Gary Marcus

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Gary Marcus
@GaryMarcus
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1089d
1980s: AI companies spend vast amounts of $ hiring humans to write rules to patch brittle symbolic systems.

2020s: AI companies spend vast amounts of $ hiring humans to to patch brittle neural systems.
12/24/2024, 4:29:27 PM
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Azeem Azhar
@azeem
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397d
100 bucks an hour
Nathan Benaich
@nathanbenaich
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397d
also - step 1 checks out, eg from this add in oxford from openai for model trainers

“domains of interest include chemistry, physics, law, medicine, biology, english…”

their only mistake is that for the sciences they should obviously have gone to cambridge not oxford 😘

The statement engages in public discourse by discussing the practices and expenditures of AI companies, particularly OpenAI, in hiring experts and using reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) to improve AI models. It highlights the ongoing investment in AI development and the parallels between past and present AI strategies.

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