[gwoolhurme]

From the intro: "we believe that it could reasonably be viewed as an early (yet still incomplete) version of an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system."

What does that mean? If we take it as fact, so if it is an early version of AGI, Microsoft is using this thing to push subscriptions to all their services? This thing that is potentially the greatest thing humanity has made, an artificial living thing, and it's used to sell CoPilot and 365 subscriptions. Paint me as really sad then. Instead of sharing the research with other entities, or anything that could further help or push us... we get subscriptions? Fuck me, the future sucks.

[throw310822]

It's a product, and it's not that far away from that of their competitors. And there are a lot. Just a few weeks ago, Yann LeCun said that llms are not particularly interesting or innovative from the research point of view.

[gwoolhurme]

Oh I personally agree I am just following this article to it's logical conclusion. IF it is even the start of an AGI, it's just used as a product? Ouch... It's literally the meme from rick and morty with the butter passing robot.

[throw310822]

Yes, it is the start of AGI, it is not far ahead of its competitors (even the open source ones) and it's already a product. That's kind of surprising but also should make you question your assumptions about how this kind of change would have arrived (and where these assumptions come from).