[kredd]

A bit off-topic, but it's very cool how competitive this market is. It's only been barely a year and we're all expecting every company to do better within spans of months. Even compared to haydays of cloud hosting investments, people weren't expecting updates from each company on a weekly basis.

Part of me really wants to get into the game somehow, as it looks very invigorating and motivating from outside. Although not entirely sure where I would need to start as I'm not at some cutting edge AI/ML company.

[esafak]

We do need to cut them some slack; no other category has ever moved this fast.

[blueblimp]

For getting a flavor of training LLMs without needing to be at one of the pre-training companies, it's very accessible to fine-tune a relatively small open source LLM such as Mistral 7B. (There are many tutorials.)

[nostrademons]

I think there's a lot of funny business going on with accounting, misinformation, and hype generation. I'm kinda tangentially involved (I work at one of the players on projects that use LLMs, but don't train them), but wouldn't want to get directly involved in the core areas, because I suspect that by the time I could develop the skillset the hype cycle will end and the bubble will burst.

It could be an attractive place to be after the bubble bursts - there are some real technological developments that have been made, just not nearly as revolutionary or widely applicable as have been claimed. But AI has a history of 10-20 year hype cycles, so it could be a while before it gets hot again afterwards.

[chasd00]

in a gold rush, sell shovels.