So the dude with a billion connections managed to use them to get cash for the startup that deals with the most insanely overhyped piece of technology to have ever been created.
No mention of the people actually responsible for any of this? Y'know, the scientists and engineers that actually had to do something to create the crazy technology he's taking credit for, the noteworthy dude is the generic MBA C-suite type that managed to not screw the pooch when given a team of the brightest minds out there?
> the most insanely overhyped piece of technology to have ever been created.
Copying and pasting code from ChatGPT, I created a functional iOS app today based on my design. I have never before written a mobile app, any Swift code, or much of any code aside from Power Apps, in at least 15 years.
I didn't comment on whether the tech is good or bad, I just said it's overhyped (and you more or less proved my point).
And again, what exactly has Sam himself done to bring about the tech? Without Ilya and the rest of the engineers and researchers you wouldn't have been able to copy/paste the code, why exactly is Sam the one that gets the credit here?
I was responding only to the part I quoted, which I read as criticism of the tech.
I am not necessarily an Altman hype man. As an obvious outsider, my best bet as to why he came back so strong was because apparently many researchers (employees) said they would leave as well. I can't read peoples' minds but I can infer a a bit based on human financial interest.
The employees with equity were very close to a liquidity event at a valuation of $86B. That is likely life changing money for many, and this whole Altman getting fired mess put that life changing money on hold.
I wonder if his ouster had been done in a more sane/stable way, if things could have kept chugging along without him.
As far as the average HN opinion, I donno, I have seen many upvoted comments saying... yeah, he's just the CEO.
And I think you overestimate how much people care about CEO/board politicking. Will OpenAI's APIs still exist? Yes? I guarantee you no one other than other CEOs hoping to ride on Sam's coattails will give a shit then
Do yourself a favor and integrate GPT4 into your workflow.
I use it probably 20 times a day at this point.
example:
"I ran performance tests on two systems, here's the results of system 1, and heres the results of system 2. Summarize the results, and build a markdown table containing x,y,z rows."
"extract the reusable functions out of this bash script"
"write me a cfssl command to generate a intermediate CA"
"What is the regex for _____"
"Here are my accomplishments over the last 6 months, summarize them into a 1 page performance report."
etc etc etc
If you're not using GPT4 or some LLM as part of your daily flow you're working too hard.
Get GPT4All (https://gpt4all.io), log into OpenAI, drop $20 on your account, get a API key, and start using GPT4.
I had a subscription but found it useless for any actual difficult problem that you can't just find elsewhere online with a bit more effort, and I don't tend to struggle with trivial shit. Also not interested in being a "prompt engineer".
But still, irrelevant, I didn't comment on whether it's good or bad, I just said it's overhyped, and comments like these never fail to come up when someone says anything even slightly negative about the tech.
No mention of the people actually responsible for any of this? Y'know, the scientists and engineers that actually had to do something to create the crazy technology he's taking credit for, the noteworthy dude is the generic MBA C-suite type that managed to not screw the pooch when given a team of the brightest minds out there?
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