Sounds like someone has not been consistently candid with their communication.

PR statement. After nearly being ousted, I'm sure Sam is relieved to have a thorn removed from his side.

Price.

That seems insignificant compared to the subsidies doled out by the American govt.

Probably saw this tweet from nat friedman https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1777739863678386268

This methodology would ignore every API-driven use of the models that doesn't go through the first-party web interfaces.

Probably the Gemini 1.5 Pro GA that was announced hours earlier.

Compare to the 10x that was Hopper uplift.

Because it involved scaling in chip area needed for FP8. AI community realized that FP8 training is possible few years back so the transistors given for FP8 was scaled. Overall I think transistors grow just by ~50% per generation so most of the gains comes from removing FP32/FP64 share which were dominant 10 years back, but there is only some point it could go to.

Ironically enough, VR training for surgeons is actually booming in the medical space.

I'd have expected a lot of OpenAI employees to join whatever initiative Sam and gdb started next, but the profile of someone who joined OpenAI this past year and a Microsoft employee are...quite different.

It's not gonna be Microsoft employee, it's gonna be a subsidiary like GitHub, LinkedIn, etc. A lot more independence.

Exactly. I'm not so sure that most of OpenAI's employees would be very excited to join Microsoft.

Isn't this expected? Nearly everyone who joined post ChatGPT was primarily financially motivated. What is more interesting is how many of the core research team stays.

This is actually pretty surprising to me, since a financially motivated person would normally wait until a better deal, and just collect their paycheck in the meantime.

There's also no guarantee that Altman will really start a new company, or be able to collect funding to hire everyone quickly. I wonder if these people are just very loyal to Sam.

> This is actually pretty surprising to me, since a financially motivated person would normally wait until a better deal, and just collect their paycheck in the meantime.

I imagine you need to signal that you want in on the deal by departing. Get founder equity.

Even if he had started a new company, there was no way a dozen employees were getting founder equity for showing loyalty

Or they could be loyal to the e/acc cult.

How do you know that? Maybe they wanted to ship AI products at an unprecedented speed at the most prestigious AI company in the world.

This. Very accurate. At the end of they day this is a battle between academics and capitalists and what they stand for. We generally know how this typically goes…

I don't see many academics indulge in sensationalist doomsaying. That's the real difference here. SETI wouldn't and couldn't seek grants by proposing to contact murderous aliens.

I think academics have a general faith in goodwill of intelligence.Benevolence may be a convergent phenomenon. Maybe the mechanisms of reason themselves require empathy and goodness

Hinton makes cliched statements as if he's not given much thought to safety but feels obliged for whatever reason

The capitalists run it into the ground while the academics stand around confused asking each other what happened?