cmiles8

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by cmiles8 2mo ago
The whole thing is a tragedy. Nobody wants to see a situation end like this. There are other likely victims here too though including those who were passed over for roles or promotions based on the alleged false claims, exaggerations and p
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Well that “foresight” left him to walk right into a total amateur hour cash crunch that would have gotten a junior Wall Street analyst fired… so the evidence of amazing foresight here isn’t great. Calling the fund “situational awareness” an
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Yes… and some folks gave him money. Per reporting from the NY Times he was broadly laughed out of the room with “East Coast” money which has a massive amount to invest but tends to hold a higher standard on where it goes. Per that reporting
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
There’s a tremendous amount of naivety on display by the big labs. A bit of that is to be expected from any disrupter, but there’s now serious questions about if these startups have the basic competencies required to survive long term.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
The “new” machines are more like a CAT scanner vs just a 2D x-ray so they allow for easier examination of bag contents and more insight on the composition of materials.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Even at the same airport they can’t seem to get it right amongst themselves. Recently had one TSA person yelling at me to keep something in my bag and then the next person down the line yelling at me for having it in my bag. When I pointed
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
The mainstay benchmarks are becoming a farce and not partially relevant to what customers actually care about. Metrics like price per million tokens are meaningless when the models are wildly inconsistent and unpredictable on how many token
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
I doubt the use laws would stand up to much pressure if tested. It’s long established that a private citizen can film nearly anything on public streets, including filming the police and public officials. It’s a leap to suggest they can’t ta
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
ADSB stuff falls into the much broader legal concept in the US that airwaves are public and if you can receive it and aren’t cracking encryption then it’s fair game to listen to. Many countries have a far more restrictive view of radio traf
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
They will generally deny you access, but they will access it freely themselves despite this being data collected on public streets. That’s the disparity at issue. However there’s no law from you putting up your own camera, pointing it at a
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Generally they don’t redact that. They may redact private details not publicly visible (like someone stating a phone number) but if it’s public visible it’s generally not redacted.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
True, but I’d imagine if a few techies in the community setup an open-ALPR network and started a website “where is the police chief and all his family vehicles .com” that the police department’s views towards the free and open use of such d
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
They 100% need a warrant if the owner of such footage doesn’t want to voluntarily hand it over. Most people generally voluntarily help out when it’s clear the footage is of value, often calling the police proactively to hand over footage. B
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
But you can generally FOIL records of this. Want body cam footage of what the officer was doing, you can generally get that. Want the video footage from their dash cam while sitting there, you can generally get that. However municipalities
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Either it needs a warrant or it’s fully open and people can start creating websites showing the movements of local politicians. This middle ground that municipalities try to carve out where it’s fully open to police without a warrant but no
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
LinkedIn is about: 10% useful for maintaining a contact list and just occasionally checking up on what former colleagues are up to. 5% Occasionally come across some useful or actually intriguing post that does give me some insight. 85% PR p
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Head of ethics at Meta then head of Ethics at OpenAI. Sorry, but if that doesn’t scream useless puffy PR positioning then I don’t know what does. What’s next? Head of ethics for United Healthcare?
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
There’s a massive difference between “going up forever” and “point B is higher than point A.” The current setup can’t sustain a downturn, even if yes 20 years from now point B is likely to be higher than present. That’s the danger. Those th
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Nothing goes up and to the right forever. Nothing. Building a business model on the belief that “this time is different” always finds storms on the horizon.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Wouldn’t be that different from open source software, which has been very successful in many circles. You make money from value-add on top of the models not the models themselves.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
If you believe, as an increasing number of folks do, that LLMs are basically commoditized at this point or will be soon then there really isn’t a path forward for non open models. There simply isn’t any value in the models and only in the c
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Companies will pawn off thier customers to AI at their peril. In many ways this is a repeat of the India call center train wrecks of the 00s. On paper, letting someone in Bangalore vs onshore handle incoming customer service calls looked li
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
That’s like saying an apartment building is “profitable” because the rent covers utilities while ignoring the real cost which is the mortgage on the capital cost of the building. It’s funky math and a good way to quickly go bankrupt.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
With the business model for API based LLMs looking iffy at best it seems like we’re heading back to the “server under your desk” era of IT again.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
More or less yes. There is a real issue in many companies of a grifter leadership class.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
AI psychosis is a very real thing, but the issue is more generalized around hype cycles than anything specific about AI. It’s more revealing the inability of many senior leaders to truly understand what’s happening in their companies and in
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
The “click yes the proceed” was never a serious security mechanism. It’s simply a CYA click-thru by the model vendors so their lawyers can say “well you approved it this is on you” when AI does something stupid.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Except there’s been very little evidence of this happening or about to happen, which is turning into a huge problem for the big labs.
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
The big lab models are academically interesting but business wise they seem toast long term. There’s no way for these model companies to compete when the models are becoming a pure commodity and others offering options that are orders of ma
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by cmiles8 2mo ago
Rather ironically you spend time outside Silicon Valley it would appear those most at risk of “mass unemployment” are the folks full-press pushing AI. It’s “cool” and the tech is here to stay, but we appear light years away from anything li

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