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by bgwalter 1y ago
The "AI" training robber barons still need the web. Otherwise, "AI" just induces web and computer fatigue. All these genius corporations will find that they are destroying perfectly working revenue streams with their col
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The author's 200 GitHub packages not withstanding, the startups he is involved in are both founded on machine learning, so I don't consider him unbiased. It is always the founder type who is trying to peddle fantasies like this:
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I still do not understand how one can integrate "AI" code into a project with a license at all. "AI" code is not copyrightable, "AI" cannot sign a contributor agreement. So if the code is integrated, the licens
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Last year they burned $5.6 billion. The games must go on! https://www.reuters.com/technology/anthropic-projects-soarin...
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Why would the Register point out Meta and OpenAI as the worst offenders? I'm sure they do not continuously build new corpuses every day. It is probably the search function, as mentioned in the top comments.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The Register calls them "fetchers". They still reproduce the content of the original website without the website gaining anything but additional high load. I'm not sure how many websites are searched and discarded per query.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Much of it is not training. The LLMs fetch webpages for answering current questions, summarize or translate a page at the user's request etc. Any bot that answers daily political questions like Grok has many web accesses per prompt.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
No, we treat it as a bureaucratic, distracting and infantile way of software engineering that does not work.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Initially politicians were responsive. In Feb. 2024 he sought trillions of investment to ramp up "AI" [1]. Then he got the White House announcement with Trump and Softbank for the $500 billion Stargate deal. The project has floppe
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by bgwalter 1y ago
My anecdotal evidence is that one of the supermarkets I go to had 4-7 active cashiers and no self-checkout. After a complete redesign and renovation they have two active cashiers and self-checkouts. The self-checkout is closed unless there
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by bgwalter 1y ago
You scan faster than a trained cashier? Do the self-checkouts in the US use RFID? Here in the EU I have to scan, clumsily and slowly.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
If no one used the self-checkouts there would be 15 cashiers.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Don't use self-checkouts. You do all the work, slower than the cashier, and are treated like cattle. Often there is a supervisor breathing down your neck and demanding the receipt before the exit doors open. Now there is facial recogni
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It is only the "AI" companies that force their employees to babysit LLMs, so very few real projects do this in the wild.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
"Humans aren't special" is the current "AI" booster hype. It allows for stealing copyrighted content, devaluing human employees and postulating rights for non-existing AGIs. The original article is of course by a pr
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by bgwalter 1y ago
There is also the CBS video analysis that shows some of the same issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edDSqqd9GRM William Barr, who said that no one walked into Epstein's wing in 2019, just had a House Committee hea
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'SPAC King' Palihapitiya makes a comeback with new blank-check IPO(reuters.com)
4 points by bgwalter 1y ago|0 comments
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by bgwalter 1y ago
$72 billion per year to create yet another chatbot. Imagine if this were spent on useful research or housing.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Get them hooked. Once they are, sell expensive plans to their future employers and outsource everything.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
This indebtedness of the advanced world supports the bullish case for perceived store-of-value assets like bitcoin. Yes, please invest in the SPAC set up by the sons of Howard Lutnick at Cantor Fitzgerald that buys 30,000 bitcoin from Ada
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by bgwalter 1y ago
This is satire at its finest. Axel Springer's taboid "Bild" already blocks adblockers. Springer has a cooperation with copyright infringer OpenAI. Altman gets the Axel Springer Award: https://www.axelspringer.com&#
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by bgwalter 1y ago
What a load of nonsense. In several EU countries, ballots are counted by hand and an accurate result is there usually by midnight. In Germany, the Supreme Court has banned voting machines as unconstitutional. The method is simple: Have rela
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by bgwalter 1y ago
It is interesting that AWS cannot code, let alone vibe code, Kiro but relies yet again on a fork from Github. The prices are for corporations who buy the hype until they find out in a year that vibe coding is utterly useless.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
You could also say "like they missed virtual reality". Apple is selling the shovels with hardware that can be used to run home models. I don't think they are missing out on anything. Everyone wants products from Apple or Amaz
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by bgwalter 1y ago
"MCP" is the new "webscale". It can be used to write philosophical papers about LLMs orchestrating the obliquely owned ontologies of industrial systems, including SCADA systems: https://arxiv.org/html&#x2
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Well, the site owner works for Stossel TV and Stossel is a "rationalist" AI apologist: https://www.johnstossel.com/ai-is-coming-for-your-job/ All standard talking points on one page (he forgot lump of labor t
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Cantor Fitzgerald close to $4B SPAC deal with Bitcoin pioneer(ft.com)
2 points by bgwalter 1y ago|0 comments
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The whole chatbot thing is for entertainment. It was impressive initially but now you have to pivot to well known applications like phone romance lines: https://xcancel.com/techdevnotes/status/1956622846328766844#.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I think they can. They steal from GitHub and strip the license, same as an LLM.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
What is that hypothetical date? In theory you can run the "AI" on a Turing machine. Would you think a tape machine can get sentient?

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