skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately the “great man theory” is still going strong in the 21st century. Just like Steve Jobs has invented the iPhone people believe he invented GPT!
also how much of OpenAI calls is data collection for ads
I don't know. I think being realistic, only OpenAI and Google have the depth and breadth of expertise to develop general AI.

Most of the new AI startups are one trick ponies obsessively focused on LLM's. LLM's are only one piece of the puzzle.
Or (3), shut down the company. OpenAI's non-profit board had this power! They weren't an advisory committee, they were the legal and rightful owner of its for-profit subsidiary. They had the right to do what they wanted, and people forgetting to put a fucking quorum requirement into the bylaws is beyond abysmal for a $10+ billion investment.

Nobody comes out of this looking good. Nobody. If the board thought there was existential risk, they should have been willing to commit to it. Hopefully sensible start-ups can lure people away from their PPUs, now evident for the mockery they always were. It's beyond obvious this isn't, and will never be, a trillion dollar company. That's the only hope this $80+ billion Betamax valuation rested on.

I'm all for a comedy. But this was a waste of everyones' time. At least they could have done it in private.
and a battery life of...?

I do wonder if there have been any codec studies that measure power usage with respect to RAM
The scenario you describe is exactly what will happen with unrestricted commercialisation and deregulation of AI. The only way to avoid it is to have strict legal framework and public control.
> To what extent is a raised barrier to entry a feature?

From whose perspective? It's beneficial for large, established businesses and detrimental for prospective businesses.

> The last time we had a largely unregulated cottage medical industry, it precipitated billions of dollars in fraud

I don't understand how attempts to defraud covid-related government programs [1,2,3] and Medicare overspending [3] are related to the argument that regulatory burden disproportionately harms small businesses. I would also note that the healthcare sector is among the most heavily regulated in our economy, and that covid-era programs rushed into existence are exceptional.

Lastly, the FTC authorized compulsory process can be applied to all "AI-related Products and Services". So these "mom-and-pop" AI startups can (and already do) exist. Even if that weren't the case, this would be a straw-man argument against the point that regulatory burden disproportionately harms smaller businesses.
I’m American, what do I know about soccer. It’s just an analogy. I’m ok disagreeing on this.
There are already solid state batteries on the market. We aren't actually talking about 'solid state' at all, that just a accidental marketing name.

The things that is the actual 'hotness' is lithum metal anodes. The reason why people use the term 'solid state' is because it was thought 'lithium metal' anodes would only be possible with solid state.

So companies taking a long time to develop lithium metal anodes doesn't mean other battery types that use solid state will take as long.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36497-x
Is the alternative theory that the ownership, control and leadership of OpenAI is immaterial?
Oh so Brave is only a soft-fork? I thought they would still support Manifest V2 indefinitely?
I quoted one of the unsupported claims that Summers made - that "there are issues of intrinsic aptitude" which help explain lower representation of women. Not, you know, millennia of sexism and often violent oppression. This is the exact same kind of arguments that racists make - any observed differences must be "intrinsic".

If Summers had in fact limited himself to the statistical claims, it would have been less of an issue. He would still have been wrong, but he wouldn't have been so obviously sexist.

It's easy to refute Summers' claims, and in fact conclude that the complete opposite of what he was saying is more likely true. "Gender, Culture, and mathematics performance"(https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0901265106) gives several examples that show that the variability as well as male-dominance that Summers described is not present in all cultures, even within the US - for example, among Asian American students in Minnesota state assessments, "more girls than boys scored above the 99th percentile." Clearly, this isn't an issue of "intrinsic aptitude" as Summers claimed.

> A whole cohort of boys got screwed over by the cancellation of exams during Covid.

I'm glad we've identified the issue that triggered you. But your grievances on that matter are utterly irrelevant to what I wrote.

> no amount of creepy male feminist posturing is going to change that

It's always revealing when someone arguing against bigotry is accused of "posturing". You apparently can't imagine that someone might not share your prejudices, and so the only explanation must be that they're "posturing".

> increase male resentment and bitterness

That's a choice you've apparently personally made. I'd recommend taking more responsibility for your own life.
The article seems a little short on specifics of what he did. I'd like to know more!
India's $20B Smart Cities Mission has hardly scratched the surface after 8-years
FUD. I don't recall paying anything into the (Montgomery) GI Bill. It wasn't hard to use. I got $50K of basically free money out.

Granted I went to basic training over two decades ago. Maybe the Post 9/11 GI Bill is different? But I doubt it. What I've heard from fellow veterans is it's better in so many ways. Apparently I'm even eligible for a year of its use even though I depleted my original GI Bill (with kicker).
"The quiet suburban roads don't form a network that allows you to go to actual destinations"

Why not? Mine sure did.

Sounds like Toronto suffers from L.A.'s problem: It's an asinine mess where you're going town a street and then... it dead-ends into a house. It's irritating as shit. None of the streets go anywhere.
The empire strikes back.
> Upholding the Original Principles [of AI]

There's a UtopAI / utopia joke in there somewhere, was that intentional on your part?
How much longer will it be until we can play "video games" which consist of user-input streamed to an AI that generates video output and streams it to the player's screen?
"It also proves that writing is so much more than some arbitrary, surface features."

It also proves the people behind so-called "tech" companies like Grammarly do not understand this simple fact. It would be surpsiing if any of them enjoyed writing.
A Rabin finger printing algorithm and a hash of the data it generates.

Reference count the hashes.
FT reported that DAngelo, Bret Taylor, Larry Summers would be on board alongside him
Total, ungrounded nonsense. Name some examples.
“I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?”
So these nutjob teenagers are going to create AGI? We are fucked if they actually succeed
Erazer.io: Remove your personal information from 30 data brokers
I looked at it every year for a few years, most recently 1-2 yrs ago. It really is 20-50x faster at a lot of workloads than something like postgres, and it really does have a relational core and decent time-series functionality. I'd love to use it more, but IMO it's far too buggy. However it got that way, nothing about query execution felt cleanly composable.

No single query directly corrupted any persistent data, but "complicated" queries (any more nesting than the classic "select from join where" SQL backbone) were prone to returning no results, wrong results, error conditions, or slowly. For a bit I worked around that by wrapping right-sized queries (big enough to do something meaningful and avoid comms overhead, small/simple enough to work as expected) with a normal turing-complete language, but it was painful. Plus the defaults were quirky (broken telemetry opt-out, connections time out, RAM limits being per-arcane-questdb-subcomponent rather than per-questdb, ...) IMO, not that I would have minded enough to look elsewhere if the queries were correct.

Colored by that experience, I'd caution to thoroughly go through the docs and get it configured exactly as you want before deploying to prod, testing that the features you need behave correctly (best practice for most software, but IME not strictly necessary for a lot of products if your application code is sane), and also do something to probe reliability like spending a day hammering it with a toy project (maybe a few 10M row tables so that it's a fast experiment but anything fishy still stinks appropriately) and checking the query results. The current GitHub issues look fairly tame, so maybe it's better by now.
Existential risks are usually proven by the subject being extinct at which point no action can be taken to prevent it.

Reasoning about tiny probabilities of massive (or infinite) cost is hard because the expected value is large, but just gambling on it not happening is almost certain to work out. We should still make attempts at incorporating them into decision making because tiny yearly probabilities are still virtually certain to occur at larger time scales (eg. 100s-1000s of years).
So what do you mean when you say that the "risk is proven"?

If by "the risk is proven" you mean there's more than a 0% chance of an event happening, then there are almost an infinite number of such risks. There is certainly more than a 0% risk of humanity facing severe problems with an unaligned AGI in the future.

If it means the event happening is certain (100%), then neither a meteorite impact (of a magnitude harmful to humanity) nor the actual use of nuclear weapons fall into this category.

If you're referring only to risks of events that have occurred at least once in the past (as inferred from your examples), then we would be unprepared for any new risks.

In my opinion, it's much more complicated. There is no clear-cut category of "proven risks" that allows us to disregard other dangers and justifiably see those concerned about them as crazy radicals.

We must assess each potential risk individually, estimating both the probability of the event (which in almost all cases will be neither 100% nor 0%) and the potential harm it could cause. Different people naturally come up with different estimates, leading to various priorities in preventing different kinds of risks.
In a different thread I commented how surprised I was that Emmett Shear accepted the job of interim CEO, to some criticism that my opinion was “silly”. This is why he should have stayed miles away from this whole mess. There was no winning scenario for him: stay CEO and lose 95% of the employees, or get ignored by a triumphant return of Sam Altman.
Nvidia supercomputer in Israel operational ahead of schedule
Every source of information has a bias, but with ChatGPT that's changing every time you hit "enter"
His worse problem is that he owns both a social media network and a bigger separate business that wants to operate in the US, Turkey, India, China, Saudi Arabia, etc. which means he can't fight any censorship requests in any of those countries. (Which the previous management was actually very aggressive about.)

His worst personal problem is that he keeps replying "fascinating" to neo-Nazis and random conspiracy theorists because he wants to be internet friends with them.
Sam Altman has done in four days what it took Steve Jobs 11 years to do! I'm impressed.
Then this very interesting piece would never never come to my attention. Which is surely the worst outcome.
Ex-NSO execs raise $35M for Dream Security
Most people can't redeem USDT from Tether... Read their terms. You can only redeem USDT for USD if you bought directly from them, and even then it needs to be more than $100k. If you fulfill those two requirements, they'll let you redeem if they want to. They state in their terms that redemption is entirely at their discretion, and they can just say no if they gambled the reserves away.
And Larry Summers believes that women are genetically inferior to men at science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. A lot of the techbro hate that was directed specifically at Helen is openly misogynistic, which is actually pretty funny because Larry Summers was probably who Helen was eventually happy with because of their shared natsec connections.
Dutch man helps solve mystery of bat species' long p..is
I'm sorry, impressed by what?
This is a better deal for the board and a worse one for Sam than people realize. Sam and Greg and even Ilya are both off the board, D'Angelo gets to stay on despite his outrageous actions, and he gets veto power over who the new board members will be and a big say in who gets voted on to the board next.

Everybody's guard is going to be up around Sam from now on. He'll have much less leverage over this board than he did over the previous one (before the other three of nine quit). I think eventually he will prevail because he has the charm and social skills to win over the other independent members. But he will have to reign in his own behavior a lot in order to keep them on his side versus D'Angelo
> Honestly, I myself can't take the threat seriously. But, I do want to understand it more deeply than before.

I very much recommend reading the book “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies” from Nick Bostrom.

It is a seminal work which provides a great introduction into these ideas and concepts.

I found myself in the same boat as you do. I was seeing otherwise inteligent and rational people worry about this “fairy tale” of some AI uprising. Reading that book give me an appreciation of the idea as a serious intelectual excercise.

I still don’t agree with everything contained in the book. And definietly don’t agree with everything the AI doomsayers write, but i believe if more people would read it that would elevate the discourse. Instead of rehashing the basics again and again we could build on them.
If you believe the other side in this rift is not also striving to put themselves in positions of power, I think you are wrong. They are just going to use that power to manipulate the public in a different way. The real alternative are truly open models, not Models controlled by slightly different elite interests.
Linux Networking: The meaning of acronyms eBPF, DPDK, XDP, VPP [video]
I don’t necessarily disagree insofar as for safety it is somewhat irrelevant whether an artificial agent is operating by its own will or a programmed will.

The most effective safety is the most primitive: don’t connect the system to any levers or actuators that can cause material harm.

If you put AI into a kill-bot, well, it doesn’t really matter what its favorite color is, does it? It will be seeing Red.

If an AI’s only surface area is a writing journal and canvas then the risk is about the same as browsing Tumblr.
I guess, this is very person dependent. For example, I wake up at 5AM every morning and already in the office at 6AM (luckily, I don't have to commute). While, my wife is more 9-to-5 person, so she sleeps longer. There is no trick in it. Just different people. Of course, coffee helps. :)
Linux is in a terrible position right now, I think right now might be the worst time to use Linux in a while, especially with being somewhere around halfway between the long, long Xorg/Wayland transition. People are right to be skeptical of whether it's worth the effort, but I am excited to see some problems being tackled that never really had great solutions in the past. (Examples: Mixed fractional DPI, proper and fully baked HDR and color profiles, high and variable mixed refresh rate, standard IME protocols, a good modern accessibility protocol in planning, possibly quite good open source NVIDIA RTX 20xx+ drivers soon?!)

I'm not sure if Linux will ever be pressure to MS for desktop Windows, though. Valve seems to be the most likely party to make it happen, but much like previous cases they're really carving out a new space for Linux to potentially hold a strong position in, not really competing on MS's home turf of desktop and laptop computers. Though, it is promising that Valve has built their commercial products on a fairly standard desktop stack, as it does seem to be leading to ecosystem-wide improvements that will still improve the situation for people who are willing to make concessions to use alternative operating systems.
It is not terrible for finding information about, say, Python tools for working with time series. I use it when Bing Chat (Copilot?) fails.
It wouldn't be interesting if one CEO got fired and replaced, but the fact that there's a different CEO every couple of days and no one knows what will happen next. The uncertainty is addictive, not to mention the scale of self-destruction. See also: trainwrecks.
Much more like Succession. But again. Nerdier.
The next improvement will be more modalities (images, sound, etc.)

GPT4 in image viewing mode doesn't seem to be nearly as smart as text mode, and image generation IME barely works.
Oh that's really interesting. Probably an acoustic environment it's not used to, like you said, but also people talk differently when they're driving. Like the cadence of our speech is significantly different because of the way our mental focus changes. I have to imagine that changes some things.
Personally caused??
You are very articulate but you don't have a clue of what you are talking about, no matter how many books you have read. The southern vietnamese have a very distinct identity, and they haven't moved on at all, if they had a chance they would declare independence from the north in a split second.

Source: I have lived in Saigon for a decade, which beats hands down the many books I had read about the subject before that
I'm still posting on Twitter because the people I'm trying to reach are still there and the alternatives never materialised.
If Larry correctly said that men and women are different, i see nothing wrong here.
Shear is a genuine member of the AI safety rationalism cult, to the point he's an Aella reply guy and probably goes to her orgies.

(It's a Berkeley cult so of course it's got those.)
Is Fig still kicking? I worked on it a bit as an intern back in 2014, but Mercurial has also been on its way out of mainstream support over the last few years. It was a really neat project!
It's clever, but also a bit disingenuous. Sega wanted really high quality games and the developer gets annoyed by the bug reports and tries to work around the strict testing.

There are no feedback for the developers once the game is out, they don't know if these bugs are triggered or how frequent, so they could be sending out defective games and the process that would have caught this has been circumvented. It's kinda of a dick move by a developers who feel like they know better.
Often I see parents that complain about their kid's addiction to devices also suffer from addictions to media, often worse than the kids. The apple rarely falls far from the tree.

I imagine that if you're taking advantage of the outdoors regularly, your kids will follow sooner or later.
This is naive. Read https://www.eff.org/wp/behind-the-one-way-mirror.

There's nothing wrong with traditional advertising. That's not the world and surveillanace economy we now live in, where you don't have to click on anything.

And you should be as or more worried about democracy than the web. We managed without the web. Living without democracy would be far worse, imo.
> which help explain lower representation of women

Yes, they do help explain that. This does not preclude other influences. You can't go two sentences without making a logical error, it's quite pathetic.

I'll do you a favour and disregard the rest of your post - you deviate from the mean a bit too much for this to be worth it. Just try not to end up like Michael Kimmel, lol.
Sam triple-hearted Ilya's apology tweet.
Looks very interesting! An annoying coincidence, however, is that in norwegian, "pick" is a homophone to a vulgar form of the word penis.
I think it's equally possible Apple actually didn't know how many phones would be hit by the feature when they launched it.

They knew that old devices (especially common with the well-selling iPhone 6) would fail at peak demand, and wanted to address that, but they probably didn't have an accurate figure of exactly how many devices would be covered by the feature as initially configured.

That it took them as long as it did to react to the resulting situation is unfortunate, but could probably be explained by corporate culture at Apple, they don't generally like to admit mistakes (see the Trash Can Mac Pro press meeting a few years back).

In the end it was just a huge PR fuckup, if they had properly considered how many devices would be affected they would have realised they needed to communicate more clearly, they could have avoided lawsuits and honestly if they had played their cards right from the get go they would probably have received praise instead of backlash, but instead here we are 7 years later still explaining how battery chemistry affects integrated circuits on technical forums.
One funny thing about this mess is that "Team Helen" has never mentioned anything about safety, and Emmett said "The board did not remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety".

The reason everyone thinks it's about safety seems largely because a lot of e/acc people on Twitter keep bringing it up as a strawman.

Of course, it might end up that it really was about safety in the end, but for now I still haven't seen any evidence. The story about Sam trying to get board control and the board retaliating seems more plausible given what's actually happened.
Branding counts for a lot, but LLM are already a commodity. As soon as someone releases an LLM equivalent to GPT4 or GPT5, most cloud providers will offer it locally for a fraction of what openAI is charging, and the heaviest users will simply self-host. Go look at the company Docker. I can build a container on almost any device with a prompt these days using open source tooling. The company (or brand, at this point?) offers "professional services" I suppose but who is paying for it? Or go look at Redis or Elasti-anything. Or memcached. Or postgres. Or whatever. Industrial-grade underpinnings of the internet, but it's all just commodity stuff you can lease from any cloud provider.

It doesn't matter if OpenAI or AWS or GCP encoded the entire works of Shakespeare in their LLM, they can all write/complete a valid limerick about "There once was a man from Nantucket".

I seriously doubt AWS is going to license OpenAI's technology when they can just copy the functionality, royalty free, and charge users for it. Maybe they will? But I doubt it. To the end user it's just another locally hosted API. Like DNS.
If it says "with the past trends order 1000pices of product X"

While reaaaaally simple it is still a form of IA, I don't see nothing wrong with that

A advanced model would maybe see industry prices and consumer trends but it's the same in my eyea
> Should she even commit crimes in order to keep the non-profit mission?

Should you argue in bad faith?
It's still important in the present. History did not end.

It's much worse when people in West avoid elephant-in-the-room topics because they're politically incorrect or whatever.
It's that disgusting fabric found on the Tube that when you slap it, you can see a plume of dust and god knows what else
I'm saying it didn't appear in the last ten years. And eating fresh food is pretty much a tropical standard, except for preserved items (pickles etc). It changed only with refrigeration.