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by aik 9mo ago
When did hacker news become laggard-adopter/consumer-news. Cal is a consumer of AI - interesting article for this community, but not this community. I thought hacker news was for builders and innovators - people who see the potential o
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by aik 11mo ago
We’re a regular old SaaS company that has figured out how to add massive value using AI. I am making no statements about valuations and bubbles. I’m actually guessing there is some bubble / overhype. That doesn’t mean it isn’t still in
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by aik 11mo ago
I have no idea if OpenAI’s valuation is reasonable. All I’m saying is I’m convinced the demand is there, even without AGI around the corner. You do not need AGI to transform countless industries. And we are profitable on our AI efforts whi
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by aik 11mo ago
Hard disagree. You don’t need AGI to transform countless workflows within companies, current LLMs can do it. A lot of the current investments are to help with the demand with current generation LLMs (and use cases we know will keep opening
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by aik 2y ago
Agreed.
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by aik 2y ago
Confused here, is your argument here that OpenAI is not responsible for any innovation when it comes to LLM tech today? I’m curious about why you so strongly want to believe that? Nobody knew that scaling transformer architecture would lea
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by aik 2y ago
The money and compute is not the innovation. The LLM models and associated tools are, which is work by OpenAI employees and teams, not Microsoft employees/teams.
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by aik 2y ago
I think this perspective is probably only true for 0.001% of people that actually follow Sam closely and are not optimistic about AGI and like to throw their opinions around. The superficial stuff. The rest don’t care to even know who Sam
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by aik 2y ago
Why? It’s not firewalled.
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by aik 3y ago
1. “The heat death of the universe” is my favorite HN comment of the decade. 2. The heat death of the universe does not mean one gigantic black hole. I’m just a hobbyist but my understanding of the theory is that black holes will continue
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by aik 3y ago
Curious what model the dentist bot is running on? Tried it out, was surprisingly good, though eventually it contradicted itself (booked a slot it said previously was not available). (I get that’s the programming but am curious especially g
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by aik 3y ago
Completely disagree. You’re not making a phone call in most cases for entertainment purposes. If the options are wait in line for 20 minutes or speak to an actually useful bot, I would take the latter in 100% of cases.
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by aik 3y ago
I think standard units are more common even if proportions. Not sure who speaks in bananas.
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by aik 3y ago
Have to consider cost for all of this. Big value of RAG already even given the size of GPT-4’a largest context size is it decreases cost very significantly.
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by aik 3y ago
Not entirely sure I believe everything here. Curious how it plays out. Lot of narrative-affirming content. “In the Examiner article, O’Reilly made reference to a “scam bot [that] had a blue check mark, meaning that, unlike me, it pays mone
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by aik 3y ago
Not sure if you’re technical but the only thing I have to say to this is: Tinker with it yourself. Try different experiments. I’ve built a ton of tools at this point with AI, some have not been very useful in the end and others have made
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by aik 3y ago
1. We know they have more big breakthroughs already that have not been released. 2. We know the current tech can keep scaling. They have not hit a limit with the current approach yet. Given gpt-4 is already ridiculously useful and we’ve bar
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by aik 3y ago
I am guessing an incredibly talented team that is incredibly networked and incredibly well funded and proven agile in the tech hub of the world can find hardware experts. Don’t know why anyone would bet against that.
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by aik 3y ago
Said the horse factory when automobiles were being built.
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by aik 3y ago
I agree some of these are fluff. However many here are great to have basic knowledge of for specific scenarios one may run into and then know where to dig deeper when needed. Agree though to marry being a ferocious reader / learner wit
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by aik 3y ago
It’s very likely this person doesn’t care about the credentials but rather just wants to gain the knowledge to do something themselves. I more or less did this for years by reading a ton of books + many years of HN / articles / in
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by aik 3y ago
Said people before nearly every discovery in physics led to new technology.
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by aik 3y ago
2 questions: 1. How does this perspective affect you today? Is it debilitating? Depressing? Affect your wellbeing and productivity? 2. What do you believe is the probability of what you say here? Estimate with a percentage. Does the unknow
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by aik 3y ago
And encourage innovation it does. Most initiatives are not purely good without any downsides. A principle to consider is: Just because there are some negative aspects sometimes, do those outweigh the good? In this case, how many negative
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by aik 3y ago
Not public but internally I wrote a tool to help us respond to RFPs. You pass in a question from a new RFP and it outputs surprisingly great answers most of the time. Is writing 75%+ of our RFP responses now (naturally we review and adjust
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by aik 3y ago
More often he has expressed how well it works and how great it is.
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by aik 3y ago
Agreed. Thank you Tesla for helping bring about a better standard here!
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by aik 3y ago
Raw text from a website including header text and footers and links and images etc is very dirty stuff.
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by aik 3y ago
Do you have an example of where these methods still produce good summaries? Eg if you adjust how re-computation of self-attention in autoregressive decoding / between token generations works to significantly decrease the amount of com
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by aik 3y ago
Am not justifying what OpenAI did, but nobody is stopping ByteDance from doing what OpenAI did. They can also use the world’s information. Instead, since OpenAI has “cleaned” the data, they are trying to use OpenAI’s cleaned dataset. Aft

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