Way to get ahead of the slowdown Sam. Control the narrative. You "chose" to scale back.
"Actually we almost made the A.I. too good and it scared me cuz of how good it was"
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He can do what he wants - except closing Pandora's box. It stays open. The race is on, whether he participates or not.
Nvidia is backing the wrong horse
You can tell when Altman is lying by noticing that his mouth is open.
Sufficient but unnecessary imo.
Sometimes he lies in print, tbd whether he talks out the words when he types.
LOL...those graphs didn't infinitely extrapolate Sam?
99% of failed companies are from graph extrapolation in board rooms.
Why do we care that some greedy bastard is doing a fake apology tour?
Because he’s a greedy bastard with the ear of every head of state, standing at the top of a $1.6T pyramid scheme we’re all tangled up in.
We gotta stop worshipping these guys because they have power's ear. The people are way, way more important than lil' sammy whatsisname?
I've just been reading the Wikipedia article about the huggingface intrusion, and it reminds me strongly of the descriptions of hacking in Neuromancer.
Thats why there are no smart locks in my house. Deadbolts and keys only.
Company can't keep up with competitors, claims it is for altruism
HAHAHAHA
Every "Sam Altman said..." headline can be summed up as:
"Manipulative liar says whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear."
"Tech crypto grifter says thing to grift people with crypto, tech or both. More at 11"
Although i cant imagin any sign of a pullback would be good for any of the companies in the AI bubble. While probably not important on the specifics of what he is saying it is a "we should slow down" which the market aint gonna like. No breaks on this gravy train Sammy boy!
He is just like Elon Musk a tech bro con man that has the backing of some of the richest companies and people in the world.
He should accelerate himself off a cliff.
Sam is a con man, why is anyone listening to him.
because of near-constant media stories like this one
Likely translation: scaling their models is hitting diminishing returns, while the business world is slowly realizing the math ain't mathing and they're not suddenly 10x more efficient and profitable than before LLM adoption.
So Sammy and the others need a plausible cover story why capabilities aren't evolving at break neck speed anymore, to prevent their beautiful bubbly bubble from crashing down on them
Let's hope they get the Enron treatment for their actions
I'm thinking more French revolution treatment.
Sweet! Who are you hoping the next Napoleon will be?
Feds made them be the fall guy though. Data centers are new infrastructure for the government to use. That's the main reason for all this ai bullshit. Chapgpt and this consumer grade bullshit is the unplugged video game controller they gave us to makes us feel special and a part of something while THEY play "The Game".
An expansion of the above; https://reddthat.com/comment/28125951
while THEY play "The Game"
And I just lost it.
Sadly it's way more banal and boring than that.
Exactly. Who tf actually believes this crap?
Meanwhile, me still using GPT 4 as: "Rephrase: " CTRL+v
It's difficult to think of a more punchable face than Sam Altman's.
I dunno, Dario Amodei’s face is my personal choice.
Well, you got me there.
my vote for punchable face is Jeff Bezos
There’s also one rich asshole called Larry Ellis
He wants regulations to kill the competition. Open source is gonna get fucked in the coming months. The whole media campaign has been specifically for this.
Sorry if this is a dumb question but I keep seeing open source and open weight when talking about LLMs. Are these two terms interchangeable? If not, what do they mean and which is correct?
Open weight is like getting a compiled binary with no source code. Without the training data and pipeline code, once the original developer stops releasing new versions, it’ll be difficult for the community to pick up and keep going.
For example, if Alibaba decides to only release trillion parameter models from now on, Qwen 3.6 may be the most intelligent Qwen model that will ever run on consumer hardware.
They mostly are interchangeable for most people but almost none of the llm weights are properly open source.
They don't always give the training scripts and never the actual data so it isn't reproducible. The data isn't really feasible to give. A lot of them release papers at the same time where they explain the training with snippets and how it works, but it's not the same as receiving a script.
That being said, some get really upset and stress the distinction but it's a bit silly imo. If it's free and easily fine tunable, I don't really see the issue of calling it open source. Giving the data for it would open them up to lawsuits from the copyright mafia and wouldn't bring much to the table. Training these models is completely out of reach for individual and small to medium sized organisations.
Training a small model was more than a million dollars in compute a year or two ago.
Or they have hit a wall.
Yeah, we've definitely been seeing diminishing returns with the latest frontier models. I think that's why when GLM and Kimi come in at 1/5 the price of Opus but are just as good, or when Deepseek comes in at 1/10 the price and is catching up quickly, they have to worry. There may be nowhere for them to go.
I'd like to hit his head against a wall, multiple times.
We need to scale AI development!
Openweight models start growing
No, not like that!
Stop paying attention to this lying fuckwad.
No he isn't, the only reason Sam Altman would hit the breaks is if he was falling behind and needed to catch up.
*brakes
*brayeighechs