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by alsodumb 3y ago
Samsung appliances do this I think? Or some other brand. You basically call a number and then press a button on the appliance and it produces a sound that tells the customer service what's wrong.
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by alsodumb 3y ago
It's kinda funny to see this comment - I just sent a long email to someone about simulating terrains/granular materials in the context of robotic space missions and logged in to hackernews only to see this. I'm curious what l
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by alsodumb 3y ago
I hate these comments that potray as if every expert/scientist is just good at one thing and aren't particularly great at critical thinking/corporate politics. Heck, there are 700 of them. All different humans, good at someth
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by alsodumb 3y ago
Most work visas can be transferred to new companies fairly easily - it's almost trivial. I don't think thats a big deal.
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by alsodumb 3y ago
Poe has a reasonably strong user base for two reasons: (i) they allowed customized agents and a store of these agents. (iI) they had access to GPT-32k context length very early, in fact one of the first to have it. Both of these kinda becam
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by alsodumb 3y ago
It's clear that Adam himself has a strong conflict of interest too. The GPT store announcement on DevDay pretty much killed his company Poe. And all this started brewing after DevDay announcement. Maybe Sam kept it under the wraps from
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by alsodumb 3y ago
It's an experimental model that is trained on a small set of data. It's been out there for months. It wasn't popular because it's pretty much useless.
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by alsodumb 3y ago
That was an example, more than 700/770 staff OpenAI has threatened to leave now. Also, just because he is a recent grad doesn't mean he is not top talent. Age matters much less in AI/learning community than other areas.
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by alsodumb 3y ago
Adam stands to gain the most from a weakened OpenAPI product. Not from OpenAPI outright stopping commercialization, but stopping it just enough to still have API but not products like GPT store and agents. It's not about Quora, which i
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by alsodumb 3y ago
Top talent will leave OpenAI soon, it already started on twitter: https://twitter.com/shengjia_zhao/status/1726543423824675154
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by alsodumb 3y ago
Remember when they did this? "Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion" - https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-g... only to enable GitHub to do greater things, without disr
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by alsodumb 3y ago
It's not gonna be Microsoft employee, it's gonna be a subsidiary like GitHub, LinkedIn, etc. A lot more independence.
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by alsodumb 3y ago
One word: GPUs
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by alsodumb 3y ago
What makes you think it wouldn't change after Sam and Greg join the team? AFAIK the reason Microsoft scaled down their research division (including GPUs) was because they were no where close to OpenAI despite years of investment.
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by alsodumb 3y ago
Your comment got me thinking, it's not just all the current access to all the data, weights, and infrastructure they had at OpenAI, it's also everything that will come out of OpenAI in the future. Remember, Microsoft has an exclus
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by alsodumb 3y ago
What idea are you talking about? They are not your classic founders coming up with an idea to join Y combinator. They build OpenAI for many years, they know what to do. It won't be hard for them to hire researchers and engineers, from
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by alsodumb 3y ago
His previous ventures don't matter. If he seeks funding, whether millions or billions, he will get it. Period. I don't know how people can reasonably argue that he will have a hard time raising money for a new AI startup along wit
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by alsodumb 3y ago
What's wrong with that statement though? It's the AI era - VCs are going crazy funding AI startups. What makes you think Greg and Sam would have a hard time raising millions/billions and starting a new company in a week if th
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by alsodumb 3y ago
Oh wow, that's like the most I've seen for any news subscription.
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by alsodumb 3y ago
It's not just management politics - it's about money and what they want to work on. A lot of researchers like to work on cutting edge stuff, that actually ends up in a product. Part of the reason why so many researchers moved from
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by alsodumb 3y ago
Does anyone have a non-paywall version of this? Or like excerpts from the article?
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by alsodumb 3y ago
Nope, Poe was always building on OpenAI API and their GPTs. In fact Poe was one of the first companies to get access to GPT-4-32k context length a few months ago and they were the first to make it accessible to their users.
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by alsodumb 3y ago
You are definitely over estimating how much time and effort it needs to build large models. Sam will get billions of dollars if he starts a new company. So there's no issue of money. In terms of data and training models, look at Anthro
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by alsodumb 3y ago
I didn't read OpenAI's company charter, but forcing Adam down would probably require a board majority. It's not like they would have made Adam step down if they wanted to.
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by alsodumb 3y ago
It wasn't a question of "will these people quit there jobs at OpenAI and get into the job market because they support Sam". It was a question of whether they'd leave OpenAI and join a new company that Sam starts with bil
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by alsodumb 3y ago
Like I said, if the subset of OpenAI researchers who are on twitter is very small, sure. But people in AI/learning community are very active on twitter. I don't know every AI researcher on OpenAIs payroll. But the fact that most a
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by alsodumb 3y ago
I never said Adam should've never been on board. I was arguing about the part after Poe was competing with OpenAI after DevDay. That's where he has a clear, very strong conflict of interest and to be honest that's where the
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by alsodumb 3y ago
Quora SEO'd their way to the top of most Google searches before the LLMs era. Poe is not really meant as a value addition for Quora users. Poe was a general AI chat company, like ChatGPT. Poe's unique selling point was their &#x27
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by alsodumb 3y ago
Not if it's a big sample set. There's a guy on twitter who make a list with every OpenAI researcher he could find on twitter and almost all of them did react to Sams tweet in a supportive way.
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by alsodumb 3y ago
That's not the case with AI community. Twitter is heavily used by almost every professor/researcher/PhD student who is doing learning. Ilya has one. Heck even Jitendra Malik who's probably as old as my grand father joine

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