Most people who sympathized with the Board prior to this would have assumed that the presumed culprit, the legendary Ilya, has thought through everything and is ready to sacrifice anything for a course he champions. It appears that is not the case.
I think he orchestrated the coup on principle, but severely underestimated the backlash and power that other people had collectively.
Now he’s trying to save his own skin. Sam will probably take him back on his own technical merits but definitely not in any position of power anymore
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die
Just because you are a genius in one domain does not mean you are in another
What’s funny is that everyone initially “accepted” the firing. But no one liked it. Then a few people (like greg) started voting with their feet which empowered others which has cumulated into this tidal shift.
It will make a fascinating case study some day on how not to fire your CEO
It makes sense to call the foundation model GPT-4, like for the previous GPT versions. The fine-tunings are not where its core capabilities come from. Bing is also "a" GPT-4, just with different fine-tuning.
Super smart move for OpenAI to monetize the existing infrastructure, which will make it easy for corporations to integrate GPT into their internal data and workflow. It also solves two fundamental bottlenecks in current versions of GPT: factuality and (limited) working memory. Google, with its lackluster Bard, will face new threat, now that everyone can build a customized New Bing clone in a matter of days.
When they released ChatGPT, they would have foreseen that the least it could do is forever pollute the Web and all human media with AI-generated content indistinguishable from human output. It would be naive to hand everyone a gun for next to nothing (on the pretext of helping them to hunt) and expect nothing bad will happen. What is the point of a warning if they have not been more judicious with the weapon distribution?
The only trivial thing in software is hello world, anything more complicated or useful for end users is usually far from being trivial, in my experience.
The bottom line is Apple products post-Ive have improved dramatically in terms of practicality, efficiency, and even design. Without Jobs, the guy should be without jobs.
If that’s true, shouldn’t one of the underlying concerns - Apple’s shift in priority from hardware to service products - be even more disappointing? How many innovative and user friendly gadgets are we being deprived of so the company can focus on US-only credit card and content streaming services?
So the reason for the censorship is they read the entire article and saw nothing "new" about something you "all know is true"? That's indeed a "new" way to discourage reasoned discussions.
Dang explained it many times, that HN is optimized for interesting things instead of just reasonable discussions, particularly if they are repetitive / predictable.
Also it's not a ,,new'' way to discourage reasoned discussions, it was already like that when you decided to join HN in 2016.
