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Re:Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models by steveBK123 on Friday September 13, 2024 @07:11AM (#41530055)
Indeed. My expectation of a good intern is to produce nothing I will put in production, but show aptitude worth hiring them for. It's a 10 week extended interview with lots of social events, team building, tech talks, presentations, etc.

Which is why I've liked the LLM analogy of "unlimited free interns".. I just think some people read that the exact opposite way I do (not very useful).

Re:Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models by Martinussen on Friday September 13, 2024 @08:24AM (#41530542)
If I had to respect the basic human rights of my LLM backends, it would probably be less appealing - but "Unlimited free smart-for-being-braindead zombies" might be a little more useful, at least?
Re:Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models by steveBK123 on Friday September 13, 2024 @08:35AM (#41530638)
Interns, at least on paper, have the optionality of getting better with time in observable obvious ways as they become grad hires, junior engineers, mid engineers etc.

So far, 2 years of publicly accessible LLMs have not improved for intern replacement tasks at the rate a top 50% intern would be expected to.