Behold, the might of LLMs! Instead of ushering the age of AGI as advertised 6 months ago, now it cleans your PDFs for you.
Many thanks to humanity for failing to standardise PDF and this project for paying interest on that tech debt with datacenter levels of energy consumption.
This is a horrible idea. Nobody wants ads and extracting the sentiment from LLMs will be riddled with nondeterministic outputs, which will end up with a garbage in garbage out system. Nobody wins here, it will be just noise.
Thanks Moezd, for your reply, I really appreciate your perspective.
The key value here is gaining visibility into how LLMs with integrated web search make decisions. By analyzing which citations and sources they reference, and spotting when sentiment turns negative, you can trace those outcomes back to specific pieces of content shaping them. When a competitor appears and you don’t, that’s not just a data point, it’s a clear, actionable signal of a coverage gap you can address to improve your AI visibility.
This feels too much like breaking the guarantee sticker of a vendor code, and if your vendor pushes updates weekly, or daily, you are stuck pushing updates to your shimmed code, which officially becomes "unnamed fork". Even for tests, let's say that they changed an input type, I don't see an improvement in my workflow: I still need to update my "unnamed fork". At least with a fork I get to see the whole git history, including my contributions, and testing with monkey patching helps me create clear setUp and tearDown steps.
When you have a scalpel, you give it to operating doctors during the operation, not to 5 year olds on the street.
Yeah, but the example of "*.retries(...)", in the context of "import some_login_library.Login(...)" is quite powerful! It basically looks like a "super-decorator", and I can definitely see the utility of effectively re-compiling a (third-party) module at runtime to handle something that's more unique to your use case.
Your patch "with retries" might never be accepted, and maintaining any kind of fork(s) or "out-of-tree patches" is not as integrated into the programming environment. Being able to say "assert WrappedLoginLibrary().login(), '...with retries...'" keeps you testable and "in" the language proper.
Obligatory Life of Brian marketplace scene add here.
Not everyone delegates their critical thinking capabilities to AI. And it was never the one and the only attribute that defined what a human being is. It is a post-Industrial Age concern, when they needed educated populace who could follow instructions at the factory floor, and participate in democracy. Today we don't have both obligations anymore. Sure we vote, but we don't really have a say in government affairs anymore, and sure we think and follow instructions to KYC ourselves to the latest crypto exchange, but our thoughts never reach out to engineers or scientists who end up creating the very addictive tools that we use. Just as intended, we are, as collective masses, sliding back to pre-Industrial age way of life.
Great, now if I find myself in a weird dialogue and murmur under my breath this company can store exactly what I called those people. They can also sell that data to whoever pays highest. Tremendous job you guys, as if ad industry wasn't annoying and intrusive as they are currently!
At this point, arms-crossed mugshot of "{ex-Open AI} raises $2B" is a meme. Training one epoch of a model the size of the GPT-4 family is easily an 8 figure job. Considering other ops costs, UI and backend dev, securing Everest sized datasets, demos/talks, wages, bonuses etc, this probably gives them around 100 trial and errors, or in other words "Look at me mum, I won 100 chips for the casino!"
And imagine being the ops guy there, about to run a new training batch, but you specified the wrong input path. Puff, the money is gone. Absolutely wild stuff.
Murati was CTO. Whilst Brockman and Altman may have bypassed or undermined her on some occasions, she can take large credit for OpenAI’s technical success. Brockman can take credit for his extremely hard work, increasing cadence. Altman for incredible fundraising and (often polarising) visionary leadership.
I sincerely hope the author is joking.
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