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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by txnf on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @01:58AM (#38375779)
well said, I would note that both sides recognize that "AGI" will require new uncertain R&D breakthroughs beyond merely scaling up another order of magnitude in compute. given this, i think it's crazy to blow the resources of azure on trying more scale. rapid commercialization at least buys more time for the needed R&D breakthrough to happen.
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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by Galaxeblaffer on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @02:15AM (#38375952)
do we really know that scaling compute an order of magnitude won't at least get us close? what other "simple" techniques might actually work with that kind of compute ? at least i was a bit surprised by these first sparks, that seemingly was a matter of enough compute.
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Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by consp on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @02:07AM (#38375868)
All commercialized R&D companies eventually become a hollowed out commercial shell. Why would this be any different?
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