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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Apple has an enormous hardware advantage over Google, Microsoft, and even OpenAI in the space if the constraint is hardware. The constraint isn't hardware. Google, Microsoft and OpenAI are buying datacenter-scale Nvidia hardware t
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I definitely agree that Apple will optimize their SOC, but IMO their best solution is to just copy Nvidia's homework. Dedicated inferencing hardware is power-hungry and rarely any better than the beefed-up GPU or even a RISC CPU core a
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It would be great to see, if they pull it off. I suspect that Apple's desire for control and curation (as well as limited liability) will prevent them from making an effective "one size fits all" model, though. Considering th
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by smoldesu 3y ago
In a lot of Apple's hardware, the fastest way to inference is to ignore the built-in Neural hardware and use Metal Compute Shaders. Suffice to say that simply shipping dedicated silicon is not equivalent to accelerating everything well
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by smoldesu 3y ago
If you're asking about Microsoft's APIs - I'd keep an eye on ONNX. It's the most ambitious, but also supports an insane amount of acceleration targets. It would be the proverbial "big guns" if vendors continued
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It feels like it's too late. Microsoft, Meta and Google all beat Apple to the punch with highly usable and competitive local inferencing frameworks. Apple could release a Tensorflow-style library with full-fat CUDA and Linux support to
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Depends where it's standing on the carrier deck when the arresting gear snaps =)
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I don't see why Mistral would acquiesce. Like the other comment says, Microsoft has a lot of chips on the table for local AI. They didn't even mention DirectML, ONNX or Microsoft's other local AI frameworks - suffice to say
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I'm surprised that the conservative/libertarian bloc was the first to complain. You'd think something like this would be a desirable outcome for capitalism.
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Copilot? I believe you meant 'Super_2' =)
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Literally who?
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For me at least, China's big issue is the Great Firewall. It's easy to make big claims when your citizens are self-contained in an information vacuum. The US has a similar autocracy issue, but whistleblowers are generally lauded u
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Neither of those hypotheticals seem that far-fetched. Maybe that's just the cynical side of me talking, > The possibility for gatekeeping primary modes of information exchange is quite real, and quite worrying. It's distressing
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Duh, they're incorporated in the US. Are there any domestic businesses that size that can truly say they refuse to cooperate with the intelligence community? Because that would be newsworthy.
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> Does open source ever work that way? Almost never. You need core contributors with an understanding of your problem-space if you want software to start materializing in a git repo. In the rare few scenarios where people do make softw
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> And if we are entering illegal, anyways laws won't help with this. Laws are the only thing that will help with this, notwithstanding a monopoly on violence.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I think you've read too far into this. Ray tracing is not a useful real-world primitive for extracting information from most scenes. Sure, "everything is shiny", but most surfaces are diffuse and don't contain useful vis
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Vaguely reminds me of the KDE ECO effort: https://eco.kde.org/
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The "thing being discussed" is the efficacy of privacy laws. They work well, and the fact that you haven't been put on trial for your 'crimes' yet is tacit evidence. In the real world, both corporations and govern
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Right, but other antitrust measures (eg. DMA/DSA) haven't been about monopoly power. Europe's measures are industry-wide changes that curtails certain first-party choices. Japan's legislation works the same way. It'
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Apple doesn't have to standardize anything Wow that's cool, they also don't have to sell iPhones in certain European jurisdictions: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/04/eu-warns-apple-about
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> US consumers knowingly choose to buy iPhones even though they know that they're choosing a locked-in platform, so there isn't a single-brand aftermarket and there is no monopoly. As far as I know, that has not been used as a
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> They tried hard to ban encryption in apps many times. That's true of most places. We should applaud the EU's human rights court for leading the way by banning this behavior: https://www.eureporter.co/world&#x2
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> It's the wrench problem. You're not going to get spied on by a quantum computer. I'll take that one step further; it's the trusting trust problem. In the words of Ken Thomson, "To what extent should one trust a
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's not about lazy people versus diligent people, though. The companies are blaming the wolves, and arguing that they don't need to fix the issues since only the wolves threaten us (right now). That is a bad security model, and
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To be fair, I also get like this when someone makes me write Swift.
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You're right, and it doesn't break compatibility with USB (curse the idea of MFi on PC) which is the important part. Still, it makes my relatively-new Magic Trackpad 2 feel old and alien. Whatever reason there was for Lightning is
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Oh, well then good! Too many people on this site get far too upset over changes like this. Methinks a lot of them own too much stock and are a bit grumpy about the consequences.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
What do you want? Do you want us to lie to you, and say that all your private Apple/Microsoft/Google data is safe and sound? Do you want bedtime stories about the altruism of your local intelligence agency and the safety FIVE-EYES
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It already happened. Except, well, the blood's on Apple's hands: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware) I wonder how Apple will respond when high-ranking politicians acknowledge that security is a

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