skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Your AI Girlfriend Says She Loves You

http://archive.today/2023.10.12-140702/https://www.businessi...

and

People are grieving the 'death' of their AI lovers after a chatbot app abruptly shut down

http://archive.today/2023.11.22-060140/https://www.businessi...
Do you have Bard history enabled?
There's been way too many papers. Here [1] is a link to Google Scholar for 'brain gut' which turns up a zillion results. Basically, your gut biome and brain are heavily linked. As a bonus, here's [2] a search for 'glyphosate gut microbiota.' Advances in biotech/consumables and dramatic unforeseen consequences seem completely inseparable.

[1] - https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=brai...

[2] - https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=glyp...
I find it interesting how the literal antivirus mechanism used by those bacteria resemble antivirus software: have a repository of virus-code signatures that are checked against.
They seem to have a similar concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqS3NxJ2L_I
But I think very few think of Alexa as a personal assistant, most people are just happy playing music and toggling room lights.
> cloudflare actually isn't a source of the captcha, the site author copied cloudflare's captcha page

Why hasn't Cloudflare sued for trademark infringement?
That is one hot potato.
Interesting that Adam is still on Board. This hints to Helen being the main perpetrator of the drama?
Ah, [2] looks really interesting. Maybe the best option on this page since it seems to get all the expressivity of Tikz without the syntax? I'll check it out.
What a wild ride. I have used X more the past few days than in a long time; that’s for sure!
Sam Altman to Return to OpenAI as CEO
> At what point in time has our economy been more regulated than it is today?

1930-1970.
Good, was out of popcorn already.

Somebody make a Netflix documentary please.
ah yes, I still remember the rcs ci / co workflow
I have a feeling EA[1] is like anarcho capitalist communities (or just inverse for socialism) where you have a good idea like markets==good then apply it like a hammer to everything you see in life. Any hint of gov/statism is treated as the enemy, regardless of its IRL negative impact on markets or net freedom, or whatever positive end goal they envision.

OpenAI is (hypothetically) progressing to AGI, therefore bad. Whether GPT specifically is a half a foot on a 1000km journey or potentially insignificant, it doesn't matter to them as they've pre-selected any potential for progress as all bad.

[1] if you search "Helen Toner" on YouTube it's just a collection of videos of her talking at EA conferences. So she's a believer
Back at you buddy.

Bye, Felicia.
Show HN: Sonic Garbage
>how having a GPT store makes AGI destroying the world easier

The argument in general is that the more commercial interest there is in AI, the more money gets invested and the faster the companies will try to move to capture that market. This increases the risk for AGI by speeding up development due to competition, and safety is seen as "decel".

Helen was considering the possibility of Altman-dominated OpenAI that continued to rapidly grow the overall market for AI, and made a statement that perhaps destroying OpenAI would be better for the mission (safe development of AGI).
So, is he still going to lead some team at Microsoft?
My org doesnt use o365 but for some reason I have to be constantly logged in to 3 tenants at the same time. Of course can not.
From the outside none of this makes much sense. So the old board just disliked him enough to oust him but apparently didn’t have a good pulse on the company and overplayed their hand?
Toyota have been saying “just wait a few more years to buy an EV, we have revolutionary new battery tech around the corner that will be MUCH cheaper, MUCH lighter and MUCH faster to charge” for at least 10 years now.

Every time I see the headline and resulting conversation on major auto news websites I see hundreds of people say it’s not worth getting an EV now with such better tech around the corner, and that waiting is best.

I find it very hard not to think Toyota is intentionally lying to stop people buying EVs at all because they simply don’t make them (yet/ever).

Same goes for Toyota hydrogen cars. Whenever they get mentioned hundreds of comments get suckered into thinking EV infrastructure is just not good enough and never will be, but somehow magically hydrogen just will be “in a few years”. The idea the world will ever have hydrogen infrastructure that is even remotely as good as the EV infrastructure we have today is laughable. That’s trillions of dollars and decades away at very best.
Any analysis on how Satya Nadella comes out on all of this? Or what impact this might have at all within Microsoft?
Hopefully Sam and Greg get restored to the board also.
"worth the cost" is a very different argument from trying to pretend there is no cost.

And those tiny ground contact areas don't look cheap to stabilize.
Sam Back at OpenAI
Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board
In all likelihood OP pasted the article into ChatGPT and asked it to summarize it.
"In principle" has me less than 100% assured. Hopefully no more plot twists in this. Everyone, inside and outside, has probably had enough.
The most recent reporting I saw from Bloomberg said sama would return as CEO only.
I didn’t really get my mental health under control until I took care of my gut issues like IBS and stuff.

Honestly, if you had some chronic, untreated issues with your ankle and foot - something that plagued you daily - it would be hard to take care of your mental health too. Same if you had lupus, for example. Having something wrong with you - especially something chronic - always makes it hard to take care of your mental health. It makes sense that when you don't have the stress of pain and the other things that go with it, you find the mental energy to work on the brain.

Yours just happened to be in the gut, which makes it seem like these articles might be talking about you.
What a wild ride these past few days have been. Friday already feels like a very long time ago given all of the information and controversy that's come out.
Once again the source is directly from Twitter / X and the news was announced from there.

Dispelling the complete nonsense that the platform is 'dying'.
Looks like Satya will have all of the leverage after this. He kind of always did though, but the board has almost entirely been replaced.

I don’t see any point to the non profit umbrella now.
This ordeal reminds me of the Silicon Valley episode where Richard is replaced by an empty chair, temporarily.
The bold purple box is explicitly talking about “OpenAI Global, LLC”, which _is_ the “for profit” company.

See also: “OpenAI LP’s primary fiduciary obligation is to advance the aims of the OpenAI Charter, and the company is controlled by OpenAI Nonprofit’s board. All investors and employees sign agreements that OpenAI LP’s obligation to the Charter always comes first, even at the expense of some or all of their financial stake.” --https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp

To emphasize, they will not take your investment money until you've signed an agreement saying that you're aware of all of this.
Just going to leave this here...

Toyota Only Plans to Make Enough Solid-State Batteries for 10k Cars in 2030: https://www.thedrive.com/news/toyota-only-plans-to-make-enou...

Chrysler confirms its next new model will be an all-electric crossover:
https://electrek.co/2023/11/08/chrysler-confirms-next-model-...
So, Ilya is out of the board, but Adam is still on it. I know this will raise some eyebrows but whatever.

Still though, this isn't something that will just go away with Sam back. OAI will undergo serious changes now that Sam has shown himself to be irreplaceable. Future will tell but in the long terms, I doubt we will see OAI as one of the megacorps like Facebook or Uber. They lost the trust.
He does face 18 months in prison with the sentencing in Feb.
No https://twitter.com/sama/status/1727207458324848883
This has been childish throughout, everyone involved, including the tech community milking it for clicks should be ashamed.
"And nobody is immune to this line of thinking!"

In some workplaces this "line of thinking" does not even amount to "thinking" let alone legitimate argument.

What is money-laundering. Is it "mixing cash in a jar".

In a February 2019 chat, one compliance employee at Binance wrote that the company needed a banner that said, "Is washing drug money too hard these days? Come to Binance. We got cake for you."
If you mean in the sense of dealing with documents that are very similar but not binary identical, a locality sensitive hash would do the job.
Thanks, yes that makes sense. I was working under the assumption that ISO 8601 was meant to be human-readable. If you can forego that requirement, then the solution you present would work well indeed.
Tell that AGI who's boss!
This has been such a great lesson and reminder for young people: no one has any idea what they're doing and it's all made up.
I mean he's not irreplaceable so much as booting him suddenly for no good reason creates problems.
the trick is lots of amplification on both ends is able to compensate for a wide beam spread, edfa's allow you to optically amplify the sent signal and allows the faint received signal to also be amplified
> We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.

> We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

1- So what was the point of this whole drama, and why couldn't you have settled like this adults?

2- Now what happens to Microsoft's role in all of this?

3- Twitter is still the best place to follow this and get updates, everyone is still make "official" statements on twitter, not sure how long this website will last but until then, this is the only portal for me to get news.
"I doubt we will see OAI as one of the megacorps like Facebook or Uber. They lost the trust." How is this the case?
Zork for the PDP-11 / RT-11 recreated
The new board only has 3 people to start with, but hopefully easier to add more members soon. Tonight's NYT story mentioned the board member attrition and the prolonged gridlock in adding new ones, which probably led to the current saga.
This is an incredible workflow as someone who has only ever used git and GitHub (and poorly at that).

I presume there isn’t really any way to have this kind of workflow using git and GitHub? I’d be interested in something like this at my company but we’re sorta locked in to GitHub already.
Sam the man. Hope I'm not counting my chickens before they hatch but this is an amazing result and I love this new board.
Apple and Google virtually want to be a government in digital content area. 30% is a tax. I understand that something like government work (like operating infra and moderation) is needed in app store, but I don't want two California based companies to be a global government.
Well I don't see Greg back on the list and he was a loyalist so there may be a few adjustments moving forward
Thank the lord. We need stability and reliability as developers. This is great news for anyone building ontop of OpenAI products. Welcome back Sama.
So Adam D'Angelo would stay on the board? I thought a condition for Altman to return was the whole board resigning?
Why would he agree to this? He holds all the cards now.
> Food cooked more than 4 hours ago was considered poison.

tbf, a random dish left under Indian room temperature for hours probably is actually unsafe. Mumbai right now is 32C/90F according to Google, which is about the worst temperature to leave food in.
Quote tweets by main participants:

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1727206691262099616 (+ follow-up https://twitter.com/sama/status/1727207458324848883)

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1727206609477411261

https://twitter.com/miramurati/status/1727206862150672843

UPD https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1727208843137179915

https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1727210329560756598

https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1727207661547233721
So, Adam D'Angelo is the only board member that remains, and he had also voted against Altman before. How interesting, considering all the theory crafting about him being the one who initiated this coup.
I really did not think that would happen. I guess the obvious next question is what happens to Ilya? From this announcement it appears he is off the board. Is he still the chief scientist? I find it hard to believe he and Sam would be able to patch their relationship up well enough to work together so closely.
I wonder how this will impact the company-owned-by-a-non-profit model in the future. While it isn’t uncommon (e.g. I believe IKEA are owned by a nonprofit), I believe it has historically been for tax reasons.

Given the grandstanding and chaos on both sides, it’ll be interesting to see if OpenAI undergo a radical shift in their structure.
Awkward in the way you don't put a dig against the other when talking about your new thing. I am particularly cognizant of othering and language that puts people at odds.
D'Angelo is staying on the new initial board?

Once again the popular theories about what has been going on there behind the scenes do not seem to be holding up.
FreeBSD: Fix frequency calcuation for bell (2021)
Yes, it does. In general LuaTeX supports everything that XeTeX does.
OpenAI announced Sam Altman is back
Satya Nadella's Statement
You actually don't need to use any dedicated extensions for that, as this functionality is built into uBO, you just need to find a filter list (just search for "ublock origin clearurl list" or whatever)
The reason I don't want to live there is societal. I welcome many of the aesthetics.
> I don't understand why Siri/Google assistant are not doing this already.

My theory is that voice assistants are made to be cheap entry points to those ecosystems. LLMs, on the other hand, are incredibly expensive to run. No GAFAM wants to pay dozens of cents when you ask their assistant to switch on the lights.
Sam Altman returning to OpenAI / new board
It's a very good reply.
Satya on twitter:

We are encouraged by the changes to the OpenAI board. We believe this is a first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance. Sam, Greg, and I have talked and agreed they have a key role to play along with the OAI leadership team in ensuring OAI continues to thrive and build on its mission. We look forward to building on our strong partnership and delivering the value of this next generation of AI to our customers and partners.

https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1727207661547233721
> I doubt we will see OAI as one of the megacorps like Facebook or Uber. They lost the trust

Whose trust?
When I was first learning to program as a kid I really liked having LET x = 2, or Perl's sigils, etc. It helped remind me of things as simple as assignation being left to right.
Yes, I'm using 3.5, but that's the free version, and I don't need AI often enough to want to pay $20 for version 4.
Larry Summers and no females
Having pulled the string all the way down on a number of issues you’re identifying - your expected outcome is false.

While society can shift things around a bit, none of these underlying issues are actually ‘solvable’ without far more serious consequences.

Our current thinking and attempt at solving some of the current ‘justice’ issues for instances seems to be precipitating an even larger and more destructive evil.

The reason why you can’t force an organism to care about another of its kind, for instance, has a plausible evolutionary reason that it would be foolhardy to ignore. That others of another organisms kind have an incentive to take advantage of any sort of mechanism to capture the other organism and make it work against its interests.

Selfishness is the only viable defense against out of control selfishness.

Prior solutions create new problems and new pain, precipitating new attempts at solutions which create new problems and new pain, ad infinitum.

The wheel will continue to turn.
> We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.

Larry Summers? Some odd choices
Ah, yes, Facebook and Uber, brands known for consistent trustworthiness throughout their existences /s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38375239
> Twitter is still the best place to follow this and get updates, everyone is still make "official" statements on twitter, not sure how long this website will last but until then, this is the only portal for me to get news.

It's only natural to confuse what is happening with what we wish to happen. After all, when we imagine something, aren't we undergoing a kind of experience?

A lot of people wish Twitter were dying, even though it's it, so they interpret evidence through a lens of belief confirmation rather than belief disproof. It's only human to do this. We all do.
> I always wanted `set` in regular languages instead of (or in addition to) =/==.

TCL ftw!
Still absolutely nothing from Tasha McCauley or Helen Toner, and now both are out of the board
I'm assuming the details are this board loses most of its power?
I'm curious whether any of the brands which failed this test owned up to the issue and released firmware updates.
> I’d seen the consequences of that over and over: brilliant technologists who could build just about anything but who stared blankly when the question of the ethics of their work was broached.

This is something I've seen as well, in contexts much more remote from the nerve centers like Google or even Stanford. It's deeply disturbing.
Microsoft said they are OK with Sam returning to openAI. There are probbaly legal reasons why they prefer things to go back as it were

(Thank you for calling Twitter Twitter)
I guess the main question is who else will be on the board and to what degree will this new board be committed to the Open AI charter vs being Sam/MSFT allies. I think having Sam return as CEO is a good outcome for OpenAI but hopefully he and Greg stay off the board.

It's important that the board be relatively independent and able to fire the CEO if he attempts to deviate from the mission.

I was a bit alarmed by the allegations in this article

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-...

Saying that Sam tried to have Helen Toner removed which precipitated this fight. The CEO should not be allowed to try and orchestrate their own board as that would remove all checks against their decisions.
https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1727206187077370115

@OpenAI
We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo.

We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.
So…. What about all the folks who already jumped ship? Ooooops?
Or, the organization has an obligation to respect freedom of academic inquiry, because the truth is what helps organizations grow, change, and mature, does it not? If the company cannot handle independent critique then its fragility is not the fault of the researcher who is telling the truth.
Besides AI safety (a big besides), what does this actually mean? Adam won't be able to stop devday announcements about chatbots etc. Satya can continue using IP even after AGI? What else is different? Is Ilya the kind of guy to now leave after losing a board seat to political machinations? The pettiness of any real changes/gains leaves me in shock compared to the massive news flows we've seen.

I don't even understand what Sam brings to the table. Leadership? He doesn't seem great at leading an engineering or research department, he doesn't seem like an insightful visionary... At best, Satya gunning for him signalled continued strong investment in the space. Yet the majority of the company wanted to leave with him.

What am I missing?
I'd say the main issue is that governments have failed to put in place guardrails that penalize those who pursue monetary value over all else.
If you dig at the vendor data stored on the drive firmware, fakes are easy to spot. Model numbers, vendor ID, and serial numbers will be zero’d out or not conforming to manufacturer spec.

I purchased a bunch of fake kingston SD cards in China that worked well enough for the price, but crapped out within a year of mild use. I didn’t lose data. It was as if one day they worked. Then one day they were fried.
hmm. in hindsight, that sounds like the first company i worked at, as a dev on the ops team. i was oblivious to those higher level strategies, and set out improving the internal orchestration software. it felt like each optimization and bug fix i released caused the rest of the ops team to resent me, even though it drastically reduced after hours pages and let them focus more on their long term projects. now its pretty clear to me that i was an expert beginner; its likely true that the work i was doing in the ops team ended up improving the sales team's positions with leadership, rather than the ops team that i was a part of.

in the end, though, our customers benefitted from the better internal ops tooling, and the customer experience improved. some deals were unprofitable from an ops perspective, but in my opinion the ops perspective misses the forest for the trees. sometimes a short term loss is a longer term win, and thats literally what a sales team is for. if ops doesnt trust sales, the org suffers.
I think the middle ground where several of the OpenAI board members were trying for is to "responsibly develop AGI", which means developing at a moderate pace while trying to avoid kicking off an investment gold rush through making heavily commercial use cases, and spending a substantial amount of resources on promising safety research (such as Ilya's work).

In my opinion, it was not a very strong position because the allure of money and trying to be the biggest is too strong (as we're seeing now), but I think it was at least coherent.
Microsoft's role remains same as it was on Thursday. Minor (49%?) shareholder and keeps access to models and IP

IMO Kevin tweeting that MS will hire and match comp of all OpenAI employees was amazing negotiation tactic because that meant employees could sign the petition without worrying about their jobs/visas
Why is their “ai” not on the board?
Assuming they weren’t LARPing, that Reddit account claiming to have been in the room when this was all going down must be nervous. They wrote all kinds of nasty things about Sam, and I’m assuming the signatures on the “bring him back” letter would narrow down potential suspects considerably.

Edit: For those who may have missed it in previous threads, see https://old.reddit.com/user/Anxious_Bandicoot126
Who are the new board members at OpenAI? (Explained by ChatGPT)
I'm curious as to how applicable this approach might be for text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion.
The problem is none of the alternatives offered a smooth UX transition. Mastodon is fragmented by design and Bluesky is gated to this day. There was never a true Digg-like event that caused user migration to reach critical mass. So people simply trickled back once the most volatile periods of post-Elon Twitter passed.

That doesn't change the fact post-Elon Twitter has severely degraded in terms of user experience (rate limits, blue check spam, API pay-wall, etc.) and Elon isn't doing the platform any favours by continuing to participate in detrimental ways (seen in the recent advertiser exodus).
OAI looks stronger than ever. The untrustworthy bits that caused all this instability over the last 5 days have been ditched into the sea. Care to expand on your claim?