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by convexstrictly 3y ago
I have made a text submission instead with an added piece of information. Hope that's ok? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316378
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
In March, Sam Altman said that Pachocki's "overall leadership and technical vision" was essential for pre-training GPT-4. https://twitter.com/sama/status/1635700851619819520
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Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
879 points by convexstrictly 3y ago|672 comments
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Ron Conway strongly disapproves of Sam Altman's firing(twitter.com)
1 points by convexstrictly 3y ago|0 comments
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
Typically they try to work out something behind the scenes before making a public announcement. And usually major stakeholders like Microsoft are brought into the decision-making process. The announcement affected Microsoft's stock pr
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
Please expand on that. Details would be helpful.
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
The board member in question is not one of the founders.
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
Ilya and the board are entitled to their opinions and to act on them, but the whole process strikes me as extremely unprofessional, and something out of the Game of Thrones!
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
This is no way to run an $80B company! This thread was detached. I was referring to https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725736242137182594
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
Greg Brockman & Sam Altman: "Last night, Sam got a text from Ilya asking to talk at noon Friday. Sam joined a Google Meet and the whole board, except Greg, was there. Ilya told Sam he was being fired and that the news was going out
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
The whole sequence of events sounds amateurish and extremely unprofessional!
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
Kara Swisher: The board members felt Altman was manipulative and headstrong. https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725733594310512775
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
"it's interesting that someone with a 2014 bachelor's and a 2021 master's, with no experience other than a few years as a low-level employee at Open Philanthropy and then a strategy position at a Georgetown center, someh
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
You're right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Brockman
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
"Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, works 60 to 100 hours per week, and spends around 80% of the time coding. Former colleagues have described him as the hardest-working person at OpenAI." https://time.c
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
LinkedIn says President, Chairman, & Co-Founder. Murati was the CTO. But from his interviews, he sounded more like the CTO. And often like an individual contributor: "the feeling when you finally localize a bug to a small section
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
Sutskever: "You can call it (a coup), and I can understand why you chose this word, but I disagree with this. This was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, which is to make sure that OpenAI builds AGI that benefits
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
Sutskever: "You can call it (a coup), and I can understand why you chose this word, but I disagree with this. This was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, which is to make sure that OpenAI builds AGI that benefit
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Sutskever: OpenAI board doing its mission to build AGI that benefits all(twitter.com)
121 points by convexstrictly 3y ago|172 comments
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Kara Swisher: OpenAI dev day and store were "pushing too fast(twitter.com)
2 points by convexstrictly 3y ago|0 comments
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
Followup tweet by Kara: Dev day and store were "pushing too fast"! https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702612379378120
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
Followup tweet by Kara: Dev day and store were "pushing too fast"! https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702612379378120
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
LMAX - How to Do 100K TPS at Less than 1ms Latency: Video https://www.infoq.com/presentations/LMAX/
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
- The reason for the firing was the “misalignment” of the profit versus nonprofit adherents at the company for those who never read the actual content.
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
Kara Swisher: a “misalignment” of the profit versus nonprofit adherents at the company https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725678074333635028 She also says that there will be many more top employees leaving.
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
High level AI developments: https://importai.substack.com/ https://www.semianalysis.com/ Hardware focused. Paywalled, but long article teasers contain plenty of information. Research Focused: https:/&
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
A great beginner guide to GPU programming concepts: https://github.com/srush/GPU-Puzzles
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GPT4 coding regression claims misleading(twitter.com)
4 points by convexstrictly 3y ago|0 comments
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by convexstrictly 3y ago
Release notes: https://github.com/TimDettmers/bitsandbytes/releases/tag/0.4...
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Model 4 bit inference 4.2x faster than 16 bit with full HF support(twitter.com)
2 points by convexstrictly 3y ago|1 comments

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