Ben Snyder

Generative AI applied scientist @awscloud

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

Today in shitty machine learning startups, this company claims to predict IQ, personality, and violent tendencies by applying deep learning to facial features and bone structure.

That's phrenology. You just made the ML equivalent of a racist uncle.

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@mason_compsci @__tinygrad__ 8b will fit on a single 4090, so probably pretty good inference. Training though, would be terrible having to shard across 6 GPUs without NVLink. That's likely why they're showcasing a tiny model like Resnet.

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@TSLAFanMtl Remember when Mobileye's CEO (the guy with the doctorate in AI who has been studying the problem for almost 40 years) said exactly this would happen, that Tesla's brute force approach would hit a ceiling? Maybe the experts actually know what they're talking about.

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

What a piece of shit.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

@mikepratt Zero kids are going hungry at school.

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@editingemily I still remember elementary school, how kids would try to whisper to the cashier in the lunch line that they're on the free lunch program.

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@wholemars Sure. Give me a date when you expect Tesla to deliver actual attention off no liability driving.

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@ericmossman_ I have, but you didn’t understand them, and so just ignored them.

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

“$28 trillion”

That’s more than the entire US GDP.

How are these chucklefuck scammers not in prison?

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[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@ericmossman_ Yeah, and do you not see the problem with that assumption over time?

Also, what’s your AI experience? That might explain why you’re struggling with the math.

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@ericmossman_ So again, what’s your AI experience?

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@ericmossman_ And he bounces back, assuming linearity.

What’s your experience with Ai?

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@ericmossman_ “Insinuating”

So I never said that, you imagined it.

What’s your experience with AI?

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@ericmossman_ Yeah, I compared to GDP as a measure of the addressable market.

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@ericmossman_ Again, you did the gish gallop through terms you didn’t understand.

So what’s your technical experience with AI?

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@ericmossman_ Well no. I never said it was market cap or revenue. I never even referred to the 8 trillion amount. You read all that in yourself. And you flipped from growth rate to margins.

What’s your technical experience with AI?

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@ericmossman_ Well no, I'm deeply embedded in the fact that I actually know what the fuck I'm talking about, while you're deeply embedded in technobabble you don't understand.

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@ericmossman_ I’m telling you selling a promise of “next year” isn’t the same as actually developing the tech. But, being that you pretty clearly only know buzzwords, the tech is way over your head.

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@ericmossman_ While not being at all autonomous.

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@ericmossman_ In your fantasy world that doesn't understand how AI system actually work.

[Ben Snyder @jbensnyder]

@ericmossman_ Technical details of the chips, not an appeal to authority.