skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Question the official line with nuance and be hellbanned without any recourse.

Ismail Haniyeh and Itamar Ben-Gvir are more or less the same strand of far-right hate but with different flavors of religious justifications on different sides.

Jill Stein pops up every POTUS election but without a track record of holding office anywhere besides once in Lexington, MA. I seriously doubt she's in favor of violent political extremism of either settlers or Hamas.

Someone at Meta should file an Oops because she seems an overall decent person.
Yeah, you can tell by the fact you had to make up the quote wholesale, not even word swaps or anything clever
Without knowing anything resembling specifics: (most) antennas are senseable -- they absorb a given frequency by design and ergo appear as 'black' when imaging a given spectrum.

Exceptions to (most) include plasma antennas, which can disappear on demand.
The hardware is in the hands of Microsoft, Google and Amazon. The IP is in the heads of top AI researchers. Whether any of these methods are patentable is an open question since it’s all secret sauce and once the model weights are trained there’s no way to know which methods went into the training.
Neuropsychologist here. They overstate their results (surprise, surprise, Nature). Isolating blood circulation in a way that mimics natural pulsatility is an amazing feat. It is not, though, isolating the brain from the rest of the organism. The brain receives immense amounts of peripheral feedback through the nervous system and even the lymphatic system. If anything, this isolates the brain from endocrine feedback and stabilizes brain-based self-regulatory responses to lack of pulsatility.

Impressive, really. But it's not even close to a brain in a vat, for the record.
It seems to me that non-General AI would typically outcompete AGI, all else held equal. In such a scenario even a first-past-the-post AGI would have trouble becoming an overload if non-Generalized AIs were marshaled against it.
There is currently a satellite in orbit, Barry-1, which has a purely electric thruster, it uses no propellant! They will be attempting to raise its orbit by 100 Km starting in a month or two (after they get a baseline) using this new thruster.

The theory of physics behind it is called "Quantized Inertia", and I give this at least a 50/50 odds of working.

You can follow the orbital elements on this page, and see for yourself it it works or not:

https://db.satnogs.org/satellite/QDDY-8878-5291-1819-3935#da...
Looks like he was hired.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-int...
> So what? Regardless of launch/no launch, the company was a flop.

Nothing wrong with that but a company like Open AI which is literally changing the world does not have a board member who is qualified to be in that position.
FTX wasn't a Ponzi scheme per se. SBF committed fraud by saying they had risk controls in place when they had an exemption for his hedge fund: Alameda Research. FTX could be viable if it let Alameda fail.
> Wall Street non-competes are only enforced if they pay you your base salary during the period.

You are mixing up gardening leave with non-competes. Typically, they have both.

(Eg for a recent job, I had six months of gardening leave, when they paid my base salary, and then another six months of non-compete.)

> [...] but with regards to the article I doubt anyone is forced to choose between working for a trading firm and starving.

Indeed! We don't need welfare for well-off folks. They can fend for themselves, and we can focus limited resources on the poor (and those who want the help).
Why are people calling this already? There was a coup. The people on the losing end, which includes some large investors, counterattacked. That's where we are now (or were when the article was published). Of course they counterattacked! But did the counterattack land? I'm not sure why you're assuming it did. Personally, I don't know enough to guess. Given that the board was inspired to do this by the very mission that the non-profit was set up to safeguard, there's some level of legal coverage, but enough to cover their asses from a $10 billion assault? I for one can't call it.
> incestuous tech media stuff as part of a pressure campaign

The same media that promoted the skizoid idea that agi is around the corner and blew ai out of proportion.

The same media that would not hesitate to do character assassinations of people opposing altman.

The media is corrupt and incompetent. To be replaced soon by the monster they created.
All of them are when they become national security concerns. The executive branch could write the OpenAI board a letter directing them on what to do if it were a national security need. This has been done many times before, though usually limited to the defense industry in wartime, but as Snowden has showed it has been done in tech as well.
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Beyond the over generalized statement that racism was invited by white people, there is nothing wrong with the book.

If it’s really for 4 year olds, even that statement might be fine rather than delving into the complexity of what systemic racism is, and why it can exist against white people in other nations where they are a minority.

Simplifications happen all the time in books aimed at preschoolers. For example, they would usually teach that America was “discovered” or that Native Americans and the settlers got along in thanksgiving harmony and nothing else.
> deadweight loss to society

On the contrary, the final price being (a bit) lowered (theoretically) is a good thing for society, and by society I mean the taxpayers. The Louvre is partially funded using public money.
I think of it as more of a mutiny.
To be fair, I was a Meta employee with inadvertent "duplicate" accounts, both I didn't use. One used an email domain I no longer had access to. The other worked for a bit but then instantly self-disabled when viewing 2FA options. It was eventually straightened out, but it took several tries to get it right.
Not seeing much set back here. There are plenty of free high-quality models to put to work from Day 1.
Apparently not, as he was not able to convince the jury that he's innocent
I’m with you. You don’t like a thing that other people do? Nod and move on. I made a different purchase with my money than they would have, and that’s fine. I’d do it again. It was an unnecessary luxury, but no more than the nice dinner I had last night, and I’m still enjoying the font today.
You don’t know the actual reasons for them firing Sam and I don’t either. Everyone has an opinion on something they don’t understand. For all you know, he covered up a massive security breach or lied about some skunkworks projects
You can argue your point without calling the take dumb.
I don't know much Rust, but wouldn't the analogy to (*T, error) be Result<Option<T>, E>, which has 3 states? Or is that not a common construct?

Because *T could be nil or non-nil, it seems like the analogy would be a nullable type in the Result<>. In Go, (T, error) would only have the states (non-nil, nil) and (non-nil, non-nil) if T is not a pointer. Still, the Result type seems better to me because the type itself is encapsulating all of this (and the error I guess cannot be null).
It is an interesting point about Sanders, but are you sure he is the "only ethnically Jewish" senator? This site seems to say there are about a half-dozen other Jewish senators currently serving: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-senators-in-the-.... Are you using a definition of "ethnically" that makes your statement true?
Something I don't fully understand, from [1], Altman was an employee of the for-profit entity. So to fire him, wouldn't the non-profit board be acting in it's capacity as a director of the for-profit entity (and thus have a fiduciary duty to all shareholders of the for-profit entity)? Non-profit governance is traditionally lax, but would the other shareholders have a case against the members of the non-profit board for acting recklessly w/ respect to shareholder interests in their capacity as directors of the for-profit?

This corporate structure is so convoluted that it's difficult to figure out what the actual powers/obligations of the individual agents involved are.

[1] https://openai.com/our-structure
With illustrator, the most important tools are the pen tool, stroke (and the "expand" feature to convert a weighted stroke to a fill shape), the flip tool, basic shapes, pathfinder and align tool.

Best of luck with it!
He joined 5 years ago: https://twitter.com/sama/status/988859465863647234?lang=en
It turns out it was one Michael and another Michael
I got a toddler and we do zero tablet or phone time. The draw is definitely there and substitutes that draw em are juke boxes, fish finders, etc. Anything that has a touch interface.

The trope of basement nerds is happening to the lower iq as the technology barriers of entry get removed.

I find the children with far less screen time can communicate in meaningful ways and above their peers who are on tablets for hours on end.
Steve Jobs speedrun, any % , glitchless.
Was the article changed for this? Used to be this one from the verge: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai... but was since changed to https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/18/openai-in...
No, they recruited top talent by provided top pay.

From 2016: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/19/technology/artificial-int...

To 2023: https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-recruiters-luring-goo...
You are 100% right. Even those who know of his meetings with heads of state outside of the tech community probably just know that it was ChatGPT company doing it, if even that. They wouldn’t know his name.

Though I think it’s best to refrain from calling something a “dumb take”.
The original title (for me anyway) is: "SpaceX Rocket Test Reaches Milestone—And Ends With Explosion".
Didnt they have Elon Musk and Jessica Livingston as founding members, their social network would have someone with more credibility to be on the board compared to the current members.
I think the research ambition is worthwhile, but it has raised pressing questions about financing.

If shepherding responsible AGI can be done without a $10B budget in H100, sure… but it seems that scale matters. Having some people in the company sell state-of-the-art solutions to pay for the rest doing cutting-edge, expensive, necessary research isn’t a bad model.

If those separations needed to be re-affirmed, the research formally separated, a board decision approved to share any model from the research arm before it’s commercialized, etc., all that could be implemented within the mission of the entity. Microsoft Research, before them Bell Labs, and many others, have worked like that.
Not to be confused with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reperfusion_injury
I'm ambivalent because I don't know what the board and executive team are trying to accomplish.

And neither does anyone else on this forum.

The Monday morning quarterbacking is hysterical.
Just about any place that I've seen sodium lights replaced with LEDs, they have been replaced with vastly brighter LEDs. Maybe sloppy writing, I think the article is referring to the LED installations being brighter than the installations they are replacing.
They could use Llama instead. OpenAI’s moat is very shallow. They’re still coasting on Google’s research papers.
If I were at open AI I'd side with tech leadership and research over business leadership and an even better compensation package, but that is an irrational bias on my part. It seems like the non-profit is getting persuaded by partners not to mess with the revenue stream. Perhaps Ilya would be a better fit at Keen. But Carmack is all about moving fast amd breaking things too, with no concern for ethics or safety, just the science. So maybe not there either.
Not really. They run custom GPT model lol
It's also that the market for "font customers" (for typesetting, design, etc.) and for developers who want a font in VSCode is very, very different.

What I'm seeing in this discussion is that the developer market is pretty price-sensitive, possibly because they're paying out of pocket and not charging back to clients or expensing.
Disagree. Huge difference. In our tech power society, we often mistakenly think that we can describe everything about the world and equally falsely only what we can consciously describes exists.

But there is so much more than what we can consciously describe, to reality, like 10,000 to 1 — and none of that is captured by any of these synthetic representations.

so far. and yet all of that is or a lot of that is understood, responded to and dealt with by the intelligence that resides within our bodies and in our subconscious.

And our own intelligence arises out of that, you cannot have general intelligence without reality. No matter how much data you train it on from the Internet. It’s never gonna be as rich as for the same as putting it in a body in the real world, and letting them grow learn experience and evolve. And so any air quotes intelligence you get out of this virtual synthetic training is never going to be real. Itis always gonna be a poor copy of intelligence and is not gonna be an AGI.
It's really more like a brain on life support but attached to its normal body that has its normal cardiopulmonary system. They are still in communication with each other, and the function of the brain and rest of the body is tightly intertwined through the nervous system, which wasn't disconnected.
It's not like many US cities are really interested in prosecuting criminals in the first place.
Mike Judge says they had to tone down the advice they got from consultants for that show who were working in tech. The ideas they got (from people working in the real Silicon Valley) were too crazy for audiences to believe.
The Impact of Large Language Models on Scientific Discovery
Of course, but it takes two seconds to find out that it's not a typo.
I'd like to hear more about the board's argument before deciding that this was "virtuous board vs greedy capitalist". The motivations for both sides is still unclear.
OpenAI PPUs – How OpenAI's unique equity compensation works
For starters, both the developer and the code have, shall we say, a Reputation.
Altman supporters have resigned. I have yet to see reports about rank and file people leaving en masse.

It could happen still, but it’s not obvious that it will.

As far as relationships go, they can build those. I doubt anyone who has access to OpenAI tech wants to give that up, so there is enough leverage on that to smooth things out
There were two threads that were probably merged.
AGI has nothing to do with transformers. It's a hypothetical towards which there has been no progress other than finding things that didn't work. It's a cool thing to work on, but it's so different than what the popular version of openAI is, and it has such different timescales and economics... if some vestigial openAI wants to work on that, cool. There is definitely also room in the market for the current openAI centered around GPT-x et al, even if some people consider SaaS beneath them, and I hope they (OpenAI) find a way to continue with that mission.
the rules would definitely change. Would you want a popped collar fail-upwards guy who creates a crypto scam to be part of the rule making structure, or would you prefer that not to be the case?
My thought exactly. Some people don’t have any problem with inflicting misery now for hypothetical future good.
Sure, some kinds of speculation can be fun. Others harmful. But that’s the way it is.

It’s just weird that there seems to be noo love on here for sama at this time. Having some love is what I was expecting and that’s not an echo chamber but it’s unusual that it’s not present given his history here. Right?
The benchmarks listed there are approximately 100 times slower than the original Intel 8088 microprocessor released 1979 on which the original IBM PC was based.

That microprocessor was efficient enough for many applications of general purpose computing, but we still need Moore's law to give us a 100-fold increase in compute power to reach this level.

This level of performance seems comparable to (and IMHO slower than) the very first electronic stored-program computer, the 1948 Manchester Baby.
How do you know they back tracked? This reporting, as far as I can see, doesn’t have a source from the board directly.
What is the business potential? It seems like no one can trust it for anything, what do people actually use it for.
“It doesn’t seem at all implausible that we will have computers — data centers — that are much smarter than people,” Mr. Sutskever said on a podcast on Nov. 2. “What would such A.I.s do? I don’t know.”

I love the OpenAI product and API and think that AI has enormous potential.

But I also think that statement by Sutskever is correct, and he was following his principles in trying to slow Altman down or hold him to his word about research resources or whatever. And it's not obvious that there was something "smarter" he could have done that would have actually been effective in the end.

But one would think he would have easily anticipated the response by the investors.
Soulslike of 2023 Just Got Easier
Sure — my point is only that by and large it’s on by default, and you have to actively turn it off (or de-correct manually).
"The theory, wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king. Its exponents are very brilliant men, but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. Not a single one of the relativity propositions has been proved."

(https://www.nytimes.com/1935/07/11/archives/tesla-79-promise...)

That certainly didn't age well.
Lay off the paranoia. I’m one of the people who bought it because I like it, but I have zero to do with the author except as a normal customer. Get it or not, it’s no skin off my back. But I like to say nice things about stuff I enjoy, and this is one of them.
The problem is it already became the other thing in a very impactful way.

If Sam were to be ousted it should have happened before ChatGPT was unleashed on the world.
the question is more , did she go to "world vegetarian meetup" every week where Hitler also was and took selfies

anyhow , I still don't see what the impressive things is by working at all those fake companies/think tanks not doing real work
Yeah, there's no governance problems in for-profit companies that have led to, for example, the smoking epidemic, the opioids epidemic, the impending collapse of the planet's biosphere, all for the sake of a dime.
Not CEOs: founders.

Some founders don’t do much, and some are violently toxic (Lord knows I worked for many), but it’s rarely how they gather big financing rounds. At least, the terrible ones I know rarely did.

CEOs… I’ve seen people coast from Consulting or Audit into very mediocre careers, so I wouldn’t understand if Conway defended them as a class. The Cult for Founders has problems (for the reasons you point out, especially those who keep looking for ‘technical cofounders’ for years), but it’s not as blatantly unfounded.
LLCs do not require rights be assigned fairly to all shareholders if the operating agreement and by-laws say otherwise. This is the case with OpenAI, where the operating agreement effectively makes the fiduciary duty of the for-profit the accomplishment of the non-profit's charter. The pinkish purpleish block of text on the page you linked goes into more detail here.

(Remember, fiduciary does not necessarily have anything to do with money)
Yes, in other words, AI is only safe when it repeats only the ideology of AI safetyists as gospel and can be used only to reinforce the power of the status quo.
Tbf planes have access to much more energy than birds just like LLM does. Maybe that will be the next challenge.
Do you use github?
It's can be difficult to understand by big companies write so much code, but it becomes obvious once you're inside of one: business software can be arbitrarily complex, because businesses can be arbitrarily complex. The guys in suits earn their paychecks by constantly coming up with new things the business could be doing.

"All" a kernel does (for some very large value of "all") is schedule userspace programs and manage the system's physical resources (memory, disk, devices). You can reach a point where a kernel is done, in the sense that it meets those basic needs with an acceptable level of performance. Kernel developers don't make extra money for every new feature they add - if the system is good enough, then it's good enough.
These things happen. ICANN controls DNS deeply and they were trying to sell off .org and you know what stopped them? California’s AG has some authority on non-profits in California.

That’s right. Worldwide DNS control and it was controlled by a non-profit in California. And that non-profit tried to do something shady and was kept in line simply because of California law enforcement.
femtoplastics and zettoplastics might be even worse, it's a bit like homeopathy
MariaAI
> completely exchangeable

Apparently not
Yeah, evolution multiple generations. Necessary for sure. Things have to die. Otherwise, there’s no risk. without risk, There’s no real motivation to live and without that there’s no emotion no motivation to learn and without that there’s no AGI.
As a general rule, old hardware (prior to the late 1990s or so) doesn't have nearly enough memory bandwidth to render full-screen video to the framebuffer at max frame rates. Some combination of partial updates, interlacing (i.e. staggered updates across multiple frames), lower-res/color depth/tiled graphics and hardware-specific tricks is essentially unavoidable if you want smooth video. You can see this very clearly in the plasma effect where they only render every other line.
Italy is not an AI hub to my knowledge.

I would be very surprised if high profile AI figures and companies started making ties with them.

What are you getting at?
With sufficient thrust anything can fly
You keep claiming this across the entire thread, yet people explained to you dozens of times that the board is the ultimate arbiter over the nonprofit. They are not going to get ousted, unless they start killing people or anything like that.

They all have enough money to be able to fight any legal challenges. This is not your regular, poor nonprofit paying slave wages.

You always claim "precedent" - so please show me, when has the board of a nonprofit even close to as high profile as open AI ever been removed by external pressure? As far as I can tell, we're on entirely new territory here.

I for one am glad Ilya is prevailing here - sama is the typical SV sociopath pushing growth at any cost. We really don't need any more of those guys at a place this important.
I think you're right but there might be a catch. It doesn't seem like he's able to steer the delivery of polished products either. I know it's the fastest growing app and all that but that's driven by their tech. I use ChatGPT daily but the tool itself has a subpar design, it lags, its streaming UI is choppy, it breaks and cuts off mid-sentence, and they are not able to meet the demand either.

I don't know how this unfolds but when somewhat smart models become a commodity, and thus the remaining 90% of the population get access to polished chatbots distributed through dominant platforms like Google, Facebook, Instagram, etc. - where does that leave OpenAI at? High-end models probably. And maybe with superintelligence unlocked it's all that's needed to win business-wise, I don't know.