.@OpenAI seems to be echoing Ajeya Cotra's view that predicting scaling capability is key to managing AI safety. We can predict 10,000x ahead by extrapolating from smaller models. On that respect GPT4 has been a near-complete success using the now-familiar Azure supercluster.
@OpenAI In the generative AI era, it's very very good to be an OpenAI partner.
GPT4's image capability is launch exclusive to one nonprofit.
Khan Academy launched today with GPT-4 powered personal tutoring.
Whoop i just got let in to the ChatGPT4 beta!
This is going to get completely lost in the noise but @AnthropicAI launched Claude/Claude+ (with @notionhq and @poe_platform launch partner) and Google launched their PaLM API today as well
Big Data may be dead, but looking at data is still stupendously underrated even in 2023.
Small collection of examples where looking at ✨analytics✨ changed the trajectory of a whole business:
First (and most famous, but gotta acknowledge the greats), @kevin pivoted his Foursquare mobile check-in competitor after hiring @mikeyk to look at analytics.
Mike saw that out of all the features they shipped, only one got off the charts usage.
ChatGPT’s current killer app isn’t search, therapy, doing math, controlling browsers, emulating a virtual machine, or any of that other cherrypicked examples that come with huge disclaimers.
It’s a lot more quotidian:
Reformatting information from any format X to any format Y.
“ChatGPT reformatting” requires minimal world knowledge, are instantly verifiable, and can reliably save minutes of work multiple times a day.
The reformat can include contextual inference, which saves even more time at the cost of a bit more risk:
Convinced that all devs should work on a database as part of training.
Ever joked about DataStructures & Algorithms only being useful at interviews?
Work on a DB
Ever wondered why {{ FAVE_APP }} is slow?
Probably a DB
Prefer compilers?
allow me to introduce query planners..
Perhaps my real hot take is that databases are the CS grads abstracting away all the Hard Problems so that us bootcamp grads can cosplay being "full stack" with literally 1 day of SQL experience before getting hired to make 6 figures making rectangles on server vs on client
I'm starting to suspect there's only two fundamental value props in verticalized tech: offering a better data schema for the problem, and building a better data store for the schema.
i got a nighttime joyride with @alexbowe recently and while we couldnt test heavy traffic, we pointed the car at the most challenging road we could think of inside the drivable zone - the incline squiggly road in Potrero Hill.