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Lives are ruined because it's relatively rare right now. If it becomes more frequent, people will become desensitized to it, like with everything else.

These arguments generally miss the fact that we can do this right now, and the world hasn't ended. Is it really going to be such a huge issue if we can suddenly do it at half the cost? I don't think so.
It's the impression I got from "who have not done any transformer research", as well as the fact that sama wrote this article.
Apple Silicon made x86 silicon look bad, but what has it really upended? Macs are taking over more of the personal computer market, but hard to say what the factor is there. I think it's mostly network effects, partially due to their shameless proprietary approach. PCs, Apple or other, are kinda generally good, no matter what the price or combo, and disappearing at the same time, a lot can be done with just a browser on any foundation. Apple seems to be years behind or nonexistent where things are really changing, AI and cloud.
I don't even know how people like this get valued so much. Why do people treat Silicon Valley "entrepreneurs" and investors as if they're made out of some sort of intellectual adamantium? Aren't they, generally speaking, just people looking to make a name and buck for themselves, primarily driven by ego rather than intellectual or philosophical pursuits? Most of them got lucky with some relatively dumb or straightforward product in the middle of a bubble and are not responsible for some major leap forward in technology.
Honestly given all what I have heard about Sam Altman I wouldn't be surprised (i.e. speculative) if he did systematically manipulate and deceived the board (but subtle enough to not be legally "lying" or fraud) with the intention to forth through his goals no matter weather they agree or not.

Assuming such situation happens in is noticed there is no reason to consult because it wouldn't change anything and just make things more complicated as the only action which can be taken is to fire the manipulator in power asap.

Especially some recent actions where not so much in line with the mission the board is supposed to protect push for but very much in line with giving especially Microsoft a additional competitive advantage (i.e. additional to what Microsoft payed for).

And I have seen many comments like but MS and other stake holder should have been part of the decisions and similar. But here is the think, with the specific structure of OpenAI MS and other knew from the get to go that it's a high risk investment where even through they in vest a ton of money they won't have _anything_ to say at all when it comes to decision done by the outer non-profit which is implicitly the majority owner of the for-profit OpenAI.
If you have spare time, the GTK maintainers want people to work on the Vulkan renderer. Benjamin Otte and Georges Stavracas Neto have put in a bit of effort to make the Vulkan renderer better.

GL is only deprecated on Mac from what I understand.
The monk who believed he could fly
Drops in a bucket
Same, I bought Monolisa before discovering Berkeley Mono, and then I was really angry for how much more I paid for a worse font.
That's the point. If it's covered by an NDA and the state declares NDAs unenforceable, there are no NDA-covered "secrets." I can get hired, learn all your secrets, and then sell my employment to your competitors. That system doesn't really work.

In practice, trade secrets are protected by other mechanisms. Patents are one of them because, by definition, patents are public knowledge so they are no longer secret.
> Which in turn now creates the threat that a for-profit version of OpenAI dominates the market with no higher purpose.

If it was so easy to go to the back of the queue and become a threat, Open AI wouldn't be in the dominant position they're in now. If any of the leavers have taken IP with them, expect court cases.
I would watch that show. GPT to GPT. EndlessShark.
European countries differentiate between income tax and social tax.

Health insurance is a social tax. There are other social taxes: pension tax, unemployment tax etc. Mostly these are fixed rate taxes (i.e. the tax rate is not income dependent). In some countries there is an upper bound on income that is taxed by social tax.
A software epiphany
But it can't improve its answer after it has written it, that is a major limitation. When a human writes an article or response or solution, that is likely not the first thing the human thought of, instead they write something down and works on it until it is tight and neat and communicates just what the human wants to communicate.

Such answers will be very hard for an LLM to find, instead you mostly get very verbose messages since that is how our current LLM thinks.
It could be as simple as using the bylaws as the chair of the board to point out a violation of the bylaws. It all depends, but at the end of the day board members that try to cling to their seats usually fail to do so. Ultimately their position could be challenged in court but most board members of non-profits are not that anxious to see their reputation destroyed that they'll let that be the deciding factor.

Either way, normally you'd have a pre-written resignation letter drafted where the only thing missing is their signature, and you'd confront them in a meeting: resign voluntarily or we'll put your continued presence up for a vote at the next board meeting. Of course the board could try to eternally vote itself back in but that usually doesn't work because a board has to be able to serve in its oversight role and one part of that is that the board has to have broad support, both legally and from within the organization. For instance: the board might no longer be able to find a CEO that is acceptable to the rest of the C-level. That would be a major problem.

Corporate governance is hard, non-profits have a bunch more twists but in the end nobody's position is carved in stone. Note that even non-profits have bylaws and these usually detail clearly how board members are to be proposed and what the procedure is to get them to become established as well as how they can be removed. If it can be proven that a board member has acted against the interests of the legal entity they represent then they usually can be removed even easier because that's a clear conflict with the statues of the non-profit, then there are potential conflicts of interest (for instance sitting on the board of another entity that has goals that are not compatible with those of the non-profit).
No. Mind you, the USA government/uniparty is corrupt AF. Most businesses in the USA have all kinds of corrupt practices, especially bigger ones. But by your statement it appears you have no idea how prevalent guanxi is in the very fabric of Chinese society. In the states an unknown person with a good idea can still get ahead without it, but in China that's just not going to happen. Problems range from permits being slow-walked or magically made up on the spot, to bribing all kinds of local party members, to SWAT-style morning wake-ups, to having your relatives punished for your not going along to get along.

Source: investments in China, family in China
Probably the best song ever because it contains cats.
Yes but it is basic in the sense that it’s one of the first couple algorithms/data structs mostly everyone has been exposed to. Many knowing what they are and the general principle of how and why they work. That is exactly my point though.. Like what do we consider “basic” exactly? That line becomes blurry in any complex field…
'Plastic is bad' is indeed a gross generalization as plastics are made from a wide variety of monomeric units that are linked into chains or sheets to generate the final product. This article is specifically about polystyrene, which consists of aromatic (benzene ring) monomers. These are more likely to have biological effects, although of course there are aromatic amino acids, but there's also bisphenol A, a problematic additive. However, the specific evidence is worth looking at:

> "Researchers said the plastic[polystyrene]-protein accumulations happened across three different models performed in the study - in test tubes, cultured neurons, and mouse models of Parkinson’s disease. West said questions remain about how such interactions might be happening within humans and whether the type of plastic might play a role."

Another thing to keep in mind is that Parkinson's appears to have a whole lot of different causes or risk factors, which accumulate as we age, from genetics to exposure to organophosphorous pesticides and this is just one more added to the list (wiki):

> "PD is believed to begin principally by degeneration of dopaminergic nigrostriatal neurons in the brain and secondarily by complex pathological mechanisms, including mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, apoptotic cell death, protein aggregation and misfolding, inflammation, excitotoxicity, loss of trophic factors, and other cell-death pathways"

So, it's not about 'plastics' in general, it's just that there are specific types and additives that should probably be phased out.
Even an audio analysis tool won't reveal much if the watermark is sophisticated enough. I believe, a basic watermark adds a few spots on the spectrogram in a known arrangement, a bit like a constellation in the skies, but a watermark can be based on the bloom filter idea: hundreds of barely visible spots arranged with a hash function will look like noise.
Nobody said it was 'shabby'.
> they made very stupid decisions now sabotaging interests and the company itself, brutally beheaded itself

By firing the guy who founded Loopt?

I’m genuinely mystified, where does this theory come from. What makes this guy essential?
I haven't found any convincing arguments to any real risk, even if the LLM becomes as smart as people. We already have people, even evil people, and they do a lot of harm, but we cope.

I think this hysteria is at best incidentally useful at helping governments and big players curtail and own AI, at worst incited hy them.
Yes, agreed this is also perilous. But in my opinion absent a very clear and very public reason doing it this way was a huge mistake.
+100 I really dislike ligatures. They are one of those things that seem great in theory but I find them to be a real distraction. This is why I never got into the JetBrains fonts — there was no ligature-free option. (Maybe there is now, but I haven’t felt motivated to try it again.)
Fast, helpful AI chat with ~15 AIs
How to translate the graphcast model output to usual weather variables like temperature, rain, wind, etc if I have to build a weather dashboard?
> that irradiates its environment.

What is the issue, as long as the containment containers are properly designed?
> Apple Silicon completely upended the personal computer world

How did it upend the personal computer world? Apple's chip developments are an amazing technological achievement, but they don't have anything innovative to put them in. Apple slaps them in grossly thermally limited form factors, where the chips can't operate anywhere close to their capability. It's kind of a silly exercise, in my opinion. At the end of the day, Apple has made the same computers, phones, and tablets for the past 10 years. I'm not sure where the innovation is.
The thing here is that the structure of these companies and the operating agreement for the for-profit LLC all effectively mean that everyone is warned going in that the for-profit is beholden to the mission of the non-profit and that there might be zero return on investment and that there may never be profit at all.

The board answers to the charter, and are legally obligated to act in the interest of the mission outlined in the charter. Their charter says "OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) [...] benefits all of humanity" - not do that "unless it'd make more money for our for-profit subsidiary to focus on commercializing GPT"
This "legal nitpicking" is pretty much irrelevant, even in a court of law:

1. The OpenAI board certainly gave the impression that something egregious had occurred (just look at all the speculation on HN and elsewhere). I have literally never seen a separation announcement that was that pointed where there wasn't significant malfeasance. In the US, basically anyone can sue anyone else for anything. It would be quite easy to argue in court that the board gave the impression to a reasonable observer that Altman lied over something important - Kara Swisher tweeted that basically the board is screwed unless they have an extremely unambiguous smoking gun.

2. On a practical level, the legalese really doesn't matter. Then general SV opinion already seems to be that the board did Altman and Brockman dirty, it's already been reported that Altman is starting a new company, and I have no doubt heaps and heaps of OpenAI employees will jump ship to this new venture, as many high level employees have already announced their departure.
This seems way, way more reasonable than WeWork.

Maybe if Altman bought every datacenter and then nudged OpenAI toward renting them out, or if Altman bought the "Open" trademark and licensed it to OpenAI for a million dollars or whatever.
I think it's healthy to be skeptical, but also it's good to trust your gut and use some common sense.

Plastic is made from refined natural gas and crude oil. We know for a fact those things are carcinogenic. There is no universe where putting them inside your body is not bad, and we should be doing everything we can to reduce it.

> a naturalistic experiment with lots of people exposed to large doses of microplastics

Are you volunteering to be in that group? Why not?
We, the public, who are unwilling to fund quality journalism, have ourselves to blame for this.

Granted, the ad-driven business model that enabled print newspapers to flourish in the 20th century made it easy for quality journalism to be sustainable. But unless we come up with some way to replace that in the digital age, we will only get the news that other people want us to read. In other words, P.R.

I am a former journalist who has watched a number of failed attempts at alternative business models. I don't know what the answer is. But I sure know that the problem is a problem.
These attempts at increasing density in Vancouver and surrounding areas fail to account for the lack of services and infrastructure to support a growing population.

Metro Vancouver already is one of the most congested regions in North America. There is a severe health care shortage with more than a million people struggling to access family doctors and specialists. The region also routinely experiences drought conditions and water usage advisories during spring and summer months.

The municipalities understand these factors limiting growth, but the province and federal government seem to believe we can grow the population forever. It’s a disaster in the making, in my opinion as a long time resident.
Yeah, I believe it's bigger than agriculture. Agriculture was just food. AI may be immortality if we kind of merge.
It's not about Ilya wanting to slow things down.

Ilya is the technical mastermind behind OAI. The technical breakthroughs needed for AGI are not there yet. Ilya, Yann, Demis and many others are aware of it.

An aggressive push for applied research and commercialisation means less resources for technical breakthroughs.

This is a tricky situation.
It seems we are talking about multiple different things. I never denied hype was a thing.

You’re talking about hype cycles now. Previously it seemed like you said AI was not going to be advancing.

LLMs are maybe headed into oversold territory, but LLMs are not the end of AI, even in the near term. They are just the UI front end.
> people can't monitor that people aren't breaking the law

Typically even without encryption there are laws banning monitoring of such communications. For example, tapping into someone's analog phone line or listening to unencrypted mobile phone conversations, etc.

Conversely, even system we view as private are routinely monitored by governments, etc.

Amateur radio rules seem to derive both from the idea of preventing public nuisance and also the idea of public resources (like national parks, etc.). The amateur spectrum is like a park -- visitors are not allowed to open businesses on the land, nor are they allowed to be a nuisance to others.
Because they own the trade secret. For example, they have the legal right to license a trade secret; an employee does not. It's about legal ownership of intellectual property.

As a corollary, you may read a patent and now have the knowledge of a product. But you don't have the same legal right to create and sell that product. That right is protected by the patent owner.
In most of Asimov's stories it's implied that machines have quietly and invisibly replaced all human government and the world is better for it because humans tend to be petty and cruel while it's impossible for robots to harm humans.
The Earth is not covered by a dome or 'firmament' (2022)
You can’t demo it and sell it.
Just don't say anything controversial or work in any controversial industries or have any controversial friends
How about: walkie-talkie with decent crypto?

Suppose we design walkie talkies such that two or more units can be hooked up together in a daisy chain. While the devices are daisy chained, a button can be pressed on the head walkie talkie which will generate a random symmetric key, like 256 bit AES or whatever. This is sent over the daisy-chained bus to all the others. They flash an LED or something to indicate they accepted the key. After that they can be split up and will all use that key.
I just want to clarify that it isn't "his" work, is it? It's more that he's attached himself to those projects.
more likely I think they found that not letting him go isn't and option due to a breakdown of communication (a formulation which normally implies a fundamental break down of trust)

but the trust of the board completely braking down doesn't mean that e.g. MS doesn't trust or want him anymore as in the end the interest the board have to defend and the ones which stake holder like MS have might be in conflict

so even if it has negative consequences if it must be done it might be easier to get it done fast and then resolve the mess instead of giving other a chance to turn it into an even bigger mess
He is not the only AI related entity doing business in the Middle East. Look at G42’s and King Abdullah University’s partnership with Cerebras Systems.

I was not aware that the Arab states were such a Mecca (pun very much intended) for AI, but there must be something there… why pass over any number of American partnerships?

Especially in today’s geopolitical climate.
Yes, but that's not even close to the best that can be done for space applications.

For that there are multi junction cells, with 30% readily attainable (at a cost, but still, you can just order them if you need them).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-junction_solar_cell
> hyperliterally focusing on the exact words used.

Business communication is never, ever forthright. These people cannot be blunt to the public even if their life depended on it. Reading between the lines is practically a requirement.
Why did people care more about Ukraine than Iraq? Who cares?
Cheaper, faster and longer context window would be enough of an advancement for me. But then we also had the Assistant API that makes our lives as AI devs much easier.
I misunderstood the article saying "exports the resulting texture" as meaning it exported it to CPU memory, but audidude explained how it actually works.

I believe GL_TEXTURE_EXTERNAL_OES is an Android-only OpenGL extension that takes the place of some uses of DMABUF but is not as flexible and general.

ChatGPT seems to know more about them, but I can't guarantee how accurate and up-to-date it is:

https://chat.openai.com/share/abff036b-3020-4093-a13b-86cbf0...

The tricky bit may be teaching pytorch to accept dmabuf handles and read and write dmabuf GPU buffers. (And ffmpeg too!)
Stuff like this makes it seem like firing Sam Altman wasn't thought through. There have already been statements from Open AI that no malfeasance was involved. That makes giving Microsoft a surprise of this nature on a Friday afternoon look amateurish. There was no emergency. There was no damage to Open AI. In fact it seems like Open AI has been moving fast without breaking things.

I don't know enough about Sam Altman to have strong opinions about him, but, regardless of his qualities, the way this happened seems like a botch.
>which seems like very basic functionality but ends up as a low priority for a lot of these

for security based purposes, why would you want to save all of that data that is not changing? you'll just end up fast-forwarding to the interesting bits anyways if you have to go to the footage.
Will candles set off the fire alarm where you live too?

I'll wager that burning one sheet of paper at a time would be on par with a continuously burning candle.
check out Inko https://inko-lang.org/
Good old built in the USA.
Yes, condemning hospital bombings and a state that blames civilians for their own deaths ("should'nt have voted for Hamas 17 years ago lol!") while killing more of them than even Russia did in Ukraine, is just like eating tidepods.
You seem to be arguing for my point. Just because you couldn’t deal with what people want as an elected representative doesn’t mean it can’t be changed, isn’t being changed right now.

I wasn’t encouraging anyone to run for office.
Also have you thought about not stopping at swagger definition -> api documentation, and add more generators for a given api definition (complete CRUD backend, single page app in react, native android (or react native), native ios (or react native)) frontend?
Impossible to say. If OpenAI makes it– I think it'll be better for AI safety then with Sam at the helm. But that's a big if. Time will tell.
Ilya might be too concerned with AI safety to make significant progress on model quality improvement.
Money does expire: it's called inflation
https://brsaerospace.com/cessna/
No Priors Interview with OpenAI Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever
Okay, but then I assume you also call AI the model predictive controller flying and landing the rocket too?

An other question if you don’t mind: Did you ever used software which was not AI in your view?
I don’t understand why people with such amount of cash still looking for VC instead of bootstrapping their company.
> The commercial interests were not well-represented in the number of votes.

This is entirely by design. Anyone investing in or working for the for-profit had to sign an operating agreement that literally states the for-profit is entirely beholden to the non-profit's charter and mission and that it is under no obligation to be profitable. The board is specifically balanced so that the majority is independent of of for-profit subsidiary.

A lot of people seem to be under the impression that the intent was for there to be significant representation of commercial interests here, and that is the exact opposite of how all of this is structured.
He said in his opinion Dev Day was an "absolute embarrassment".
Me. I’m under one of the supported languages, do not write JavaScript (and while all the languages I use has ligatures, I don’t use them), spend 10 hours in front of a terminal/editor/IDE, and love computing at 70s, plus love the 70s aesthetics.

If you think $75 is expensive is for a functional piece of art, look at the license of Operator Mono.
Denying the little god of free will: the next step for atheists?
I am curious what happens to ChatGPT now.

If it's true that this is in part over Dev day and such, and they may have a point, however if useful stuff with AI that helps people is gauche is OpenAI just going to turn into increasingly insular cult? ClosedAI but this time you can't even pay for it?
That's the job of any good professor for their PhDs and postdocs.