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Ask and ye shall receive:

“Based in part on his work with Hinton, Sutskever was hired by Google. There, he implemented a neural-network-driven approach to language translation that produced fewer errors than competing efforts. His work provided the basis for a major upgrade to Google Translate. “Researchers didn’t believe that neural networks could do translation, so it was a big surprise when they could,” he says.”

https://magazine.utoronto.ca/people/alumni-donors/heard-it-t...

Hinton left last week as well.

And yet the only people laughing are Altman and Nadella.

A business duty to comply with the law is not a rhetorical appeal to authority, it is a fact.

Ask the accountant who wrote the check to the CNIL for the most recent cookie fine what they think.

Coerced consent for non-essential functions is illegal in many places, and that’s number is rapidly growing.

Some of the key people behind translate founded OpenAI. Don’t forget it’s always been about the people, not the brand.

Google was good at attracting and retaining the best and brightest. Now they aren’t.

Somebody send help, we’ve got a case of potentially fatal alcohol poisoning.

I tuned into the livestream for a minute and they were just demoing things I’ve been using in GPT for months. They’re playing catch-up, it’s boring.

It’s just a back door to obtaining “consent” for tracking and to leverage other data about you for ads.

Honestly one thing that worries me the most is the biggest applications of AI at scale so far are to manipulate humans to click on things (ads).

Google has been using this stuff for years, OpenAI has done the world a great service by opening it up.

100% agree and that’s what I use it for. My point is more it’s a time saver, but not a replacement for higher order operations. Yet.

Intent worries me less! It’s the PHP days all over again - lots of new coders (good thing!), copying insecure code (VERY bad thing!), and it won’t end well.

A) awesome username, b) I love my work and hired somebody who also loves the work. I told them explicitly up front this is a relationship based on the capitalist structure we live in and to keep an eye out for better pay but to give me a chance to make a counter.

Nobody should be exploited and in my experience the easiest people to rip off are the passionate ones - which is why my advice to such people is always to get paid because somebody up the stack is siphoning off what should be yours.

It’s amazing for prototypes and writing utility functions, but for fully scalable and supportable architecture it’s a long ways off.

Likewise, it often generates very complex and confusing code - specifically regex in my experience where I can get the job done in a much more readable way.

Don’t get me wrong, I use it all day as a little coding helper, but while it can say, advise you on how to set up a distributed system, it’s not rolling out VMs and DB clusters.

On top of no generally available API, GPT-4 in ChatGPT is really damn slow right now.

Unless you have a special deal (Microsoft) the only performant option is 3.5-turbo. In my experience for coding and text summarization it’s totally fine with a limited benefit from GPT-4, which is more impressive at higher order reasoning and planning.

I’ve been using it a lot for programming, but I also have a security background and it will often generate insecure code. I’ll point it out and tell it to fix and it will.

So be careful if you don’t want AI-generated sql intentions!

“We have a thing that is arcane and hasn’t taken off with the public so don’t make a new one” isn’t exactly a stellar argument.

The only winning move is to onboard users and given hundreds of millions of people may be looking to leave Twitter, Mastodon utterly shit the bed and missed the moment.

That’s the end of the story: if the system can’t catch users raining down from the sky during a generational upheaval in social media it ain’t never gonna make it.

Pretty sure a nontrivial percentage of peoples smartphones have that many thumbnails for the photo gallery app alone.

Anybody who has had a smartphone for a decade likely has at minimum 10k photos in their cloud locker with local thumbnail.

Y’all are doing amazing work and bsky is a joy to use and I’m really excited for the technical journey.

I’m guessing with more success will come more haters unfortunately. :-/

Love it.

A truly alien intelligence would likely have a different type of experience of reality. Be it a fish, a mouse, a person, or a machine. How do you know a fish is happy? Does a snake experience joy? Do mice get nostalgic?

I have no idea.

My favorite line: “Our overall procedure is quite compute intensive.”

Should that be measured in number of nuclear power plants needed to run the computation? Or like, fractions of a small star’s output?

Main issue is lack of compatibility with any audio interface not in CC mode.

There was a video rental place in NYC sorted by genre and director.

Based on how they optimized it and most people’s needs it is totally sufficient.

I got more in mind, but if your computing needs are checking your email and editing word files, it’s fine.

Agree, I just think it’s a sad reflection of where we ended up both tech industry in general and societally as well.

The local cafe is now a Starbucks, your bank is now part of JPM, your favorite utility software just got acquired and killed because there’s no way to show you ads on it.

Hard disagree, counter point being Nintendo. They make pure entertainment devices, Apple may also be in that market, but nobody is running Excel on a Switch.

It’s fine to have a rational disagreement about systems design and deployment, but this borders on paranoid screed. Just because you don’t like something and other people do doesn’t mean it’s a scam.

“Apple sells consumer entertainment systems”

So you’ve never seen anybody write code on a Mac?

100%.

Google Home has its share of issues, but Assistant and Siri don’t exist in the same universe. Siri is just kinda sad tbh.