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Ucalegon··on Arm AGI CPU
That would not hold up considering that they consistently use 'agentic' in their press release and make no mention of 'artificial general intelligence'. Just because two things have the same acronym does not mean that they stand for the same thing. Marketing being cheeky is not a crime.
Ucalegon··on Arm AGI CPU
Marketing is marketing, nothing about it was ever about being factual when there is a total addressable market to go after and dollars to be made! This is inline with much of the other marketing that exists in the AI space as it stands now, not mention the use of AGI within the space as it stands currently.
Ucalegon··on Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers
I know someone who just spent 10 days of GPU time on a RTX 3060 to build a DSLM [0] which outperforms existing, VC backed (including from Sam himself), frontier model wrappers that runs on sub 500 dollar consumer hardware which provides 100% accurate work product, which those frontier model wrappers cannot do. The fact that a two man team in a backwater flyover town speaks to how out of the badly out of the bag the tech is. Where the money is going to be isn't based off of building the biggest models possible with all of the data, its going to be about building models which specifically solve problems and can run affordably within enterprise environments by building to proprietary data since thats the differentiator for most businesses. Anthropic/OAI just do not have the business model to support this mode of model development to customers who will reliably pay.

[0] https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/domain-specific-language...

Ucalegon··on They’re vibe-coding spam now
Leaders in the email security space have been seeing this for a while now [0], this is not new. The problem is the means to protect consumer mailboxes outside of Gmail, isn't cost effective since most people do not actually pay for their consumer mailbox and the impacts of compromised accounts do not actually impact the providers. It is going to be interesting to see how this plays out in the consumer space as the complexity of the problem continues to grow while the technology used to stop it stays in the early-2010s.

[0] https://siliconangle.com/2023/12/19/new-report-warns-rise-ai...

Ucalegon··on Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers
The problem is the cat is already out of the bag on the technology. Anyone can go over to Huggingface, follow a cookbook [0], and build their own models from the ground up. He cannot prevent that from taking place or other organizations releasing full open weight/open training data models as well, on permissive licenses, which give individuals access to be able to modify those models as they see fit. Sam wishes he had control over that but he doesn't nor will he ever.

[0] https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/index

Ucalegon··on OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream
The thing about that is the benefits, saving a couple minutes a day and not having to click to different windows where the information is stored, is apparent and intimidate whereas the harms associated with loosing most, if not all your privacy and security isn't felt in the same type of immediate way, so the dopamine of the positive effects completely overwhelms. It is hard for many people to be able to weigh different cost/benefit in situations where it is so one sided on the immediacy spectrum.
Ucalegon··on Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
>Nobody actually gives a shit, about anything.

That's the case until there is the threat of discovery. The real issue is if the PE firm bought the company for the value of the IP and any damages awarded was included in the 'cost of business', which is why liability needs to be extended to those persons who make that decision, not just the corporate entity.

Ucalegon··on Our commitment to Windows quality
This is true for only features of Copilot+. The issue that MSFT faces, especially as it pushes Copilot EVERYWHERE is the reality of the majority if the hardware running Windows does not, and will not have, the NPU required for 12, nor is there the actual consumer purchasing power, to upgrade hardware to have an NPU. This a reality that MSFT just does not seem want to deal with while the push the technology onto consumers because its not based off of the reality of the install base they are dealing with but rather trying to justify their strategic investment into AI in the B2C space without doing the proper product market fit to justify it.
Ucalegon··on Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
A lot of that comes down to the costs associated with not being compliant and/or the requirements of existing contracts/insurance policies, where having dedicated FTEs to compliance is a requirement. Compliance might not be hard for the person/people managing the program, however it might seem difficult or complex to the FTEs that have to build to those standards if they do not have a security or governance background.
Ucalegon··on Our commitment to Windows quality
It all depends on where the the AI is running. The problem with the idea, is that for the majority of Windows boxes where it would be running do not have the bare metal hardware to support local models and thus it would be in the cloud and all of the issues associated with that when it comes to privacy/security. It would be neat, given MSFT's footprint, to look to develop small models, running locally, with user transparency when it comes to actions, but that doesn't align with MSFT's core objectives.
Ucalegon··on News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
Thats when you reach out to your insurer and ask them their requirements as per the policy and/or if there are any contractual obligations associated with the requirements which might touch indemnity/SLAs. If it does, then it is critical, if not, then its the classic conversation of cost vs risk mitigate/tolerance.
Ucalegon··on New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]
That is the thing about these conversations, is that the issue is potentiality. It comes back to Amara's Law; “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” Its the same thing with nuclear energy in the 1950s about what could be without realizing that those potentials are not possible due to the limitations of the technology, and not stepping into the limitations realistically, that hampers the growth, and thus development, in the long term.

Sadly, there is way, way, way too much money in AGI, and the promise of AGI, for people to actually take a step back and understand the implications of what they are doing in the short, medium, or long term.

Ucalegon··on Software factories and the agentic moment
They just are not going to provide insurance to companies who use AI because the liability costs are not worth it to them since they cannot actual calculate risks, it is already happening [0]. Its the one thing that a lot of the evangelists of using AI for entire products have come to realize or they aren't actually dealing with B2B scenarios where indemnity comes into play. That or they are lying to insurance companies and their customers, which is a... choice.

[0] https://futurism.com/future-society/insurance-cyber-risk-ai

Ucalegon··on AI is killing B2B SaaS
Its not a device/MTA issue, SMTP just is not a secure protocol and there is not much you can do in order to 'secure' human communication. Things like spoofing or social engineering are near impossible to address within SMTP without external systems doing some sort of analysis on the messages or in combination with other protocols like DNS.
Ucalegon··on Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK
Sigh... this is real life and I hate it as an American. The Danes had over 50 [1] Danish lives wasted in the NATO mission in Afghanistan and Iraq and this is how we pay the Danes back when they had America's back, paid in blood.

Its so disappointing and tragic.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmjewpkje9o

Ucalegon··on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
Yes, yes it is.
Ucalegon··on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
But you can find that information regardless of an LLM? Also, why do you trust an LLM to give it to you versus all of the other ways to get the same information, with more high trust ways of being able to communicate the desired outcome, like screenshots?

Why are we assuming just because the prompt responds that it is providing proper outputs? That level of trust provides an attack surface in of itself.

Ucalegon··on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
>So how does that tie in? Try and use any of these tools to make a parody about Trump blowing Bubba . It wont let you do it out of concern for libel and for because gay sex is distasteful. Try and make content about Epstein's island. It wont do it because it thinks you're making csam. We're living in exactly the time these tools are most needed.

You don't need an LLM to accomplish this task. Offloading it to an LLM is apart of the problem because it can be reasonable accepted that it is well within the bounds of human creativity, see for example SNL last night, that human beings are very capable of accomplishing this task and can do so outside of technology, which means that there is less chance for oversight, tracking, and attribution.

The offloading of key human tasks to LLMs or gen AI increases the boundaries for governments or 3rd party entities to have insight into protected speech regardless of if the monitoring is happening at the level where the LLM is running. This is why offloading this type of speech to LLMs is just dumb. Going through the process of trying to write satire on a piece of paper and then communicating it has none of those same risks. Trying to enforce that development into a medium where there is always going to be more surveillance carries its own risks when it comes to monitoring and suppressing speech.

>When you lose words, you lose the ability to express concepts and you lose the ability to think about that concept beyond vague intuition.

Using LLMs does this very thing inherently, one is offloading the entire creative process to a machine which does more to atrophy creativity than if the machine will respond to the prompt. You are going to the machine because you are unable or unwilling to do the creative work in the first place.

Ucalegon··on I hate screenshots of text
Qwen3-VL-8B is quite amazing and has made translating screenshots of text so much easier via LM Studio. Does have some issues and edge cases, but being able to take a screenshot of text or some website doesn't have copyable text, thats a solvable issue for less than 16GBs of VRAM or unified memory.
Ucalegon··on Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works
Please look into the Zero Data Retention policies of the subprocessors that you are using. For example, Open AI does not include files as falling under their ZDR [1], thus utilizing OAI as an LLM solution inherently adds unnecessary risk of data exposure that many enterprise clients do no want to onboard. Also, you have to think about those companies obligation to their clients/customers when it comes to data security, along with the risk of IP being exposed to 3rd party systems that they do not have control over, when they make their decisions when it comes to utilizing various business solutions.

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/your-data#zero-data-...

Ucalegon··on Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk
This is just ignorant to how Congress has dropped the ball when it comes to funding a functional immigration system which provides for a speedy process. It is almost as if there is an economic interest to keep labor cheap via undocumented workers which is not alleviated at all through these raids, but does increase costs while undermining the US economy.
Ucalegon··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/50/oj

The EU has agreed upon programs in order to bring in, through an immigration policy, high skilled persons from non-member states. More importantly, working within the member nations, as to which member nation would want MITRE to be located within their borders, is not something that is a hard sell given that it has economic advantages for whichever state(s) onboard MITRE.

Ucalegon··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
Not to mention the administration aren't going to be held accountable for, or actually be impacted by, the harms that come for their actions.
Ucalegon··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
I know that they are a 501(c)3, but they have significant revenue and intellectual property, so in order to do the lift and shift, there would need to be some money changing hands to accomplish it. Not only that, but being owned by the EU gives the ability for MITRE employees to have the option to immigrate to the EU to protect against any retaliation.

I cannot believe I am typing that second sentence, but here we are.

Ucalegon··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]
The EU should just buy MITRE. Move it to the EU and make it a EU based project.
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