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[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 184 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] 1984@lemmy.today 34 points 5 months ago

The bait and switch classic.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 months ago

I'm clutching my pearls as I type this.

[–] seven_phone@lemmy.world 154 points 5 months ago (4 children)

So the development of inorganic intelligence, considered by many as an inflection point in human civilisation is to be handed to business graduates who are historically proven to be capable of any level of atrocity in the name of corporate greed. America, fuck yeah.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago

Actually corporations themselves are 99% of what people fear about AGI already in their inhuman decisionmaking to the detriment of humanity.

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[–] BB84@mander.xyz 63 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Stop depending on these proprietary LLMs. Go to !localllama@sh.itjust.works.

There are open-source LLMs you can run on your own computer if you have a powerful GPU. Models like OLMo and Falcon are made by true non-profits and universities, and they reach GPT-3.5 level of capability.

There are also open-weight models that you can run locally and fine-tune to your liking (although these don’t have open-source training data or code). The best of these (Alibaba’s Qwen, Meta’s llama, Mistral, Deepseek, etc.) match and sometimes exceed GPT 4o capabilities.

[–] llama@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

The issue with that method, as you've noted, is that it prevents people with less powerful computers from running local LLMs. There are a few models that would be able to run on an underpowered machine, such as TinyLlama; but most users want a model that can do a plethora of tasks efficiently like ChatGPT can, I daresay. For people who have such hardware limitations, I believe the only option is relying on models that can be accessed online.

For that, I would recommend Mistral's Mixtral models (https://chat.mistral.ai/) and the surfeit of models available on Poe AI's platform (https://poe.com/). Particularly, I use Poe for interacting with the surprising diversity of Llama models they have available on the website.

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No problem, after they release all the data collected under the excuse of public good and progress.

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[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 56 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I thought they were a for-profit company all this time.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much non-profit in name only. Some shady hybrid model.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OpenAI sure seems like a case study in how to grift everyone by masquerading as a non profit whilst actually enriching yourself and your shareholders, causing a whole new class of societal problems in the process.

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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 47 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago

Open to All Income.

[–] arararagi@ani.social 45 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, apart from the people like me who thought they had always been one because they acted exactly like one.

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[–] benignintervention@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

'subtle' product recommendations

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 18 points 5 months ago

I'm Open AI and this is my favorite shop in the Citadel.

[–] benignintervention@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Yup, conversational product plugs

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They should also change their name to ClosedAI while they're at it.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There was never another outcome.

Capitalism breeds one thing, and it certainly isn't innovation, and it most definitely isnt not-for-profit innovation.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Hahaha. April 1st is early this year.
They are never going to make enough money by selling licenses and subscriptions for the cost of their current models (smarter people than me have made good estimates), let alone the future ones. Those future models are at a much worse performance-cost ratio. Ads will at best bring in about 1 usd per user per month (estimated by Facebook revenue and number of users) - double or triple it just for lolz, and they would still be losing money.
So… how will this be pulled off? Only wrong answers!

[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Have a partnership with Microsoft and ship Windows 12 as the new "AI only" OS. Every command must go through ChatGPT to work. Then push updates to older Win11 OS to make them unusable.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

From what I've heard, they don't need to push updates to achieve that

[–] confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How fast are they burning money right now?

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 months ago

Based on their funding rounds, $10 billion lasts about 18 months.

So about $555 million per month.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

No kidding. 🙀

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Didnt they do this like a year ago

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago

Yes, but I don't think they made a profit so giving it another go

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Lol like it wasn't always.

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is going to sound weird but so is the internet their icon suggests a chain of bodies eating out the ass of the one in front of them which to me seems apt for the product

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also not to make it all about asses but there’s also the goatse vibe

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago
[–] lig@lemmings.world 4 points 5 months ago

They've been acting like that from the start 🤷🏻‍♂️

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