Daniel Fein
@DanielFein7
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I made an app!. It’s called Receipts and it gives you all the data you could ever want about your text messages. It also has some really cool AI features like conversation simulation and text recommendations. Shoutout @kabirjolly_ for working through tough battles to make this
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@sundarpichai So petty to show a James Webb Telescope question right at the end of chatGPT knowledge cutoff lmao
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@gaby_goldberg Craziest thing about G suite is just typing “ into chrome - can never go back to notion after learning that.
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@fly4dat More likely is that the robot can’t actually grip the plastic so they have magnets inside.
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heading into a world where Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic all have chatGPT-level models available by API, Nvidia seems like the real winner.
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@cgarciae88 This sounds familiar lol.
heading into a world where Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic all have chatGPT-level models available by API, Nvidia seems like the real winner.
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@dweekly I think this is why copilot accelerates programmers so much, it replaces googling as a requisite skill, you just write your question as a comment instead as if u already know the answer.
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@satyanadella @miramurati @OpenAI Microsoft enduring through innovation cycles is good for employees and tech in general. But there’s something sad about not being able to root for the underdog anymore. Plus it defeats the purpose of OpenAI’s founding (to resist Google + DeepMind).
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@EMostaque All based on someone making a frontend with an API that had been out for 10 months. Shows how random the world is.
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With Google and Amazon killing their moonshot-type stuff like robotics, AREA 120, etc. there’s no place for risk averse people who still want to work on cool things to hide in big tech anymore.
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@mathemagic1an If Bard is 90% as good as chatGPT, it’s distribution will lead to its being more used.
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@proetrie The Simpsons shamelessly made fun of the middle class until society accepted its destruction.
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@esthercrawford What a cool person, ripped up in the media for making the most of a situation and then turning it into twitter thread.
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@AleResnik I grew up in Pinecrest, went to Palmetto elementary - high school and am now graduating from Stanford. If anyone moving to the area is dubious about the public schools for their children feel free to DM.
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In case you missed it, these four figures largely explain what’s going on in AI today 🧵
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Semantic search + GPT interpretation will ultimately be used in every business, document set, and website. The question is how it will be distributed.
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@VitalikButerin @tszzl Hype train clearly shifted from crypto to AI if even Vitalik is with it 😵💫.
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@WenhuChen Keep in mind this is a project from ambitious undergrads who attend stanford, not a lab on campus or an advised PhD candidate. Plagiarism isn’t good but I wouldn’t call this particular case “astonishing,” it’s not even claiming to be a scientific work it’s just a GitHub repo.
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@mathemagic1an This is really insane. Software engineers who were worried about their jobs are right - with a system like this in place you can basically sit back while openAI makes GPT4, 5, etc. Slowly eradicating the career until it’s just one engineer typing requests to the codebase.
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@_jasonwei @Stanford The lecture was great! My favorite part was when you pointed out it takes about an avogadro's number of FLOPs to train a LLM.
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The chrome search box is a dramatically underutilized text input. I should be able to type “am I free at 4 on Friday” and it checks with my calendar, or “order sushi” and it takes me through to doordash.
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@francoisfleuret AI math is like if math people decided halfway through sophomore year of college that they wanted to do art instead — they basically pick functions based purely off how they look and if they’re differentiable.
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@alexandr_wang Arguably the models aren’t accurate enough to be placed next to search results, and Microsoft is forcing a bad product onto everyone.
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@getNgriggywidit The promise of more personal connectedness via the internet was such a lie — it just gave us the means to live life without ever talking to strangers.
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Read my article explaining how DALL-E 2 from @OpenAI works!.
DALL-E 2.0, Explained by @DanielFein7 .
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@schrep Facebook has done more for the internet and tech in general than is appreciated. React and PyTorch are the state of the art in app development and ML development respectively - no coincidence.
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The most exciting thing about AI is not the success of chatGPT, it’s the rate of progress that got us there. Bigger things still to come.
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@paulg This might be true, but OpenAI started in 2015 with $1B, so there was no shortage of money. I think it’s more the perception that these models are progressing fast because the latest discoveries have broken human-level performance in many tasks (some very surprising ones too).
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@tszzl OpenAI kinda screwing it’s customers by releasing gpt3.5 disguised as a chatbot for free while only allowing them to serve gpt-3 via api and charging. Wonder if that’s why they dropped new version like a week ago.
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@frantzfries The fulfilled number is so interesting. People are more fulfilled when they’re getting more done — will be great for the collective societal ego when this isn’t just about code.
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@Grady_Booch @Google @TheOfficialACM Though it has less citations, “language models are few-shot learners” (GPT-3) was also instrumental in figuring out AI as we know it today by teaching us to think bigger scale.
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A lot of big people in AI are leaving Google and OpenAI to start human-computer interface startups. I tried to figure out and explain why this is such a big deal in this post:.
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@cgarciae88 Satya is a class act. Even with equivalent AI abilities, Googles search LM has to be worse than Bing’s because of its scale. So Bing will necessarily be the better product for a while.
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@alex_samaras @sundarpichai Oh I actually didn’t know that, if it’s that up to date then that’s really different from just having trained more recently (PaLM was trained this past summer).
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@nikitabier Heard the founder learned to code from a 3 week boot camp before making the app so maybe the slander is just propaganda for higher ed.
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@jamescham @semil I love YouTube and grew up learning with it, but I’d argue AI chatbots will be the education search engine for the new generations.
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@RichardSocher @ilyasut This quote seems to explain why openAI is so important despite publishing relatively few papers.
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@Austen It’s also crazy that it seems like tasks that require moving around might be closer to the last ones to go — somehow motility is harder to get right than creativity, so counterintuitive.
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@simonw Even more: being able to run the models on a mac means that they’re no longer services by default.
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@EMostaque Open or closed, most people don’t have a machine capable of running a model themselves, so the control goes to the cloud companies regardless.
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@annadgoldie was my head TA for CS224, the NLP class at Stanford, and she was beyond impressive.
I've known Anna for a long time now, and she's one of the most impressive junior ML researchers around. She also holds herself to high standards of integrity. I've been impressed with how well she's handled this situation. Let's give her and Azalia our support.
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@br___ian Also revolutionized people’s willingness to have a microphone connected directly to a big tech company in all rooms of their house and their pocket.
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@AlfredoAndere I knew it had to be personal. It’s not even a long term profit play, more just destructive to google. There had to be a reason.
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Potentially hot take: AI hype probably came earlier than it should’ve . This kind of investment may have seen more impact in 1-2 years when some of the alignment and reliability work was more fleshed out. Let’s hope it doesn’t bust before we get to the really good stuff.
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Eventually each person will have personal models that generate and evaluate based on their taste. Like a rotten tomatoes that’s just for yourself or a tiktok where each video is generated based on your preferences and emotions.
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Initially thought that the way to think about how to develop AI was via neuroscience but increasingly I think it’s better to go about it looking at what we know about evolution (how genes are changed, how promotors tweak regulation, etc).
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@TheRealAdamG No surprise the EY CTO is waiting for chatGPT API instead of fine tuning on GPT-3 api already available. Basically every company not based in the Bay Area is still trying to understand what’s going on.
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@mathemagic1an Agree, but long term the ability to trigger loops via prompt as in likely wins out over agents.
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@AlphaSignalAI Possibly true in terms of marketshare, but Bing will force google to lose profit margin by rolling out LLMs in search. This will fundamentally change Google’s business even if they are still the most popular search engine.
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@karpathy i guess this means unix philosophy isn’t in the natural mindstate of most programmers.
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@deliprao All the hysteria about tech workers losing their jobs as if even a modern chicken sandwhich joint doesn’t need to employ many software engineers.
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Then, this is basically the go ahead for OpenAI (which has a massive amount of money and always has) to spend ~$12M training GPT-3, which seems to be much better then everything else.
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This reverse engineering of github copilot by @parth007_96 is stunning. Microsoft has some next level engineering and product work going on - this will be the textbook for anyone developing coding tools with AI. Some practical observations:.
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@tszzl Hence hundred billion param LLMs being closer to explaining the mind than anything that has been written in a textbook.
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How is this real. “Altman and OpenAI's chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, said the move to focus on large language models is the best way for the company to reach AGI, or adjusted gross income.”.
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@Austen I feel like as they opened up the events to wider audience they got less technical and now they’re just like “made of rocket-ship aluminum”.
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Tech debt is responsible for 100% of Silicon Valley’s shortcomings.
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@mustafasuleymn @Xerox I’m sure that’s something you’re thinking about with Inflection, I connected the two in this article I wrote about the company and would be honored if you checked it out
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@arankomatsuzaki I think that the real web3 is about editing, not ownership; read, write, edit (not own). Docs, slides, figma, tiktok, all let you edit on the web. AI assisted web-editing will transform the world.
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@hamishmckenzie That’s great! I remember chatting with you at Stanford after being kind of frustrated with Substack’s lack of growth support for non-established authors. Thrilled to see this change, and will be moving all of my blogs to substack right away!.
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@tunguz My theory is demand for this kind of content comes from people dissatisfied with their careers who would rather blame their dissatisfaction on not giving up their lives as well as people who did give up their lives trying to prove to themselves it was worth it.
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@andre1sk @mathemagic1an was talking specifically about chatGPT, but even if it was MSFT, nobody except maybe apple has better distribution for consumer products than Google.
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This is so cool. Somebody should try it on 5 year olds.
Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners. Simply adding “Let’s think step by step” before each answer increases the accuracy on MultiArith from 17.7% to 78.7% and GSM8K from 10.4% to 40.7% with GPT-3.
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@BrianTheVC @Stanford Crypto has the real double whammy of being technically interesting enough for CS kids and financially lucrative enough for Econ kids.
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OpenAI desktop app underrated, will almost definitely be the most important thing announced when we look back.
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@paul_scharre This AI rivalry seems overhyped. 1) TikTok’s AI seems very standard based on released papers, would be more sophisticated if they were “trouncing” US. 2) all the recent really impactful papers have come out of US labs.
In case you missed it, these four figures largely explain what’s going on in AI today 🧵
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