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_poisonedrationality t1_j7e7rz6 wrote

Doesn't sound petty at all to me. Sounds like he's dispelling misconceptions about the progress ChatGPT represents.

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yaosio t1_j7ebfxa wrote

If I listened to critics I would think zero progress has been made at all. Every time new software comes out that does something that couldn't be done before it's handwaved away as easy, or obvious, or something else. If it was so easy then it would have already been done. Well with ChatGPT...it has. https://beta.character.ai/ beat ChatGPT by a few months and has a bit more power because it's easier to make the chat bot answer as you want. I don't think it's as good as ChatGPT though.

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supersoldierboy94 OP t1_j7ebug1 wrote

You know its just being petty when he isnt even talking about it in the Generative Image space. ChatGPT is very much like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion where these models are small incremental updates over the main papers. But has put the proper applied research and MLOps work to bring these into production and profit from it.

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MrTacobeans t1_j7ekqqr wrote

But why is that bad? If the researchers wanted moola they should have made a business or published/ran the models they created from their own research. If you don't want to get stepped on by someone else talented enough to piece it together don't release your ideas.

Don't get butt hurt when a primarily publicity or capitalist based company implements your idea and makes it into a product.

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supersoldierboy94 OP t1_j7e8jbe wrote

You can be factually correct and be petty at the same time. You can read more about his conversations with people who argue with him or all the the time he brings up Galactica's failed rollout comparing it to ChatGPT and wondering why it hasn't been paused as well given that, a quote from him, "that Galactica even produces less BS".

He also seems to undermine the rapid engineering work and MLOps that come with ChatGPT which is funny because Meta hasn't released any substantial product from their research that has seen the light of the day for a week. Also, GPT3 to ChatGPT in itself in a research perspective is a jump. Maybe not as incremental as what Lecun does every paper, but compared to an average paper in the field, it is.

You may have a toxic aunt. But if you always talk about it in the dinner table, that's petty.

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