Are you kidding me? The absolutely vile vitriol that the members of the open source/modding/FOSS/self-hosting communities have been spitting out for actual years now, against ai and against vibe coding and against the people who use either has been so tremendously effective. And you want to know why someone hasn't used ai to gift you an entire ecosystem? What an incredibly out of touch statement to have to read on this site, where so much of the vitriol lives even today.
Definitely not pretty cheap. We need to stop normalizing high prices just because we happen to be in the upper part of the k economy. It's an entire week's pay at minimum wage. To have a screen with a camera and speaker on a weighted base.
It much more like (imho) the period of time around the Gracchi brothers in the Roman Republic. Lots of corruption, where the corruption is "tolerable" by the masses and elites. One or two people pushing the corruption as far as possible and being reprimanded but not punished. The masses groaning but not buckling. It tracks even the politics of the time. Trump is a populist in his political platform. His supporters do believe he is draining the swamp. The same way the Gracchi brothers rode on a tide of populism while not being populists.
This is kind of a new complaint. Places like adp have being trying to automate away mundane hr tasks. Oracle and SAP have been trying to automate away the mundane admin tasks. Siemens does it for OT. There's a huge long tail of trying to solve this as if it were a problem in almost every field. This has been going on for decades and no one complains that we will lose expertise in these fields if the drudge work goes away. But bring in an AI... and everyone is suddenly concerned about corporate drudgery.
In this case what you've proposed is the exact same setup FISA, and other "national security" collection works under. Does this system work? who knows the people policing themselves won't say
I don't really understand why people choose such incredibly political distros willingly. Like, if it's ok for your distro to be political under your desires and force that opinion on users; surely it's fine for the conservatives or tech oligarchs (pick your conspiracy) to politically demand an os with tracking and mandatory id verification? Surely what's good for the goose is good for the gander?
Absolutely disagree that it's not for everyone. It's exactly what makes a robust and educated populace. Relegating someone to aircon technician and telling them that makes them just as smart as a liberal arts major is disrespectful to them, if they could but be educated enough to understand it.
Today's data centers are being built for yesterday's inference need. There's a persistent cult belief that ai hasnt found a niche or that companies havent proven utility or use cases or whatever. the demand for ai (internal to hyperscaler, and external for everyone else) simply dwarfs what is available.
Huawei's patents aren't nortel's patents. The patents huawei generated through their own work are based of off and substantially informed by the stolen work nortel did that nortel patented. It doesn't have anything to do with nortel's actual patents. It has to do with the prior art that was stolen by the prc and given to huawei.
I do take your point. But I would also ask you to imagine that instead of threatening to mass murder a bunch of people she was just creating text based csam. Still, all of what you said applies, but clearly she would be prosecuted over this victimless crime and the jurisprudence in fact disagrees that it would be victimless. So applying that reasoning to this act she clearly committed the crime (legalese notwithstanding). The fact that threatened mass murder doesn't trigger the same thought process is, well at least interesting to me.
Them releasing the weights doesn't hurt anyone. It's the peanut gallery clamoring to put them onto the same pedestal as actual tier 1 companies simply because they aren't named openai or anthropic that is hurtful.
Openai, grok, and Anthropic aren't distilling. Theyre just second class. It's not a big deal, we just shouldn't be lauding them for being second class.
I disagree. Sure let them play and see if they can improve. But this model has more compute and more training data than the predecessors it fails to surpass. That only means their training regime is inferior if their predecessors did so much more with so much less. That inferiority should not be encouraged.
I think it's fair to say this is a gray area. Clearly it was transmitted.
I can certainly threaten you harm and send it to not-you and you're still clearly in danger even if it wasnt transmitted to you. So the question becomes did she transmit it to someone? Clearly yes she transmitted it to Anthropic. But she clearly intended to send it to Claude, an inanimate object.
The patents they built today are founded on the patents they derived stealing from nortel. Qualcomm needs these whitewashed patents as part of this frand deal.
You download a dmg and run it blindly? You download an exe and run it blindly. I wish it were in an rpm or deb coming from signed repos, but it's not so here we are
If a temporary tool being retired is the reason you switch, then wait until you find out how many LOC are being deleted from the linux kernel this year and next
Well, let's not be stupid and go as far as you're suggesting. But Russia has been using ai in its disinformation since at least the madagascar elections; so the answer is yes and it shouldn't have been asked. But there's no reason to fight stupid with stupid.
And yet, here we are with one of our greatest legacies- The Roman Republic/Empire which did do exactly that. Cleanse a horridly corrupt system with liberal use of the death penalty. "Every man is always thinking of the Roman Empire" except when it explains what we don't want to know.