[HN Gopher] AlphaCode Attention Visualization
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       AlphaCode Attention Visualization
        
       Author : MurizS
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2022-12-08 21:54 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | ladon86 wrote:
       | For context on what this is, here is the associated blog post:
       | https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-a...
        
         | dang wrote:
         | One previous thread:
         | 
         |  _Competitive Programming with AlphaCode_ -
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30179549 - Feb 2022 (397
         | comments)
        
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       | johnthuss wrote:
       | "As part of DeepMind's mission to solve intelligence, we created
       | a system called AlphaCode that writes computer programs at a
       | competitive level. AlphaCode achieved an estimated rank within
       | the top 54% of participants in programming competitions by
       | solving new problems that require a combination of critical
       | thinking, logic, algorithms, coding, and natural language
       | understanding."
        
         | pifm_guy wrote:
         | Worth noting that in many programming competitions online, a
         | large chunk of competitors either don't submit anything, or
         | only submit a little example.
        
       | tromp wrote:
       | Will we ever see the day when AlphaIOCCC submits a winning entry?
        
       | jw1224 wrote:
       | Has Google/Alphabet publicly released any of their AI models yet?
       | I've seen plenty of hype surrounding Imagen [1] and Parti [2],
       | but as far as I know, they're still vaporware.
       | 
       | Normally I wouldn't think too hard about this, but two things
       | come to mind here:
       | 
       | Firstly, the speed at which competitors are launching and
       | developing new AI models. Imagen/Parti both seem to rival Stable
       | Diffusion and DALL-E... why can't we use them yet?
       | 
       | Secondly (and perhaps this is clouding my judgment), the fact a
       | Midjourney founder mentioned during an Office Hours session that
       | [paraphrasing]: "it's widely known in the industry that 90% of AI
       | research is completely made-up garbage"...
       | 
       | [1] https://imagen.research.google/
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       | [2] https://parti.research.google/
        
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         | jiggawatts wrote:
         | The cultures at the various leading AI research organisations
         | are wildly divergent.
         | 
         | Google is full of people that for a want of a better word are
         | simply arrogant. They think that the purpose of AI is for them
         | to show off their skills and... that's it. At best they'd use
         | it internally for selling you more ads, they don't seem to
         | think other people are _worthy_ of using the output of their
         | efforts in any shape, way, or form.
         | 
         | OpenAI is full of boyscouts that think that AI should be
         | carefully censored so that it represents black, brown, asian,
         | and white people equally. They deliberately skew the training
         | data to enshrine wokeness into the product, while also trying
         | to prevent anyone using their models to generate anything
         | vaguely like porn. Basically, they're digital mormons. No fun.
         | 
         | Stability AI / Stable Diffusion is a bunch of people that had
         | money thrown at them with no guard rails. Anything goes.
         | Download our models and have fun! Make porn if you want to.
         | Whatever.
         | 
         | To nobody's surprise, only the latter is of any interest or use
         | to the general public.
         | 
         | The sad part is that Google had the most resources to spend on
         | training their models, and it's the least accessible.
         | 
         | It's like Tony Stark inventing cold fusion energy and then
         | using only to power his suit instead of... you know...
         | _changing the world for the better_.
        
           | alphabetting wrote:
           | _Google is full of people that for a want of a better word
           | are simply arrogant. They think that the purpose of AI is for
           | them to show off their skills and... that 's it. At best
           | they'd use it internally for selling you more ads, they don't
           | seem to think other people are worthy of using the output of
           | their efforts in any shape, way, or form._
           | 
           | I don't think the papers they put out are to "show off." It's
           | for advancing the entire field. Imagine if they had kept the
           | Transformer paper in house which everyone uses and is
           | basically the standard in AI now. AI wouldn't be anywhere
           | close to where it is today. Also, I think it's a little
           | ridiculous to think Google would spend $100B over the past 10
           | years on AI research and not think this stuff will be seen in
           | important products.
        
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