[afastow]

I wouldn't put any stock into a random twitter rumor by someone likely looking for clout. The source, some guy with likely a purchased checkmark and 12k followers (who knows how few before he claimed to have this insider knowledge), claims four(!) different "extremely reputable" sources that have independently confirmed it. How many people exactly are they making these offers to? Do they all happen to know this guy, someone with no discretion apparently, and everyone decided to tell him this information for what reason exactly?

99% chance it's made up.

That said, if they thought a specific individual had even a reasonable chance of coming up with an improvement on the current state-of-the-art AI architecture that they'd be able to keep entirely to themselves, $20M would be a massive bargain.

The rumor is still almost certainly fake, but for someone very specific at this critical time in the field, I don't know if the number would be that absurd.

[imtringued]

Twitter rumors also claimed a parameter count of 100 trillion parameters and they visualized it with two circles with a huge size difference to make it look intimidating.

I guess the reason why AI is so interesting is that human stupidity is so widespread.

[jimsimmons]

Good point. Super unlikely that the top people all know this guy. There are probably a hundred or so of them in the whole world.

I’d pay creator of GPT that money easily. Probably not anyone else