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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish ·
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"You can see the future first in San Francisco." OpenAI alumnus Leopold Aschenbrenner pours out a worshipful paean to the AI future, just as if GPT wasn't topping out its S-curve

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"You can see the future first in San Francisco." OpenAI alumnus Leopold Aschenbrenner pours out a worshipful paean to the AI future, just as if GPT wasn't topping out its S-curve

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Introduction - SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
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Leopold Aschenbrenner, June 2024 You can see the future first in San Francisco. Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to
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    @dgerard “From GPT-4 to AGI: Counting the OOMs” wait this dude is wetting his knickers about Out Of Memory errors?

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      No no, it’s “order of magnitudes”. It’s like “surgeons general.”

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        Counterpoint: in Afrikaans (and likely Dutch I guess? Haven’t checked) “oom” is “uncle”

        You may now proceed to enjoying this little diversion as much as I do

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          success has many fathers, but the best chatgpt can get are uncles

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          Dunno about Afrikaans, but you are correct about Dutch.

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            you can be sure about afrikaans (since I am)

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