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- They can pay me for that, handsomely. I'm not doin their homework for free
- I answered this last night, though, I wanted to share a lot more with them, but I don't like giving ideas for free. There's so many things these companies can be doing that I keep to myself but I'm mostly convinced a lot of them need to take a step back and rethink LLMs, LLM design, etc because it looks to me like we're all stuck forcing ourselves to use an insane amount of compute, with an insane amount of data, but the small models have shown to be capable of reasonable reasoning on way less resources and data. Heck, the distilled or quantized version of the only open model OpenAI ever released is insanely good.
I don't know all the answers, but I think we're seeing the "ceiling" of where LLMs can go, and we're trying to force them to go further in the hops of achieving AGI somehow, but AGI in my eyes is not going to work with the current design for LLMs unless they're actually building AGI completely differently similar to what I assume it could / should look like, then I'll give them that, but none of them have shown any signs of true AGI. Sure an LLM can be impressive in terms of speed of outright (and correctness now!) but its not AGI. AGI isn't a buzzword you change, it was defined before Sam Altman and Dario tried to redefine and water it down for IPO gout.
- Surprising number of comments in here complaining about a company asking their users for ideas, when that's pretty much the first piece of business advice any startup will get.
Talk to your users!
by simonw - I don't trust Anthropic management to be "aligned" with their users so I certainly don't trust them to be asking in good faith.by staticman2
- This kind of stuff is cute and probably well-meaning when it's coming from an underdog. It's not cute nor well-meaning when it's coming from a $2T company.
I have no doubt that they are already spending tens of millions on precisely understanding the sentiment of users and non-users, in ways that are precisely targeted, in sessions that occur in controlled environments. They're probably also sentiment-mining their chat logs and the internet at large. Whatever the purpose of this study, it's almost certainly not what it says. I suspect one of the following three objectives:
1. Gain more diehard followers by projecting the image of a company that "listens".
2. Ask loaded questions to convince you of their beliefs.
3. Score cheap talking points for regulators, such as that in their online survey, 90% of people love / fear AI.
by socializer - I must be one of the few who completed the interview. I was hesitant with some questions but still gave direct feedback and asked to make my feedback public. Not sure if they will do it. And just like LLM does the interview did pick up some nuances from my answer and played them back for me to confirm. "Oh so you are saying not only this but that, is that right?
Whether they use it or not, whether they use it to manipulate us or whatever, it is undeniable that AI is the biggest change happening right now, and if there is an opportunity to nudge it, why not.
Edit. And no, I was not asked to login. They likely had the login. I just clicked the survey link from the terminal claude, it opened in a browser and off to the races.
by kshacker - Associate your advertising profile across the web with opinions about ai, check.
Gain ammo for regulatory capture from anti-ai sentiment, check.
Market research from pro ai people, check.
A bunch of new signups to fuel user numbers, check.
Advertising for their new survey product, check.
A bunch of new stolen training data, check.
Me participating in this scam? Uncheck.
by kennywinker - I got the pop-up and had a little read and it's framed as an "Interview", presumably by some AI interviewer they've set up, and I immediately realised they're probably aiming for a two-fer, test out their AI interview thing, and slurp up ideas from users.
I draw the line at paying them for the "service" they're "providing".
by alias_neo