President & Co-Founder @OpenAI
Joined July 2010
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My convention for loglines is to format as:
>>> print(f"Static msg: k1={v1} k2={v2}...")
Very simple, but putting all dynamic data on the right makes it much easier to skim through logs. Format is also more machine-friendly; many log indexing systems will parse them properly.
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Collaborative art depicting collaborative art:
"Humans and machines creating a beautiful mural together" (#dalle2 with @_dschnurr's inpainting/expansion trick)
Could have gotten better/more consistent results (e.g. re: person sizes, more robots) by varying prompt, but it's a ton of fun just expanding on images naively.
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Many people apply DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) dogmatically to avoid code duplication, but there's a real tradeoff to unifying multiple codepaths that have some shared logic but aren't fundamentally doing the same thing. Often better to repeat yourself 5 times; only then abstract.
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Impossible subscription cancellation flows as an analogy for an unaligned AGI — company is simply following its reward function, leaving sad humans in its wake.
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When I was 18, I read that Erdős would do mathematics while at the symphony.
I tried an experiment: for two weeks I did math exclusively listening to music. Didn't notice a difference — but then I stopped, and couldn't concentrate anymore.
To this day, can only program to music
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Respect to those operating complex systems. At too many companies, less glory & recognition than building new things. But always doing critical work to actually making those things work in practice — an underrated skill that is especially important in machine learning.
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A debugging technique I've been perfecting recently: when it's late at night and I've been banging my head on some bug (but have my mind fully wrapped around the symptoms), go to sleep. In the morning, usually solve it within 15 minutes. Subconscious really knows what it's doing.
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Critics are an important part of society’s immune system against wasting resources.
To be effective, their ferocity ought to be proportional to resource investment, without regard to society’s benefit from success.
Means the most important endeavors will be the most criticized.
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And as an illustration, here's "The journey begins with a single gradient step." by DALL-E. To be fair, that step does kind of have a color gradient!
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The journey of training even the greatest language model begins with a single gradient step.
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Common wisdom is that there are three types of software engineers:
1. Pioneers: build prototype
2. Settlers: scale from few to many users
3. City planners: make it rock-solid
But best career impact comes from doing both 1&2 or 2&3—requires rare ability both to dream & execute.
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DALL-E has a sense of style:
I asked @JackHessing1 to ask DALL·E 2 by @OpenAI to generate @BALENCIAGA 2050 Fall Ready-To-Wear.
Then I sewed it now walking in real life. What do you think???
Original: labs.openai.com/s/95s2FWYwP6…
Me:
#ai #fashion #dalle2 #dalle
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Novel product concepts, via kids playing with DALL-E:
OMG #dalle is the ai singularity for creativity🤯
In 5 minutes, my kids were able to create a "chicken hat", a toilet car, puppy slippers and a chicken toilet 🤣
Post your dumbest product idea below and I'll use it to turn it into something people would want to buy.
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