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He doesn't have access to the GPT-4 source code and data because they decided to keep that proprietary.
Right, and then a bunch of unclearly identified forces came in and swept it all under the rug.
this long period of OAI non-profit status when they were making no money and spending tons on capital expenditures would not be taxable anyways.
I mean, there's about a hundred thousand startups built on top of their API. I'm sure most could switch to another model if they really needed, but if copyright is an issue, I'm not sure that would help.
Does anyone credibly believe that GPT-4 "outperforms humans at most economically valuable work"?
From the site:

UPDATE: Previously, Apple announced plans to remove the Home Screen web apps capability in the EU as part of our efforts to comply with the DMA. The need to remove the capability was informed by the complex security and privacy concerns associated with web apps to support alternative browser engines that would require building a new integration architecture that does not currently exist in iOS.
We have received requests to continue to offer support for Home Screen web apps in iOS, therefore we will continue to offer the existing Home Screen web apps capability in the EU. This support means Home Screen web apps continue to be built directly on WebKit and its security architecture, and align with the security and privacy model for native apps on iOS.
Developers and users who may have been impacted by the removal of Home Screen web apps in the beta release of iOS in the EU can expect the return of the existing functionality for Home Screen web apps with the availability of iOS 17.4 in early March.
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New? Looks the same as it has been for years. Also sam is clearly speaking in general terms.
IMO it could become an AGI IFF it has an infinitely long context window. Otherwise I see absolutely no chance of it becoming a true agi
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Did you remove Wirecard from your LinkedIn?
He funded it in the first place, so it could achieve AGI. Why would he want to stop that? Because the whole point of donating was to make sure it was an open sourced AGI that anyone could have access to. grok as a response to open AI going both Woke and for profit.
Yup. The other "official" name of it is The Magic Ring Buffer as a sibling comment mentioned.
Is there any i3wm alternative that works with Wayland on Nvidia hardware (proprietary drivers)? I tried Sway and Hyprland last month but found neither ready for daily use.
no it is because the op is private
that AGI, instead of benefitting the whole world, in which Musk is a part of, will end up only benefitting Microsoft, which he isn't a part of?
Sometimes I wish you'd prune the users (at least from submission privileges) who can't be bothered to search first, which is how you get these n-fold submissions.
> I'm not sure but I'd expect him to return all the annexed territories if he got in power

We'll never know, but I "feel" like that would have damaged him politically had he been in power in Russia and therefore doubt he would have. But again, we'll never know. And it's purely theoretical, even if he wasn't dead, there is no scenario that I can realistically think where Putin would have allowed Navalny to replace him, absent the FSB/oligarchs assassinating Putin. But even there, I suspect Navalny would still have been murdered and we'd still just get "Putin-lite"
That seems easy enough to fix
No it doesn't.

And yes, regular JPEG is still a fine format. That's part of the point of the article. But for many use cases, better compression is always welcome. Also having features like alpha transparency, lossless, HDR etc can be quite desirable, and those things are not really possible in JPEG.
> To me, this is an example of the vagueness of the Digital Markets Act. Reading between the lines, it sounds like Apple thought

No. It's a lie. The only thing Apple is thinking is all the ways it can weasel out of DMA, and how far it can push. That is it.

Nothing in the DMA says that Apple can't provide PWAs. And the only reason Apple reverted the decision they already communicated is because for now it damages its brand more than making this move.
Is this still true if you use the appropriate shock links?

Those are set up to limit the force up to a certain height, wouldn't they design those to limit the force to one less likely to cause permanent damage?
Note that the France24 story on Gaza is about an unrelated technology, there's no claim that OpenAI was involved.
But in this case, it wasn’t a company, but a nonprofit.
I've seen it before when i started to learn Korean. It was helpful for me
> o me, this is an example of the vagueness of the Digital Markets Act. Reading between the lines, it sounds like Apple thought it couldn’t offer WebKit-powered Home Screen apps in the European Union because of the DMA’s guidelines on browser equality.

> Apple clearly interpreted the guidelines as meaning it had to offer PWA support for alternative browser engines in order to keep offering the feature for Safari and WebKit.

> In the two weeks since the initial announcement, and the associated pushback, Apple came to the realization – one way or another – that it was mistaken. Whatever the backstory is, I’m glad Apple listened to the feedback and reversed course on this one.

God, what a pathetic take.

May apple be fined into the ground for their continued arrogance. This is not a solution. This is still gatekeeping.
We've more than compensated for this in other building materials, processes, and codes. Your odds of dying in a house fire are far lower than they were even in the 1970's, let alone the 50's or 20's.
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It's also very hard/impossible to climb back up depending on where you fall. It often requires an helicopter to get you out.
Unless the donors were already owners.
> but you don't get a say on how the university is managed.

Depends on how big and important of a donor you are. If you are a billionaire donor, not only do you have a say in how the university is managed, you have a say on who does the managing.

> You can at best say you will no longer donate based on how the university is managed.

Tell that to the former presidents of harvard, upenn, etc.
wrong! always roll your own crypto!
you cannot erase that much value and say "nothing important happens", market cap is largely a rough proxy for the amount of disruption if something went under
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No idea, I’ve never used one :) I get the sense it’s on par with Apple Watch though.

I’m surprised to hear you say you know Android users who wear Apple Watch — I wonder what that user experience is like.
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Well you can also be spanked by the courts for frivolous litigation, and if it's truly frivolous, you may have a hard time finding an attorney, because they can be sanctioned for bringing such a suit as well.
KPMG asked me once: "Can you show it's actually encrypted?"

Do you have any programming skills? ... No? Then no. Then they started blabbing about what the data could be and it basically came down on them not understanding what random is and they then just checked it off and went on. Since then I do not believe any audit which come from those paper farms.
I wonder if the lawsuit will simply be dismissed.
I mean, by the same logic, you could say every house should be built from steel. Of course old growth is stronger, just like steel is, but using them for the majority of cases would be simply ridiculous at scale.
I think that is actually quite illustrative of the opposite point.
That's impossible. We'd have to prune human nature.
Tax avoidance is perfectly legal. I think you’re looking for the term ‘tax evasion’?

Think of it as the difference between ‘avoiding arrest’ (easy to do by following the law!) and ‘evading arrest’ (always illegal).
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how long do you think the "exponential" (that looks very linear to me) growth in funding can continue?

until it's more than US GDP? world GDP? universe GDP?

either way you're close to the point it will have to go logistic
Javascript is being used to stream the HTML.
the title is "Streaming HTML out of order without JavaScript"
Needs a (2017) in the title.
You can sue for many reasons. For example, when a party breaks a contract, the other party can sue to compel the contract to be performed as agreed.
I'm a bit skeptical to give up conservation of energy in a system with friction. Isn't it more accurate to say that if we were to calculate every specific interaction we'd still end up having conservation of energy. Now whether or not we're dealing with a closed system etc becomes important but if we were to able to truly model the entire physical system with friction, we'd still adhere to our conservation laws.

So they are not approximations, but are just terribly difficult calculations, no?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but this should be true regardless of our philosophy of physics correct?
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I don't think that qualifies as "standing", but IANAL.
That's still very much a thing, except that the new HW features are not as fundamental as before. For example, if you want to use ray-tracing, you're on the same boat as before: it won't work on 10-year-old HW. Same for using certain non-32bit variable sizes in shaders. Or the newer shader features that help AI.
Nice! I'd somehow missed the existence of this, even though I'm subscribed to Coyier's blog.

Subscribed now.
our industry? I know the public doesnt because I grew up among people working in non profit sphere and the things people say on here and elsewhere about what non profits do and don't is just flat out wrong.

e: i mean it is obvious, most people even on here do not seem to know what profit even is, for instance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39563492
Yeah, that is interesting to me. I would imagine one of the main reasons people have been asking for alternative browser engine support in the first place is the potential to have more features added to PWAs by competing platforms, since they were clearly not a priority in WebKit for a very long time.
Isn’t everything securities fraud though
The populace can point to some obvious examples of non profits like charities. They cannot point to the nuance.
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Thanks a lot. It's a work in progress but the spirit of it will remain the same.
Donations are not entirely without strings. In theory (and usually in practice) a charity has to work towards its charitable goals; if you donate to the local animal shelter whose charitable goal is to look after dogs, they have to spend your donation on things like dog food and vet costs.

Charities have reasonably broad latitude though (a non-profit college can operate a football team and pay the coach $$$$$) and if you're nervous about donating you can always turn a lump sum donation into a 10%-per-year-for-10-years donation if you feel closer monitoring is needed.
Then it’s safe to assume that you have no legitimate objections to Antarctic tourism.
Because the CEOs saw themselves as the head of a for-profit company while the board was governing a public charity. We've had this discussion before.
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A non-profit took his money and decided to be for profit and compete with the AI efforts of his own companies?
>> For example the hottest period ever was during time of Pangaea supercontinent, which was largely desert.

It was almost the hottest period, but not the hottest. Pangaea was dry because of its unique geography which prevented moist air from coasts to move around the continent. You picked up a bad example.

>> Which historical data?

Mostly geological data. Btw. historical temperature data also comes from geological data. You can search Wikipedia for specific information.
Everytime crypto gets harangued as a money laundering cesspool, I think of HSBC’s highest performing branch in Sinaloa and Germany’s fintech giant payment processor run by a GRU spy. As in two money laundering behemoths right out in the regulated open. Give me a break.
Ice Wife reminds me of Chinese migrant workers who form similar relationships on construction sites during development projects. Looks like this phenomenon is cross culture.
ideating out loud, I wonder if thered be a way to "collapse" all of the different articles submitted within some short time frame within one story, and maybe share the karma between them? In the case of breaking news it sucks to submit an article and you not being the one that gets "blessed", and different articles could conceivably have different valuable viewpoints. I'm sure it would be more complicated than that when it came to it though.
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He is suing for breach of agreement, namely the founding agreement that formed OpenAI as a nonprofit.
> Has there been a successful suit against a company for "abandoning their founding mission"?

Probably depends on how much money the person behind the suit is willing to spend.

Elon could likely push stuff a lot further along than most.
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Ahh, selfish motivations leading to common good as an unintended consequence. Capitalism at work.
The defendant list is a bit bewildering. How usual is a corporate structure like this? Which, if any of these, is the nonprofit?

OPENAI, INC., a corporation,
OPENAI, L.P., a limited partnership,
OPENAI, L.L.C., a limited liability company,
OPENAI GP, L.L.C., a limited liability company,
OPENAI OPCO, LLC, a limited liability company,
OPENAI GLOBAL, LLC, a limited liability company,
OAI CORPORATION, LLC, a limited liability company,
OPENAI HOLDINGS, LLC, a limited liability company,
When the SEC wants it to be, yes.
The standard first move by a defendant is a Motion to Dismiss. So of course they'll try that. Don't read too much into it.
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Isn’t that just because most of the biggest companies are audited by the Big 4, and in order to be a big accounting scandal, you need to be a big company?

I feel like this is pointing out something like, “More criminals drive Ford trucks than any other truck” which is true, but just because more people drive that brand than any other?

Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1138/
Outperforming humans does not mean outperforming an average untrained human
Because this is a US-based website?

In any case, the UK is 52nd worldwide in terms of population density, meaning that it is more dense than 197 other regions and dependencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
Breach of contract seems to be the major one - from https://www.scribd.com/document/709742948/Musk-vs-OpenAI page 34 has the prayers for relief. B and C seem insane to me, I don't see how a court could decide that. On the other hand, compelling specific performance based on continual reaffirmations of the founding agreement (page 15)...seems viable at a glance. Musk is presumably a party to several relevant contracts, and given his investment and efforts, I could see this going somewhere. (Even if his motivations are in fact to ding Microsoft / spite Altman).

IANAL
Now that is a startup idea, can I apply to next batch with it?
Apple reverses course on death of Progressive Web Apps in EU
While I have no doubt everything in the complaint is correct, it's hard to see it as Elon being genuinely concerned about open and safe AI vs just having FOMO that he isn't part of it anymore and doesn't get to call the shots. For example his own AI startup is exactly as closed off and unregulated as OpenAI. Why is that not equally concerning?
Harm can be all sorts of things, but taking money under false pretenses would qualify. Certainly doesn’t ensure Musk wins, but it’s enough to at least take a shot at beginning proceedings.

As for lawsuit vs criminal prosecution, the waters there are somewhat muddied. Consider the OJ case, where he was acquitted in the criminal trial and then found liable in the civil trial. Really bizarre stuff.

Personally I do think more things should be pursued criminally, but instead we seem to just be content to trade money through the courts, like an exorbitant and agonizing form of weregild.
As a European, I was confused to read that wood was considered structural enough that they needed this…

Of course, there are new mass timber builds, but those use wood that is heavily processed. I guess the lighter wood would need to be pressed more, to match the same resistance, but I suspect the costs are cheaper with wood grown faster.
Found this in the comments. "Of the games we included in the Sandbox group, Minecraft was highest at 24% and is dragged down by titles like Dwarf Fortress."
I'm sure you can find a similar example for any significant FOSS project, including GNOME, but that doesn't mean it is a general stance adopted by developers when a new bug report comes in.
I'm grateful for our provocateurs that encourage better regulation.
Yes, I closed that can of worms.
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True, I bet things got a little weird in and around 2020 for literally no reason at all.