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wood_spirit • today at 2:25 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Another, more cynical but I think plausible explanation is that a “slow down” is expectation management that that they are not going to keep having exponentially more machines available for training each next gen step (whether technical build-out or prohibitive cost, same outcome) so they can’t keep up the release pace. So spin a tale to make them seem more valuable ahead of IPO rather than make the markets antsy. That is, we have a slow down ahead, so use safety as an excuse…


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dml2135 • today at 2:49 PM

All of this is not mutually exclusive with the models being dangerous, tho.

baggachipz • today at 2:58 PM

The best way to cover up the point of diminishing returns when billions of dollars insist that it's only accelerating.

symfoniq • today at 2:32 PM

This is exactly what I think is happening.