Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by gedy on Saturday November 18, 2023 @02:55PM (#38323664)

I think what's silly about "shepherding responsible AGI" is this is basically math, it's not some genie that can be kept hidden or behind some Manhattan Project level of effort. Pandora's box is open, and the best we can do is make sure it's not locked up behind some corporation or gov't.

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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by xvector on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:31PM (#38324048)

Are you sure this is the case? Tens of billions of dollars invested, yet a whole year later no one has a model that even comes close to GPT-3.5 - let alone GPT-4 Turbo.

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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by krisoft on Saturday November 18, 2023 @04:02PM (#38324398)

> yet a whole year later no one has a model that even comes close to GPT-3.5 - let alone GPT-4 Turbo

Is that true and settled? I only have my anecdotal experience, but in that it is not clear that GPT-3.5 is better than Google's bard for example.

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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by cmrdporcupine on Saturday November 18, 2023 @02:57PM (#38323697)

I mean, that's clearly not really true, there's a huge "means of production" aspect to this which comes down to being able to afford the datastructure infrastructure.

The cost of the computing machinery and the energy costs to run it are actually massive.

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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by zozbot234 on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:02PM (#38323752)

Yup it's quite literally the world's most expensive parrot. (Mind you, a plain old parrot is not cheap either. But OpenAI is a whole other order of magnitude.)

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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by svaha1728 on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:39PM (#38324128)

Parrots may live 50 years. H100s probably won’t last half that long.

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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by whelp_24 on Sunday November 19, 2023 @08:48AM (#38332594)

Parrots are very smart animals that understand at least some of the words they learn. I wish people would give llms more credit.

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Re:Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam... by gedy on Saturday November 18, 2023 @04:52PM (#38324932)

Sure but I meant the costs are feasible for many companies, hence competition. That was very different from the barriers to nuclear weapons development.

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