Those are not just-throw-money problems. Usually these tropes are limited to instagram comments. Surprised to see it here.
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I know, it was simply to show the absurdity of committing $500B to marginally improving next token predictors.
True. I think there is some posturing involved in the 500b number as well.
Either that or its an excuse for everyone involved to inflate the prices.
Hopefully the datacenters are useful for other stuff as well. But also I saw a FT report that it's going to be exclusive to openai?
Also as I understand it these types of deals are usually all done with speculative assets. And many think the current AI investments are a bubble waiting to pop.
So it will still remain true that if jack falls down and breaks his crown, jill will be tumbling after.
I'm not disagreeing, but perhaps during the execution of that project, something far more valuable than next token predictors is discovered. The cost of not discovering that may be far greater, particularly if one's adversaries discover it first.
Maybe? But it still feels very wrong seeing this much money evaporating (litteraly, by Joule heating) in the name of a highly hypothetical outcome. Also, to be fair, I don't feel very aligned with tech billionaires anymore, and would rather someone else discovers AGI.
It's almost as if the people with the money and power know something about "next token predictors" that you don't.
Do you really still believe they have superior intellect? Did Zuckerberg know something you didn't when he poured $10B into the metaverse? What about Crypto, NFTs, Quantum?
They certainly have a more valid point of view than, "Meh, these things are just next-token predictors that regurgitate their training data. Nothing to see here."
Yes, their point is to inflate the AI bubble some more so they can extract more wealth before it's over.
Not as much as the Chinese, apparently.
they clearly missed out on the fact that they could've trained their $5bn model for much less