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OpenAI and others seek new path to smarter AI as current methods hit limitations (www.reuters.com)

submitted 2 days ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Translation: "We told everyone we could turn glorified autocomplete into artificial general intelligence and then they gave us a bunch of money for that, so now we actually have to try to deliver something and we've got no idea how."

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

How about giving billions to those guys simulating brains of a small worms and fruit flies, so we can have very slow "brain in a bottle" that will be equally useless.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You know what? Sure, fuck it, why not? I don't even have a problem with OpenAI getting billions of dollars to do R&D on LLMs. They might actually turn out to have some practical applications, maybe.

My problem is that OpenAI basically stopped doing real R&D the moment ChatGPT became a product, because now all their money goes into their ridiculous backend server costs and putting increasingly silly layers of lipstick on a pig so that they can get one more round of investment funding.

AI is a really important area of technology to study, and I'm all in favour of giving money to the people actually studying it. But that sure as shit ain't Sam Altman and his band of carnival barkers.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean this respectfully. The character Everett True is known as someone who tells the truth even when it's not popular.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Being compared to Everett True is the greatest compliment I have ever been given, and am honour of which I am in no way worthy.

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