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FinnLobsien

1,700karma·540submissions·July 18, 2019
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I think the problem is that the companies mostly don't make money, period. They may have better unit economics on underused subscriptions, but I don't see a world in which OAI/Anthrop…
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The problem space has a few aspects: 1. We're still in the "$5 airport Uber" era of LLMs. They're heavily subsidized, and everyone still complains about costs. 2. There hasn't…
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Whether they’re over-valued and over-resourced is a big question. I think that will be answered when eventual price hikes happen and people shift which AI they use and/or what they use it for. We…
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I think it’s pretty clear why they’re abiding by this: -the US is the only place where you can raise the kinds of money you need to run a lab like this. -a government that won’t let you sell products …
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I agree with this take. If we think back to the origins of cooking and food preparation, it was never about exact measures or precise ingredients. The point of a ratatouille is not that it has precise…
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I think both sides are true. Of course, there's a certain irony in proclaiming one's escape from the yoke of Big Tech on the very Big Tech platforms one claims to be escaping. It's also…
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It was one of those weird “licensing deals” where Nvidia got some of the tech and the founders joined Nvidia, but the company continues to exist independently. So I assume this is the non-Nvidia Groq.…
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It’s gambling, and the house always wins.
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Yeah I agree. I think whether we see more or less AI-written code is very much down to where. Adding a new filter option for in-product analytics (assuming that data is being captured) is something AI…
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A good way to understand how much we thanklessly rely on some professions, Google pictures of any garbage disposal strike
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In a way it’s good that the equation is so lopsided. A massive part is that software can be replicated infinitely for free. This is why the scale of the value created is so giant. I definitely do thin…
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Sure, but I also feel like at the higher level, you’re not necessarily looking for implementation alone, but for “what should we be doing in the first place?”, which AI can’t help with
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The value created vs value captured equation of OSS must be one of the most lopsided things ever. If you’re at Google and invent Kubernetes you might still capture 0.000001% (probably less) of the eco…
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How would you enforce that? I'm genuinely curious. It's nearly impossible to conclusively prove someone rewrote your codebase with AI.
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If you have a hobby project like writing a blog, crocheting, or almost any other creative hobby, you can dip in and out however it suits you. If you deal with major life events, sicknesses, etc., you …
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There’s one thing that I find interesting about this. I can’t judge whether this is a good product, whether it’ll work, and what it’ll add to the medical establishment, or whether more data is always …
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Private Equity is engaged in buying artisanal semi-businesses, turning them into businesses, propping up the numbers while destroying them —then, hopefully, destroying itself. -Nassim Taleb
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I agree and I think some of the comments here have shifted my perspective on this, especially given the age. I think with teaching anything, there’s always going to be a difference between teaching th…
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Yep good point. I’m not defending using AI to do homework.
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Fair point!
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I would disagree that they’re adjusting fine. So much of the stuff we see now is full AI slop clearly created with the first output of ChatGPT. It’s like saying we don’t need to teach kids about the i…
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I agree to some degree. But by that logic, should kids in the 2000s not have learned about the internet because the internet fundamentally changed between then and now? I think that if anything, it’s …
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I think it’s quite tricky. On one side, writing is a form of thinking and cognitive training. Just NOT doing that work by having AI simulate it is not good for anyone’s cognitive development. At the s…
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I got 75k words, which I’m happy with as a non-native speaker. Others here have also mentioned that the math may be off and that you can juice the game by looking at how answers are phrased etc. I do …
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There are discussions on the forums on this. Nothing is decided yet.
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It's a beta from the team that built Bear (Bear.app), which has themes. Would assume they're coming later.
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