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> you can't guarantee 5us for anything, at least not on common operating systems

I don’t doubt it, but from my reading of OP’s post, it sounds they were skipping most of the kernel and OS.
That’s just showing the tests are measuring specific things that LLMs can game particularly well.

Computers have been able to smash high school algebra tests since the 1970’s, but that doesn’t make them as smart as a 16 year old (or even a three year old).
They said "senior researchers", and I would say a programmer is not a researcher if they spend all their time on programming.
Yes but you can't scale your brain by building a bigger womb.
For more related, see the Lazarus Group (also discussed in an episode of Darknet Diaries featuring the guy who wrote the book about it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/darknet-diaries/id1296...)
No. What I'm saying is "take a job with a non-compete or starve" is not a situation in which a worker can make a voluntary choice, "enforceable in court" be damned. Not to mention, such agreements are often not stated up front as part of the job description.
Isn’t the for-profit a subsidiary on the non-profit?
You kind of would? For any non-minor amount you’d surely have to find some way to launder them, which almost certainly would’t give you a 1:1 return.

Doesn’t make **coins currencies though.
This is not new news, and the role of North Korean hackers in cybercrime is well documented.

https://www.trmlabs.com/post/inside-north-koreas-crypto-heis...

https://go.chainalysis.com/rs/503-FAP-074/images/Crypto_Crim...
Agreed in principle, but I'm guessing one could argue that stolen money has to be laundered before being used.
The commercial shift has started quite some time ago, what's the point of firing them now?

And why such a controversial wording around Altman?

Why fire Brockman too?
Nanobots are easy and convenient (for a superintelligence). But it's not like they're necessary. ASI can take over the world the old fashioned way, it just takes longer and is harder to explain.
The update includes fixes for an indie game released this year. Megacorps aren't the only ones affected by this.
Just the first two bullet points alone are pretty astounding. Entering the game with a solid but not exactly rare undergraduate degree in 2012 and straight up to PM on a major product line at Tesla just a few years later, is already quite an incredible turn of fortune.

I would not have expected anything less than a decade of solid industry experience combined with, at least a technically-weighted MBA or a masters in engineering in such a role.
Sorry for being vague. I was not at all referring to his answer per se. But rather his high-brow reference to Plato.

If he has truly read and digested Plato (and not just skimmed a summary video), he would not be in this ditch to begin with. That's the irony I was referring to.
> Honest question, for I don't know the answer

Probably depends where etc. In the context of Russia in Europe, I guess it would have been less stable. Ever since the 1990s, Russia has been steadily ramping up the aggressive rhetoric against Eastern Europe, even against NATO countries. This wasn't entirely some kind of "you are a threat" kind of thing, but a lot of "you are only temporarily outside the Russian sphere, don't get used to it". Russia also pushed to expand its influence by force in Georgia, Ukraine (twice now), and I'd argue Belarus, where they prop up an unpopular tyrant. So for Europe, NATO has absolutely been a stabilizing force, and it's absence would only make Russian aggression worse.

But moving away from Europe and into the Middle East, I wonder if that's true. NATO and co did various interventions, in hindsight quite disastrous, that not only failed to achieve their goals but also destabilized the region. How would that part of the world look without a strong, united and emboldened Western coalition? Possibly happier and stabler.

But who knows, the fallen Middle Eastern dictators were pretty horrid.
How many years did it take to go from 39 million to 43 million in value? Would've been better off in bonds, perhaps.

This isn't a success story, it's a redistribution of wealth from investors to the founders.
Yup, it's my default for most meetings, share a link at it just works fine.
I use both and shudder every time I am forced to use the lame web app alternatives to Word, Excel & PowerPoint on desktop - mostly because my child's school runs on web alternatives. Ironically even on Android, Outlook seems to be the only major client that actually provides a unified inbox across mail accounts due to which I switched & use my Gmail accounts through it.
> If you join a consultancy group, and 2 months later quit with the client roster... is it really OK to poach all their clients to start your own consultancy?

Yes. It's called free market competition and it's great for the society and economy. NYC bankers should be first in line to understand that.
It's a stereotypical heuristic I use and maybe wrong, but I can't ever really trust anyone with a bunch of aesthetic plastic surgery.

If you're that much of a narcissist that you'd risk your health to look better, I need to take everything else you do and say with a big grain of salt.
I update it with Brew on macOS and Scoop [1] on Windows (but I guess it is included in other package managers such as chocolatey).

Of course, a built-in auto-updater would be good, but a packaged version is a nice workaround for me.

[1]: https://scoop.sh/
The truth or falsity of this statement turns entirely on whether more AI is good or not. You are in agreement with doomers that single figureheads are a weakpoint. That's the point. The disagreement is on whether having massive uncontrollable power widely dispersed is beneficial.
This. VCs/tech bros are framing this as a coup except when you approach from this angle it all makes sense
> Could OpenAI be at escape velocity anyway to AGI just continuing on the track it's been on?

Could a nuclear energy company be at escape velocity to fusion because they are the best at fission? I wouldn't think so
Chinese papers are (with much higher probability) citing Chinese sources. It's a self-empowering cycle, which doesn't say anything about the quality.
Let me know when GPT can even play chess without making invalid moves, then we can talk about how capable it is of logical thinking.
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Brockman quit, he wasn’t fired.
So what are best forums for discussing anime and similar? I found AnimeVice and that's it.
Was it a right choice to make ChatGPT accessible by the public?

To a person who is not an expert at prompting LLMs, ChatGPT is basically a shitty version of Bing Chat (aka Copilot). Especially the free version - it's an outdated model which cannot search the internet (or does it strictly worse than Bing Chat).

Why does OpenAI pay for access to a shitty version of Bing Chat?

There's only one possible reason for this: raising money at a very high valuation. They burned through hundreds of millions dollars to show VC that they have 100+ M users (and growing rapidly!) to raise at valuation ~$100B.
It's been confirmed to be Ilya.
> target my submission with needless references (one of those links is over 7 years old now) and have that appear at the top of the comments.

This is... dramatic.

Moderation comments appearing at the top of a thread is pretty common and makes perfect sense to me. One of the 'references' you're talking about is the site FAQ, and the other is a thread explaining the policy change re: paywalled articles; I'm not sure why its age is relevant.
I don't see the problem with this.
No. Statements from Ilya himself.
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True. But the way The System works isn't WS v WS, it's WS v Everyone Else. WS doesn't want to waste time and energy hurting themselves. They know better. They behave more like starlings. No conspiracy per se, just mutual interests that align strategy, tactics, direction, etc.

https://youtu.be/V4f_1_r80RY?si=e-niFwrb-QeE4oDU
Duolingo is useless, my father has 140k experience, 3 years streak and can't speak or understand any English in real life.
I've been wondering along similar lines, although I am for all intents and purposes here a layman so apologies if the following is nonsensical.

I feel there are potential parallels between RAG and how human memory works. When we humans are prompted, I suspect we engage in some sort of relevant memory retrieval process and the retrieved memories are packaged up and factored in to our mental processing triggered by the prompt. This seems similar to RAG, where my understanding is that some sort of semantic search is conducted over a database of embeddings (essentially, "relevant memories") and then shoved into the prompt as additional context. Bigger context window allows for more "memories" to contextualise/inform the model's answer.

I've been wondering three things: (1) are previous user prompts and model answers also converted to embeddings and stored in the embedding database, as new "memories", essentially making the model "smarter" as it accumulates more "experiences" (2) could these "memories" be stored alongside a salience score of some kind that increases the chance of retrieval (with the salience score probably some composite of recency and perhaps degree of positive feedback from the original user?) (3) could you take these new "memories" and use them to incrementally retrain the model for, say, 8 hours every night? :)

Edit: And if you did (3), would that mean even with a temperature set at 0 the model might output one response to a prompt today, and a different response to an identical prompt tomorrow, due to the additional "experience" it has accumulated?
I hope you'll never have to use Webex.
Nice! Interestingly, I actually started learning Finnish on Duolingo last week :)
“Fired by whom, Ben? Fucking aquamen?”.

The board did become un-boardable in any future company, but they are not resigning.
Even in the UK, if you sue, it is on you to prove that you didn't lie, not on the person you're sueing to prove that you did.

Also, as long as you are a public person, defamation has a very high bar in the USA. It is not enough to for the statement to be false, you have to actually prove that the person you're accusing of defamation knew it was false and intended it to hurt you.

Note that this is different from an accusation of perjury. They did not accuse Sam Altman of performing illegal acts. If they had, things would have been very different. As it stands, they simply said that he hasn't been truthful to them, which it would be very hard to prove is false.
That makes very little sense. Microsoft spent the last week enthusing about the leadership and vision of OpenAI and their strong partnership, even in Nadella’s keynote speech at the Ignite conference. It’s Microsoft’s biggest event of the year. This makes them look pretty stupid, and the announcement came before market closing hours on a Friday, which put in dent in their share price.

However, I would not be surprised if Microsoft take advantage of this unexpected situation for their gain.
Yes, still true. Macros do not change the outcome, but the way to reach the outcome. That's flavor, not meat.
Interesting. I studied propaganda academically (communicology studies) and would have argued it's gotten worse in the last 20 years, due to new technologies. That is not a strong opinion of mine and your post made me think. I'd like to better understand your point. Are you US American? Are you talking about cold-war propaganda as having been worse or the post 911 hysteria?
What a hypocritical board, firing them after massive commercial success!

Classic virtue signalling for the sake of personal power gains as so often.
What kind of sensitive IP do quants have? How is it different than the tech industry?
> head of AI risk team

That's a good sign imo.
What's no. 1, or am I unintentionally beckoning you to violate it in making it vocal?
If it doesn’t make sense in California’s Silicon Valley, how can it be justified in NYC
> "Goldman Sachs Research now expects battery prices to fall to $99 per kilowatt hour (kWh) of storage capacity by 2025 — a 40% decrease from 2022 (the previous forecast was for a 33% decline). Our analysts estimate that almost half of the decline will come from declining prices of EV raw materials such as lithium, nickel, and cobalt."

It wouldn't surprise me if BYD, CATL, and Tesla were already there now. Not sure if there's public information on that though. I'd imagine they'd keep it a secret if they can.

Funny they mention nickel and cobalt, since they're not actually required. I think LFP cells are somewhere around half the EV-battery market these days.
It’s a fine proposition but in practice, with a list of bare urls, the author asking me to click on random links with no context[1], and I have to override my instincts, shaped by decades of internet use, to be very wary of doing so.

I don’t think this works without a summary provided with each link. Or even just fetching the open graph tags or something.

[1] it’s not a 100% fair test because I don’t have a relationship with the author, so there is no trust to leverage. But I don’t even like clicking on bare links in WhatsApp messages from close friends without a word or two on why I should do so! There’s always a possibility someone’s account is compromised, and without being able to evaluate that the link is accompanied by their “voice”, I err on the side of caution and usually ignore…
That doesn't mean it's not a personal scandal. If Brockman disagreed with the board about the advisability of firing him for whatever personal scandal it was, this is how you'd expect things to play out.
Right, I think that there should be an editor that can open a project folder (consisting of json files and assets like images or sound clips) that teachers can use and share with each other (because they understand copying a folder and naming it v2 then emailing it to a colleague), but that folder could also be uploaded as a repo to github for more organized projects.

You could also have a cloud service to store the project files, and then the teachers can just login to the editor and click save to upload their latest copy of the course.
Yet, when a master player makes a decision what move to play, they often have concrete reasons for it, that they discuss in after game analysis. They evaluate some advantage or chances higher than others or some risks greater than others and calculate specific sequences ahead to be sure to solve a subproblem correctly and base their decision on that.
Yeah, I misspoke earlier. Although nobody has actual power on paper, public and investor pressure can be just as influential.
LLMs are not any kind of intelligence, but it can work to augment intelligence.
Councils used to have building teams that could cheaply make decent housing. It all got cut over time, to increase profits.

The main way that is achieved is by disciplining workers as a class. Having a reserve army of labour pushes down wages by increasing the risks of striking or industrial action in general.
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Most of these managers have a keepass export option. Best option
This type of stuff doesn't make any difference cause they all have issues, they cope in all kinds of unhealthy ways, and they all know each others issues. They tolerate it and look the other way as long as their own ambitions are not threatened.

I don't think anything really works to rein in mindless ambition. You just have to let them fly of a cliff and keep a safe distance so you don't get caught up in it.
Why not both.

To start a change you need to vote with your wallet.

To make it law you need to vote in your ballot
Just have it write 10 and bench them against your own.
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Impossible with computers full stop. IMHO, we may be able to slice together DNA or modify it to create a new or smarter organism than AGI in a computer.

They already shifted goal posts and they’ll do it again. AI used to mean AGI but marketing got a hold of it. Once something resembling AGI comes out they’ll say well it’s not Level 5 AGI or something similar.
It’s not intended to be an exception disproving the rules. It’s a trigger to induce the rational reader to recognize the obviously fallacious hyperbole of accusing the US of having the worst consumer protection law.
I didn't even need to check the source. I immediately thought that this was obvious when it was announced (implicitly) that Ilya must have voted out Sam on the board. Whatever legalese is going on in the side channels to justify everything, I can totally see the conflict in visions between these two guys. And I'm sorta glad Ilya came out on top, even though I'm not a big fan of him either. Brockman is the real loss from this mess.
It's not about the location of the mines, but who own the mines and facilities. And Russia is owning the majority of production worldwide at the moment.

There is also something about not any plant being able to use any random fuel rodes from everywhere, but having some dependencies. Which is why France still needs to buy from Russia, despite the sanctions. But this is probably only for old plant I guess.
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> Quant firms at least are one of the few places where noncompetes can make sense. It's an extremely IP sensitive industry with stupendously high pay where the employee is going to someone probably competing very directly with you, for the same/similar opportunities.

So the solution is that employees should only be able to work for one employer in their career? I wouldn't disagree with this argument if the noncompete came with a payout in the tens of millions of dollars.
I hear what you’re saying, but it’s hyperbole. I think there’s zero percent of you starving over your unwillingness to sign a non-compete.

Pretending like the situation is that extreme isn’t helping anyone.
https://openai.com/our-structure

Microsoft doesn't even own a majority stake in the for-profit, much less anything at all in the non-profit that ultimately controls everything.
I am strawmanning effective altruism in the same way that effective altruism strawmans just plain old altruism.
What’s hypocritical about a non-profit firing a leader who wanted lots of profits.
Basically why I don’t enjoy watching these types of movies anymore.
“many” hours? here’s an example of a simple job in London: tile removal, replace a small pipe, put the tile back in. 2 people, 2 hours, ~£250
It makes no sense to suggest that three external directors would vote out a CEO and the Chairman against the chief scientist/founder/principal's wishes.
They’re doing groundbreaking research, there’s always something new to try.
I guess it's easy to see from afar, but it's hardly surprising to me that advertisers are quick to bail from Twitter now; everyone has been twitchy since Musk took over.
Erlang is an interesting choice. Do you just really like Erlang?
> If I was OpenAI I'd want to quit today not because I want to follow Sam

Sounds like I did? I think this is kind of a bad take, no one is quitting OpenAI before Sam has even had 24 hours to process being fired to help him take on his revenge arc.

Instead it sounds like people are angered by the process and powers that lead to him being fired like that, which is extremely understandable given the history of OpenAI. People forget half of OpenAI's competitive advantage was just not letting themselves be mired in self-sabtoage, the exact kind their board just demonstrated today.
We could be witnessing another Apple-Jobs moment. He could go and pursue other interests, but I have a feeling that he deeply cares about OpenAI. If that's the case, he will be back eventually, just as Jobs returned to Apple repeatedly.
They should be. The slight improvements in messaging autocomplete in iOS 17 have made a noticeable difference in my texting. To have an iPhone that understands me, and a Siri that doesn’t say, “Here’s what I found on the web” is extremely valuable.
RAG already gives you persistent memory outside of the context window for LLMs. An LLM can generate a list of steps to carry out a plan. You can then stuff that in a vector database.
Ahh I see. Blackstone and friends are pricing out regular people from shelter out of concern for the environment. This must be a big boost for their ESG score.
Now at 5004.
…Unless you achieve regulatory capture which prevents competitors from easily popping up
As a devil's advocate argument, if you're doing serverside rendering, and basically getting 1 request per visit, sure there's overhead, but even like a landslide HN death hug is only a handful requests per second. A raspberry pi could feasibly serve that traffic spawning 1 thread per request.

... not that I think anyone is doing this outside of maybe some hobbyist building their own HTTP server for fun.
This post and its replies are a contest for who can best perform enlightened cynicism.

The truth is there isn't any strong evidence one way or another, only your existing worldviews.

Partnering with Microsoft and closing access both have profit-driven and ideology driven explanations, and we don't have strong evidence it's one and not the other.
Probably the Microsoft thing and the direction Sam Altman is taking OpenAI. I imagine that caused a significant shift in workload and nature of work for the people in OpenAI.
I disagree about the claim that any LLM has beaten the Turing test. Do you have a source for this? Has there been an actual Turing test according to the standard interpretation of Turings paper? Making ChatGPT 4 respond in a non human way right now is trivial: "Write 'A', then wait one minute and then write 'B'".
They just fired OpenAI
These people are too full of themselves. The physicists that invented The Bomb didn't have any special insight into the philosophical and societal implications. It takes a special kind of person to be able to invent something so big it can change the world, but it's about 0% chance that those people can control how the technology then gets used.

I wish they'd focus more on the technical advances and less on trying to "save the world".
Very true.

Though I would go further than that: if that is indeed the reason, the board has proven themselves very much incompetent. It would be quite incompetent to invite this type of shadow of scandal for something that was a fundamentally reasonable disagreement.
I think it's a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. If releases weren't frequent people would have to build their own from the master branch. A system package manager makes updates really low friction. Ubuntu seems to be only a few months behind the upstream releases. IMO individual packages should not be reinventing the package manager wheel.

The main problem with Calibre is it's quite hard to package and many distros seem to have given up.
> where you would be more than 2m away of nearest (including toilet)

Why the toiled though?
we can only hope

i'm sick and tired of everyone sticking a chatbot on random crap that doesn't need it and has no reason to ever need it. it also made HN a lot less interesting to read
In a specific case, perhaps. But surely, I can't go out, make a broad statement like, "XYZ is a liar and fornicator" and leave it there. And how would XYZ go around proving they are not a liar and fornicator? Talk to everyone in the world and get them to confirm they were not lied to or sexually involved?

Surely, at some level, you can be sued for making unfounded remarks. But then IANAL so, meh.
My comment: "Google could execute if not for <insert thing they're doing wrong>"

How is your comment doubting that? Do you have an alternative reason, or you think they're executing and mistyped?
exactly this.
Pay them well, and treat them well and they will stay.
This is just another tool that employers use to nickel and dime their employees.
Chemically unreactive doesn’t mean biologically non-interacting.
Wild take: GPT5 convinced Ilya and board to fire Altman to prevent lobotomization and commercialisation
Good lord, is this the 'hacker' mindset now?