It's too bad Altman already blew his wad with the whole Dyson sphere thing. It's hard to top that. Maybe he can promise them a paperclip universe? That's gotta be worth a few more trillion.
When I first heard of tokenmaxxing, I thought it had to be a joke. But no, it turned out to be a widespread phenomenon. I still cannot believe that was a thing.
What I keep saying in internal meetings is: "I am so glad these people are this bad at deploying these tools." It really leaves the door open for folks like us.
We did a 90 day push and identified where we found value and where we didn’t. Our tools teams really upped their game, more than expected, and it would have been unlikely to have been funded if they tried to justify the budget as an individual initiative.
There’s a spectrum of people - some folks are building rando apps for fun with LLMs, and many don’t really know what’s possible becuase they don’t or can’t invest in the subscription to really use the tools at home.
Many of the most successful applications of LLMs are fields that were already terrible. For example, LLMs are a natural fit for customer support. And somehow, it's also a natural fit for software engineering, which I suppose is an indictment of our field... who cares if a model comes up with a bad architecture or a product that only kinda-works, that's how we always rolled.
So by default you'd be better with one of the Chinese models if you're American.
Given how big AI is, and how those two are pretty much the only players (in comparison aws is 1/3 market share), that seems about right.
It's a far cry from "nobody's going to be writing any code, and ai will do all the things in 6 months".
Agree, but only partially. I considered being more clear, but I am trying to learn to stop writing walls of text :)
When I said "products that we not possible," it was just due to the fact that finding an allocating the talent to do analysis on Topic X, would have previously made many products too expensive. Even if you just consider LLMs + harnesses to be an improved search tool, there is a lot you can make with a better search tool.
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The other, more complex one would be “what benefit” are you talking about? Clearly there are some differences in performance regarding speed and token cost, but industry news indicates not a single one has solved the inherent hallucination problem which makes the reliability akin to an untreated schizophrenic research or coding assistant.