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When you get articles like this, the first thing you should ask is "Who the fuck is Firstpost?"

Openai biggest spending is infrastructure, Whis is rented from... Microsoft. Even if the company fold, they will have given back to Microsoft most of the money invested

While title is click bite, they do say right at the beginning:

*Right now, it is pulling through only because of Microsoft's $10 billion funding *

Pretty hard to miss, and than they go to explain their point, which might be wrong, but still stands. 700k i only one model, there are others and making new ones and running the company. It is easy over 1B a year without making profit. Still not significant since people will pour money into it even after those 10B.

I mean, you're correct in the sense Microsoft basically owns their ass at this point, and that Microsoft doesn't care if they make a loss because it's sitting on a mountain of cash. So one way or another Microsoft is getting something cool out of it. But at the same time it's still true that OpenAI's business plan was unsustainable hyped hogwash.

That's $260 million .There are 360 million paid seats of MS360. So they'd have to raise their prices $0.73 per year to cover the cost.

I don't think it does. I doubt it is purely a cost issue. Microsoft is going to throw billions at OpenAI, no problem.

What has happened, based on the info we get from the company, is that they keep tweaking their algorithms in response to how people use them. ChatGPT was amazing at first. But it would also easily tell you how to murder someone and get away with it, create a plausible sounding weapon of mass destruction, coerce you into weird relationships, and basically anything else it wasn't supposed to do.

I've noticed it has become worse at rubber ducking non-trivial coding prompts. I've noticed that my juniors have a hell of a time functioning without access to it, and they'd rather ask questions of seniors rather than try to find information our solutions themselves, replacing chatbots with Sr devs essentially.

A good tool for getting people on ramped if they've never coded before, and maybe for rubber ducking in my experience. But far too volatile for consistent work. Especially with a Blackbox of a company constantly hampering its outputs.

But what did they expect would happen, that more people would subscribe to pro? In the beginning I thought they just wanted to survey-farm usage to figure out what the most popular use cases were and then sell that information or repackage use-cases as an individual added-value service.

Wait, has anybody bothered to ask AI how to fix itself? How much Avocado testing does it do? Can AI pull itself up by its own boot partition, or does it expect the administrator to just give it everything?

Deepmind is actually working on an AI that improve performances of low level programs. It started with improving sorting algorithm.

It's an RL algorithm.

Main issue is that everything takes time, and expectations on current AI are artificially inflated.

It will reach the point most are discussing now, it'll simply take a bit longer than people expect

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01883-4

It's Firstpost, their Kremlin-bootlicking YouTube videos are even worse. Just below Forbes Breaking News trash.

ChatGPT has the potential to make Bing relevant and unseat Google. No way Microsoft pulls funding. Sure, they might screw it up, but they'll absolutely keep throwing cash at it.

It is clearly no sense. But it satisfies the irrational needs of the masses to hate on AI.

Tbf I have no idea why. Why do people hate a extremely clever family of mathematical methods, which highlights the brilliance of human minds. But here we are. Casually shitting on one of the highest peak humanity has ever reached

it feels like, that was the plan all along

No sources and even given their numbers they could continue running chatgpt for another 30 years. I doubt they're anywhere near a net profit but they're far from bankruptcy.

Right!? I believe it has the hallmark repetitive blandness indicating AI wrote it (because oroboros)