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It worked to launch the creator into a gig at OpenAI. Similar YOLO attitude to OpenAI's launch of modern LLMs while Google was still worrying about all the leg
by Schlagbohrer 6mo ago
It worked to launch the creator into a gig at OpenAI.
Similar YOLO attitude to OpenAI's launch of modern LLMs while Google was still worrying about all the legal and safety implications. The free market does not often reward conservative responsible thinking. That's where government regulation comes in.
- classified 6mo ago> It worked to launch the creator into a gig at OpenAI. True, but it doesn't scale. No amount of YOLO will let anyone else repeat that feat.
- charcircuit 6mo agoThen why does the creator keep complaining that the maintainers he onboards keep getting poached by AI companies. It seems more like it is scaling too well.
- alfiedotwtf 6mo agoLet’s not forget that (from what I’ve read) llama.cpp was a weekend YOLO side project and kicked off this whole new industry
- mghackerlady 6mo agoI wonder if public perception of LLMs would be better had Google been the one to introduce them after said safety considerations
- malfist 6mo ago"safety considerations" don't matter. The main sticking point with LLMs is that it's a blatant theft of everyone's copyright all while letting the bosses threaten your job. Blatantly stealing to wealth transfer to the ultrawealthy.
- radlad 6mo agoI realized that one of my bigger issues with LLMs is actually that I worry they increase "information entropy" on average. Most tools help me reduce entropy - LLMs seem to increase it, on a global scale. This is related to my observation that for thousands of years, written text has indicated a human author - this is no longer true, and I think this is going to be very difficult for us to wrap our human brains around fully.
- repelsteeltje 6mo agoInteresting take. Hadn't thought of it in terms of entropy, but it's true. Almost by definition as the training proces doesn't introduce anything novel beyond scraped inputs and a randomly initialized network. From there, the stochastic generation only adds randomness (and the prompt, of course).
- epr 6mo agoGenerally I think this is a legitemate issue, although: > the training process doesn't introduce anything novel This is not always the case. A compiler, linter, proof checker, tests, etc. can all lower entropy.
- khimaros 6mo agothere are some scientist and theorists that argue entropy production is the ultimate sign of life (Jeremy England) and consciousness (Robin Carhart-Harris, Tom Froese)
- malfist 6mo agoI guess my hot tub is sentient then
- AlecSchueler 6mo agoThat might be the case from your position. But if you were a woman whose stalker was able to locate your photos with ease and generate deepfakes or emulate your voice to feed his obsession you might think differently. If you were worrying about your kids surviving tomorrow because an AI system might target their school for the next round it bombings then copyright infringement night not be your top concern.
- Forgeties79 6mo ago>after said safety considerations Tons of people called for common sense regulation/guardrails years ago and were shouted down as "luddites obstructing progress." It's funny to see this discussion coming back around.
- ETH_start 6mo agoTaking fewer visible risks can increase your total risk. We are already under constant threat from deterioration: aging, depreciation and decay. Entropy is the default. Action is what pushes back against it.
- altruios 6mo agoYou do not fight entropy, only move it around, and in so doing, increase it somewhere. It is still worth it to take action. We may find an action to actually reduce entropy eventually, that does not exist yet.
- Filligree 6mo agoI would be perfectly happy moving it off-Earth. We can consider the long term after we have a mid-term.
- altruios 6mo agoSometimes I wonder if this is somehow both an answer to the fermi paradox and the increasing expansion rate of the universe. Every alien civ doing exactly this somehow.
- GardenLetter27 6mo agoConservative thinking isn't responsible. That's how you end up like Germany still using cash and fax machines for 60+ years.
- lazide 6mo agoEveryone is starting to get a real good lesson in why cash is important.fax, eh
- krior 6mo agoI agree that fax machines belong into the past, but cash? I'd like to be able to pay even if the internet/power goes down, thank you very much.
- defrost 6mo agoCash will have relevance as long as internet and cloud failures are still an ongoing thing .. both for lovers of privacy and viable fallbacks as required. Of interest, today in Australian media: Why cash has made an unexpected comeback in Australia: new study - https://theconversation.com/why-cash-has-made-an-unexpected-comeback-in-australia-new-study-281029 https://theconversation.com/why-cash-has-made-an-unexpected-... which includes figures that show while only 8% of Australian transactions are cash (by some metric, see article) 33% (a third) of the population fully supports keeping cash on.
- tomjen3 6mo agoAnd that is fine and I do the same. In Germany in many places you can only pay with cash.
- pjmlp 6mo agoCash allows for freedom and not being tracked by organisations. Many European countries have learnt hard lesson about state protection police agencies. A lesson that younger generations seem keen to forget and live through by themselves, because our stories aren't real enough.
- abirch 6mo agoI believe Google held back on doing a loss leader for LLMs because of shareholders. Look at how much Meta squandered on the multiiverse. If Google gave away gemini prior to OpenAI their stock would have been hit.
- skrebbel 6mo ago> It worked to launch the creator into a gig at OpenAI The author sold his previous software business and I'm pretty sure would never need to work anymore. I doubt "a gig at OpenAI" was high on his wish list when he started on Clawdbot.
- operatingthetan 6mo agoThen why did he take it?
- arrowsmith 6mo agoWhere's the contradiction? I'm not auditioning to play guitar for Metallica but I'd take the job if they offered it to me.
- Schlagbohrer 6mo agousername checks out