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You have to look at the incentives
by samrus 23d ago
You have to look at the incentives
- FallCheeta7373 23d agoIncentives are one thing, even adjusting for them it's huge, and I don't understand this incentive play for only openai, academics have perverse incentives too, to overreport, overclaim, publication bias etc why are we scrutinizing AI industry to such high degree when they have demonstrated capability and often times are off by a model release at worst.
- altcognito 23d agoI swear to god, people would look at the successes of Xerox palo alto and just shrug and say - "yeah, but I mean, this is all marketing"
- piloto_ciego 23d agoThis is what I keep saying, and it feels like I'm taking crazy pills here! Is nobody else astounded by this?
- alsetmusic 22d agoThe thing only nerds know about that wasn’t in the news every day? Not the same thing.
- Shank 23d agoXerox is incidentally a really good example, because precisely nobody ended up using the desktop experience Xerox made. They ended up using the desktop experience that Microsoft and Apple made and shipped while Xerox the actual company faded and memory of those original parc research teams faded into obscurity.
- aurareturn 23d agoA working Lean proof doesn't care what the incentives are.