Comment by nottorp
1 year ago
YMMV. I don't want to see Altman's fearmongering and hyperbolic statements.
At this point he's indistinguishable from a bitcoin advocate or a tv preacher.
1 year ago
YMMV. I don't want to see Altman's fearmongering and hyperbolic statements.
At this point he's indistinguishable from a bitcoin advocate or a tv preacher.
It's dubious that HN mods think that way of Altman though.
I like Sam, but "$celebrity says $thing about $common-topic" is almost never a good basis for a frontpage thread on HN.
It's vital to HN that user flags and/or software like the flamewar detector clear most such submissions off the front page. They tend to attract a lot of upvotes because that's what sensational (and especially indignant-sensational) stories do. Without countervailing mechanisms, HN would be completely taken over by those stories.
s/mods/users? everyone can flag stories.
It's not flags (or not sufficient to remove the story):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231055
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> I don't want to see Altman's fearmongering and hyperbolic statements
His statement wasn't even hyperbolic or fearmongering.....?
He just extrapolated based on current amounts of compute and estimated a possible model size that could be equivalent to AGI (based on current architecture).
Training a model of that size would require too much electricity.
That was his point.
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