Just because he fails publicly sometimes does not mean he only makes bad decisions. Facebook is still incredibly successful. The market may apply a Zuckerberg discount compared to other tech companies, but that is not the same thing as saying he has been a bad operator.
I have been getting a lot more into DIY and that's my experience myself. I keep running back to the store because there is some detail I haven't considered. Iteration time is so much slower than software... kinda bugs me how much you have to plan upfront and think through instead of just YAGNI and agile-ing your way through it.
I agree history shows that decentralization is generally superior to centralization, in a way thats a core tenet our free and open societies are built on.
But yeah it's much more nuanced than just a black and white dichotomy or even a continuum, a body needs a head with one brain, the brain has many parts, each part has many nerve cells which are autonomous, ...
In the light of the current landscape, it seems important to me to funnel resources to capturing of the some new value which will be created. Indecisiveness, misinformation and regulation instead of opening up opportunities are some issues I see today that could be and are solved by centralization. Maybe I am just FOMOing as Europoor, though, and will be happy in 20 years to live in stability and not anarcho-capitalism. Who knows.
That is exactly the point, though. Centralization starts to offer real advantages because the cost of complexity has increased significantly in decentralized Western societies. Yes, centralization can be inefficient, but it also makes decision-making much easier.
Public opinion in Western societies has become far more fragmented and heterogeneous, largely because of the internet. There is much more internal disagreement and constant contestation. I think that is a strong example of a factor that significantly increases the cost of complexity.
In a way, that is why we are now trying to emulate certain aspects of centralization. The United States does a relatively good job at this, and I am not making a judgment on whether that is positive or negative. But here in the European Union, we are so decentralized that we often struggle to reach agreement on major issues.
Not sure if it's suited for that. If you read the article it's stated that it is basically a research project to see how far they can push it with small models.
Feels like the people who want to do it spend their time here arguing about it, and the people who will do it are the ones in the trenches epxerimenting and trying to make it work. The OP is just insight porn at this point.
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Like endymi0n said, for me it was just about the amazement of how qualitatively different this technology was than anything we had before. Not in a functional sense of how it provides an output to anything. That was probably when I used it to spin up an app via Terraform in days despite having not much prior knowledge of infrastructure. Digging through Stackoverflow would have took at least 10 times more time.
I was on the couch on my Nintendo Switch, playing around with ChatGPT 3 and asked it where to find a specific item in Zelda Breath of the Wild. When it provided a coherent answer I was just dumbfounded. To be fair, the answer was semi-hallucinated but partly true. But it made me realize what kind of breakthrough it must be for some program to provide an answer to this without searching external sources (which it couldn't do yet). Such a small data point, like a drop in the vast sea of human knowledge space.
Prompted me to do some back on the envelope calculation. The weights of this model were a few hundred GBs. I just realized what kind of quantum leap it was to compress this seemingly infinite knowledge space into a few GB of weights.