iliekcomputers

chess has had engines 100x better than magnus carlsen for years and it's not dead. people who have fun giving these competitions will continue having fun, while people who don't will keep crying that they're useless or dead or whatever.

yep, this level of censorship is a bit much in my opinion. the models should at least be able to create fiction reasonably.

Can't wait for things like llama / alpaca to become more prevalent!

i'm not employed by google, nor have i ever been. GSoC is google paying people to work on open-source stuff, with little direct relation to their profits.

I was a student in a no-name college with no real chance of landing an internship at the big tech companies, given my cv had neither the prestige of a good college name nor many impressive projects.

GSoC basically allowed me to jump into an open-source project (no credentials needed), prove that I'm skilled enough to contribute and gain meaningful experience solving real world problems. This then snowballed into larger career opportunities later down the line.

it depends where you take it! plus the initial prompt changes everyday. tomorrow will be a different setting with different characters.

GSoC basically changed my entire career. I'm glad that Google keeps this running, especially given that they got rid of other cool competitions like Codejam. Hopefully, they can continue finding the budget for these extremely valuable contributions to open-source.

As a person who loves playing chess but will never be as good as an IM (let alone GMs or Magnus or engines), I've had to internalize this. It's a good feeling.

oh dang probably it was the hacker news hug. can you try again?

How is this the worst part lmao?

If you think people good at things (like writing) get good at those things without producing an insane amount of low quality content, you need to update your model of the world.