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Posted by SerCe 10 hours ago

Why I Joined OpenAI(www.brendangregg.com)
127 points | 111 commentspage 2
zeroonetwothree 4 hours ago|
Was it because ChatGPT helped you to write this post?
amluto 9 hours ago||
> She was worried about a friend who was travelling in a far-away city, with little timezone overlap when they could chat, but she could talk to ChatGPT anytime about what the city was like and what tourist activities her friend might be doing, which helped her feel connected. She liked the memory feature too, saying it was like talking to a person who was living there.

This seems rather sad. Is this really what AI is for?

And we do not need gigawatts and gigawatts for this use case anyway. A small local model or batched inference of a small model should do just fine.

fragmede 16 minutes ago||
It's sad that we aren't all rich enough to have a personal assistant to tend to our sides 24/7? mean, it seems more useful than, say, cruise ships, but they get to exist.
mschild 4 hours ago|||
> A small local model or batched inference of a small model should do just fine.

Or, you know, Signal/Matrix/WhatsApp/{your_preferred_chat_app}. If you're already texting things, might as well do that.

georgemcbay 7 hours ago|||
> And we do not need gigawatts and gigawatts for this use case anyway. A small local model or batched inference of a small model should do just fine.

I guess I'm a dinosaur but I think emailing the friend to ask what they are actually up to would be even better than involving an LLM to imagine it.

Asynchronous human to human communication is a pretty solved problem.

lufenialif2 5 hours ago||
A common cited use case of LLMs is scheduling travel, so being able to pretend it’s somebody somewhere else is for sure important to incentivize going somewhere!
UltraSane 8 hours ago|||
I use it as something to talk to about incredibly nerdy and/or obscure things no one else would be willing to talk about.
rotis 2 hours ago|||
Asking ChatGPT about safety of someone traveling instead of asking that person is the nerdy thing to do. Somehow a hairstylist doesn't invoke image of a nerd in me. That is why I find this story implausible.
boxedemp 3 hours ago||||
Same. I have a lot of ideas I like to explore that people find boring or tedious. I used to just read, but it's pleasant to have the option to play with those thoughts more.
fragmede 15 minutes ago||
I love pitching scifi premise/half book ideas at ChatGPT and having it write short stories that end the way I want them to, dammit.
manuelmoreale 4 hours ago|||
That’s honestly just sad. Not the fact you doing it, but rather the fact you have nobody to talk to about those things.
rkomorn 4 hours ago||
I feel like this kind of response is a good example of why someone wouldn't talk to others about things.
peyton 8 hours ago||
It’s super dope, and you can have it talk to people for you in the local language when you go there. I’ve busted it out to explain what I’m thinking for me. Watching travel shows on TV or reading travel magazines is sadder.
kopollo 3 hours ago||
Could you please provide information about the efficiency optimization you plan to implement?
fulafel 2 hours ago||
Saving the planet and the Trump alliance (https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867947/o...) don't seem to relaly jive.
SanjayMehta 8 hours ago||
> save the planet

> I'd been missing that human connection

At OpenAI.

thinkingkong 9 hours ago||
Brendan can do whatever he wants. Hes that good. If anybody seriously needed to interview him 20+ times to figure it out, then the burden is now on them to not fuck it up.
ojbyrne 9 hours ago||
The article says "I ended up having 26 interviews and meetings (of course I kept a log) with various AI tech giants."

I don't think that indicates that any one company interviewed him 20+ times.

sgarland 8 hours ago|||
Seriously. I would expect him to be more of an offer-only scenario.
7e 9 hours ago||
He's summing interviews across all AI giants. But the ones about to IPO can interview someone almost infinitely many times, because everyone wants on the bandwagon.
yomismoaqui 2 hours ago||
> "I'm an Intel fellow, I work on datacenter performance." Silence

Seems like that really hurt.

Man I don't care if you are best engineer in the planet but reading that post made me cringe. Keep your ego under control, please.

tominous 7 hours ago||
Performance and efficiency are important, but we need you to invent the monitoring tools and visualisations that will underpin alignment!
puttycat 4 hours ago||
> it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet.

You're in for a surprise buddy.

ahf8Aithaex7Nai 7 hours ago|
Apparently, there's this guy who's really good at optimizing computer performance and makes a lot of money doing it. At the same time, he writes mediocre school essays that are actually a bit embarrassing. Guys, if you have the opportunity to land a very well-paid job, then do it. Take the money. Live your life. But please spare us the public self-castration.
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