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[wjfox]

[firestar464]

and none of these sites will be safe to use under Donald

[Cyber_Rebel]

and none of these sites will be safe to use under Donald

???

We don't have state run corporations of these companies like in China, so why wouldn't they be safe? You could argue that for Musk and XAI but that isn't squarely specific to Trump.

[firestar464]

More aggressive spying + they will bend to p2025 censorship regulations (that is if they don't somehow relocate abroad)

Eventually the only permissible videos will be Jesus cartoons /hj

[firestar464]

I suppose product releases will remain unaffected.

Judging from this article, they're about to speed up. It truly does seem like the fiasco that's been happening behind the scenes at Open AI really was a kind of ideological battle between acceleration v. safety, with an incentive to stay at the forefront. To be honest, I'm not certain if such is the best way to bring about AGI into the world, and I say that as an accelerationist myself. It reads like something from a Cyberpunk pretext with the corporate drama, only missing hired zaibatsu infiltrating Google/Open AI HQ and whatnot to impede or steal valuable tech. I'd suppose the Altman ouster and attempted merge with Anthropic was kind of similar though.

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Before Mira Murati’s surprise exit from OpenAI, staff grumbled its o1 model had been released prematurely
BY: Jeremy Kahn, Sharon Goldman and Kali Hays
October 1, 2024 at 10:30 AM PDT

Source: Fortune

When OpenAI debuted its latest AI model, GPT4-o, in a slick live webcast this past May, it was Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, not the company’s better-known CEO, Sam Altman, who emceed the event.

Murati, dressed in a gray collared T-shirt and jeans, helped show off the software’s ability to interact through voice and image prompts, as well as its skill at simultaneous translation, math, and coding. It was an impressive live demo, timed to steal the thunder from OpenAI’s rival Google, which was set to unveil new features for its own AI chatbot, Gemini, later that week.

But behind the scenes, things were far from smooth, according to sources familiar with the company’s internal workings. Relentless pressure to introduce products such as GPT-4o, and a newer model, called o1, which debuted last month, were straining the abilities of OpenAI’s research and safety teams to keep pace. There was friction between teams dedicated to ensuring OpenAI’s products did not pose undue risks, such as the ability to assist with producing biological weapons, and commercial teams dedicated to getting new products into the market and making money.

Many OpenAI staff thought that o1 was not ready to be unveiled, but Altman pushed to launch it anyway to burnish OpenAI’s reputation as a leader in AI. This is the first time details of this debate over o1 have been reported publicly.

Some current employees, however, say they are not unhappy about the changes. They hope internal conflict will be more infrequent now that colleagues whom they call too academic or overly worried about AI safety, and therefore reluctant to ever release products, are increasingly choosing to leave.

Holy s--- it feels like these people were hired off r/singularity. "Nothing could ever go wrong, I hate seatbelts, accelerate, feel the AGI (never mind that it was Ilya that coined the slogan and they called him weird for using it), SAM ALTMAN TOTAL GOOD. PRAISE BE TO HIM"

Not saying "Sam Altman total bad" (the other extreme) but it's so weird that there are so many uncritical futurists out there

I suppose Brockman really was just overworking LOL. Dude is back

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/12/openai- ... leave.html



UGH

[firestar464]

[firestar464]

[weatheriscool]

[firestar464]

I was kind of expecting it, especially after Pixtral Large dropped.

[firestar464]

[firestar464]

On the other hand it's still leading on lmsys, so IDK.

[wjfox]

[Cyber_Rebel]

Unlimited access needs to mean unlimited context window in every case just justify adding another zero to that subscription. If this is the only means of accessing 01 "pro" which I take to mean the full model, then it needs to also be a step change above what we are used to. Literally hardly any hallucinations just for starters.

I know the argument is that this isn't particularly geared towards the public, and of course the price will inevitably come down. Hopefully this is why there is renewed hope of 4.5:

[wjfox]

it needs to also be a step change above what we are used to.

[Powers]

Too expensive.

[firestar464]

f*ck.

[wjfox]

Too expensive.

Given how rapidly the field is developing, I'd imagine we'll get the same compute for a much lower price fairly soon.

[Cyber_Rebel]

Sora is here
We’re moving our video generation model out of research preview.

https://openai.com/index/sora-is-here/

Our video generation model is rolling out at sora.com⁠(opens in a new window).

Earlier this year, we introduced Sora⁠, our model that can create realistic videos from text, and shared our initial research progress⁠ on world simulation. Sora serves as a foundation for AI that understands and simulates reality—an important step towards developing models that can interact with the physical world.

We developed a new version of Sora—Sora Turbo— that is significantly faster than the model we previewed in February. We’re releasing it today as a standalone product at Sora.com to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users.

Very important tidbit bolded here regarding world modeling.

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