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As you correctly mention, the CPU providers aren't the ones who are responsible for the scaffolding that ensures security in programs. The CPU cannot decide if an instruction is sa…

You are talking about trees...

> I am not arguing that rote memorization is intelligence, or that we have achieved it, but does anyone know what AGI actually.. is? I would argue that a core part of intelligence …

The sub-7ms on a classifier ensemble with 98% confidence in 3 categories makes me suspect these classifiers are confidently wrong.

I'm spending almost a third of my life at work, no shade to the people having to work to pay the bills, but I'd like to get a bit more than just that out of that time: Learn new sk…

That's how I read it as well. It really sucks that one of the ways we will have to cope with climate change is to build a lot of energy intensive, expensive infrastructure, but it …

There's another factual error in your above comment the previous poster didn't correct: Nuclear energy was replaced with renewables, not coal. It would have been preferable to firs…

There's an additional case that can be made: Businesses want to disrupt, but they can only do so against a stable current. The governments main job in regards to the economy is sta…

I've recently had an interesting discussion on AI usage by students with a couple of friends who are all professors or lecturers in different fields. They report that AI makes thei…

Wouldn't running the tests in a container solve that issue? Or is that another thing that gets flagged?

I had an Ethics professor in uni who would ask his intro classes to raise their hands if they thought they were a morally upright person. On average, much fewer philosophy majors w…

Not really, it is shockingly easy for what it is. https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566 This only really matters in a world where Prompt Injection and Jailbreaking isn't trivial in the …

What is invalid about the claims, and how is the fine not appropriate given the legal framework Google agreed to work in within the EU?

I suspect that Grok has been ironically lobotomized by pressures to correct its political views. Similarly, I could imagine the Gemini folks working in a significantly more complex…

I would argue a different case: When AI is noticeable, it is obvious the person doesn't care enough to bother with you. I'm a heavy user of AI, but it has not changed the amount of…

> In my long career I've noticed a strong correlation between SAT scores and academic performance as well as job performance On average. However, I've also had the experience that …

And the soccer WC went the opposite direction, by encouraging scalping, giving it an official avenue, and taking a cut of the profits. Now only rich people get to enjoy a sport mea…

Reddit was already heavily astroturfed before AI. There's no space on the internet where you can get as much bang for a buck with an influence campaign due to its centralized front…

History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Drawing these comparisons to the Dotcom bubble is only of limited utility. I think there's good reason to believe that recursive self…

I mean if we're getting really serious about ai-first development, we might be able to get away with a ton of micro services written with clear, simple apis to communicate all in a…

There's a difference in thought here so fundamental that it is hard to argue about details without addressing it first: You believe the individual comes first, what it produces is …

I love their product and use them myself. But where's the value proposition for investors? Unless they get purchased by one of the large cloud providers, they will get pushed out o…

The fairest and easiest to realize wealth tax is on inheritance. It is great to want to give your kids a headstart in the world, it is terrible for them and the people around them …

The article itself isn't great, but it speaks to one of my greatest concerns about AI. People who engage heavily with it are falling in the behavioral billionaire trap: It is deepl…

With the rise of agentic coding, this has become a sign of quality for me in my own PRs and reviews: New features implemented in less than a thousand lines of productive code. When…