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by gmerc 3y ago
The owners are under no illusions - at least not the professional ones. They are buying an asset that is vastly more efficient to move across borders than cash. Look at the Singapore Money Laundering Bust a few months back - all handbags a
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by gmerc 3y ago
Why not limit the renderer to openai cdn and for any other image render a placeholder with the optional ability to review the url and whitelist the response.
723.
by gmerc 3y ago
In Europe it was customary to throw them into the local river I believe
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by gmerc 3y ago
Eurowings Crash
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by gmerc 3y ago
Because the systems are optimizing to avoid political fallout / cover your ass, not best "real world" results. Because that's what the system is about. That's the game rules. It's like saying "human centri
726.
by gmerc 3y ago
Have they suspended Elon for the same? Stanford for Alpaca?
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by gmerc 3y ago
Meanwhile GPT4 just writes code for arithmetic and runs it which is far more reliable
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by gmerc 3y ago
Look this is all nice but when you go back to the incentives there’s really good reasons to not build with your stuff Google. You see, we know every time we use AI instead of one of your existing products, you lose money. A lot of money in
729.
by gmerc 3y ago
As long as cost of Nvidia hardware the majority of the cost of AI, the cost of AI is entirely dependent on how much money Nvidia needs to extract to meet stock expectations. Everything else is a tiny factor when it comes to compute
730.
by gmerc 3y ago
bingo; you just found the kpi. everything needs a kpi. Facebook did that with emails - slowly remove all the content to turn them into traffic generators for the feed team. Hilariously when they launched workplace, the corporate productive
731.
by gmerc 3y ago
Inference costs more.
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by gmerc 3y ago
It’s rooted in their new system prompt which heavily pushes to omitting information A custom user prompt screaming at it to not omit information seems to help somewhat but I suspect there’s a more expensive product in the pipe (we know MS i
733.
by gmerc 3y ago
Us humans aren’t very good at learning even from recent history. Crazed terror group murders civilians Large Nation state kills scores of civilians in pursuit of said terror group. How many Iraqi and Afghan people ended up dying last time
734.
by gmerc 3y ago
We are talking about whatsapp, no?
735.
by gmerc 3y ago
By now we know none of this means anything if a notification is triggered with the message content.
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by gmerc 3y ago
Given the timing this was decided it the answer was “if we can’t see it it can’t cause a scandal for us and can’t be regulated”
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by gmerc 3y ago
The EU is preventing a wholesale sellout of the continent. It’s great.
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by gmerc 3y ago
Simplified: System Prompts and Finetuning are ineffective at suppressing training data, security theatre at 11.
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by gmerc 3y ago
Welcome to the glory of capitalism - if things don’t break you can’t sell more. To answer your question: Japan. Uniqlo for example is a solid choice and if you want really long lasting things, buy in Japan directly. It’s the only society o
740.
by gmerc 3y ago
I mean at this point, who needs to talk about deeply theoretical risks. "Do we want these capabilities if Trump has a 50% chance of being the next president and is on record for installing a fundamentalist dictatorship with persecution
741.
by gmerc 3y ago
Ah the old Wework gambit.
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by gmerc 3y ago
He was the CEO of president Bioware/Pandemic as part of a VC group he led and was invested in, went to EA, bought the company for almost 1B, laid off the people at pandemic and ran EA into the ground to the point where they fired him.
743.
by gmerc 3y ago
If you know John Riccitello s track record you know this is the root cause
744.
by gmerc 3y ago
Can I use this as quote for my book on techbro culture? It’s perfect
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by gmerc 3y ago
It’s security theatre and IEEE should, as a fundamentals organization, call that out rather than testing security measures and shallow reporting. The security theatre serves interests, talk about that.
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by gmerc 3y ago
Sure there’s some radical fundamentalist religious groups and the chinese communists party that share the view.
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by gmerc 3y ago
iEEE commentary on AI confuses the hell out of me. Any model that has a concept of a human body in it, which it needs in order to do body accurate shapes, will spit out NSFW images. Some training on top of it or some old style CNN nudity fe
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by gmerc 3y ago
Sooner or later LLMs will trivially shift code from one language to another too, which will be fun
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by gmerc 3y ago
Which Ilya was involved with...
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by gmerc 3y ago
After a year the entire argument you make boils down to “so far”.

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