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by 5cott0 748 days ago
what happened to all the stories about how apple was partnering with openai for iOS 18?

the most innovative thing about openai is the PR

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I'm not really sure what you mean, but, I have noted this for my theory that an increasingly low form of conversation is "how come I haven't seen news articles about X at frequency Y recently, what do They mean by this"
> the most innovative thing about openai is the PR

You’ve got to be joking

ok fine the most innovative thing about openai was blowing up the board to abolish the nonprofit
They literally pioneered LLMs, RLHF, multimodal LLMs, and many other fundamental techniques that are causing an epic sea change in society and technology.

Don’t be so jaded.

all these acronyms were pioneered before sama was born
grokking is something the open ai team came up with right
Heinlein in the book Stranger in a Strange Land. and iirc (it's been decades) it was used in the context of a "cult" - the people in the cult "grokked" and the people who weren't didn't.

I comment something like this when i see the word grok, which has happened more this year than in the last decade - and i am not sure why, probably because i don't pay much attention to OAI news?

"Epic sea change?" In which society?