Microsoft was blown away at how advanced OpenAIs GPT-4 was

[F-22Raptor]

Satya Nadella didn’t want to hear it.

Last December, Peter Lee, who oversees Microsoft’s sprawling research efforts, was briefing Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, and his deputies about a series of tests Microsoft had conducted of GPT-4, the then-unreleased new artificial intelligence large-language model built by OpenAI. Lee told Nadella Microsoft’s researchers were blown away by the model’s ability to understand conversational language and generate humanlike answers, and they believed it showed sparks of artificial general intelligence—capabilities on par with those of a human mind.

But Nadella abruptly cut off Lee midsentence, demanding to know how OpenAI had managed to surpass the capabilities of the AI project Microsoft’s 1,500-person research team had been working on for decades. “OpenAI built this with 250 people,” Nadella said, according to Lee, who is executive vice president and head of Microsoft Research. “Why do we have Microsoft Research at all?”

How Microsoft Swallowed Its Pride to Make a Massive Bet on OpenAI

Satya Nadella didn’t want to hear it. Last December, Peter Lee, who oversees Microsoft’s sprawling research efforts, was briefing Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, and his deputies about a series of tests Microsoft had conducted of GPT-4, the then-unreleased new artificial intelligence large-language ...

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[Hamartia Antidote]

“Why do we have Microsoft Research at all?”

Add Chinese company research teams too.
All those AI papers and nothing to see.

 

[F-22Raptor]

Add Chinese company research teams too.
All those AI papers and nothing to see.

The US is the clear leader in AI. You see how fast Chinese companies were trying to imitate ChatGPT.

 

[Bilal9]

The US is the clear leader in AI. You see how fast Chinese companies were trying to imitate ChatGPT.

Leader for now. China has a lot more people and talent pool - way more than we do. Let's see how long we can keep the lead.

Adversarial stance would be foolish IMHO.

Satya Nadella didn’t want to hear it.

Last December, Peter Lee, who oversees Microsoft’s sprawling research efforts, was briefing Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, and his deputies about a series of tests Microsoft had conducted of GPT-4, the then-unreleased new artificial intelligence large-language model built by OpenAI. Lee told Nadella Microsoft’s researchers were blown away by the model’s ability to understand conversational language and generate humanlike answers, and they believed it showed sparks of artificial general intelligence—capabilities on par with those of a human mind.

But Nadella abruptly cut off Lee midsentence, demanding to know how OpenAI had managed to surpass the capabilities of the AI project Microsoft’s 1,500-person research team had been working on for decades. “OpenAI built this with 250 people,” Nadella said, according to Lee, who is executive vice president and head of Microsoft Research. “Why do we have Microsoft Research at all?”

How Microsoft Swallowed Its Pride to Make a Massive Bet on OpenAI

Satya Nadella didn’t want to hear it. Last December, Peter Lee, who oversees Microsoft’s sprawling research efforts, was briefing Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, and his deputies about a series of tests Microsoft had conducted of GPT-4, the then-unreleased new artificial intelligence large-language ...

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This in a nutshell is what ails Microsoft and large tech in the US.

You can throw money at it - still no guarantee against talent and true dedication.

For some it is a 24/7/365 thing, for others a nine-to-fiver "job"....

Methinks Peter Lee will have a resume-writing moment soon.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Leader for now. China has a lot more people and talent pool -

Yes, I'm sure hundreds if not thousands of the finest brains in China were working in AI...but some tiny company like OpenAI still outdid them all.

I Asked ChatGPT To Make Me As Much Money As Possible​

 

[F-22Raptor]

Leader for now. China has a lot more people and talent pool - way more than we do. Let's see how long we can keep the lead.

Adversarial stance would be foolish IMHO.



This in a nutshell is what ails Microsoft and large tech in the US.

You can throw money at it - still no guarantee against talent and true dedication.

For some it is a 24/7/365 thing, for others a nine-to-fiver "job"....

Methinks Peter Lee will have a resume-writing moment soon.

China doesn’t have access to the most advanced AI chips, and considering no company is close to competing with Nvidia it’s going to be very difficult for China to compete with US AI.

 

[Bilal9]

China doesn’t have access to the most advanced AI chips, and considering no company is close to competing with Nvidia it’s going to be very difficult for China to compete with US AI.

Apparently you haven't heard how Indians bypassed the CRAY super computer embargo back in the day by using regular motherboards/chips and using massive parallel computing. If people have brains and are determined, they can get around any barrier.

The Little Known Story of How India's First Indigenous Supercomputer Amazed the World in 1991

Denied access to supercomputer technology by US, India responded by building one all by its own!

www.thebetterindia.com

The Chinese can do the same. Nvidia does sell consumer daughterboards for video. Technology exists to string these together in parallel fashion and instruct them to compute part of the same problem.

And last time I looked - their AI super computers were closer to being as fast as anything the US put up. You don't read much do you?

China supercomputer achieves global first with ‘brain-scale’ AI model

Research team says latest Sunway machine is on a par with the US Frontier, named as the world’s most powerful just weeks earlier. Its speed has made it possible to train an artificial intelligence program with 174 trillion parameters, rivalling the synapses in the human brain.

www.thestar.com.my

Massively parallel processor array - Wikipedia

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Sunway (processor) - Wikipedia

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[One_Nation]

Satya Nadella didn’t want to hear it.

Last December, Peter Lee, who oversees Microsoft’s sprawling research efforts, was briefing Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, and his deputies about a series of tests Microsoft had conducted of GPT-4, the then-unreleased new artificial intelligence large-language model built by OpenAI. Lee told Nadella Microsoft’s researchers were blown away by the model’s ability to understand conversational language and generate humanlike answers, and they believed it showed sparks of artificial general intelligence—capabilities on par with those of a human mind.

But Nadella abruptly cut off Lee midsentence, demanding to know how OpenAI had managed to surpass the capabilities of the AI project Microsoft’s 1,500-person research team had been working on for decades. “OpenAI built this with 250 people,” Nadella said, according to Lee, who is executive vice president and head of Microsoft Research. “Why do we have Microsoft Research at all?”

How Microsoft Swallowed Its Pride to Make a Massive Bet on OpenAI

Satya Nadella didn’t want to hear it. Last December, Peter Lee, who oversees Microsoft’s sprawling research efforts, was briefing Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, and his deputies about a series of tests Microsoft had conducted of GPT-4, the then-unreleased new artificial intelligence large-language ...

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Any information on where are Microsoft's 1500 person team located?

 

[Menthol]

Satya Nadella didn’t want to hear it.

Last December, Peter Lee, who oversees Microsoft’s sprawling research efforts, was briefing Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, and his deputies about a series of tests Microsoft had conducted of GPT-4, the then-unreleased new artificial intelligence large-language model built by OpenAI. Lee told Nadella Microsoft’s researchers were blown away by the model’s ability to understand conversational language and generate humanlike answers, and they believed it showed sparks of artificial general intelligence—capabilities on par with those of a human mind.

But Nadella abruptly cut off Lee midsentence, demanding to know how OpenAI had managed to surpass the capabilities of the AI project Microsoft’s 1,500-person research team had been working on for decades. “OpenAI built this with 250 people,” Nadella said, according to Lee, who is executive vice president and head of Microsoft Research. “Why do we have Microsoft Research at all?”

How Microsoft Swallowed Its Pride to Make a Massive Bet on OpenAI

Satya Nadella didn’t want to hear it. Last December, Peter Lee, who oversees Microsoft’s sprawling research efforts, was briefing Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO, and his deputies about a series of tests Microsoft had conducted of GPT-4, the then-unreleased new artificial intelligence large-language ...

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Based on my test and observation, it's the rule that is the most important.

You can have one person figure out the correct rule vs 1500 people who are just wandering around in the lab trying to create millions of rules.

One tiny mighty knife to blow everything!