I still can’t wrap my head around how this strategy (“buy our models, they are so powerful they might kill all humans”) would work in their favor, apart from one thing: restrictions would hurt Chinese models probably more than themselves. But I find it very unlikely that characters like Altman or Amodei would be capable of playing that kind of 4d chess. It’s a weird flex

It just proves that people disagree with you, for whatever reason. Could be that they don’t like to be called stupid. Who knows.

Interesting analogy. So if you were to skip the high level os functions you could connect with your inner workings. But that’s probably as difficult as consciously controlling your heartbeat

Tried turning DLSS5 off, still shit.

I don’t have an internal monologue, it works more like a blackbox releasing thoughts when they are finished, the reasoning stays hidden more or less. I can reject the thought or send it back for further refinement, but it does not at all resemble a monologue or train of thought thing. Fun story, I was at a Buddhist meditation session once, and while sitting there I discovered that I can turn my thoughts off almost completely. Which includes the processing of sensory information, like leg going numb or the guy next to me farting. These continued to exist but lost any meaning or relevance to react upon. It was a very weird experience, turning my mind completely inwards, experiencing an intense but pleasant void of complete nothingness while being conscious. It took about an hour for me to get back to normal afterwards. I asked the Buddhist guys later if that is an expected experience with this type of meditation, and they had never heard of such a thing.

Odd how different people’s brains can be wired internally. And yet, I am able to communicate with all those fancy “internal monologue” people as if I was one of them.

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“Microsoft changed course” (about shoving Slop into every nook and cranny of their products)

I very much doubt that. When I have to open Office365 (Copilot… Sloppity… WhateverItIsCalledThIsWeek) in a browser they manage to hide the actual apps like Word, Excel etc. a little more behind the giant empty chat interface. Last time I checked my pinned Apps were gone and now there is a tiny button containing some of the apps. To make it worse, this button changed the location on screen almost every time I opened this website in the past months (I’m not using it very often).

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I would never have guessed that we"d be able to make Idiocracy look like a documentary in my lifetime. What a spectacular decline.

The definition of legal meant here is likely more akin to de-facto legal. If laws exist but aren’t enforced by executive or judicative branches of a system then the crimes in question are de-facto legal. You’re probably right in the strictest sense of “legality”, but that’s not the point here.

I imagine it makes beeping noises and displays a blip on a radar display like the proximity devices in alien movies. Shudders.

Amazing how much shit an unremarkable pseudo distro can stir up. Deservedly. Techbros like DHH are a cancer.

There’s a conflict of interests in there. Nvidia is heavily tied to OpenAI, Anthropic and the US government. The mostly chinese models hosted on huggingface are direct competitors and viewed as enemy tech by the US government.This is going to be a massive shitshow. Probably starts with banning de-censored versions of the models from the platform.

My bet is on exactly that being the plan. Stocks go down, tech companies pay to bribe him, next Tuesday a reversal of tariff plans, stocks go up, rich people make more money. Rinse, repeat

Well, like you said that’s basically the corporations fault. They push “AI” everywhere and AI in the media is 100% LLMs and other GenAI. I wouldn’t blame the public for not knowing the difference. Those data centers aren’t built to cure cancer, but to cause it. Figuratively and literally.

LLMs don’t cure cancer. That’s the kind of AI everyone refers to these days. Not ML projects.

Some German bakeries have excessively stupid names for their products too, though. I always refuse to say the name but point to the product in question. The usual answer is “Oh, you want one of the [silly-gibberish-name-of-an-overpriced-thing-that-tastes-like-sawdust-anyways]” - I nod, and that’s a successful transaction done.

Would be an OK salary for most of Europe. Most countries here have relatively solid health care insurance, affordable education and a pension fund included, so that some of the biggest costs of living in the US don’t even make a dent in the salary.

YouTube paid by the time people actually watched the videos in the past (as far as I know this changed recently) so there was a real incentive for Youtubers to add a lot of worthless filler to the videos

Quite ironic considering how hard Microslop is pushing AI. Now the self inflicted ram shortage kills their bloated bullshit features.