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Meta makes money on advertising. They are not paying 30% fees on ad spend. Meta does lose revenue when Apple and Google introduce privacy features and decrease ad tracking efficacy…

Constant hallucinations. OpenAI:s latest on max settings. If you are to naively feed say, a short corpus of text to turn it into a parallel corpus in a few different languages, the…

Definitions matter. The meanings of words matter. What you call a model acquiring agency I call plain old software with productivity workflows designed by humans, with deliberate g…

The implied assumption that “writing correct code” used to be a limitation that has been solved since 2024 is… overstating current capabilities. The idea that “AI models” have acqu…

I agree. Not to mention safety. To be useful they’re gonna have to be capable and powerful. If they’re good enough to be useful, they will be dangerous. Advanced household robots a…

> (Apart from rent payments). Privilege enables you to rent competence, historically by paying other people. The slop companies will now sell you a simulacrum of competence by the …

If the government had the capacity to prevent this, they would have. It appears, therefore, that they indeed do not.

On TSMC: what is your reasoning or source of belief that ”extracting as much valie as they can” is against TSMC’s nature? Is there some charity charter or non-profit governance arr…

Yes, and they’re bound to abuse it. There’s a similar thing going on with emails. Dozens of services ”decide” that you need to update your email address, because ”they can’t reach …

Casual games ≈ IAP gambling addiction abuse

Surely a big part of the reason is steering leverage relative to the kerb. You are able to one-shot reverse parallel park into a much narrower gap without hitting the bumpers of th…

This sounds a lot like ignoring the Bitter Lesson , and expending a lot of effort rebuilding slightly better Expert Systems .

I find SQL and data(bases) in general to be LLM’s Achilles’ heel. Databases are rarely under version control, so the training data only has one half of the knowledge. My comments a…

I think I know the examples you’re talking about. They don’t show much in terms of reasoning. The Erdős problems have turned out to be largely brute force or finding older results.…

I’m afraid your numbers, all over 99%, are anchoring the conversation to an unreasonably high quality level. I would have personally gone for 75%, 85% and 95%, which are all still …

I’m genuinely interested in someone countering the following evidence that supports the authors. Plane of words: broadly correct. Everything is flattened to tokens and token sequen…

That is certifiably insane if that code touches anything that’s exposed to the internet or any PII. What kind of industries is those acceptable in?

Ok, fair. I incorrectly assumed you meant resizing static images to create a lower resolution preview image. Video thumbnails are a different beast altogether. And you might want t…

But a thumbnail generator is a 1 hour task at best if you’re on a solo greenfield project and it’ll still be a 6 week project at an enterprise, even with AI.

I think I should also clarify, I work in the training of encoder-decoder transformer models. Before the ChatGPT era I worked on on encoder-only transformer models. I'm not unfamili…

I can take on a slightly weaker form in good faith: professionally it’s a non-starter until private, open source inference can be self-hosted and the ROI is clear enough to invest …

What kind of code is infrastructure in this context? Devops in a software company? Internal tooling in a software org?

At many (otherwise) world-leading facilities even just reviewing the patient history is a slog. There is rarelly any ability to keyword search the records or even filter the record…

Evidence? Harsh accusation.

I might have too French of an attitude towards parenting for American taste, but as long as the crying and screaming isn’t based on anything real (and as long as you’ve childproofe…