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by JCM9 3y ago
Grade inflation and bonus points for honors or AP classes has long made GPA a useless metric. One persons 4.0 is another school’s 4.27 (on a 4 point scale). Standardized testing isn’t perfect but it is one datapoint on how everyone did agai
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by JCM9 3y ago
Courts often rule that you can’t use ToS to overcome common sense. ToS are not a get out of jail free card if your company just does stupid things.
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by JCM9 3y ago
With execs pounding their fist on the table saying “Go get me some of that GenAI stuff!” expect to see a lot more really poorly implemented “AI assistants” and other half-baked AI projects causing blunders for businesses. Eventually the dus
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by JCM9 3y ago
This was an open and shut case and OpenAI was either delusional or just being arrogant in thinking they would get this trademark. The PTO is simply applying the law. You can’t trademark something in common use like this.
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by JCM9 3y ago
Also for historical context, United traces its name back to Boeing itself. “United Air and Transport Corporation” was a company that came out of operations founded by Mr Boeing. Thus for anyone that knows their aviation industry history, Un
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by JCM9 3y ago
This whole fiasco represents a leadership f$&* up of existential scale. A lot of this started when Boeing moved its HQ away from a core production hub. Leaders tucked way in offices make a lot worse decisions than leaders close to the l
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by JCM9 3y ago
If the cited level of incompetence checks out as true then that borders on criminally negligent and some Boeing exec probably needs to go to jail.
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by JCM9 3y ago
The open space on small models is a whole other developing angle, but O was referring to the general commoditization of a lot of these models. With rare exception after launch it seems the lifespan of any of these models is rather limited.
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by JCM9 3y ago
Don’t entirely understand Stability’s business model. They’ve been putting out a lot of models recently and Stable Diffusion was novel at the time, but now their models consistently seem to be somewhat second rate compared to other things o
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by JCM9 3y ago
A) The overall job market is tighter than it was a few years ago and MBAs are not immune. B) Over the last decade I’ve observed the MBA becoming a lot less fashionable than it once was. I get the whole “it’s a great networking experience” t
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by JCM9 3y ago
As I said there are exceptions, but most founders should not expect to be able to create similar scenarios. If you walk into the office of a VC in the present market and say I want your money but I want to keep full control, that meeting is
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by JCM9 3y ago
The state of SF is sad to see. I remember as a child when it was so much nicer. Today it’s just depressing to see how bad it’s gotten. We’re not used to seeing nice cities become not nice cities. In my lifetime in other parts of the country
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by JCM9 3y ago
There are certainly exceptions, but in a very practical sense if the founder didn’t put the majority of capital into the business it’s unlikely and unrealistic that they’ll get some sort of special protection. The thing many founders strugg
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by JCM9 3y ago
Generally a fan of heat pumps but the big issue remains where does the electricity come from to power them. Burning coal or gas to make electricity to power a heat pump isn’t great. Cost wise too I know a bunch of folks that switched from g
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by JCM9 3y ago
The tech is very interesting and quite useful in certain contexts, but no question we’re in a big bubble. Like any bubble/hype wave there’s a lot of low value-add stuff that needs to get washed out of the system before a small number o
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by JCM9 3y ago
If you’re a fintech startup you very much do or you’re toast.
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by JCM9 3y ago
This is a good move, but still an inadequate response to what originally happened. It’s dogging deep questions about who had access to what data and just how bad the security controls were around startups’ sensitive information. Shutting do
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by JCM9 3y ago
Exactly. And while one can easily just take down such a movie if an infringement claim is filed it’s unclear how one “removes” content from a trained model given how these models work. Thats messy.
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by JCM9 3y ago
The bits you cite are legally bogus. That would be like me just photocopying a book you wrote and then handing out copies saying we’re assigning different rights to the content. The whole point of the lawsuit is that OpenAI doesn’t own the
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by JCM9 3y ago
Playing back large passages of verbatim content sold as your “product” without citation is almost certainly not fair use. Fair use would be saying “The New York Times said X” and then quoting a sentence with attribution. Thats not what Open
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by JCM9 3y ago
These lawsuits could end up being a nightmare for AI companies if the plaintiffs are successful. One can’t easily just remove the content from a model like you can from a website if someone sends you a takedown notice. The content is deeply
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by JCM9 3y ago
Um, the Times gives newspapers to schools for this so I’m pretty sure they’re good with it. They’re going after people trying to make money off their content by selling it to others.
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by JCM9 3y ago
Exactly. FB happily gives away their ML tech like Llama because what they really care about is the data that can be used to train/tune models. The ML bits are just a commodity and not really worth much (something a new wave of ML start
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by JCM9 3y ago
The challenge for all these AI companies is that the only thing of value for building a defensible commercial product is having proprietary datasets for training. With the underlying techniques and algorithms all being rapidly commoditized
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by JCM9 3y ago
Many states are cracking down on these practices and no longer consider “sorry you forgot to cancel” as a legal agreement binding you to a renewal. Common sense says you should have to consciously renew vs accidentally doing so via some bog
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by JCM9 3y ago
The challenge and danger with widespread use of these tools is that they, with some frequency, continue to just confidently state answers that contain completely wrong information. These algorithms are still terrible at just saying I don’t
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by JCM9 3y ago
When a politician wins with 98% of the vote do you A) think that person must be an incredible leader , or B) think something else is going on? Only time will tell if this was a good or bad outcome, but for now the damage is done and OpenAI
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by JCM9 3y ago
The challenge of all this is that while everything going on looks totally bonkers from any normal sense of business, it’s hard to argue that the board isn’t following their charter. IMHO the mistake was setting up the structure the way it i
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by JCM9 3y ago
Cooling the trains is a relatively easy problem to solve these days. It’s cooling the tunnels and stations that’s the true engineering challenge.
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by JCM9 3y ago
You can hear Microsoft’s billions going up in flames. You literally couldn’t make this stuff up.

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