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by nmfisher 3y ago
At least Google lasted a good 10 years or so before succumbing to the vagaries of the public stock market. OpenAI lasted, what, 3 years? Not to mention Google never paraded itself around as a non-profit acting in the best interests of human
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by nmfisher 3y ago
This is exactly correct and so many people just don’t get it. The non-profit owns the for-profit, not the other way around. When the goals of the for-profit clash with the goals of the non-profit, the for-profit has to yield.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Oh thanks, I didn't know about that. Will check it out!
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by nmfisher 3y ago
If someone is so arrogant/delusional to think that only they are qualified to be the steward of an AGI, they're exactly the type of person you DON'T want in the role.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
This was one of the main reasons I cancelled my ChatGPT Pro subscription in favour of Claude…but unfortunately Claude is now doing the same thing too.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
“Big tech companies” was in quotation marks because it’s a journalistic term, not a direct quotation from their charter. But the intention was precisely that - just read the charter. Or if you want it directly from the founders, read this i
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Alibaba's Qwen is excellent for Chinese.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
> Is a non-profit expected to exclusively help impoverished communities or something? What type of politicking and deception is involved in creating a for profit subsidiary which is granted license to OpenAIs research in order to generat
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by nmfisher 3y ago
> It now seems inevitable that the first* AGI will fall into the hands of Microsoft rather than OpenAI. Avoiding this was literally the reason that OpenAI was founded. For the record, I don't believe anyone at OpenAI or Microsoft
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Speak for yourself, I cancelled my GPT4 subscription because I prefer using Claude 2.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
The money he made was above board, the tax that he failed to pay was the real issue.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I think you’re talking about just using Whisper to annotate audio for a TTS pipeline but someone from Collabora actually created a TTS model directly from Whisper embeddings https://github.com/collabora/WhisperSpeech
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by nmfisher 3y ago
If they’re researching avenues other than LLMs, that money goes a lot further. We can only hope.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Yeah, I strongly suspect there’s some kind of self-dealing/conflict of interest going on here. It’s one of the few things that would explain an immediate, public ouster. Undisclosed contracts that violate some kind of board prohibition
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Are you in the USA?
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I'm finding this difficult to follow. As far as I can tell: 1) Denmark partners with NSA for wiretap (presumably while Findsen/Frederiksen are head(s) of the respective agency) 2) Whistleblower thinks agency is overstepping its le
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I generally use it for boilerplate tasks like “here’s some code, write unit tests” or “here’s a JSON object, write a model class and parser function”. Claude is significantly faster, so even if it requires a couple more prompt iterations th
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I cancelled my GPT4 subscription because I found Claude more useful for code and Qwen for Chinese language tasks. It might be better on average but I don’t think it’s better for every task. All the others are only going to get better too.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I won’t be sad to see them go. They were the most arrogant company I ever had the misfortune of dealing with (particularly for such a subpar product). If they treated their other customers like they treated me it’s no surprise they’re going
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I’m not saying your experience is wrong, but for my use case (code, mainly), I’ve found Claude to be far more reliable (not to mention faster) than GPT4.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
They managed to build something equally good (if not better) than GPT4, without losing 50% of their cap table to Microsoft. That alone is worth a lot. The investments are absurdly large but if you believe LLMs will be fundamentally transfor
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Hah, I didn't know Silicon Valley's "hot dog, not hot dog" app had IRL roots!
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by nmfisher 3y ago
There’s a lot of liveable land in Australia. Trouble is there are no jobs (or infrastructure) there.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I don’t know about Canada, but there’s also no unemployment safety net in China, which drives a lot of “neighbourhood” businesses (hairdressers, AirBnb, milk tea shops, etc).
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I was never a fan of iTunes but at least I could usually wrangle it to do what I wanted. Music, on the other hand, is simply horrendous. I have never cursed the Apple ecosystem as much as when I try to put music on my iPhone.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
This is why we should be fighting tooth and nail against both walled gardens and monopolies. These are literally some of the most profitable companies in the world, there is no excuse for not providing a human contact who can at least verif
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I live in Singapore, which probably has the most CCTV coverage of any country in the world. When I was younger, I would (and did) take issue with omnipresent government surveillance, but now I don't really care as much. That being said
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by nmfisher 3y ago
I think those open-source kamikaze drones have actually been deployed in Ukraine against Russia, too.
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by nmfisher 3y ago
Yeah, I was very disappointed. I cancelled my free trial three days in, it was clearly inferior to the alternative (copy+paste into Claude).
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by nmfisher 3y ago
So many people don’t understand this. “There’s no such thing as bad PR” doesn’t mean you won’t lose customers - it just means that for every 1 lost, 10 more are gained due to simple exposure/awareness.

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