The EFF, just like social media, does more harm than good, and lacks imagination. It is possible to protect kids from social media and preserve our freedoms and privacy. The EFF is just too full of chicken-little boomers to see it. FOAD, EFF.
Bill Gates, convicted monopolist and friend to Epstein, is always looking to burnish his legacy, but he’s too unimaginative. He needs to spend his fortune ending aging, not duplicating government efforts and trying to be a pundit.
Once again we see the classic PR hype machine tactic of comparing a newer chip which is only available as an engineering sample to other chip designs which are widely available and much older.
They also fawn over the chip’s TDP when all other chips have to support 16 bit floating point and thus must run much hotter.
They make the classic mistake of equating max TDP with in-use-watts, and praise this magnificent (fictitious) performance per watt at FP8 with other chips’ max-TDP at FP16, which draw twice the power.
The new modern workflow is to take a succinct idea and expand it into pages and pages of slop using AI. Nobody reads this slop, they ask another AI to summarize it back down to the original succinct core.
Jesus, he left Google to do what everyone else is already trying to do? He must be so insulated he doesn’t realize what the real world is actually up to. I mean, organizations started on this exact same mission three or four years ago. Or longer. I suppose it’s better to wake up later than never.
The multithreaded front end crashes left and right with different features. No testing done. Won’t accept AI PRs so it will stay broken outside of my personal tree forever.
Now we see two technology ecosystems emerging: the human-zealot software stack and the machine-assisted software stack, where the latter possibly builds on OSS software but it kept from contributing improvements back. One is based on a dinosaur ideology and will soon be extinct. The human one.
In many timelines, non-copyrightable code in GPL project doesn’t restrict the user’s freedom, since an LLM can easily reimplement the functionality clean-room. AI has brought levels of freedom to users that GNU could never do. Practical levels of freedom, leading to real, positive outcomes. Software is finally free in the real world.
He should, but you'll never get these free software wingnuts to see logic. They back-rationalize everything from ideologically drawn conclusions.
And they're driven by fear--fear of being replaced. This is one reason why open source projects are limiting use of LLMs. LLMs finally make software free! Or at least, much cheaper.
In reality, these reactionary anti-AI policies mean that users are private forking OSS projects, improving them with AI, and not contributing the changes back, making the original OSS project even more irrelevant over time.
The Rust compiler suffers from a number of crash bugs and nondeterminism, and they won't accept AI diagnoses or fixes, so Rust has become an unreliable partner for software development.
If you're going to do serious development with Rust, I suggest forking the compiler. Upstream your fixes to a fork which takes AI contributions, or fork your own. Or keep all of your improvements private, that works just fine.
In two party consent states, 24x7 audio recordings are illegal if anyone else's voice creeps into your recording. And easily fakeable by AI, I imagine.
That is actually better in every way! Assuming the time zones are 2D so the dawn is local. It would probably cut down on cancer rates, too, by harmonizing circadian rhythms.
Boo, in the age of AI we need two dimensional time zones which skew the clock a few seconds every night, continuously, so the sunrise is always at 6 am. Humans were made to rise with the sun.
These are laws passed by democratically elected legislatures. It’s not a legal issue, it’s a political one. Ostensibly, the will of the people. But these wimpy geeks passively-aggressively protest by arguing about code online, instead of engaging in real political activism.
Nth order effects are unpredictable. You can only observe them after the fact. Systems thinking is a debugging methodology, not at all
a crystal ball. Witness: your comment makes a bunch of predictions that are very unlikely to be true.
You also can’t build a house which violates building or electrical codes, or drive without a license. These are safety and security protocols and the digital realm now has them.
Mobile devices are secure and that’s why they’re not infected with malware, like any Windows machine. This is why Android is the host of 98% of all mobile malware and iPhone is not.
You have the freedom to make your own insecure devices which don’t have any trusted or secure elements. Go for it! Take your GNU and go wild.
No, you can reliably attest public source builds of critical software for the ultimate in transparency. That even includes models running on GPUs. Combine that with blind tokens and you get trusted, anonymous identity verification.