[gfodor]

It’s not a religious angle, we literally don’t know how or why these models work.

Yes we know how to grow them, but we don’t know what is actually going on inside of them. This is why Anthropic’s CEO wrote the post he did about the need for massive investment in interpretability.

It should rattle you that deep learning has these emergent capabilities. I don’t see any reason to think we will see another winter.

[jstanley]

100% agreed, but that is not a reason to spend this much money on it.

[saubeidl]

We don't know how acetaminophen works exactly either, but it's still just a really good tool...

[gfodor]

If Acetaminophen started exhibiting signs of human level intelligence I would have a similar perspective

[B56b]

Pretty obvious that your opinions have "nothing to do with the financials".

[gfodor]

Correct, my opinions have nothing to do with financials. If I was around for the discovery of fire I wouldn’t be wondering about the impact on the bottom line.