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by saltysalt 2y ago
Your argument that I should accept one source blindly because I cannot name a better alternative in the moment is pretty weak.
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by saltysalt 2y ago
"Airparif has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from 1 Grant (prize money) round on Jun 01, 2014 from European Union." Source: https://tracxn.com/d/companies/airparif/__7FZ-JDeTGVeYNdb_2-...
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by saltysalt 2y ago
How specific am I supposed to be, do you want names, resumes, potential investors? Not my problem to solve. However, I no longer accept published reports at face value, unless I check who the authors are, and who funds them. They even have
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by saltysalt 2y ago
Someone without bias, obviously.
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by saltysalt 2y ago
Airparif is an NGO run by environmentalists and funded by the EU, not sure how independent they are?
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by saltysalt 2y ago
It's not patronizing, it's a statement of fact: X is the only social network owned by an AI company (xAI), that only has one product (Grok) that is trained by data from X, which is user-generated data. Now, you may not like that,
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by saltysalt 2y ago
I felt the same frustration: I just want keyword matching without any filtering. I'm building https://greppr.org/ to scratch that itch.
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by saltysalt 2y ago
Oh nice, I never knew about that!
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by saltysalt 2y ago
I played games on a Commodore 64 from cassette tapes, in principal you could record games onto a blank cassette but it was very flaky. Good times though.
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by saltysalt 2y ago
"xAI is a privately held company and is not publicly traded, therefore investing in xAI pre-IPO is only available to accredited investors." Source: https://forgeglobal.com/xai_ipo/
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by saltysalt 2y ago
My original statement was from the perspective of the users, not the LLMs. Perfectly valid to empathize with them.
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by saltysalt 2y ago
None of the companies you mentioned are owned by a private AI company, except X. I can't think of any other example of an AI company owning it's own social network, it's a fresh precedent.
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by saltysalt 2y ago
Email is not a realtime social network, not even close.
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by saltysalt 2y ago
Indeed!
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by saltysalt 2y ago
OpenAI does not own a social network. Google doesn't even own a social network anymore. Neither are valid comparisons to xAI owning X.
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by saltysalt 2y ago
Their social network is not owned by a private AI company.
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by saltysalt 2y ago
I'm aware, thanks.
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by saltysalt 2y ago
I take your point, however an AI company owning a social media platform is new.
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by saltysalt 2y ago
X users are now officially just training data for Grok.
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TfL bans most e-bikes on trains amid concern over igniting batteries(theguardian.com)
4 points by saltysalt 2y ago|1 comments
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by saltysalt 2y ago
I'd also suggest https://greppr.org (Disclaimer: I built it).
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by saltysalt 2y ago
The Internet of Things is the ultimate digital land grab.
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by saltysalt 2y ago
We all gotta start somewhere buddy, much love.
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Review of Skinship by James Reich(techleader.pro)
1 points by saltysalt 2y ago|0 comments
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by saltysalt 2y ago
I owned an Amiga 600 when I was a kid, absolutely loved it! A great gaming machine.
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by saltysalt 2y ago
Looks like Grok is down too, at least the UI is broke for me.
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X down: Twitter not working amid major outage(the-independent.com)
21 points by saltysalt 2y ago|1 comments
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The Starship program hits another speed bump with second consecutive failure(arstechnica.com)
4 points by saltysalt 2y ago|1 comments
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by saltysalt 2y ago
That matches exactly with the recent candidate feedback I spoke about in the video, it's the hours in traffic keeping them remote.
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by saltysalt 2y ago
You probably didn't listen to the conclusion?

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