What OpenAI Really Wants

Re:What OpenAI Really Wants by methodical on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @05:07PM (#37411339)

> "The Beatles set off colossal waves of cultural change, but they anchored their revolution for only so long: Six years after chiming that unforgettable chord they weren’t even a band anymore. The maelstrom OpenAI has unleashed will almost certainly be far bigger."

There is no way I can interpret a comparison to the Beatles with the added statement that the Beatles cultural impact will likely be much smaller as anything less than an absolutely massive overstatement based entirely out of some internal bias. If the author was intending this to be written from the perspective of how they think of themselves then in my opinion they have failed.

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Re:What OpenAI Really Wants by seanhunter on Thursday September 07, 2023 @04:08AM (#37416045)

Also the first chord in "Hard Days Night" is just an F9 chord in C, like you can hear in a billion other places long before the Beatles. I know this is beside the point and is going to sound snobbish, but it's not like the Prometheus chord[1] of Scriabin or the "So What" chord[2] which Bill Evans came up with, or a bunch of other things which are genuinely interesting and novel from a harmonic point of view.

The Beatles may have been a major cultural phenomenon, but whatever impact they had it wasn't down to things like that chord. I find it pretty annoying when journalists tend to do this kind of thing to add a bit of colour.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_chord

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_What_chord

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Re:What OpenAI Really Wants by NerdiDotOrg on Thursday September 07, 2023 @08:06AM (#37417723)

Technically though OpenAI is just using 10 year old tech with some newer training models... is that not the same as old chords, new tunes?

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