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Sam Altman is ready to "decelerate" the pace of development (techcrunch.com)
submitted 2 days ago by artifex@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Supposedly the change of heart came after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally," the Huggingface escape. To me it sounds like he's worried about the competition breathing down his neck and wants someone to come in and call a time-out.

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[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Likely translation: scaling their models is hitting diminishing returns, while the business world is slowly realizing the math ain't mathing and they're not suddenly 10x more efficient and profitable than before LLM adoption.

So Sammy and the others need a plausible cover story why capabilities aren't evolving at break neck speed anymore, to prevent their beautiful bubbly bubble from crashing down on them

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

This is the part I don't get. No learned model I'm aware of scales well forever. Eventually, funneling more data just isn't going to do the trick.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Let's hope they get the Enron treatment for their actions

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm thinking more French revolution treatment.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

Exactly. Who tf actually believes this crap?

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Feds made them be the fall guy though. Data centers are new infrastructure for the government to use. That's the main reason for all this ai bullshit. Chapgpt and this consumer grade bullshit is the unplugged video game controller they gave us to makes us feel special and a part of something while THEY play "The Game".

An expansion of the above; https://reddthat.com/comment/28125951

[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 3 points 2 days ago

while THEY play "The Game"

And I just lost it.