Agreed, when a company rises to prominence so fast, I feel like you can end up with inexperienced people really high up in management. High risk high reward for them. The board was also like this - a lot of inexperienced random people leading a super consequential company resulting in the shenanigans we saw and now most of them are gone. Not saying inexperienced people are inherently bad, but they either grow into the role or don’t. Mira is probably very smart, but I don’t think you can go build a team around her like Ilya or other big name researchers. I’m happy for her with riding one of wildest rocket ships in the past 5 years at least but I don’t expect to hear much about her from now on.
I had to retake a driver’s test recently and I’ve never heard of checking your mirrors before a yellow. What’s “a vehicle unlikely to stop” even mean? Like I can ascertain that in a second? The driver behind you is supposed to be traveling a minimum safe distance behind you for their reaction time. If they aren’t it’s 100% their problem.
> I don't agree because it creates this dilemma for creators: you need to put your work out there to get traction, but if you put your work out there and anything public is fair game, then it will be sampled by a computer and instantly recreated at scale. This might even happen without the operator knowing whose work is being ripped off.
This is no different than the current day, copying already happens (as your friends have seen) AI makes it a little easier but the same legal frameworks cover this - I don’t see why AI stealing is any different than a person doing the same thing. The ability to copy with zero cost was incredibly disruptive and incredibly beneficial to society. Settled case law will catch up and hopefully arrive at the same conclusion it has for human copyright infringement (is it close enough to warrant a case)
Yes it is absurd to rewrite your entire software stack when 99% of scenarios have the same requirements: CPU, I/O, drivers. You know how many bugs you have with one stack? Multiply by 2x for each of your custom OSes. I’ve seen the fragmentation in edge devices and no thanks, I don’t want more “secure” “proprietary” software.
Man I was just lurking but this take is so wrong I just have to comment. It’s in fact the exact opposite. Every other country in the world is much much worse at this. Look at China! They’re actually destroying companies left and right. You should qualify your statement with “public projects” which do not have any foreign investment. The US is very friendly to foreign private projects, almost too friendly arguably. It also has public reliable information and rules for investing which make price discovery much easier than other foreign markets. It’s probably one of the most lenient and best markets for external investment.
the whole real page situation irks me to no end. As if being a landlord wasn’t easy enough just milking people they needed even more money by colluding? It’s just obnoxious and I hope it gets the book thrown at it (and its corporate officers, but that might be too much to ask)
Haven’t heard of one good reason why aid via land crossings is being prevented from entering Gaza. The US literally built a pier to deliver aid when this is not an island country. Mass starvation, transferring of population (settlers in the West Bank) against a single culture/people are all forms of genocide. Documented cases of hospitals being destroyed, snipers killing people seeking medical care are all happening, if this isn’t genocide I don’t know what is.
Saying X is fine because everybody else is doing it is tiresome. It’s implied in the original argument that X is not okay regardless of how many entities are doing X, so obviously it isn’t okay in the other circumstances as well.
I’m angry about this but it does seem to me like this court will actually reject civil asset forfeiture in general based on what gorsuch said after about it. These hearings are more of a procedural thing after assets have been seized.
Nothing is better than a comeback story and I try to feel as inspired as I can every day because the truth is people have made groundbreaking discoveries in their 50s, started businesses in their 70s and completely overcome much harder obstacles than picking sciences instead of humanities? Like really that’s an example? Career changes are literally one of the easier things in life to do if you’re determined. This article is just too pessimistic for me.
I’ve mostly been staying at Hyatt hotels but what I like there is that TVs have chrome cast built in so I can cast from my phone, that could be a potential solution here?
I used to support the death penalty, but inevitably it is used by the state against the vulnerable, poor, and politically weak. If there’s even the possibility of one innocent person being killed, it is a perverse justice.
I’m just estimating here from public numbers. My point is the power consumption could be 100W on that workload and the groq chip could be 1k, both ridiculously optimistic. The whole system is still crazy expensive. H100s will not have latency as fast, but in terms of concurrent users and TCO, I really don’t think groq will be worth it. You could probably get the same concurrent users and throughput with like 8 h100s. Latency won’t be as good, but price could be much lower.
Peak H100 power consumption is 700W. Average power consumption of the groq card (from their own website) is 240W. With 576 chips it just doesn’t look good. How much is that millisecond perf gain worth it to end users?
That said I think their arch is super interesting. I just think that demo was way too hype when the actual system is pretty impractical.
The smoke and mirrors around groq are finally clearing. Truth is that their system is insanely expensive to maintain. hundreds (> 500 iirc) of chips to get wild tokens/s but the power and maintenance expense is crazy high for that number of chips. TCO just isn’t worth it
Honestly I’m tired of landlords expecting good returns, I’m glad they had this wake up call that yes, in fact there is risk in every investment. What really irks me is when they prefer vacancy to lowering rents.
I feel like this can be trivially worked around by fine tuning from the initially copyrighted weights. They’re not demanding copyright, they’re just keeping them secret. If Meta keeps releasing high quality open source models, I don’t expect the closed source models to have an advantage for long.
Describing tech platforms as a place where users work for no pay is quite an exaggeration. Apple and Microsoft for example do not conform to this business model. In fact the business models amongst the tech giants are so varied to group them all into “cloud capital” is ridiculously reductionist, and gives grift vibes to just capitalize on the current change in attitudes toward big tech. Honestly this article is so unspecific as to feel that it’s saying nothing. Maybe that’s on purpose to market for the book but I can’t tell. In the end, the pursuit of monopolies currently is the exact same mission that all capitalists have had for generations, he fails to make a distinction in my opinion between then and now. I think the current state of the world can still be described using the rules of a capitalist system, and I fee that competition between the tech giants more fierce now than it has been in the past decade.
Innovation enables growth without raw natural resources. For example, the internet drastically improved productivity (GDP/time) by making communication faster. Also services are intangible, but provide economic value. If someone can now provide services to millions, that’s growth. We are nowhere near the terminal point of growth in my opinion.
I feel like google acquired a ton of robotics companies and then completely failed at productizing any of them. They’ve sold them off now I think so I don’t think this fits with anything they’re doing.