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As a corporate customer, the main point for me in this is Microsoft now retaining (non-exclusive) rights to models and products after OpenAI decides to declare AGI. The question "C…

>> Always keep in mind that sometimes the only difference between yourself and the person writing the book/blog/article is that they actually wrote it. Well said!

When you write code, do you also ignore edge cases to keep things simple?

I agree, that seems reasonable! I was referring more to the users of such a system (what the AI Act would call a 'deployer'). They may have significantly less expertise but could s…

I agree and share this concern in principle. But... have you seen the state of GDPR enforcement? Anyone who made an honest effort is fine. I don't know of any GDPR enforcement acti…

The AI Act EXPLICITLY enumerates all use cases that will be considered 'high-risk' (Annex III). If your use case is not on the list (or on the 'prohibited' list), then you're good …

Since there's some confusion about this: - The AI Act regulates both 'high-risk AI systems' and 'foundation models' and applies different requirements for them. - 'foundation model…

it goes further than that. the technomancers blogpost gets a lot of the actual requirements completely wrong (for example the supposed requirement for third-party or government "li…

Sure... but maybe the GPU is sitting idle 40% of the time while still consuming 200W. Should I have to break this idle energy consumption down onto actual use (assuming the server/…

The full marks for Google in the 'member-states' section made me laugh out loud. -- Bard is not available in the EU. ;)

I do think this will be a useful metric, and it seems obvious that the hyperscalers will have a feature helping you keep track of energy use and emissions of the resources you rent…

I had the chance to talk to a staffer of one of the MEPs leading the political negotiations in EU parlament committee a few weeks ago. His take was that the pro-tech/pro-business p…

There are also significant consequences and side effects to having a 'free market', they are called externalities and in the case of fossil fuels they lead to huge unconsidered cos…

In the linked Netzpolitik article (in German) it's pretty clear that the 90% refers to Precision (i.e. 90% of flagged instances are True Positives), not accuracy. Still, the articl…

That's incoming traffic from HN only. Remove that filter and it's closer to 5k visitors/day.

When I was studying abroad, I lived in a temporary student dorm that was placed in an industrial district with a special permit from the government. I tried to order a textbook onl…

For me, it was Foodora Germany (before they merged with / were sold to whoever owns the brand now). I pointed this out to their support as soon as I started getting spam on my food…

For me, it's a Shawn in Colorado who goes to bible study, renovates houses, and signs (me!) up for every Republican newsletter he can find. Also: When I use Facebook's feature "sho…

To be fair: As a patient, except for them scanning my insurance card, I see very little evidence that would suggest that most of data exchange isn't being done via fax, snail-mail,…

I wouldn't say this is true for "the majority user's of R" at all. But for "the majority of professors who tangentially use R code in classes on statistics/bioinformatics/economics…

This makes it sound more dramatic than it is. Let's assume the "real" share of infectious people in the population is 10/100k (That's twice as much as the most recent reported 7-da…