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v4dokon Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidential_computing

This is what they are doing. Search implementations of this to understand more technical details.

v4dokon Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud

This is Confidential Computing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidential_computing

with another name. Intel, AMD and Nvidia have been working for years on this. OpenAI released a blog some time ago where they mentioned this as the "next step". Exciting that Apple went ahead and deployed first, it will motivate the rest as well.

v4dokon BYD's new EV, starting under $10K, is stoking fear among rivals

I'm looking to get a car these days in EU. The government gives out subsidy for electric cars and even without it, there is simply nothing almost as good in Teslas range. EU makers are either too expensive or try to sell you shit for gold

v4dokon Social learning: Collaborative learning with large language models

I wonder where this would be practical. How big would the teacher model need to be?

v4dokon Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer's?

Do you have any research you can point for that, its quite interesting.

v4dokon RLHF a LLM in <50 lines of Python

I feel like the current meta on finetuning LLMs is random accounts at X/Twitter. Google results are littered with SEO garbage or some kind of guides that fail to work the moment you need something slightly different.

v4dokon Mixtral of experts

Niche market?? You have no idea how big that market is!

v4dokon Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft

I agree. 10B is peanuts for MSFT but its Satya's miscalculation. He didn't anticipate that and the board wouldn't be too happy about it.

v4dokon Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft

He was a marketing person I believe when Bill was in MSFT. To become the CEO of MSFT is a huge political and competence firewall already. Then to do the most spectacular transformation of a mega-corp is next-level. MSFT is now the leading player in AI, while before it was still fucking around with office and Windows licenses. People who are young (not saying you are), and don't remember what MSFT was before Satya, don't really get that MSFT would be like Oracle and IBM if not for Satya.

v4dokon Cortical Labs: "Human neural networks raised in a simulation"

There would be no way to find out if that would be true however. The person in the vat might say they are the same person but you don't know if they really are. Also what happens if you create a copy? Is that two people or is there some kind of shared consciousness? If it is, how do they communicate?

v4dokon Finland's ChatGPT equivalent begins to think in Estonian as well

This is important work. And think about African or southeast Asian languages, they are even more screwed. We need to make sure that AI multilingual to avoid total English domination of culture.

v4dokon Rewind Pendant: a wearable that captures what you say and hear

That would be awesome.

v4dokon Rewind Pendant: a wearable that captures what you say and hear

Grey area depends on if you have the option to deny I think.

v4dokon NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa

To solve your dillema as a Greek. Both the continent and the planet have the same name. Europeans it is.

v4dokon Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials

I think value-based care is the only real incentive on this. Otherwise, there is simply no reason for anyone to care enough. Even the insurers, they found a way to make money by making sure their premiums factor in these things. In the expense of the patient. As long as the drug doesn't kill people, who cares if it works if I make money off it as a pharma? Unfortunately, value-based care can only be pushed top-down. Patients are not in a position of power against pharma companies on this matter.

v4dokon First 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan

Can you suggests some names? Unbiased (or some kind of polyphony) information on dental is so scarse its crazy

v4dokon Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?

It became faster and worse. My definite proof is its ability to generate greek content. The early API was generating good or at least passable content. It was really on the edge of "this is good". Now its completely garbage, it makes up words and even fails at basic translation, doing it literally. I think its less the RHFL and more the effort to scale it and make it faster.

v4dokon Albert Camus

I spent a time reading camus and existentialism in general which heavily impacted my view as well. I really liked the paradigm of sisyphus because it very clearly illustrated the concept of the absurd.

I like to think that it doesn't really matter. Do i move rocks, do I write software, or fall in love in the end we will die.

Maybe our existence amounts to nothing since the outcome is the same, but then, everything matters as much as we care for it to matter. The rebellion against the absurd is to live a full life as we enjoy it. For me it may be helping others, or smelling trees and tending to my children, for someone else it may be organizing a world dictatorship, or rebeling against one. There is no inherent better way to live because the result is the same. As Tolkien also said after living through the horrors of war "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us"

For me this kind of life stance also helped me get off the hamster wheel of always chasing more and aspiring to things that society/capitalism tells us are important and virtuous, but instead focusing on what makes me happy , releasing this feeling of longing for the greener grass

v4dokon Meta preps new social app

I guess that is why its a separate app. Its not turning instagram to twitter, but it offers an additional space.

v4dokon Meta preps new social app

I want to offer a counterpoint to the current consensus in the comments from (my) real-world interactions. In many countries outside of US, Twitter is occupied by a minority audience which is usually in its own bubble. Instagram is much more popular especially in Millenials who are now in the age group where they start to be more politically active and less motivated by the "pure entertainement" side of the social media.

Facebook, is dead for them in terms of engagement because its the "old people" place and discoverability is quite bad outside of groups. I know many people who use Instagram for social/policy commentary in their stories, and its very inefficient because its one-way. Pictures do not allow for proper discussion or easy discoverability of comments.

Even tiktok has better interaction via duets and pushing up new content all the time but conversation is limited.

I believe that instagram is mainstream enough to entice this group into a forum-like experience and drive insane engagement. Currently, if you are not traveling or doing some kind of beauty influencing, instagram is dead and its successor (tiktok) is limited to short videos. There is a legit market for more long-form/term discussion place in that (very important) age group outside of the US especially.

I am bullish on the offer, especially since Twitter seems to be prioritising US.

v4dokon Language models cost much more in some languages than others

No its not. Greek are tokenized on a per character level, while the language structure while not as simple as english or latin languages in General, is not that different.

v4dokon Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles

I dont know if you are sarcastic, but the solution to kids cooking meth is not hiding the recipe. Hiding knowledge is a sign of a problematic society, not "God's work"

v4dokon Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles

They didn't beat them because they are faster. They beat them because it was something big tech did not want to happen. The space you have for ads is severely limited and the fact that no moat exists means that you will need alternative ways to fund it (or skyrocket the ad costs).

I suspect that those who don't care about privacy or can't afford to pay, will be swarmed with AI-seo results from an ad-supported model, but people will FINALLLY have the choice to pay and avoid this ad-fest. And who knows, maybe when open-source catches up, it will even be affordable enough that ad-tech will shrink considerably.

v4dokon Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles

I don't see how my life could me MORE cluttered with adshit than now. Literally everything is an ad space. And I have to navigate into a lot of it to actually find something useful.

v4dokon Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles

I don't think so. Google had Lambda for quite some time internally. If it was a slum dunk on selling more ads, it would have been out way before chatgpt.

Google has maximized their ad revenue with their current model. You don't have the same ad real estate in your example and that is a problem. Now they get money for impressions on a whole page, and clicks from people trying to find the right fit among the seo. I believe that google wants information filtering but not too much as it needs current estate for ads.

v4dokon Google I/O and the Coming AI Battles

Google is an advertising business. Can you sell more ads with AI? I would say no. And even if you can, having an automated smart assistant being able to "cut" through the BS is certainly not as good for Google as clicking a bunch of sites trying to battle SEO.

However the judge is still out in regards to how much can AI allow Google to squeeze the profit margins of businesses by offering even better conversion rates. Personally, I don't think it will make a big difference, the AI will not make you buy more. I suspect Google makes more money by having multiple companies fight for the same customer than actually making a conversion.

IMO best case scenario for Google is to keep their search market. Table stakes is keeping search relevant at all.

v4dokon Ancient Greek terms worth reviving

Πάν μέτρον άριστον. As they used to say. Everything in moderation. All of those things you mention arise on a societal level when the values that were once the guiding principle disappear. My thesis is that capitalism is eating itself by neglecting to appropriately allocate resources in cultural progression, instead it focuses solely on efficiency, and technological advancement.

Wouldn't be far fetched for the humans of our age to be seen as the generation of hubris by a less technologically advanced but ultimately surviving culture in the future.

We need to get our shit together and offer the people in the west a vision worth living for, or we will all happily turn into AI-made paperclips

v4dokon Ancient Greek terms worth reviving

I've always seen the appeal of ancient Greek culture in the West as a cultural bedrock on which Christianity and Enlightenment built upon. The very fact that we consider democracy as the best political system shows that clearly the ideas resonated with us from a historical and cultural point of view.

However, in the modern age it seems like metamodernism has become king, and that is something that does not play well with ancient greek culture and its derivatives. I am a firm believer that the crisis of the West is a cultural crisis where the departure from the ideas that shaped us, lead us into this kind of metamodern nihilism that everyone sees around them.

Ancient greek ideas and philosophy are still relatively unspoiled from modern institutions (except Democracy of course, but thats another point), which means that reviving some of the ethos found there could actually help us find some purpose again.

v4dokon Ancient Greek terms worth reviving

Αρετή is more than excellence. Philosophers of the time go quite in length about its meaning, its a mix of excellence, honour, good, nobiety(?). I admittedly have hard time finding exact synonyms in english, but the point is that αρετή according to I think Aristoteles (need fact checking) is the ultimate virtue to strive for.

v4dokon Are We Close to AGI?

I find this posts being word-noise. We can't agree what is "intelligence" and the goalposts are moving depending on who you ask and when. I think then more interesting question would be "If AGI came, would we know?"