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ath3nd
1y ago
Short? It's a perfect situation for Nvidia. You can see that after months of trying to squeeze out all % of marginal improvements, sama and co decided to brand this GPT-4.0.0.1 version as GPT-5. This is all happening on NVDA hardware,
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1y ago
Wow, what a breakthrough! A couple of % of benchmark improvements at a couple of % decrease of price per token! With a couple of more trillions from investors in his company, Sama can really keep launching successful, groundbreaking and inn
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1y ago
I thought AI is making actual experienced developers 19% less productive? https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-coding-tools-may-decrease...
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1y ago
Wait, wasn't GitHub a company ran by the guy who just two days said that devs should either embrace AI or leave the field? https://www.developer-tech.com/news/embrace-ai-or-leave-care... Maybe his developers embra
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1y ago
There is a great article by Tom Renner about the "inevitability" of LLMs. https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/ Of course, when phrased with adversarial language, these self-proclaimed gurus and
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1y ago
Great, more work for us as consultants and security researchers when your vibe coded system gets its api keys on a public s3 bucket.
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1y ago
There is also a mountain of code that shouldn't have been written, and increasingly it's Ai generated.
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1y ago
Nah dawg, I'll pass. /s I think it's reasonable to be sceptic towards a guy who: - sells you a product (Copilot) that depends on him selling you the story that LLMs are the future - has a lot of vested interest in Microsoft&#
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1y ago
LLMs have successfully finally taken the last ounce of "engineering" from software engineering. Now what we have is "lgtm-ing", which is a great selling point for LLMs. You notice how LLMs do good on small tasks and on s
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1y ago
Well, if LLMs were the next coming of Christ, where is the impact of them on open source? Everyone claims they are awesome and super powerful in their own toy projects or in their private source. Where is the actual impact of LLMs superior
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1y ago
Can I interest you in AC cooled public transport then? That is another option that will make it easier and faster for you to reach your destination than a car. Besides I am not sure if you are willing to drop 7.50 EUR per hour for parking i
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1y ago
> and you can lament that public needs don't make profits, or you can deal with the reality of the situation and accept that things aren't ideal. Ah, so we have to "deal with the reality of the situation and accept things&
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1y ago
> You can "hire" 100 agents / servers / API bundles, whatever and "solve" all tasks with difficulty x in your business. In that bright AGI future, who does my business serve, like who actually are my actual
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1y ago
Please use an LLM and prove it yourself. Then use an LLM and prove the opposite. That's how much weight your "proofs" have. In fact, buy a premium subscription to all the LLMs out there (yes, even LLAMA) and have them write t
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1y ago
Mathematics are not relevant when we have hype and vibes. We can't have facts and projections and no path to profitability distract us from our final goal. Which, of course, is to donate money to Sama so he can create AGI and be less l
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> I suspect that most of the bike drivers are affluent service workers who can't be arsed to share the public transport with the plebs. Fairly often they are postal or delivery workers. Are those the affluent service workers that we
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1y ago
Dude, LLMs are a very sophisticated autocomplete with a few tricks down their sleeve. From that to AGI or Zuck's "superintelligence" is just light years... LLMs are a dead end for "intelligence". We are talking abou
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1y ago
No amount of money (or torture) can make me work for Meta, Palantir or Amazon.
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1y ago
My wife used to live in Bristol, which has plenty of hills, and she was biking everywhere. That's why she has a nice butt. If one needs excuses to justify having a car and being stuck in traffic, hills ain't a valid one. 30km/
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> So they hurt quality of life by making it more painful to get anywhere, taking time away from everyone’s lives The average American mind can't comprehend European public transport and not sitting in a traffic jam and smog for 1 hr
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> Make it hard for people to have families and society will collapse I used to live in Amsterdam which has a great public transport, great cycling paths, and limits of 30km/h. People are going cycling to school, on dates, and picnic
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1y ago
> Open AI don't have to do a lot to be profitable, ads would be enough. Yeah man, absolutely! Ads can pay for all of it! > It's nonsensical Yep, wanting a business to be profitable before investing in it, or at least to sho
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1y ago
If Google was massively unprofitable and with no profitability path in sight, yeah, that's very much Google.
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1y ago
Surely you can spot the similarities if you try hard enough? If not, maybe we can ask ChatGPT about it (below is ChatGPT's "opinion" on the similarities between Enron and OpenAI): Structural Complexity & Opacity: - Enron
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1y ago
Mathematics don't matter. It's about what your guru of choice on X tells you to believe in.
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1y ago
I like how you are thinking. When hype is involved, why should one bother with facts, timelines and reality. Great, stable and successful companies like Enron, Wirecard, Theranos, FTX and WeWork are prime examples of that. Note: I am not sa
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1y ago
Yep, I not only realize it, but like Mr. T, I pity the fools who bought in this stock and are thinking of holding it. Because, let's look at the actual facts: Facebook is dead, like literally mostly dead people and bots Whatsapp is get
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I actually love this. Meta, a failing company with no monetizable products left, is wasting its money on chasing the pipe dream of superintelligence. If any of the evil corps deserves such a comic death, that's Meta. And Twitter.
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> Once I was full-time managing, I had no shiny distractions and was able to spend my showers focusing on how to be a better manager. And once I was 50%+ focused, well, I haven’t become a “superstar 10x manager” yet, but I quickly stoppe
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Note the new features coming in the space: - study mode (this announcement) - office suite ( https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-designs-rival-office-w... ) - sub-agents ( https://docs.anthropic.com/en&#
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