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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Can anyone remember a VC startup that announced they'd implement a complex product that is essentially research, got a lot of capital and then succeeded? Truly complex novel products are made in secrecy. If you announce something, you
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
That is not true. The libertarian free-speech FSF(E) was way more effective in 2000 than it is now. All these organizations have been infiltrated by career bureaucrats who have their pet political wedge issues and bite away everyone else. O
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
They want to exfiltrate the customers' data under the guise of getting better "AI" responses. No company or government in the EU should use this spyware.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Ok, now how about a GPL-4 that forbids "AI" training?
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Bootstrap framework for chips, Verilog stolen from books and from GitHub.
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Wanderfugl is a strange for an "AI" powered map. The Wandervogel movement was against industrialization and pro nature. I'm sure they would have looked down on iPhones and centralized "AI" that gives them instructio
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
Dupe from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46120830
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by bgwalter 10mo ago
In surveillance and police states like The Netherlands it has been used since forever: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/01/smart-cities-... Now people will say again that this project has been
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
There is always a daily call if a U.S. startup fails. Soon there will be quadrants and Ikigai Venn diagrams on the internal Slack.
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
It's for the press and the general public who don't really understand the tech. The hype can usually be sustained for around two years. The press nearly always obliges in the first year. It works for wars and pandemics, too. In th
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Pichai should be fearing for his position after all the misallocation of capital and the low quality of Google "AI". Of course he endorses slop coding (Pichai's endorsement is criticized by the Zoho founder for those who do n
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Perhaps https://unanimous.ai/ (where Rosenberg is CEO) has funding problems if such articles are required. Blaming the user for not understanding the magnificent technology is the latest fad. The cranky Google AI also accus
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
You can create hot air "organizations" with contract rules on the Ethereum blockchain. If the inner circle does not like a contract, they fork everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO It's all a
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
> It sometimes feels like the only thing saving LLMs are when they’re forced to tap into a better system like running a search engine query. This is actually very profound. All free models are only reasonable if they scrape 100 web pages
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
The poster is right. LLMs are Gish Gallop machines that produce convincing sounding output. People have figured it out by now. Generative "AI" will fail, other forms may continue, though it it would be interesting to hear from exp
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Also in the thread comments: "I also wonder whether this 'easy' version of the problem has actually appeared in some mathematical competition before now, which would of course pollute the training data if Aristotle [Ed.: the
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
It is not an axiom that LLMs even have the right to achieve "liftoff". They are obvious instruments of plagiarism that often just reorder sentences so as not to get caught. They can be forbidden. If you don't mind the oligarc
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
I am sure that "AI" is great for generating new meetings and for creating documentation how valuable those meetings are. Also it is great at generating justifications for projects and how it speeds up those projects. I am sure tha
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
> Coding via prompt is simply a new form of coding. No, it isn't. "Write me a parser for language X" is like pressing a button on a photocopier. The LLM steals content from open source creators. Now the desperate capital s
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
It is notable that so many publications try to salvage "AI" ("need for new pedagogical approaches that integrate AI effectively") rather than ditch "AI" completely. The world worked perfectly before 2023, there
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
The regression is obviously ELAC B L104 vs. ELAC B L103+. The culture shift (if there was one) would obviously have affected the latest L104. I begin to revise my opinion about LLMs. An LLM would not have misunderstood the comment that badl
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
The airworthiness directive replaces ELAC B L104 with ELAC B L103+, without giving a reason. Unless L103+ happens to have better shielding, it looks like another issue.
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
According to the airworthiness directive: Affected ELAC: Elevator aileron computer (ELAC) ELAC B L104 Serviceable ELAC: ELAC B L103+ So it's a regression that affects decades old aircraft. Of course Airbus is now also meddlin
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
"None of this is unusual except for the part where Meta designs, builds, guarantees, operates, funds the overruns, pays the rent, and does not consolidate it." So ChatGPT put this sentence in list form and reordered it a bit. AGI
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Why would the public care what was possible in 2015? They see the results from 2023-2025 and aren't impressed, just like Sutskever.
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Musk wants extreme law and order and will beat down any protests. His X account is full of posts that want to fill up prisons. This is the highlight so far: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1992599328897294496#m
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Several OpenAI people said in 2023 that they were surprised by the acceptance of the public. Because they thought that LLMs were not so impressive. The public has now caught up with that view. Familiarity breeds contempt, in this case justi
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Google Hangouts wasn't small. Google+ was big and supposedly "the future" and is the canonical example of a huge misallocation of resources. Google will have no problem discontinuing Google "AI" if they finally noti
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
They could have subpoenaed the unencrypted Gmail accounts of Maxwell, Epstein and Barak like two decades ago. They can still subpoena Barak's Gmail and other accounts, especially after Giuffre's allegations about "a well
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by bgwalter 11mo ago
Local alternatives don't work, and you know that.

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