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"You can see the future first in San Francisco." OpenAI alumnus Leopold Aschenbrenner pours out a worshipful paean to the AI future, just as if GPT wasn't topping out its S-curve (situational-awareness.ai)
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[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@dgerard "From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs" wait this dude is wetting his knickers about Out Of Memory errors?

[–] 200fifty@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No no, it's "order of magnitudes". It's like "surgeons general."

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Counterpoint: in Afrikaans (and likely Dutch I guess? Haven’t checked) “oom” is “uncle”

You may now proceed to enjoying this little diversion as much as I do

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 10 months ago

success has many fathers, but the best chatgpt can get are uncles

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dunno about Afrikaans, but you are correct about Dutch.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 10 months ago

you can be sure about afrikaans (since I am)