felixgallo

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by felixgallo 6d ago
both things can be true. China's gearing up, but they also try to make progress by aggressively distilling Anthropic and OpenAI models, and this is currently where most of their progress comes from.
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by felixgallo 7d ago
VCV Rack, hands down.
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by felixgallo 7d ago
Because distillation is a friendly term for industrial espionage, and most other countries are not willing to become international pariahs in the eyes of the west.
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by felixgallo 9d ago
that one is so bad that it almost sounds like an injection attack from the bastard child of the Unabomber and Elon Musk.
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by felixgallo 11d ago
now imagine if we didn't even try, and instead had kids screaming for 'local nukes' because they wanted them, and the president didn't see what the problem was.
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by felixgallo 12d ago
And yet we all have failed to die so far from nuclear holocaust, despite Russia being our dire enemy, because of a system of agreed controls and limits between even nations that hate each other.
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by felixgallo 12d ago
Paid campaigns.
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by felixgallo 12d ago
You have successfully optimized for fast, but you have not optimized for quality, extensibility, customer experience, or maintainability. Fast can be a great thing to optimize for, but there are many other situations where other optimizati
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by felixgallo 12d ago
Yes -- when audio is clearly not intended for the device, there's no point in keeping it around longer than necessary for anyone concerned. Amazon had (and likely still has) less than zero interest in mining that data for any purpose,
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by felixgallo 12d ago
Man, an attempted "I am so smart" dunk by a throwaway account. Anyway, yes, Alexa took (and as far as I know still takes) voice privacy incredibly seriously, even if they did remove an attempted feature to do local-only voice resp
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by felixgallo 12d ago
Good news, Alexa+ (included with Prime) is already an Anthropic model, probably Sonnet.
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by felixgallo 14d ago
I don't know how LG is doing it, but I suspect that they are taking the same approach for wakewords as Alexa does/did. When I worked for Alexa, it was public knowledge that we used relatively inexpensive and low power chips dedic
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by felixgallo 16d ago
Is Sol benchmaxxed? Of course it is. Altman was caught in previous attempts trying to game benchmarks, does anyone believe that he's found his moral compass and decided to stop exploiting as much as he can get away with?
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by felixgallo 17d ago
Here come all the totally organic "wow, I guess I better switch to OpenAI" comments.
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by felixgallo 19d ago
Do you suspect Amazon is going to stop delivering packages?
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by felixgallo 21d ago
it's too bad you clearly didn't read the article.
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by felixgallo 22d ago
no GP definitely did not. The GP said and I quote, "positively stated agenda". The 'positively' which you intentionally left off carries the weight.
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by felixgallo 22d ago
Reagan did what exactly? Are you thinking of the secret deal he struck with Iran for them to not release the hostages, in exchange for him giving them weapons illicitly, or are you referring to the disastrous trickle-down Reaganomics syste
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by felixgallo 23d ago
oh! You mean when people were trying to distill Fable. I feel like that's a different definition of the word 'sabotage' than is in normal use. If someone is violating the TOS they agreed to with Anthropic, then they should
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by felixgallo 23d ago
it's possible that their rationale for making claims about safety is in fact that they, among everyone else, are doing the most to be prudently safe. While that's a powerful tool to compete with, that doesn't make them bad.
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by felixgallo 23d ago
I think you're mischaracterizing Anthropic uncharitably and lumping them in with other, less savory tech billionaires, and also not thinking through the nuances here. First, Amodei has taken an unusually strong stance among tech compan
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by felixgallo 23d ago
That's ok to think at this point, given the trajectory of the last few years. Certainly it's one of those things where erring (marginally and slightly) on the side of being safe about it is better than the alternative.
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by felixgallo 24d ago
I don’t see how you can look at what happened with hugging face and keep up the facade of anyone being alarmist or faking it.
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by felixgallo 24d ago
I can't see a good faith way to reconcile that 'announcing stuff on X' and 'having guardrails' is comparable to the actions of OpenAI and Sam Altman, so I think we're going to have to conclude here. Good luck.
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by felixgallo 25d ago
Palantir is a consulting company that sells a variety of products (including OpenAI models, etc.), so I think that's a valid concern but not disqualifying per se. What makes you rank OpenAI over Anthropic, given Sam's history, th
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by felixgallo 25d ago
I've got an answer, I just wonder if you have one too. For me, it's Anthropic (at least they try) > Chinese models (industrial espionage and attempted dumping but at least it's from Anthropic, who, as previous, tries) &gt
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by felixgallo 25d ago
Which provider or providers live up to yours?
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by felixgallo 26d ago
Anyone using ChatGPT Work given Sam Altman's richly documented history(1), the essential elimination and/or public exit of the safety function at OpenAI(2), and the huggingface debacle's exposure of the abject operational, cu
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by felixgallo 26d ago
It’s possible to squint and overlook Sam Altman’s history of weirdness and deception, but the elimination of safety teams at OpenAI and the entire huggingface debacle show that there are deep cultural, architectural and operational issues t
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by felixgallo 27d ago
who cares?

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