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Those are not just-throw-money problems. Usually these tropes are limited to instagram comments. Surprised to see it here.
by porridgeraisin 2y ago
Those are not just-throw-money problems. Usually these tropes are limited to instagram comments. Surprised to see it here.
- thrance 2y agoI know, it was simply to show the absurdity of committing $500B to marginally improving next token predictors.
- CamperBob2 2y agoIt's almost as if the people with the money and power know something about "next token predictors" that you don't.
- wonnage 2y agothey clearly missed out on the fact that they could've trained their $5bn model for much less
- WD-42 2y agoNot as much as the Chinese, apparently.
- thrance 2y agoDo you really still believe they have superior intellect? Did Zuckerberg know something you didn't when he poured $10B into the metaverse? What about Crypto, NFTs, Quantum?
- CamperBob2 2y agoThey certainly have a more valid point of view than, "Meh, these things are just next-token predictors that regurgitate their training data. Nothing to see here."
- thrance 2y agoYes, their point is to inflate the AI bubble some more so they can extract more wealth before it's over.
- porridgeraisin 2y agoTrue. I think there is some posturing involved in the 500b number as well. Either that or its an excuse for everyone involved to inflate the prices. Hopefully the datacenters are useful for other stuff as well. But also I saw a FT report that it's going to be exclusive to openai? Also as I understand it these types of deals are usually all done with speculative assets. And many think the current AI investments are a bubble waiting to pop. So it will still remain true that if jack falls down and breaks his crown, jill will be tumbling after.
- thelittleone 2y agoI'm not disagreeing, but perhaps during the execution of that project, something far more valuable than next token predictors is discovered. The cost of not discovering that may be far greater, particularly if one's adversaries discover it first.
- thrance 2y agoMaybe? But it still feels very wrong seeing this much money evaporating (litteraly, by Joule heating) in the name of a highly hypothetical outcome. Also, to be fair, I don't feel very aligned with tech billionaires anymore, and would rather someone else discovers AGI.