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0 pointsverdverm5mo ago0 comments

Apparently they have not had a successful pre training run in 1.5 years

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I want to read a short scify story set in 2150 about how, mysteriously, no one has been able to train a better LLM for 125 years. The binary weights are studied with unbelievably advanced quantum computers but no one can really train a new AI from scratch. This starts cults, wars and legends and ultimately (by the third book) leads to the main protagonist learning to code by hand, something that no human left alive still knows how to do. Could this be the secret to making a new AI from scratch, more than a century later?

WhyOhWhyQ5mo ago

There's a scifi short story about a janitor who knows how to do basic arithmetic and becomes the most important person in the world when some disaster happens. Of course after things get set up again due to his expertise, he becomes low status again.

bradfitz5mo ago

I had to go look that up! I assume that's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power ? (Not a janitor, but "a low grade Technician"?)

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verdvermOP5mo ago

You can ask 2025 Ai to write such a book, it's happy to comply and may or may not actually write the book

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/i-have-been-fooled-reddi...

ssl-35mo ago

Sounds good.

Might sell better with the protagonist learning iron age leatherworking, with hides tanned from cows that were grown within earshot, as part of a process of finding the real root of the reason for why any of us ever came to be in the first place. This realization process culminates in the formation of a global, unified steampunk BDSM movement and a wealth of new diseases, and then: Zombies.

(That's the end. Zombies are always the end.)

astrange5mo ago

This is somewhat similar to a Piers Anthony series that I suspect noone has ever read except for me.

What was with that guy anyway.

wafflemaker5mo ago

Sorry, but compared with the parent, my money is in you ssl-3. Do you get better results from prompting by being more poetic?

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georgefrowny5mo ago

An software version of Asimov's Holmes-Ginsbook device? https://sfwritersworkshop.org/node/1232

I feel like there was a similar one about software, but it might have been mathematics (also Asimov: The Feeling of Power)

barrenko5mo ago

Monsieur, if I may offer a vaaaguely similar story on how things may progress https://www.owlposting.com/p/a-body-most-amenable-to-experim...

armenarmen5mo ago

I’d read it!

ijl5mo ago

What kind of issues could prevent a company with such resources from that?

verdvermOP5mo ago

Drama if I had to pick the symptom most visible from the outside.

A lot of talent left OpenAI around that time, most notably in this regard would be Ilya in May '24. Remember that time Ilya and the board ousted Sam only to reverse it almost immediately?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/chief...

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fouronnes35mo ago

WhyOhWhyQ5mo ago

bradfitz5mo ago

I had to go look that up! I assume that's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power ? (Not a janitor, but "a low grade Technician"?)

1 more reply

verdvermOP5mo ago

You can ask 2025 Ai to write such a book, it's happy to comply and may or may not actually write the book

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/i-have-been-fooled-reddi...

ssl-35mo ago

Sounds good.

(That's the end. Zombies are always the end.)

astrange5mo ago

This is somewhat similar to a Piers Anthony series that I suspect noone has ever read except for me.

What was with that guy anyway.

wafflemaker5mo ago

Sorry, but compared with the parent, my money is in you ssl-3. Do you get better results from prompting by being more poetic?

1 more reply

georgefrowny5mo ago

An software version of Asimov's Holmes-Ginsbook device? https://sfwritersworkshop.org/node/1232

I feel like there was a similar one about software, but it might have been mathematics (also Asimov: The Feeling of Power)

barrenko5mo ago

Monsieur, if I may offer a vaaaguely similar story on how things may progress https://www.owlposting.com/p/a-body-most-amenable-to-experim...

armenarmen5mo ago

I’d read it!

ijl5mo ago

What kind of issues could prevent a company with such resources from that?

verdvermOP5mo ago

Drama if I had to pick the symptom most visible from the outside.

A lot of talent left OpenAI around that time, most notably in this regard would be Ilya in May '24. Remember that time Ilya and the board ousted Sam only to reverse it almost immediately?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/chief...

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