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Reminded me of this recent post: https://www.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/s/ko1Jv1Qxhw

Anyone brave enough to make predictions about 2030? FYI the predictions in the comments of the blog post are just as interesting, this prediction from Dan Hendrycks is particularly…

Didn’t see anything about how they are treating the model confidentiality - will this be released to select orgs or made open? I guess this could one of the few things I would not …

People also like superhero films but they are not exactly lauded as the pinnacle of cinema. I don't think this proves anything about AI being better or equivalent to human writers …

The developer safeguards were off, the models had unfettered access to the internet, and were solving cybersecurity challenges. This happened _after_ the recent OpenAI incident, an…

Honestly, I’ve gone back to dvd rentals! CinemaParadiso sends me as many films and boxsets as I can handle by post and it’s the same price as a standard Netflix subscription… And i…

One thing I really admire about isomorphic and DeepMind in general is that they really try and encode human ingenuity into their models. The only reason that AlphaFold worked wasn'…

This is simply not true, advances in basecalling and using Duplex give you >Q25

I really don’t understand why this social credit concept has become so widespread. It does sort of exist but not in the big government breathing down your neck kind of way. Here’s …

Yeah for many cancers, CAR-T is the cure which is insane and cool. We just need to make it cheap enough that everyone can benefit…

Haha this is cool, it reminds me of the simple.wikipedia.com alternatives to English language pages. Is there an about page linked somewhere? I’m wondering if the images are AI gen…

I wonder - everyone keeps talking about brain drain and how impactful it is, but is it quantifiable?

In 6 months we’re gonna see a HN thread: “I bought ask.com for £250k - here’s what I did with it”

These kind of project reports showing consistent breakthroughs and clearly a finger on the pulse of what users are encountering as pain points are a good indication that the Asahi …

Honestly I've been doing a lot of image-related work recently and the biggest thing here for me is the 3x higher resolution images which can be submitted. This is huge for anyone w…

Having briefly experienced weight loss drugs - and the bliss of that constant “EAT!” voice in your head just going quiet - I’m pretty convinced most humans have a genuine genetic p…

if you read the article... Instead of discarding stock, companies are encouraged to manage their stock more effectively, handle returns, and explore alternatives such as resale, re…

> Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't take advice from. The funny thing I find about criticism is that you actually don’t have a choice about whether or not it affects y…

what evidence do you have to back up this baseless claim? They openly publish their financial reports: https://wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/financial-reports $178 million mig…

Oh, I get it. Missed the joke.