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> I'm guessing the people who successfully block construction will be happy the data centers are built elsewhere. Depends on their goals. Do they want to slow down AI altogether, o…

The main issue with wanting to block data centers in any specific location, is the hyperscalers will just move to building them wherever politics are most favorable. If protesters …

Basically any "brand name" product which isn't either family owned or privately run by an extremely idealistic founder/CEO ends up getting predictably worse over time. Once some pr…

There is a persistent bias, in general and online, against any claim that one's job prospects, social status, overall life satisfaction is dependent on the way people treat you spe…

It seems like everything will follow this pattern: 1. AI is dismissed because an expert in a particular field finds an outdated model's outputs sub-par 2. New model, released or un…

Software slop has existed for as long as software has existed. AI is now a better coder than the median. By the end of next year it'll be better than the best human coders.

This is true, but likely happening in talk therapy too with overly sycyphantic therapists

I think there's one weirdly simple reason DeepMind isn't doing as well as OpenAI and Anthropic. I may be wrong on this. OpenAI and Anthropic went from tiny startups to huge compani…

It's also labor costs. It's far cheaper to get a crew, rent out space, etc in Eastern Europe, the US South, even the midwest, which is what led to films being made there. Governmen…

This works better for math because math is self-verifiable. Once you have a proof it needs no outside evidence. Expertise is needed to evaluate model outputs where it can't verify …

Obviously not, have you seen the 10 mathematical advances OpenAI found with Astra? https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/

This seems inevitable for most industries in the US (car/general manufacturing) 1. City/region becomes a boom-town based on a new high profit-margin industry 2. As that region beco…

Do you also test for contamination/adulterants/heavy metals?

Going from 0 to 3000 weekly added users is an amazing accomplishment and you should always remember that you are capable of producing something people love using. The problem is th…

80% of the GDP over the next two decades will be siphoning money out of baby boomers (medical care, retirement homes, luxury cruises) before their children see a cent of it. Couple…

I really want to know what people specifically mean when they allude to some "higher" level of cognition that humans have above LLM's when it comes to useful outputs. I don't mean …

> Location Though the team has spent many years scaling remote-first companies and is currently remote, we are hiring specifically in Los Angeles, London, and New York, with an exp…

So many otherwise smart engineers, overrepresented on HN, have this weird mental block where they fail to take AI progress seriously. I think it's a fear that their status-defining…

This is true, which is why the ideal things to do now are actions which increase your moat, or return on model improvement in the future (for example, accumulating data which futur…

Closed-source models have to deal with the current frontier being heavily regulated. Fable, at its old level, was "too good" to be released and they had to add an additional safety…

It matters because everyone imagines the inevitable "closing of the gap" between closed and open source, but the rate at which open source catches up with closed source seems to de…

The VC money is only contingent on the strategy eventually bearing fruit. I do imagine going open source -> closed source could work for some model companies who get enterprise/eco…

AI models cost tens of millions to train. Offering them for free won’t justify the upfront costs. The Chinese model of model training/open sourcing only makes sense in the context …

You went through 5 million tokens in an hour? You would be significantly benefitted by using fable as an orchestrator for other models

I wonder what percentage of the US GDP is "Fooling old people"