I thought the dude that did it had confessed. Or maybe I've been lied to. I must admit that "Jeffery Epstein blows international covert operation to smuggle him away by playing fortnite on his old account" is not a particularly compelling or plausible narrative to me, so it's not something I've paid much attention to, or invested any time into investigating any claims about it.
Too many companies competing at the moment. Some of them will be pushed out. They all want to become dominant names in AI to prevent that from happening to them.
The actual impact of the crash when the bubble we're in pops could be fairly mild, but it's still impossible for them all to survive.
I know that, and you know that. But good luck getting the normies to admit that. It punches a lot of holes it what the common culture believes, or is at least taught, so admitting it is inconvenient enough to be painful on a psychic level for them.
Capacity and Framework. They alternate. This time was a framework bottleneck that was broken by the development of transformers.
Now we find capacity lagging which is why Computer hardware has spiked.
"Novel" is a word with shifting meaning. AI is always the domain of the novel. In 1997 Deep Blue defeating Kasparov was cutting edge AI. Now it's just a computer chess algorithm.
The bar for "truely creative" is already rising, and is reaching the point where we will start to have to dismiss a large number of humans as incapable of creativity.
Not that what you're saying is incorrect, this is just a domain where definitions shift as State of the Art does, and you need to pay attention to how if you want an accurate perspective.
This is a pretty good assessment. AI is actually in a really good place for hobbiests right now. There's a lot you can run on your own box for personal use, it doesn't matter too much if something you're operating for your own use only goes off the rails, and there's no question if something is permissible or not. If you ask it to do something, and it's capable of that, and it does what you asked it to, there's no problem.
Not so for big business. Turns out trying to verify that a clever machine designed to be very compliant never complies with malicious requests adds a lot of overhead.
And so we have AI that's good for generating porn, making up stories, pretending to be a hot girl or guy so you can flirt with it, and writing messy computer code at the level of a high school graduate. But not as useful as it was expected to be anywhere else.
No, I was paying attention to the AI space pretty closely since 2015 - 2016 ish. The progress is really straightforward and mostly predictable if you're familiar. Chat GPT caught a lot of people off guard, but GPT-2 had been creating surreal somewhat comprehensible stories for a while. The big breakthroughs of getting the AI to go the other way and generate generalized output had predictable consequences, and rapid development happened in the space that opened up without software to fill it. Things iterated rapidly, frameworks were created and discarded rapidly as we made quick efficiency improvements and picked off low hanging fruit.
'AI Winter' ends, AI Spring begins and rapid progress is made in the structural level. Now we begin to enter an AI Summer where we have to figure out how to convert all these gains into something productive.
Wish they'd gone with Imp Classic. Would have been easy to do to. His classic posts were pretty formulaic, so it would have been easy to replicate: Honest engagement with the post => segue into semi relevant manosphere talking points => escalate into why this is evidence of a global plot by all women everywhere to take over the world or systematically kill all men.
There was some genuinely insightful stuff in the first and second sections, and then the unhinged escalation near the end was good for a laugh and made it a classic imp post.
Firebomber seemed more interested picking fights than saying anything interesting.
Generative AI a useful tool that normies have finally realized is not magic. It's basically the same as it was, but now slapping AI powered on marketing isn't likely to get you a bunch of funding from people who don't understand it looking to bandwagon.
We're past the honeymoon phase. Now it's back to figuring out how to leverage it in a marketable product, just the same as we would with any other software.
Yeah, this is just do you approve of potentially risky future political action vs. do you approve of current political project that appears to be going well.
Of course people approve when it looks like everything went as cleanly as it seems this did.
Ah. You are correct, I had to scroll down more. Regardless, this looks like the sort of thing that might be interesting for hobbiests who might use it for weird projects, but probably won't find much of an audience for its stated purpose.
You're never going to sell it with marketing like that. You have to put an attractive Anime girl in it.
Also note that the current RAM spike is a gambit by OpenAI to attempt to maintain its market edge, and not a genuine, permanent increase in demand.
https://youtu.be/nPDH4lZB6HU?si=OmzzgILrDYxXpcrl
Except extremely lame.
It just seems ineffective. Regardless of whether you feel it can be excused as a joke or not, there just isn't anything to be gained by going after the kid. Both Piers and his wife seem like horrible people, are public figures, and nice easy targets. Breaking them directly shouldn't be difficult, and could potentially be hilarious. Going after the kid is just lobbing Piers a softball where he can stand up to defend his daughter, safely regain a bunch of his masculinity, and net some sympathetic PR. Playing him against his wife is a much better tactic and it makes him look pathetic.
Yes, it's clearly a small apartment. My sister lived in one with almost this exact layout. You see them a lot near universities. Far end is a livingroom with the big window, to the left is a kitchen/dining area. That divider is at the end of an island/breakfast area. Fridge and Stove are opposite the island, behind the wall on the left. Behind the camera are the bathroom and one or two bedrooms. There's also a popular variant that is the same, except the big window is on the left side from this viewpoint, and another hallway with another two bedrooms and bathroom extend away from the viewer. Like I said, popular for student housing.
Laundry, etc. will be in the basement or elsewhere in the building shared by all units.
This an interesting situation, as I believe the intent here is actually to target Muslims and and other foreign religious practices, so there is actually a chance these laws could be used to protect Quebecois culture.
I have no idea what's actually going to happen. Quebec has always been a strange place, but I wouldn't bet against their intolerance.
I bought memory, SSDs and thumb drives about a year and a half ago during the flash/nand oversupply last year. Turned out to be a good choice. Do I really need 128Gb of memory? No, not really, but the price was relatively cheap compared to the rest of the components, and it has occasionally come in handy.
Davis is kind of interesting there's a progression of appreciation of his work:
What's the big deal he's just a random crazy guy ->
Wow he wrote his own OS and compiler ->
Actually None of it is particularly revolutionary, any CS grad student could do it with time ->
Yeah, but could the do it while being completely nuts and make it compliant with the COMMANDMENTS OF GOD the voices in their head are giving them? I don't think so?
And really, Temple OS is just so delightfully bizarre and charming. Is it technically impressive? Perhaps not as much as some people make it out to be. Is it unique? Most definitely.
Yep. That was my thought too. Libertarianism is really just feudalism with (possibly) extra steps. Instead of paying taxes to a King or other nobility, you instead pay a private military contractor/mercenary company to enforce your laws/borders, and since now they have all the guns and money, woops, looks like they're the government now.