skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
boards give reasons for transparency, and they said he had not been fully candid.

You are interpreting that as hostile and aggressive because you are reading into it what other boards have said in other disputes and whatever you are imagining, but if the board learned some things not from Altman that it felt they should have learned from Altman, less than candid is a completely neutral way to describe it, and voting him out is not an indication of hostility.

Would you like to propose some other candid wording the board could have chosen, a wording that does not lack candor?
why do you think one company will determine whether the us beats china in ai or not ? Like 75% of the authors i read on AI papers are Chinese, that should be far more alarming if you really are afraid of china getting ahead.
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What is Sam Altman going to do with a GPU? Find some engineers to use them I guess?
No, that's the whole point, "AI for the benefit of humanity" and whatnot turned out to be a marketing strategy (if you could call it that).
We do a lot of pre-processing and post-processing with iterative generations and a voting system to ensure accuracy.

AI is mostly used for natural language generation.

For insight-generation, we built our own algorithm (ML-based).
There will definitely be people in Sam's camp that want to leave (I would guess a lot of product people?), but a lot of other people in Ilya's camp who want to stay. Notably, Ilya is the actual scientific and technical asset, and his team are much more likely to be loyal to him than Sam because they work with him. Even if Sam takes away a lot of admin and product roles, the core of the tech capabilities is likely to stay under OpenAI controls. That said, Microsoft doesn't have to keep giving them compute (well, they've got signed agreements Microsoft will honour, but MSoft doesn't have to go further than that), so the new OpenAI will still have to make concessions to their commercial investors for the same reason the company got a for profit subsidiary in the first place: because compute costs money, a lot of it.
From what I understand, the board doesn't want "AI safety" to be the core or even a major driving force. The whole contention sprung about because of sama's way of running the company ("ClosedAI", for-profit) at odds with the non-profit charter and overall spirit of the board and many people working there.
in a power struggle, you have to act quickly
They should be forced to give chat gpt a seat on the board
The concept is in general use. The terminology is not symmetric, but I don't really see that "the far right" is necessarily more pejorative than "extreme progressives".
Here's the actual problem. Kids are cute and annoying. You love them but they will drive you nuts if you don't drain their energy and attention.

The previous solution to this was that parents booted their kids out of the house and made them play outside. This has somehow gone from normal parenting to abusive behavior that could get you arrested in some places with a possibility of losing the child.

So instead, we throw tvs, ipads, and phones at them just so we can get a modicum of quiet. Not surprisingly, each one of those is bad for the kid. The developmental problem is screen time but the scary one is strangers on the Internet. Elsa Gate upset a lot of people, and that's not the worst thing that happens.

Policing the Internet is a bad decision. Any Internet Safety Committee will eventually be staffed by the people you would least like to be there. That's especially problematic because one person's bad guy is another person's hero a lot of the time. Although this is the inevitable future due to increasing clamor by Internet companies for regulatory capture, it won't even be effective.

Parental controls never work. Your kid has way more time and motivation to figure out workarounds, even if the parents and the company set everything correctly. Everyone also knows that there will be at least one friend whose parents don't care. This is true whether the parental controls are local or done by a central committee.

The only solution to this mess is:

* Remove the insane laws and policies that prevent parents from letting their children play outside, especially unaccompanied.

* Educate parents on the importance of moderating and monitoring electronics use.

* Educate parents on how to educate their children about the dangers of the Internet, especially social media, pornography, and pedophiles.

* Accept that some parents don't care and will neglect their children no matter what you do. Instead, empower the parents that do care to easily and safely raise their children.
ryujinx for you then

yuzu's theoretically already done the heavy lifting...Vulkan has been the focus for a while. i wonder if yuzu would break MoltenVK in terrible ways, or if it's mostly compatible
Doesn't Mozilla have an identical structure (which is the inverse of what you said, the nonprofit owns the for-profit--it wouldn't make any sense for a for-profit to own a non-profit due to the no private inurement requirement)?
> Also, even if there was a performance bonus that Google felt they might be forced to pay in litigation they could still have fought it to demonstrate a commitment to not rewarding executives preying on subordinates and to preemptively address potential employee backlash, which was entirely predictable. Google has effectively infinitely deep pockets and did not need to preemptively surrender.

Again, you're tackling this from the frame of mind of being certain that Google would win. It's not about the money: $90 million is almost certainly cheaper than what this case would have cost. It's about the reputational damage: Rubin potentially winning a settlement against Google would have been immensely embarrassing.

It's all about doing what's in the best interest of the alleged victim. She would have probably had to testify at trial. And imagine the hell it would have been to have a settlement paid out to your alleged abuser, thereby implying that you're a false accuser. Juries can be unpredictable, its easy to see why Google decided to find acceptable terma to part with Rubin.
automated in the sense of virtually all decision-making being made elsewhere, turning pretty much every form of labor into assembly-line work, with human supervisors only present to wear a badge of authority, affirm the computer's decisions, and formally transact hiring and firing.

This almost exactly describes Amazon warehouses.
GPT 4 is not remotely unconvincing. It is clearly more intelligent than the average human, and is able to reason in the exact same way as humans. If you provide the steps to reason through any concecpt, it is able to understand at human capability.

GPT 4 is clearly AGI. All of the GPTs have shown general intelligence, but GPT 4 is human-level intelligence.
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I think so. Just did a few searches, pretty decent quality. I think it might be an aggregator.
Why doesn't Microsoft just hire Sam and Greg and put them in charge of AI?
Right?! Anyone paying attention back when Sam was brought on is not surprised. Sam and his investors _were_ the coup. They took an org specifically set up to do open research for the good of humanity, and Sam literally did the opposite. He monetized the work, sold it, didn’t reinvest as promised, reduced transparency, and put the weights under lock and key. He rode in after the hard work had been done, took credit for it, and sold it to lol the fucking Borg of all people.

And many people here who should know better fell for it.
For anybody, like me, who was wondering who is actually on their board:

>OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, comprised of OpenAI Global, LLC employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner.

Sam is gone, Greg is gone, this leaves: Ilya, Adam, Tasha, and Helen.

Adam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_D'Angelo?useskin=vector

Tasha: https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/joseph-gordon... (sorry for this very low quality link, it's the best thing I could find explaing who this person is? There isn't a lot of info on her, or maybe google results are getting polluted by this news?)

Helen: https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/helen-toner/
Some speculation.

There is an exponential power that is getting exacerbated by online dating apps.

It is height preference.

Here are two facts:

1. The distribution of height preference is an exponential curve that peaks at 180cm (5'11")

2. 180cm is the 75 percentile of men's height in the U.S

The amount of feminist, masculine men that are college educated AND at least 180cm... is small. And these men usually have an abundance of options which is influencing them to prioritize casual dating for as long as possible until they are ready to settle down (perhaps their mid to late 30s).
Oh yeah but then it wasn't really speedy anymore.

At college we used to have rooms with 24 X-terminals with 1280x1024 screens - huge for the day. All on one single shared 10mbit!

And wow it was speedy. Because all we did was locally rendered motif window managers, locally rendered fonts and widgets etc. Windows weren't moved animated but just the border was shown while moving.

Fast forward to the 56k days and everyone was running mosaic and netscape scrolling to pages loaded with bitmap images, scrolling marquee text (server rendered usually) and animated under construction images. It was anything but speedy at that point - lol.

From that point onwards things moved on really fast.
I have a hard time believing this simply since it seems so ill-conceived. Sure, maybe Sam Altman was being irresponsible and taking risks, but they had an insanely good thing going for them. I'm not saying Sam Altman was responsible for the good times they were having, but you're probably going to bring them to an end by abruptly firing one of the most prominent members of the group, seeing where individual loyalties lie, and pissing off Microsoft by tanking their stock price without giving them any heads up.

I mean, none of this would be possible without insane amounts of capital and world class talent, and they probably just made it a lot harder to acquire both.

But what do I know? If you can convince yourself that you're actually building AGI by making an insanely large LLM, then you can also probably convince yourself of a lot of other dumb ideas too.
No, NEPA only requires you to gather the environmental impact data. There is no obligation to act on it in any way. It commonly gets used to request for more data to be gathered and delay projects further and use this as a bargaining chip or to sink the project entirely by creating costs for the project owner.
There is no way Sam doesn't have the street cred to do a raise and pull talent for a competitor. They made the decision for him.

(pleb who would invest [1], no other association)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35306929
Raytheon and the Pentagon are secretly controlling OpenAI by changing its CEO?
The media has been pushing for years that playing outside is dangerous and to be punished.

It's not just laws that need to change, it's public opinion.
Western market Volvos are made by the "original" Volvo with minimal Geely influence. For now anyway.
> async/await style interface for doing non-blocking things like creating and reading output from subprocesses could be pretty nice.

That's literally fork/wait + pipes.
By "a bit more expensive", you mean $25,000 as opposed to Coral's $25? Because they will not even tell me the price without me filling out a big form.
I'm highly suspicious of these types of claims. Steve Jobs was famously on a salary of $1, to get Apple back on track....no mention of the 7.8 million stock options backdated to maximize the gains on the share price.

They're all getting paid one way or another.
It's not just "tech bros," though. It's just as often executives in the stodgy climates of government, the military, banking and finance, etc.
> It's not dead. We just call it cloud computing now.

Cloud computing is different: I cannot provide computation time of my idling computers to cloud computing (like I can for, say, SETI@home).
Sorry, what do you mean by "unknown -to-anyone"?

Ilya is a co-founder of OpenAI, the Chief Scientist, and one of the best known AI researchers in the field. He has also been touring with Sam Altman at public events, and getting highlights such as this one recently:

https://youtu.be/9iqn1HhFJ6c
I just started a new job 3 weeks ago via a referral. I messaged a former coworker through LinkedIn, hopped on a call with the hiring manager a week later and was hired.

The actual process was something like this

1. LinkedIn message to former coworker and short conversation about what role I was looking for.

2. Meeting with hiring manager and a peer of his who I had also worked with (different than the guy I initially reached out to)

3. Long wait while hiring manager got the job description officially approved and posted.

4. Fill out application via referral program webpage so the guy I contacted first got the referral bonus

5. HR screen/interview and salary negotiation.

6. Job offer

7. Start new job

There were 4 former coworkers on the team I was hired into and we had all been part of an amazing team at a past company so take that as you will.
This is so accurate, it feels as if our actual customer wrote it :)

We helped many agencies to automate reporting the way you described: https://www.narrative.bi/solutions/agencies
>Distributed computing erupted onto the scene in 1999 with the release of SETI@home, a nifty program and screensaver (back when people still used those) that sifted through radio telescope signals for signs of alien life.

Distributed computing erupted onto the scene in the early 80s when microprocessors became mainstream.
It's like a religion for these people.
I have a Quest 1, so yes, games that use it look terrible outside of the center area (including text being unreadable). If you want to look at something you have to turn your head and face toward it, since there's no eye tracking to move the high detail area around. It's not great.

But the alternative is the games wouldn't sustain acceptable framerates, so I'll take that tradeoff. I'm not saying it looks good, but it's running on a Snapdragon 835 so you do what you have to.
> You are interpreting that as hostile and aggressive because you are reading into it

Uhh no, I'm seeing it as hostile and aggressive because the actual verbiage was hostile and aggressive, doubly so in the context of this being a formal corporate statement. You can pass the text into NLP sentiment analyzer and it too will come to the same conclusion.

It is also very telling that you are being very sarcastic and demeaning in your remarks as well to someone who wasn't even replying to you, which might explain why you might have seen the PR statement differently.
Sam Altman is much more replaceable than Ilya Sutskever
That is not practical due to latency issues. A cluster of machines owned by one entity is still distributed computing.
The car industry is still massive in Europe, it's a big employer and in many localities, it's basically the only one.

China help its manufacturers a lot, regulations are lax around worker and environment rights, wages are kept artificially low, subsidies, tax cuts, export, creating an unfair competitive advantage to European cars.

Europe might never be able to compete fairly, and it's looking at ways to penalize the import of these cheap cars to rebalance the market.

I think that beyond the purely short term economics, there is a real danger that you are jeopardizing your sovereignty if you relinquish such a huge chunk of your transportation capabilities and become hostage to the whims of a country that doesn't value your vision of the world.

It becomes more than just being able to buy cheap cars and letting the market sort it out. It's about geopolitics, relevance and survival or your way of life.
What are your asking prices?
> For others, if you wear the wrong ratty clothes into the library, you're breaking the social contract.

This is a very bad faith re-statement of what I wrote about my experiences with the homeless in my library.
I came across this a few years back when numbly watching the dependencies scroll by during some Java install.

“Disruptor is a fairly presumptuous name for a package” I thought. So I looked into it. It fed musings and thought experiments for many walks to and from the T. I love the balance between simplicity and subtlety in the design.

If i recall, it was a dependency for log4j, which makes sense for high volume logging.
> probably the most well-known tech reporter

I imagine Walt Mossberg saying "hold my beer"
People don't know who Ilya is?
I don't mean new and challenging in some general sense, I mean new and challenging to you personally.

I have no doubt someone with more experience such as yourself will find GPT-4 less useful for your highly specialized work.

The next time you are a beginner again - not necessarily even in technical work - give it a try.
In other words, if SamA did it once, would $50 billion in funding enable him do it a 2nd time?
I still maintain that IRC is better than Discord. It was so nice to have "real" servers.
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.

Whether you can bolt something small to these architectures for persistence and do some small things and get AGI is an open question, but what we have is clearly insufficient by design.

I expect it's something in-between: our current approaches are a fertile ground for improving towards AGI, but it's also not a trivial further step to get there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33431427 :

> FWIU, heat engines are useful with all thermal gradients: pipes, engines, probably solar panels and attics; "MIT’s new heat engine beats a steam turbine in efficiency" (2022) https://www.freethink.com/environment/heat-engine

"Thermophotovoltaic efficiency of 40%" (2022)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04473-y https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1419736444024563175...

"Capturing Light From Heat at 40% Efficiency, NREL Makes Big Strides in Thermophotovoltaics" (2022)
https://www.nrel.gov/news/program/2022/capturing-light-from-.... :

> The 41%-efficient TPV device is a tandem cell—a photovoltaic device built out of two light-absorbing layers stacked on top of each other and each optimized to absorb slightly different wavelengths of light. The team achieved this record efficiency through the usage of high-performance cells optimized to absorb higher-energy infrared light when compared to past TPV designs. This design builds on previous work from the NREL team.

> Another crucial design feature leading to the high efficiency is a highly reflective gold mirror at the back of the cell. Much of the emitted infrared light has a longer (less energetic) wavelength than what the cell's active layers can absorb. This back surface reflector bounces 93% of that unabsorbed light back to the emitter, where it is reabsorbed and reemitted, improving the overall efficiency of the system. Further improvements to the reflectance of the back reflector could drive future TPV efficiencies close to or above 50%.

Thermoelectric effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect

Thermophotovoltaic energy conversion *: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermophotovoltaic_energy_conv...

Thermophotonics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermophotonics

Gas turbine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_turbine :

> gross thermal efficiency exceeds 60%. [100] (2011)

GE-7HA
https://www.ge.com/news/press-releases/ha-technology-now-ava... (2017) :

> that its largest and most efficient gas turbine, the HA, is now available at more than 64 percent efficiency in combined cycle power plants, higher than any other competing technology today.

How do TPV operating and lifecycle costs differ from gas turbine's costs?
A least let some idealism exist in this world otherwise we'd all be owned by corporations. It is not always about money.
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The only thing GPT 4 is missing is the ability to recognize it needs to ask more questions before it jumps into a problem.

When you compare it to an entry level data entry role, it's absolutely AGI. You loosely tell it what it needs to do, step-by-step, and it does it.
> any kind of organization that's tried to impose completely top-down edicts, you should have seen the kind of destruction of morale it leaves in its wake.

https://chrislaing.net/blog/the-memo/

And now no one remembers what it was like without AWS...
From what I hear, he directly expedited an office move just to bring Gemini folks together in NYC. So that is true to some degree. Not sure about the whole picture.
ChatGPT blew the doors open on the AI arms race. Without Sam leading the charge, we wouldn't have an AI boom. We wouldn't have Google scrambling to launch catch up features. We wouldn't have startups raising 100s of millions, people talking about a new industrial revolution, llama (2), all the models on hugging face or any of the other crazy stuff that has come about in the past year.

Was the original launch of ChatGPT "safe?" Of course not, but it moved the industry forward immensely.

Swisher's follow up is even more eyebrow raising:
"The developer day and how the store was introduced was in inflection moment of Altman pushing too far, too fast. My bet: He’ll have a new company up by Monday."

What exactly from the demo day was "pushing too far?" We got a dall-e api, a larger context window and some cool stuff to fine tune GPT. I don't really see anything there that is too crazy... I also don't get the sense that Sam was cavalier about AI safety. That's why I am so surprised that the apparent reason for his ousting appears to be a boring, old, political turf war.

My sense is that there is either more to the story, or Sam is absolutely about to have his Steve Jobs moment. He's also likely got a large percentage of the OpenAI researcher's on his side.
I don't think it's that dramatic. In a board meeting, you have to act while the board is meeting. They don't meet every day, and it's a small rigamarole to pull a meeting together, so if you're meeting... vote.
Is OpenAI's current success attributed more to its excellent business and startup management, or does it stem from its superior technology and research that surpasses what others have developed?
Best response on this yet.
Relatedly similar project:

https://promptfile.org/
Well if for nothing else they are their biggest partner and investor
My theory is that there are some hidden, super important details to the whole convoluted structure and its relationship and ownership structure with MSFT that has perhaps just come to light. it seems like such a weird structure, I can imagine it not being too hard to obscure from the board some big sticking points.
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The article is exactly about projects like SETI@home or Folding@home.
The current trial use of Semi with Pepsi seems to be the same use case as Volvo. They only have day-cabs, and every day Semi returns to the transport hub. The long-range continuous-use stuff is still a future goal.
Even if sama and gdb raised $10B by early 2024, all of the GPU production capacity is already allocated years out. They'd have to buy some other company's GPUs at insane markups. And that's only on the hardware side.