skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Copy-pasting from another thread where I posted this:

Helen Toner is famous among the AI safety community for being one of the main people working to halt and reverse any sort of "AI arms race" between the US & China. The recent successes in this regard at the UK AI Safety Summit and the Biden/Xi talks are due in large part to her advocacy.

She is well-connected with Pentagon leaders, who trust her input. She also is one of the hardest-working people among the West's analysts in her efforts to understand and connect with the Chinese side, as she uprooted her life to literally live in Beijing at one point in order to meet with people in the budding Chinese AI Safety community.

Here's an example of her work: AI safeguards: Views inside and outside China (Book chapter)
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/97810032...

She's also co-authored several of the most famous "survey" papers which give an overview of AI safety methods:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22h...

She's at roughly the same level of eminence as Dr. Eric Horvitz (Microsoft's Chief Scientific Officer), who has similar goals as her, and who is an advisor to Biden. Comparing the two, Horvitz is more well-connected but Toner is more prolific, and overall they have roughly equal impact.
In my opinion, these people were not fit to run an enterprise originally labeled as "Open"AI, especially when Musk donated 100 million dollars to making sure it remained open while others in the company deemed it better to be closed. At this point, I must wonder if I support XAI instead over these companies.
AGI at all costs sounds more terrifying than monetizing ChatGPT. Seems like there could have been a balance to strike.
I have made a text submission instead with an added piece of information. Hope that's ok?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316378
Jeremy Howard called ngmi on OpenAI during the Vanishing Gradients podcast yesterday, and Ilya has probably been thinking the same: LLM is a dead-end and not the path to AGI.

https://twitter.com/HamelHusain/status/1725655686913392933
I don't agree with the "noble lie" hypothesis of current AI. That being said I'm not sure why you're couching it that way: they got where they are they got where they are because they spent less time trying to inject safety at a time where capabilities didn't make it unsafe, than their competitors.

Google could have given us GPT-4 if they weren't busy tearing themselves asundre with people convinced a GPT-3 level model was sentient, and now we see OpenAI can't seem to escape that same poison
> Never said it was okay to lie.

All your messages in this thread strongly suggest you do. e.g. "What’s he supposed to do?" certainly does not come across as a mark of disapproval and I have no idea how else to interpret this.

If you meant to say something else then you should have said something clearer than a string of vague one-liners that signal approval in any common sense reading.
That's pretty dishonest. It's only an "unarguable fact" if you consider "X group does Y" to be true if any members of X do Y, in which case it's an "unarguable fact" that all races push hatred of all other races and we should encourage hatred of people based on race for that reason.

You can criticize organizations without lauding broadly hateful comments with no qualification on your praise, which is what Musk did. What happened isn't complicated or even particularly subjective, frankly, though the broader topic certainly is.

You can also engage in that broader topic without defending obvious shit-stirring specific examples/figures, like Musk. There are people making sound criticisms of e.g. Israel or the ADL. You can take their positions, instead of joining hands with a low-quality source of noise and trolling, like Musk and the guy he was praising.
Um, so?

The fact that Zig did a boatload of extra work due to path dependence is true.

However, this in no way contradicts that self-hosting via WASM/WASI is likely a far better idea than maintaining two complete compilers in different codebases and languages solely in order to bootstrap.

In fact, nowadays, someone building a new language and compiler is probably better off targeting WASM/WASI before any other architecture.
These people in the Twitter thread are distracted by use of Google Meet. Have they never compared it to Micrsoft Teams. Or Zoom. All these are painful to use, if for nothing else besides the companies behind them, but there's quite a difference between Meet and the others.
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I imagine that is exactly what:

>spend more money on business analysis up front.

Entails. But sure, if the government doesn't want to pay for that quality, they can spend just as much or more resurrecting Cobol devs in cryo-stasis in 2099
Roko's Basilisk.
SETI@Home was an easy sell early on - "Hey, check out this neat screensaver" - but it got a lot harder to use when they joined the BOINC platform. That was when I abandoned it because I just plain had trouble getting it to run.
Well, I definitely wouldn't want Altman in charge of any superintelligence, so "I'm not sure" would be an improvement, if I expected an imminent superintelligence.
Who else shaped the world so thoroughly as these eight? I am thinking of those who made the first beer in Mesopotamia, China, the Indus Valley, and Mesoamerica. A side note, what really grinds my gears is historians not focusing on the events of non-Western nations even if they know, at least vaguely, of advances in such areas of the world. The Earth is not merely made up of only Western sensibilities.
CO2 is an irrelevant measurement, what matters is CO2e (CO2-equivalent, i.e. what's the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted, measured in the amount of CO2 needed to match their warming potential).

Gas emits a relatively low amount of CO2, but a much higher amount of methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas (easily 10x of CO2, 50x as much depending on how exactly you measure it (e.g. methane has a shorter atmospheric lifetime than CO2)). Measuring only CO2 here is pointless.
Dimissioni di Sam Altman, CEO di OpenAI, per Problemi di Comunicazione

In un'imprevista svolta, OpenAI, i creativi dietro ai servizi di intelligenza artificiale ChatGPT e Dall-E, affronta un importante cambio di leadership. Sam Altman, CEO e co-fondatore, ha lasciato l'azienda, generando speculazioni nell'industria tecnologica.

La partenza, non chiaramente definita come licenziamento o dimissioni volontarie, è stata il risultato di una decisione del consiglio che ha citato la presunta mancanza di trasparenza costante nelle comunicazioni di Altman. La dichiarazione ufficiale di OpenAI ha affermato che questa barriera comunicativa ha ostacolato la capacità del consiglio di adempiere ai suoi doveri, causando la perdita di fiducia nella leadership di Altman.

Sebbene i dettagli sulle azioni di Altman che hanno causato questa mancanza di fiducia rimangano non divulgati, il consiglio ha espresso gratitudine per il ruolo cruciale di Altman nella fondazione e nella crescita di OpenAI. Tuttavia, hanno sottolineato la necessità di una nuova leadership per guidare i futuri sforzi dell'azienda.

In risposta alle dimissioni di Altman, OpenAI ha nominato Mira Murati, attuale chief technology officer, come CEO ad interim. Il consiglio mira a avviare una ricerca approfondita per un CEO permanente.

Altman, noto per la sua presenza pubblica nel rappresentare OpenAI, ha condiviso una breve dichiarazione sui social media, esprimendo affetto per il suo tempo in azienda e ammirazione per il talentuoso team. Tuttavia, ha evitato di affrontare direttamente la dichiarazione del consiglio, lasciando intendere ulteriori rivelazioni sui suoi piani futuri nei prossimi giorni.

Questa inattesa evoluzione è avvenuta poco dopo che Altman ha ospitato la conferenza inaugurale degli sviluppatori di OpenAI, dove l'azienda ha svelato i piani per consentire la creazione di chatbot personalizzati chiamati GPT.

Il sostanziale sostegno finanziario di OpenAI da parte di Microsoft e l'utilizzo dei prodotti di intelligenza artificiale generativa per migliorare i propri servizi avevano posizionato la leadership di Altman in primo piano. La sua partnership e il rapporto con Satya Nadella, CEO di Microsoft, sono stati mostrati in modo prominente durante gli eventi pubblici.

In risposta alle dimissioni di Altman, Microsoft ha confermato il suo impegno nel proseguire il percorso di OpenAI nel promuovere la prossima era della tecnologia AI, sottolineando la loro duratura partnership.

Con la partenza di Altman, OpenAI si trova di fronte a un momento intrigante, suscitando curiosità nell'industria riguardo alla futura traiettoria dell'azienda e all'impatto di questa transizione di leadership sulle loro innovative iniziative di intelligenza artificiale.
The having no team members but still requiring pr signoff. I had that issue luckily they hired a junior but nothing could move if either of us got sick.
In a society with healthy unions and strike protection, there is also a functional unemployment system. Staying on unemployment benefits another month, earning 80% of your previous salary, allows the potential scab to stand in solidarity with the strikers, and would be the moral decision. Not to mention the strategic decision, as there will be real social and employability costs to choosing to cross a strike line.
So you disagree with and think you know better than the 14 people at Microsoft Research that had access to the unrestricted early GPT-4 model and wrote the white paper outlining the results of experiments with it that concluded the model showed "sparks of artificial general intelligence".

That's their informed, direct conclusion after hands on with the unrestricted model. I wonder what your conclusion is based on.
TY for sharing. I found this to be very enlightening, especially when reading more about the board members that were part of the oust.

One of the board of directors that fired him co-signed these AI principles (https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/ai-principles/) that are very much in line with safeguarding general intelligence

Another of them wrote this article (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/illusion-chinas-ai-prow...) in June of this year that opens by quoting Sam Altman saying US regulation will "slow down American industry in such a way that China or somebody else makes faster progress” and basically debunks that stance...and quite well, I might add.
Jakub Pachocki and Szymon Sidor have worked on mu-parametrization/tensor programs and Dota 2.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/J.-Pachocki/2713380?s...

As @eachro pointed out, Aleksander Madry is on leave from his MIT professorship. His publications:

https://madry.mit.edu/
one thing that has apparent through this saga is how many people think Sam was a driving force behind the development and engineering. His departure may impact capital raising but not model development.
Ilya is the driving force there and his commitment to the original idea l may bring OpenAI closer to the original investors aims.
This is the reverse of their apparent differences, at least as stated elsewhere in the comments.
I agree. None of this adds up. The only thing that makes any sense, given OpenAI has any sense and self interest at all, is that the reason they let Altman go may have even been bigger than even what they were saying, and that there was some lack of candor in his communications with the board. Otherwise, you don't make an announcement like that 30 minutes before markets close on a Friday.
Yeah, no idea, I can only speculate, maybe Dev Day was just the final straw, or perhaps it was related to APEC and the whole world tour that Sam did to make deals with powerful actors, or maybe it was related to the rumored tender offer?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/technology/openai-artific...
> Ilya is probably not.

If he is, at this point, so much so not replaceable that he has enough leverage to strong-arm the board into firing the CEO over disagreeing with the CEO, then that would for sure be the biggest problem OpenAI has.
By letting humanity use the thing you made, customized to their own situation, so it can benefit them?
Whatever one of these password managers you may use, always remember to regularly export to the cleartext. Keep a 50 megabyte encrypted container around for it. Mount, export, unmount. Whenever you remember to do it, at least every couple of months. Even if it's not always up to date at least you won't be locked out of everything when these situations happen.
A 44 rubix cube is barely harder to solve than a 33 rubix cube. After all, it's only a difference of 1.
His sister alleged abuse by him when they were kids https://www.timesnownews.com/world/sam-altman-sister-annie-a...
Make no mistake, they're not trying to pass these laws because parental controls suck. They're trying to pass these laws so they can control what we say and read on the internet.
She is the reputation.
Why does he bother with apostrophes then…
Why would they need him? The guy that forced him out is the one with the technical chops and a world class engineering. They don’t need a salesman
Something that benefits all of humanity in one person's or organization's eye can still have severely terrible outcomes for sub-sections of humanity.
Where can I subscribe for more billionaire lifestyle facts?
I can only imagine Uber asking for tips for themselves. So distasteful.
Perfect fit. But some jokers try to sell tinyai.com for $120,000
Revenue model is the greatest religion, anything or anyone else is always replaceable.
not gonna lie, i have to literally look up the meanings of half the words in your post lol, but you must have been in my position sometime. What did you have to learn in order to build this
One data structure, one solution, for the entire problem seems like an unlikely path. Probably I would see how to break it into smaller, individual, more manageable audits, which seems to be what they did.
The early version of SETI@Home you'd install the same as you installed a screensaver. It was trivially easy to get running, basically no setup.
power hijack by the doomers. too bad the cat is out of the bag already
This means that if you use some third-party code, it may work funny if it hits one of the differences. OTOH it should be somehow faster.
Which "token hires" are you referring to, specifically?
At least there's no accurate way for a search engine to check for originality. It's like asking a machine to evaluate other machines.

Here's the top-most featured snippet when I google if programming languages had honest slogans: https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/if-your-favourite-programmi...

Half of the above post is plagiarised from my 2020 post: https://betterprogramming.pub/if-programming-languages-had-h...
It depends on what time the comments are from

I'll say my first reaction was pretty positive: Sam Altman has a manner of speaking that rubs a lot of people the wrong way because it feels steeped in hubris. He'd probably talk down to anyone in this thread for being here instead of building and point to it as why you're not yet a billionaire.

Some people also worried he was a distraction to OpenAI building useful things because of his constant talk about AGI, pushing for regulation, etc. He successfully created an image of being a moderating rod in some ways.

_

That being said, as the full picture comes out it's becoming clear the reasoning for his firing is more aligned against the average HN image than anyone imagined.

A lot of people admire OpenAI for the exact things he got fired for: which is building things and shipping them without miring yourself in philosophical diversions.

Now only a noisy minority who think OpenAI could have achieved this all without immense commercial funding are really for his ousting, and I think they'll see the opposite effect of what they hope: OpenAI is going to slow down, open source will not catch up, and overall AI will have lost out over it all.
> , they just regurgitate it, remix it, and expose patterns

Who cares? Sometimes the remixation of such patterns is what leads to new insights in us humans. It is dumb to think that remixing has no material benefit, especially when it clearly does.
This is a good point. There is no possible room for the general artificial intelligence company to disappoint investors or other stakeholders in a big way
Do you know he has no context, or I'd this also a random baseless opinion?

In either case Ron Conway is extremely well connected and well known in VC circles, and so his opinion will have weight here whether or not he has sources.
How much is Altman contributing to product, though? Product in its broadest sense - not only improving LLM performance and breadth but applications, or "productization": new APIs, ChatGPT, enterprise capabilities, etc.?

I think Altman is a brilliant guy and surely he'll fall on his feet, but I think it's legitimate to ask to what extent he's responsible for many of us using ChatGPT every single day for the last year.
She also admits her bias and is staking her reputation as a journalist on that tweet - versus us commenting behind a pseudonym. It’s the closest to a fact we will have at the moment.
Absolutely interesting. Would you mind sharing which models and tools you are using on your M3?
I believe in self-reliance.
x87 everywhere? as in...floating point instructions?

These games aren't designed for an 8086, having an FPU is generally expected
Sam Altman is no Steve Jobs.
No, the onus would be on Sam Altman to prove that the statement was materially false, AND intended to slander him, AND actually succeeded in affecting his reputation.

When you're a public person, the bar for winning a defamation case is very high.
> But in one sentence, try asking ChatGPT to reverse a string of 20+ digits, like 473936482738338373926. It can't do it. It's a super trivial task, but it can't do it. Because it doesn't really understand anything. It's just an incredibly advanced Markov chain.

I agree with this statement, but why don't I see it described this way more?

It really feels like transformers are (large) parameterized markov chains but I never seen anyone describe it this way, is it just not a good approximation/hiding too much of the technical workings to be true?
No it cant, that’s literally a contradictory statement
thank you for sharing, it has a few code snippets here and there. Would you be aware of a course or something (Google didnt help) that teaches how to build one from the ground up
Basically, Tom Cruise is the world's wealthiest stuntman. I'd love to know the carbon footprint per second of video for that scene. And honestly, would it have looked worse had it been created using CGI?
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> Clearly there's a difference, because the architectures we have don't know how to persist information or further train. Without persistence outside of the context window, they can't even maintain a dynamic, stable higher level goal.

Nope, and not all people can achieve this as well. Would you call them less than humans than? I assume you wouldn't, as it is not only sentience of current events that maketh man. If you disagree, then we simply have fundamental disagreements on what maketh man, thus there is no way we'd have agreed in the first place.
Helen Toner is famous among the AI safety community for being one of the most important people working to halt and reverse any sort of "AI arms race" between the US & China. The recent successes in this regard at the UK AI Safety Summit and the Biden/Xi talks are due in large part to her advocacy.

She is well-connected with Pentagon leaders, who trust her input. She also is one of the hardest-working people among the West's analysts in her efforts to understand and connect with the Chinese side, as she uprooted her life to literally live in Beijing at one point in order to meet with people in the budding Chinese AI Safety community.

Here's an example of her work: AI safeguards: Views inside and outside China (Book chapter) https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/97810032...

She's also co-authored several of the most famous "survey" papers which give an overview of AI safety methods: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22h...

She's at roughly the same level of eminence as Dr. Eric Horvitz (Microsoft's Chief Scientific Officer), who has similar goals as her, and who is an advisor to Biden. Comparing the two, Horvitz is more well-connected but Toner is more prolific, and overall they have roughly equal impact.

(Copy-pasting this comment from another thread where I posted it in response to a similar question.)
I think my point is different than what you're breaking down here.

The only way that OpenAI was able to sell MS and others on the 100x capped non-profit and other BS was because of the AGI/superintelligence narraitive. Sam was that salesman. And Sam does seem to sincerely believe that AGI and superintelligence are realities on OpenAI's path, a perfect salesman.

But then... maybe that AGI conviction was oversold? To a level some would have interpreted as "less than candid," that's my claim.

Speaking as a technologist actually building AGI up from animal-levels following evolution (and as a result totally discounting superintelligence), I do think Sam's AGI claims veered on the edge of reality as lies.
what language do you think would be the backbone for such a system? C/C++/Golang or something high level like node.js/Java
gotta keep in mind that this sounds like pre-COVID times, and even big companies weren't going to pay San Fran Salaries to low CoL areas.

It definitely isn't easy to find those numbers if your CoL doesn't require them. You'd need to move to those areas.
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I have a special needs son. Parental controls are useless. Huge swathes of legitimate content gets blocked while he can still get to horrible material I don’t want him watching. His inability to obey any rules has resulted in him losing his pc because we simply couldn’t keep plugging all the holes he was finding to sneak into YouTube. And don’t get me started on streaming services where if you let your kid watch Star Wars, they can also watch The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes.
I would have no problem if a license restricted its commerical use by teracorps, while leaving smaller companies alone. The Llama licence is a step in the right direction.
No, not by themselves, they're not as good as GPT-4. (I disagree that they're only "marginally" better than GPT-3.5, but that's just a minor quibble) If you use RAG and other techniques, you can get very close to GPT-4-level performance with other open models. Again, I'm not claiming open models are better than GPT-4, just that you can come close.
He is saying some randos in some game chatroom are claiming to work somewhere that is processing audio to text for some purpose and are saying everything they overhear i think.
I think Volvo is going to try to sell their Volvo EX30 in the US.

But yes; in practice the US have banned Chinese EVs by a combination of subsidy policies and import taxes.

The 2025 Volvo EX30: Priced to Tempt Americans

https://spectrum.ieee.org/volvo-china-electric-car
The Media Matters report they're being sued over is here: https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk-endorses-antisemit...

X says only one tweet in that report violated its rules (and not enough to suspend the user); the report shows multiple explicitly pro-Hitler tweets.
I agree, let me query what I wish from the AI; it is literally no different from current search engines.
Arent they a couple of percent away from being owned by Microsoft? MS owning them would make them a benefit to Microsoft only at which point they would become nothing more than a corpse murdered to fuel that profit machine and it’s existing software.
If they could also put the parking sensors back in, along with the indicator stalk that would be great. Also some way of opening the glove box without using the screen.