OpenAI

[Kirwan]

What an incredible past few days. 500 of the 700 employees have said they will quit if he’s not re-instated. The new, new CEO has said he will quit if the board doesn’t explain why Sam was fired in writing.

Bloody bizarre. 90B valuation pisses away.

[Tim]

@Kirwan

Absolutely insane position for the board to take: they approved formation of the commercial entity, approved raising billions from investors, approved 49% stake sale to Microsoft, approved hiring 700+ employees, then they turn around and say "I'm fine with destroying the company if it I don't think it will achieve a nebulous and impossible goal, and I have no responsibility to any corporate concerns because this organization originally started as a non-profit."

Insane! Imagine being a money burning startup and having to deal with people like that.

[Victor Meldrew]

@bayimports said in OpenAI:

@Tim the fact that they can even train voice recognition within 3 seconds is insane

I have a collection of old B&W films. There's an open-source/free app which reads the audio track and generates almost perfect subtitles in 20-30 minutes.....

Can't but think the OpenAI internal feud is all about the commercialisation/exploitation of those sort of possibilities.

[Tim]

Saw this demo of image editing/generation from the free OSS Krita the other day.

GitHub - Acly/krita-ai-diffusion: Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required.

Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required. - Acly/krita-ai-diffusion

[Victor Meldrew]

@Tim

I'm on the Microsoft Insider programme and the AI-aided Office is about to drop soon. Apparently it can search thru an email conversation and prepare a summary & timeline and print/post it to OneNote or Word in something like 20 seconds...

Absolute winner that.

[Tim]

@Victor-Meldrew The longed for future of never reading emails or answering phone calls again!

[Tim]

Another relevant take from today:

I'm convinced there is a certain class of people who gravitate to positions of power, like "moderators", (partisan) journalists, etc. Now, the ultimate moderator role has now been created, more powerful than moderating 1000 subreddits - the AI safety job who will control what AI "thinks"/says for "safety" reasons.
Pretty soon AI will be an expert at subtly steering you toward thinking/voting for whatever the "safety" experts want.

It's probably convenient for them to have everyone focused on the fear of evil Skynet wiping out humanity, while everyone is distracted from the more likely scenario of people with an agenda controlling the advice given to you by your super intelligent assistant.

Because of X, we need to invade this country. Because of Y, we need to pass all these terrible laws limiting freedom. Because of Z, we need to make sure AI is "safe".

For this reason, I view "safe" AIs as more dangerous than "unsafe" ones.

[Bones]

@Victor-Meldrew I like the idea that the future of AI is all about accurate subtitles for 20th century films.

[Kirwan]

Ha, looks Sam won. Back in and will be a new board. Microsoft with some board seats no doubt.

[Kirwan]

I’m using the GitHub Copilot product, it’s frankly unbelievable. At least a 50% increase in my output, including writing code in languages I barely know.

Is insanely helpful

[Bones]

@Kirwan I've been using chatgpt for writing/rewriting and tidying up SQL. Any idea if that's the best source or is there something like copilot for plugging into an appropriate app?

[Kruse]

I asked my overlord company's version of AI to write the most basic of SQL queries imaginable - against it's own company's version of metadata views/tables - and it proved to be a fucking retard.

[Tim]

I've used some AI tool to make regular expressions to process text files. No idea how efficient they were, but saved me time.

[Bones]

@Kruse said in OpenAI:

I asked my overlord company's version of AI to write the most basic of SQL queries imaginable - against it's own company's version of metadata views/tables - and it proved to be a fucking retard.

Sounds right in my wheelhouse.

[Kruse]

The only times I've thought that maybe I would turn to an AI (current generation) which might be able to help me with writing out some SQL or grep or regex... has been when I've also thought "I've got no fucking idea how I would even express what I want/need in english"

[Kruse]

select torrent_id from shit_to_download where series_name='Jack Ryan' and not regexp_like ('REVIEWS','ridiculous','i')

[nzzp]

turns out you're all hawt Polish chicks who do coding. Who knew? The chances of the Fern being a testbed for argumentative AI just got stronger...

[Victor Meldrew]

@Bones said in OpenAI:

@Victor-Meldrew I like the idea that the future of AI is all about accurate subtitles for 20th century films.

Nah, the future is that this sort of capability can be produced in a few hours or days with AI and costs bugger all to develop.

[nzzp]

@Victor-Meldrew said in OpenAI:

@Bones said in OpenAI:

@Victor-Meldrew I like the idea that the future of AI is all about accurate subtitles for 20th century films.

Nah, the future is that this sort of capability can be produced in a few hours or days with AI and costs bugger all to develop.

that's one of the key issues is that the 'moat' for AI seems to not exist. PEople are doing crazy things with desktop computers ... it's good for us colelctively, but shit if you're trying to make money on it.

And then I hear that Microsoft are losting shitloads on their AI - burning computation power. So who knows

[Victor Meldrew]

@nzzp said in OpenAI:

@Victor-Meldrew said in OpenAI:

@Bones said in OpenAI:

@Victor-Meldrew I like the idea that the future of AI is all about accurate subtitles for 20th century films.

Nah, the future is that this sort of capability can be produced in a few hours or days with AI and costs bugger all to develop.

that's one of the key issues is that the 'moat' for AI seems to not exist. PEople are doing crazy things with desktop computers ... it's good for us colelctively, but shit if you're trying to make money on it.

Here's another thing. I use a Remarkable 2 and the API changed this year to a proprietary one and meant the Github OneNote integration plugin no longer works. Now there's repos using AI to reverse-engineer the API....

The implications are going to be big