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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/blit_blit99 on 2024-09-25 18:17:22+00:00.

From an article dated 9-25-2024:

Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Bring Back an AI Genius Who Quit in Frustration (msn.com)

At a time when tech companies are paying eye-popping sums to hire the best minds in artificial intelligence, Google’s deal to rehire Noam Shazeer has left others in the dust.

A co-author of a seminal research paper that kicked off the AI boom, Shazeer quit Google in 2021 to start his own company after the search giant refused to release a chatbot he developed. When that startup, Character.AI, began to flounder, his old employer swooped in.

Google wrote Character a check for around $2.7 billion, according to people with knowledge of the deal. The official reason for the payment was to license Character’s technology. But the deal included another component: Shazeer agreed to work for Google again.

Within Google, Shazeeer’s return is widely viewed as the primary reason the company agreed to pay the multibillion-dollar licensing fee.

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It is a remarkable turn of events after Shazeer publicly said the search giant had become too risk-averse in developing AI. The 48-year-old engineer is now one of three people leading Google’s efforts to build the next version of its most powerful AI technology, Gemini.

Shazeer made hundreds of millions of dollars from his stake in Character as part of the deal, according to one of the knowledgeable people. The payout is unusually large for a founder who didn’t sell his company or take it public.

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In 2017, Shazeer published a paper with seven other Google researchers called “Attention is All You Need,” detailing a computer system that could reliably predict the next word in a sequence when prompted by humans. It became the underpinning of the generative AI technology that followed.

Shazeer teamed with a Google colleague, Daniel De Freitas, to build a chatbot originally named Meena that could banter confidently on a range of topics. In a widely circulated memo, “Meena Eats the World,” Shazeer predicted it could replace Google’s search engine and produce trillions of dollars in revenue, said people familiar with the document.

Google executives declined to release the chatbot to the public, citing concerns around safety and fairness. Shazeer and De Freitas quit in 2021 to launch Character.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Ormusn2o on 2024-09-25 12:58:41+00:00.

Maybe not so much on this subreddit, but a lot of people are talking about value of education, and how LLM's and chatGPT basically destroys students ability to critically think and how cheating using chatGPT might only work for high school but they will get in trouble when getting into college.

It might be hard to keep timelines, but I think there are interesting dates to keep in mind.

Initial release of chatGPT was in November 2022. It was at around elementary or middle school level.

Release of gpt-4 was in march 2023. It was at level of freshmen high school.

Release of o1 was in September 2024. It is at a level of college grad or college junior.

Now, if you were a junior highschool in 2023, now as a sophomore you have access to college level intelligence. If you were a college junior, when gpt-4 released, now you have access to one or two grades above you.

If you were in elementary school, by the time you will take exams to highschool, there is likely going to be PHD level intelligence access in your phone.

If you just entered college, it will take you 6 or 9 years to get your education, and it makes me think how much intelligence we will have in our phones by then.

Can people genuinely tell me what exactly kids are supposed to learn? Why is using chatGPT to solve your homework wrong? By the time you have some education, for most people their education will be completely worthless. Even if there are huge, multi year slowdowns in improvements, the chance your education will be better than that of a smartphone is very unlikely.

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Original Title: During the Sept 12th meeting at the White House, Sam Altman pitched a plan to build multiple 5 GW data centers across various states. The plan is to start with one 5GW facility, then expand from there.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Climatechaos321 on 2024-09-25 01:04:44+00:00.

Language and accent capabilities weren’t even something that they demonstrated during the initial presentation, yet it seems to be incredibly precise even with niche languages. I just called my mother and had it tell her welsh myths in welsh with a strong welsh accent and she said it did so nearly perfectly. Welsh is not a widely spoken language, so the fact that it is this effective with such a niche language is astounding. We all now have a 24/7 language translator/tutor in our pocket and nobody is talking about this aspect of advanced voice mode.

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/ThatBanterousOne on 2024-09-25 04:36:59+00:00.

We are so close. A decade at most. Just hang in there a bit longer. Don't text and drive, cut out alcohol, it's the perfect time to quit smoking. Watch your speeding, don't overestimate yourself. Take caution and relax. Don't be a hermit, but just take heed. We are so so close.

Revel in our daily suffering, as it won't be long until you're bored of utopia and long in nostalgia for the challenges, as you plug into FDVR and wipe your memory, to live lives throughout history, every life. (Boltzmann says hey).

Anyways, seriously, just be careful, and don't die, okay? Let's all get there together. We can tell everyone else "we told you so" if it makes you feel better.

Just. Don't. Die. 💙

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/AdorableBackground83 on 2024-09-25 03:27:03+00:00.

Rubbing them hands like Birdman

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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/Glittering-Neck-2505 on 2024-09-25 02:27:30+00:00.