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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
> Since puppies turn into full grown dogs quite quickly, how often do you suggest I replace the puppy?

You must complete the mission before the puppy becomes a dog. Otherwise you must wait 14 years until you can get another puppy.

Comment · 1 year ago
The pattern I've noticed with a lot of open source LLMs is that they generally tend to underperform the level that their benchmarks say they should be at.

I haven't tried this model yet and am not in a position to for a couple days, and am wondering if anyone feels that with these.

Comment · 2 years ago
I agree. Good human friends should provide a mix of a positive/feedback negative loop, providing a good gradient to train one's behavior on.

AI seems like just a positive feedback loop.

Comment · 2 years ago
They're not that good at arb. Real arb doesn't even really exist anymore. Even when it does, it's not JS that closes it. They market make, which is different.
Comment · 2 years ago
Because it's lying to the client?
Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe I should clarify that I don't think it's all that matters, but that Sam might think that.
Comment · 3 years ago
I wonder if Sam did something in the name of his own philosophy, but was financially suicide. Like vastly underestimating the costs of training/inferencing to the board, but justifying it to himself because it's all going towards building AGI and that's what matters.

But them firing him also means that OpenAI's heavy hitters weren't that devoted to him either. Obviously otherwise they would all leave after him. Probably internal conflict, maybe between Ilya and Sam, with everyone else predictably being on Ilya's side.

Comment · 3 years ago
It's true at last anecdotally. Related, there's a running joke in some subset of the industry about the types of exotic derivatives that are so complex and esoteric "only french banks" trade them.
Comment · 3 years ago
1/100th of a pede
Comment · 3 years ago
> He was so good at finance that at his previous job at a hedge fund, he supervised its biggest day of losses in company history.

Small irrelevant detail, but nags me nonetheless. Jane Street is not a hedge fund. They don't remotely operate like one. They're a prop market making firm.

Comment · 3 years ago
Honestly an idea I've had with the recent surge of interest in LLMs is some type of robotic pet. I feel like LLMs can understand human language and images(hopefully soon) to the extent that a pet should be able to. Some kind of robotic dog that can not only express emotions, but understand what you say to it, seems like it would be pretty successful if done correctly.

The nice thing is that it doesn't even have to understand perfectly, a GPT-4 level of vision/language understanding would be perfectly fine. It doesn't have to hold a conversation, just be able to be happy or sad when it should.

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