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by timmg 9d ago
My gut reaction is that this is not a good idea. But I could imagine a scenario where you are required to release weights for publicly-used models after N years. Kinda like how drugs have a limited patent. Not sure what N should be. B
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by timmg 13d ago
Dude. Electric cars have existed since the 1800s. Musk was the one that actually made them a practical thing. And most of the rest of the world is well on their way to electrifying their transportation.
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by timmg 13d ago
> he's one of the most hated people on the planet Not saying you need to like Musk or his politics. But if he really is "one of the most hated people on the planet" it doesn't really say good things about the planet.
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by timmg 13d ago
What I don’t get: this letter seems to argue that if a human had solved this problem then that wouldn’t be the case (?)
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by timmg 14d ago
Well: do they listen to the evaluators? I think there are any number of reasons a "safety" person could be concerned about any state of the art models. And so I would expect at least one of those to apply to any model. The ques
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by timmg 14d ago
I understand why (probably several reasons) they are taking this approach. But I don't think it is the right approach and I don't think it will work. First: if they are unilaterally doing it: what about their competitors? Is thi
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by timmg 17d ago
I’m not a math researcher, so I can’t say. But in bird culture we’d call this a dick move.
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by timmg 17d ago
I think it was a pretty questionable thing to do by trying to front-run these researchers even if they didn’t make use of their techniques. The fact that they may have inadvertently “borrowed” their work via training data makes it much w
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by timmg 18d ago
Interesting that both said “more tomorrow”. If someone accused me of something I didn’t do I’d be pretty clear about it right away. If I needed to get my story straight, well, it might take a little time and coordination…
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by timmg 19d ago
Same experience. As a former Googler, I wouldn't at all be surprised if this is an integration that is "planned" -- but just not done yet. And some good handful of people are planning to wring a promo out of work. "Impl
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by timmg 21d ago
I was actually pretty worried that the anti-datacenter backlash would stunt and important industry (for the US). But I think the effect will be that the companies building them will "sweeten" the deal for the local towns where the
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by timmg 25d ago
I would happily spend $500 on this if it really did what it claims to. Maybe. But I find myself a bit skeptical. Would love to see some long-term third party testing on it.
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by timmg 1mo ago
I don’t think it’s productive to complain about the ignorance of the community without attempting to engage in educating it.
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by timmg 1mo ago
Worse than giving to Sama? (I mean that honestly.)
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by timmg 1mo ago
2.9% seems high. I wonder if the market will drive this down. Or if Stripe is really that good.
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by timmg 2mo ago
Why? If you wanted to build a website right now, why would you hand-code an ugly version when you could get an LLM to do it quickly, cheaply and have it much better looking?
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by timmg 2mo ago
As someone who was a big fan of Reader and worked at Google at the time (not on G+): I never understood why they didn’t try to put Reader into G+. Like you could imagine getting your RSS feed in your G+ stream. If you didn’t want any soc
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by timmg 2mo ago
I feel lonely in that: I mostly love Java as a language. The lack of value types is the biggest impediment to certain types of performance. I am really looking forward to this evolution of the language.
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by timmg 2mo ago
I wish these guys would have released this amazing looking 6502 in circuits: https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2016/6502/
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by timmg 2mo ago
If you extrapolate these “fines” to per book piracy, I wonder what the cost would be for something like Anna’s Archive. Trillions?
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by timmg 2mo ago
I think the company’s goals are what’s most important to the company. Being a woman is incidental to that, imho. There are lots of things an employee might be unhappy about. In most cases the company isn’t going to change its priorities
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by timmg 2mo ago
I wonder if the recent sale of the Seahawks will change that. IIRC, ~$10B and all is supposed to go to charity. Not sure how much of that will go to AllenAI, though. (If any.)
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by timmg 3mo ago
How soon until biohackers try this on themselves?
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by timmg 3mo ago
I wouldn't expect it to be less murderous than the aliens themselves. That wasn't my point at all. I'd expect it to contain all their knowledge and be able to live "forever". But I generally wouldn't expect
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by timmg 3mo ago
Tangential to your tangential: The era of AI makes me realize that if we ever get visited by aliens: it will probably not be actual aliens -- just an AI probe. And the idea of it really intrigues me. Imagine some LLM that is many generatio
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by timmg 3mo ago
As I understand it, this has nothing to do with Lebanon. It has to do with ships moving through the Oman side of the strait. Iran is unhappy with that, because the want to control all the movement through it.
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by timmg 3mo ago
They probably don't have much, I guess.
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by timmg 4mo ago
> Researchers at Amazon had used a series of prompts to get Anthropic’s Fable 5 model to provide them with information that could be used to aid cyberattacks... All models can do that. I wonder if they found Fable was significantly be
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by timmg 4mo ago
xAI or OpenAI? (Or both?)
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by timmg 4mo ago
I guess it will be interesting if, in a week or two, OpenAI launches a "Fable class" model and it isn't blocked by the government.

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