MicolashKyoka

no thanks, we don't need the next thierry to have an expanded fief to "regulate". if anything, canada should model itself closer to the states with more personal freedoms and less regulation. there is a lot of land and resources to develop, the politicians need to just stop trying to maintain the status quo and aggressively try to develop all the land we have. the idea that we can't is a loser's mentality.

strat is likely just get users, then offboard aws if the product works.

good, there is no need for a nation to have an abundance of social "scientists".

if they are idiots and couldn't replicate it, it's worth saying it. better that than sugarcoating idiocy until it harms future research.

this is a dumb feature, you should judge an image by your perception of it, not how it was created (ie machine or human made).

the anti ai-generated image crowd is a loud minority, they won't matter in the long term and spending dev time on this is questionable decision making at best.

now if you're a forensics company or that is the angle, then yeah it could be an interesting tool to have, might be even more profitable than this custom search as a service thing (obsoleted already by llm tech).

sure, let's hear it from the "head of engineering" of an academic club with "9-12" intern level devs who has barely 2y of experience as a dev himself what he thinks about the industry. i mean it's fine to have an opinion and not particularly hating on the guy, but why is it given any credence and making the front page? are people this afraid?

llms are a tool, if you can't make it work for you or learn from using them, sorry but it's just a skill/motivation issue. if the interns are making dumb mistakes, then you need to guide them better and chop up the task into smaller segments, contextualize it for them as needed.

they should prove damages before setting fines like this.

the american gov is spending billions upon billions to defend the eu and they have the gall to nitpick & set 7 to 9 fig fines using %revenue (extortion) on their companies, which are btw providing valuable services (for free) to eu citizens. beyond ridiculous, especially with no sensible cap on the fines.

all the gdpr has done is make the web more miserable, someone from the usgov should give a call to the data protection office or wtv to remind them of their actual importance in the grand scheme of things.

and this is ignoring the damage they're doing to their own tech ecosystem with this over-regulation.

meaningless stat in the grand scheme of things. eventually, it will all transition to nuclear/solar. the question is does it move the needle in a meaningful way right now. so much hand wringing about carbon emissions only for germany to end up burning coal again.

she deservedly got the boot, along with the other that had no business sitting on the board of a tech company on the frontier. this is just sour grapes after the coup failed.

the ai safety apparatchiks huffing and puffing about an ai takeover are nothing but status grifters and hopefully all the rest follow leike to anthropic so we can forge ahead faster without having to pay lip service to how much we're doing for "superalignment".

and thank fuck sam released chatgpt. if it were up to the apparatchiks, we'd have them sitting on it like the geniuses at google who couldn't figure out they had a gold mine under them even if you pointed it to them with a thousand spotlights.

encouraging drug usage leads to societal deterioration by the very fact that these substances degrade the brain, so the person that is using them. it should have never been decriminalized.

the UX on this needs to be seriously reconsidered, I don't read with the head tilted sideways. function over form if your target is technical ppl.

it is! but I meant the idea of it, ie self-replicating biological programs that could be hurled through space and be used for terraforming.

if a protomolecule ever comes to be, it's going to be some sort of fungi-based lifeform.

amazing work by the team at nasa.

we'll get there and repair it so it does fly again in a few years :')

I may not personally like it, but it's the pragmatist thing to do if you're leading openai. The gov will eventually get involved, better to get in front of it.

However, there won't be a monopoly or anything of the sort that will form, our society's institutions wouldn't be able to properly enforce it and it's too easy for weights to leak, too much alpha for people to not fight back against it. Not worried.

The ai safety crowd's problem is that they're focused on a hypothetical entity that will take over humanity, imagining all sorts of scenarios in lalaland which are ridiculous (some of their "thought leaders" even advocating for strikes on datacenters to save humanity???), where the real risk is criminals/terros being empowered by the ai's cognitive ability. For that, we'll need the gov involved one way or another.

Sam is great, some eggs might've been cracked along the way, but overall, very positive influence on the world.

You could shine a light into most people's lives and find in most cases broken egg shells here & there. Fixating on them at the expense of the bigger picture is a mistake.

Regarding the openai board, the problem imo is that too much weight was given to a nebulous & subjective mission, allowing those sitting to make up ridiculous positions and find them tenable (ie the company going kaput being in line with the mission, like srsly??)

Some rules are stupid and reek of cronyism, enshrining established players at the expense of innovation. Those deserve to be challenged.

openai is where it's at because of sama & greg (& ofc contributions of employees, but funding & solid engineering leadership is a big part in its success), to think that she could just push them away without it backfiring is mindblowing.

Anything from business insider should be taken with a mountain of salt. The msft deal would've created a separate org for openai, sorta like how linkedin & github are operated. So much of the context disappears when you view things through the lens of someone not familiar with the domain.

If they strongly believe in what they're saying, they should come forward. If you hide behind an pseudonym, credibility takes a big hit. It's not like we're under a dictatorship and they're going to disappear if they do so.

You have almost every single employee vouching for Sam, people outside the company vouching for him, an anon letter is paper thin as far credibility goes.

And ofc, any employee that got pushed out is going to have an axe to grind. Losing out on 900k+/year has to sting. At that compensation and in a startup, performance, disagreeing and comitting are key to the success of the venture. You should expect attrition to be high (though how did author of the letter get to 50%? who knows)

The board is hiding, one of which has a direct competitor to a recently launched product so obv. conflict of interest, the employees are calling bs, Ilya himself turned, etc. This is just stupid.

Some others have put this perfectly, given what has transpired so far, how do they expect to align an agi? You'd expect resignations based on that alone.

AI safety is just a rent seeking cult/circus, leeching on the work done by others. Good on Meta for cleaning shop.

From a comment on reddit that someone linked here, it seems it's because of AI safety principles of the non-profit? This can't be true. I refuse to believe they're booting one of the best entrepreneurs of the today for this.

This is nonsense. How are multibillion dollar companies accountable to shareholders and other owners willingly giving away money for some nebulous principle such as having the "right" people make money. Conspiracies should at least be based on some tangible elements. Fringe roles are too few to be seriously considered.

The reality is that it's all a matter of supply and demand. Ofc, there is waste, but any industry having margins like google are bound to excesses eventually if leadership doesn't intervene.

Amazing work by FAIR! With tools like these, AI-enhanced creativity is going to give us hyper specialized output and thankfully further us even more from mainstream, one-size-fits-all art. We are living in the future!

The wheels of progress keep turning. Isolation and tradition have been the downfall of empires one after the other. Certainly not with a government that bans artificial meat for dubious reasons that we'll be emancipated from the biological plane.

I don't understand why that is a concern. Whether some microorganisms live or die because of us ultimately is of no importance. What we should concern ourselves however, is any risks posed by them to us.

Exactly, if we were to listen to such tales (or similar ones by penny pinchers), we would still be hitting rocks to make fire in our little caves. Venturing beyond is an amazing way to enrich our knowledge graph.

I hope that the advent of better solar energy extraction and automation (things like Tesla's robot) will usher us into an era of abundance.

Self-sustaining robot factories would give us the means of almost unlimited labor that we could task with building out all the infrastructure we'd need to lift humanity away from the reaches of nature's tyranny.

Most of the giants we built could be used in nefarious ways. It doesn't mean we should bury them underground, only letting the chosen few marvel and dabble with fire.

I find the holier-than-thou attitude from some in the ML community frankly a bit sad. Sure, some may misuse the models, but an equal or dare I say, a greater number of people will find joy. Some may even, perhaps, build another giant.

Hiding results is a good way to end up with people not trusting what you say. Truth should be paramount for science to flourish, even if the conclusions are not palatable.