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The GPT Era Is Already Ending (www.theatlantic.com)

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If this is the way to superintelligence, it remains a bizarre one. “This is back to a million monkeys typing for a million years generating the works of Shakespeare,” Emily Bender told me. But OpenAI’s technology effectively crunches those years down to seconds. A company blog boasts that an o1 model scored better than most humans on a recent coding test that allowed participants to submit 50 possible solutions to each problem—but only when o1 was allowed 10,000 submissions instead. No human could come up with that many possibilities in a reasonable length of time, which is exactly the point. To OpenAI, unlimited time and resources are an advantage that its hardware-grounded models have over biology. Not even two weeks after the launch of the o1 preview, the start-up presented plans to build data centers that would each require the power generated by approximately five large nuclear reactors, enough for almost 3 million homes.

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A million isn't even close.
There's about a few million characters in shakespeares works. That means the chance of typing it randomly is very conservatively 1 in 26^1000000^

if a monkey types a million characters a week the amount of "attempts" a million monkeys makes in a million years is somewhere in the order of 52000000*1000000*1000000 = 5.2 × 10^19^

The difference is hillriously big. Like, if we multiply both the monkey amount and the number of years by the number of atoms in the knowable universe it still isn't even getting close.