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Pretraining a frontier model is a one-time expense: 6,000 to 25,000 GPUs for one to four months, $5M to $150M depending on chip generation and luck.

> half of their ad spend was "wasted" That would be a phenomenal ROI. In almost all advertising contexts the hit rate is far, far lower. Resulting in everyone drowning in ads to hi…

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Customer and/or musician rug pull in 3...2...

All those devs and data scientists and PhDs make a choice though. They could quit and work somewhere else. Even in a tough market their skills are in demand. They choose to work on…

I believe it is the other way around: the LLM decides the type of action and the input to the action; the code validates the permission to act and the acceptability of the input. B…

> We show prompt injections are driven by a flaw in how LLMs perceive roles. LLMs don't "perceive roles", and that is exactly the problem.

> "The conversational interview, long considered the ultimate, unhackable test of a candidate’s authenticity" Lol. I'm not sure this person has ever given an interview before

Human civilization? In this economy?

They routinely override the user-defined navigation to include whatever new content they are pushing. It was sold as an appliance without ads or subscription. Now it has become an …

> unless you're Swiss, your opinion is irrelevant Lol. Dude, sure the Swiss can vote however they want. But we all see you and can pass judgement on this thinly veiled anti-immigra…

I'm sure they are very proud of themselves for sneaking racist anti-immigrant policy in under the guise of left wing environmental rhetoric.

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

Looking at WHO is pushing for change tells you most of what you need to know. Teachers? No. Students? No. Parents? Usually not. Technologists with something to sell? Bingo.

Ah yes, Pascal's mugging.

Ah, so this is The Web I have been hearing so much about!

> says Duke University ecologist Stuart Pimm, who was not involved in the research. “We could better help millions of birds every year by solving the more immediate threats of disa…

So to make this profitable they need ads revenue from it, right? Imagine for a moment the ways AI can manipulate responses and conversations for marketers, because I guarantee the …

So much this. I know their point is to show what these models can do, but it just one more example of people shoehorning LLMs in, instead of finding the right tool for the job or c…

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No fair, we didn't even get the fun anarchy part before skipping right on to tyrrany!

Global extreme poverty has fallen because we have raised the floor, largely through international collaboration that if anything has happened in spite of the cyberlibertarianism, c…

"As with other drugs, some people can be casual dabblers; other people, well, can’t." I think this is true. Unfortunately people (this article included) tend to talk about it as pu…