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• @wavesblog @wavesblog on x

  “So I'm very excited...but I don't think any one company should own the AI universe out there. How the profits of AGI are shared, how access to is shared and how governance is distributed, those are three questions that are going to require new thinking” bravo https://twitter.com…

• @richardjnieva Richard Nieva on x

  Interesting response from Sam Altman on how an AI system could make web search obsolete. From a rare interview with @alexrkonrad @kenrickcai https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @hangingnoodles @hangingnoodles on x

  “I love capitalism” @sama + sci fi legend Ted Chaing “fears about AI are best understood as fears about capitalism” (itself a form of AI that's been paper-clip-maximizing for ~200 years) https://issues.org/... ht @hare_brain https://twitter.com/...

• @alexrkonrad Alex Konrad on x

  Exclusive interview: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke with me about ChatGPT and whether it will replace Google Search, his company's unusual investment from Microsoft — and how the coming artificial general intelligence could “break capitalism.” https://www.forbes.com/...

• @ylecun Yann LeCun on x

  Data on the intellectual contribution to AI from various research organizations. Some of organizations publish knowledge and open-source code for the entire world to use. Others just consume it. https://twitter.com/...

• @rsalakhu Russ Salakhutdinov on x

  To be fair, @openAI had a big impact on AI/ML. Their OpenAI Gym env for RL, their CLIP - a de facto model for any image-text research, their Whisper speech recognition is amazing - all open sourced. In my view, they've had a bigger impact than many labs publishing 100s papers 🧵 h…

• @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x

  OpenAI has been closely guarding details about ChatGPT's popularity, saying only that it has more than a million users. The real numbers: two months after launch, it has more than 30 million users, and gets roughly 5 million visits a day. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @sarahtavel Sarah Tavel on x

  “One day in mid-November, workers at OpenAI got an unexpected assignment: Release a chatbot, fast. The chatbot, an executive announced, would be known as “Chat with GPT-3.5,” and it would be made available free to the public. In two weeks.” kudos @sama. https://www.nytimes.com/..…

• @emilymbender @emilymbender on x

  And when I think of “intellectual contributions” to AI research, I'd guess that much of the most important work isn't on arXiv at all. It's in books or journals that many computer scientists seem unwilling to learn about (or take the time to read). >>

• @ylecun Yann LeCun on x

  @jhoang314 Hate? Where? We do work together. OpenAI uses PyTorch, which was developed at FAIR. PyTorch 2.0 uses the Triton back-end compiler which was developed at OpenAI. OpenAI use transformers and RLHF which originated at Google & DeepMind.

• @nytimesbusiness @nytimesbusiness on x

  ChatGPT is, for now, a money pit, @kevinroose notes. There are no ads, and the average conversation costs OpenAI “single-digit cents” in processing power, according to a post on Twitter by Sam Altman, the company's CEO. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @danielmiessler @danielmiessler on x

  We know Meta's head of AI is right about GPT not being a big deal because: 1. GPT isn't the fastest growing consumer app in history, and 2. Google didn't call a code red because they're worried about the survival of their business

• @ylecun Yann LeCun on x

  @jhoang314 But the fact is that most of the ideas, techniques and tools used by OpenAI came from Google, FAIR & DeepMind. That's totally fine. But OpenAI products do not come out of a vacuum. Like every new product, they integrate existing technology from other orgs and add a coa…

• @djmalvarado Miguel Alvarado on x

  @ylecun Wow the delta between Google and OpenAI is absurd. Not so open after all huh? :)

• @cnoanalysis Sergio Caltagirone on x

  @DanielMiessler I wouldn't necessarily count a business ignoring a potential threat as proof it isn't a big deal. That would just another headstone in a big graveyard of ignorant companies in history.

• @jhoang314 Jerrick Hoang on x

  @ylecun What's up with all the hate? Can't we all work together to push the boundaries of AI?

• @emilymbender @emilymbender on x

  And yes it's a problem that OpenAI is not being transparent about what they are unleashing on the world. The public deserves to know what's in the training data for #ChatGPT. But this is about transparency and accountability, not about measuring “intellectual contribution.”

• @ylecun Yann LeCun on x

  @jhoang314 It's important to understand the dynamics of innovation. The reason why AI is progressing so fast is *precisely* because Nets & Google are quite open about publishing research and code. Imagine if Google & Meta filed tons of patents and started enforcing them...

• @yuris Yuri Sagalov on x

  It's hard to overstate just how important the right distribution channel can be to a product's success. GPT3.5 became available in May/June, but it wasn't until OpenAI released the chatbot half a year later that it took off overnight. https://twitter.com/...

• @bigmeaninternet Malcolm Harris on x

  Clown show https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @tomfgoodwin Tom Goodwin on x

  5m visits a day doesn't seem like that many to me. Wonder what the growth curve is now https://twitter.com/...

• @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x

  OpenAI didn't comment for this column, or make anyone available for interviews. But I'm grateful to the people who did talk. I think we, as a society, need to know more about the people and companies that are releasing powerful AI tools into the world. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  i think this helps explain why i'm so overwhelmed by generative AI tools...it's not just what they can do or the paradigms they could shift...it's the speed of adoption and the way they're adopted culturally (how there's something that feels lasting about it) https://twitter.com/…

• @dkthomp Derek Thompson on x

  “Two months after its debut, ChatGPT has more than 30 million users and gets roughly 5m visits a day. That makes it one of the fastest-growing software products in memory. (Instagram took nearly a year to get its first 10m users.)” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @kevinroose Kevin Roose on x

  I got a bunch of new info from inside OpenAI about ChatGPT. It has a wilder origin story than you've heard. https://www.nytimes.com/...