Comment by overfeed
7 days ago
> [Anthropic/OpenAI] are serving models at a particular capability level for months before their competitors, and are simultaneously applying the best models to optimizing those costs. Second, intelligence isn’t in fact a perfect commodity, in part because applied intelligence makes itself smarter
Is he casually assuming a singularity has already happened? A regular first-mover advantage I can understand, but those have been squandered or lost many times before.
No, he was just talking about reinforcement learning, etc.
So that's just an appeal to authority (longevity?) not anchored in reality. Just because you've been doing something for longer doesn't mean you're the best at it; Google has been shipping AI/ML models years before the founding of OpenAI and Anthropic, but it's playing catch-up on LLMs.