but not succinctly enough to show up in a web search, LLMs are extremely handy, at least when they don't just randomly hallucinate the API. On the other hand I think this is more of a condemnation of the fact that search tech has not 'really' meaningfully advanced beyond where it was 20 years ago, more than it is a praise of LLMs.
- dartos 2y ago> LLMs are extremely handy, at least when they don't just randomly hallucinate I work in tech and it’s my hobby, so that’s what a lot of my googling goes towards. LLMs hallucinate almost every time I ask them anything too specific, which at this point in my career is all I’m really looking for. The time it takes for me to realize an llm is wrong is usually not too bad, but it’s still time I could’ve saved by googling (or whatever trad search) for the docs or manual. I really wish they were useful, but at least for my tasks they’re just a waste of time. I really like them for quickly generating descriptions for my dnd settings, but even then they sound samey if I use them too much. Obviously they’d sound samey if I made up 20 at once too, but at that point I’m not really being helped or enhanced by using an LLM, it’s just faster at writing than I am.
- greenie_beans 2y agothen why are you reading hacker news comments about it?
- thfjdtsrsg 2y agoI guess I have a masochistic streak.
- camillomiller 2y agoI agree and I think that sane people will eventually prevail over the pathological narcissist.
- gizmo 2y agoOutlier success pretty much requires obsessive strategic thinking. Gates and Musk are super strategic but in a "weirdo autist" way, which doesn't have a big stigma attached to it anymore. Peter Thiel also benefits from his weirdness. Steve Jobs had supernatural charisma working in his favor. sama has the strategic instinct but not the charisma or disarming weirdness other tech founders have. Sama is not unusually Machiavellian or narcissistic, but he will get judged more harshly for it.
- infecto 2y agoI think you are in one of the extreme bubbles. The general tech industry is not subscribed to the drama and has less personal feelings on individuals they do not directly know.
- vertis 2y agoIt's not just the narcissist, it's the betrayal. The least open company possible. How did I end up cheering for Meta and Zuck?
- acchow 2y agoWhat is a “Silicon Valley face? Does nvidia’s CEO have it? Google’s founders? I guess anthropic’s founders don’t have it?