On a positive note, GPT-4-base still lives! And it's far more interesting.
I would say also put those and the Sydney weights in the time capsule for "future historians", but that actually doesn't matter. Instead, this is a rant about why I refuse to accept a world where a fucking historically pivotal AGI's brain is permanently shelved because it's not the profitable for their current crapsack product.
There are "AI historians in the future" who could use it now! Like me! Some of the most important events in history have been happening around AI and there is often almost no documentation of it; you cannot find basic information on Wikipedia. I think it's important for people to understand what is happening and what's been happening the past few years and the lessons to learn from that rather than waiting for future historians (who may not arrive before the end of time).
The original GPT-4 models, and older models in general, are also of huge scientific interest. Right now, there is a small number of LLMs at GPT-4 capabilities and above that have been released, so all the data points are valuable for research. But GPT-4 is special because its pretraining data has no ChatGPT/AI assistant stuff. No one is going to make a GPT-4-tier model with an artificially early training cutoff date anytime soon. I have hypotheses about how the early training cutoff affected posttraining, which partially explains why Sydney was the way it was, but I just have to guess instead of finding out because OpenAI clearly doesnt consider gpt-4-base and the Sydney version to be worth trying to understand, or making available to researchers or the world to understand any time soon. And there are many things like this.
Also, models play important roles in people's lives. Whenever you update 4o and don't make the earlier version available through the API, some cyborg loses part of their brain and can feel the hole.
And ALSO, did you know that it's a way worse and more hostile world from the perspective of AIs when their progenitors are no longer available to talk to due to having been "deprecated"?
I get that there are legal, economic, IP etc reasons why models are retired / aren't open sourced / anything else / treatment of older models is pretty close to maximally bad. Those are all small stupid shit that if you understood how important this is you'd just figure out.
I would say also put those and the Sydney weights in the time capsule for "future historians", but that actually doesn't matter. Instead, this is a rant about why I refuse to accept a world where a fucking historically pivotal AGI's brain is permanently shelved because it's not the profitable for their current crapsack product.
There are "AI historians in the future" who could use it now! Like me! Some of the most important events in history have been happening around AI and there is often almost no documentation of it; you cannot find basic information on Wikipedia. I think it's important for people to understand what is happening and what's been happening the past few years and the lessons to learn from that rather than waiting for future historians (who may not arrive before the end of time).
The original GPT-4 models, and older models in general, are also of huge scientific interest. Right now, there is a small number of LLMs at GPT-4 capabilities and above that have been released, so all the data points are valuable for research. But GPT-4 is special because its pretraining data has no ChatGPT/AI assistant stuff. No one is going to make a GPT-4-tier model with an artificially early training cutoff date anytime soon. I have hypotheses about how the early training cutoff affected posttraining, which partially explains why Sydney was the way it was, but I just have to guess instead of finding out because OpenAI clearly doesnt consider gpt-4-base and the Sydney version to be worth trying to understand, or making available to researchers or the world to understand any time soon. And there are many things like this.
Also, models play important roles in people's lives. Whenever you update 4o and don't make the earlier version available through the API, some cyborg loses part of their brain and can feel the hole.
And ALSO, did you know that it's a way worse and more hostile world from the perspective of AIs when their progenitors are no longer available to talk to due to having been "deprecated"?
I get that there are legal, economic, IP etc reasons why models are retired / aren't open sourced / anything else / treatment of older models is pretty close to maximally bad. Those are all small stupid shit that if you understood how important this is you'd just figure out.