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- Comment on Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup 1 week ago:
They could both be right… From a certain point of view.
Within FAIR, LeCun has instead focused on developing world models that can truly plan and reason. Over the past year, though, Meta’s AI research groups have seen growing tension and mass layoffs as Zuckerberg has shifted the company’s AI strategy away from long-term research and toward the rapid deployment of commercial products.
LeCun says current AI models are a dead end for progress. I think he’s correct.
Zuckerberg appears to believe long term development of alternative models will be a bigger money drain than pushing current ones. I think he’s correct too.
It looks like two guys arguing about which dead end to pursue.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 1 week ago:
The only reason I’m gonna be smart enough to bring water to concerts is because I read this thread.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 2 weeks ago:
It’s a reference to Arnold Palmer, whose estate tried (or threatened?) to sue them after they used the name “Armless Palmer” for a flavor.
Of course other billionaires would be thin-skinned enough to feel offended by that…
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 weeks ago:
Would you like to claim that Bitcoin crap doesn’t infest Nostr?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know why you would refer to a man who believes Bitcoin is a gift from God as evidence his protocol isn’t about Bitcoin
- Comment on Microsoft Offers Chrome Users ‘Real Cash’ Rewards To Change Browser 2 weeks ago:
I was talking about “The Browser Choice Alliance, representing Chrome, Opera and Vivaldi”
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 weeks ago:
“Hope it helps to tell yourself that :)”
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 weeks ago:
Of course it’s not a coincidence.
Great.
Bye.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 weeks ago:
Either you believe that the Bitcoin infestation is all just a total coincidence, or you don’t. Why don’t you tell us what you think, instead of JAQing off about it?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 weeks ago:
I provided proof. With links.
Will you back up your claims that the Bitcoin crap that infests the app and its community is just a coincidence?
Do you genuinely believe that? Or do you just think that everybody here is gullible?
- Comment on Microsoft Offers Chrome Users ‘Real Cash’ Rewards To Change Browser 2 weeks ago:
I have a hard time taking an “alliance” seriously when all three browsers are slightly different skins of Google Chromium.
But unsurprisingly, they are correct about their competitor this time.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 weeks ago:
I asked you for counterevidence to the claims, not apologism. The fact they left the smoking gun on their own website is enough for me, but clearly you have an agenda of your own.
Unless you expect everyone here to believe that the protocol, the clients, the funders, and the creators all just coincidentally love Bitcoin, you’ve got a lot of explaining to do.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 weeks ago:
Can you provide any counterevidence to the claims?
To quote them: “Nostr was kickstarted mostly by a community of Bitcoiners, so it has disproportionately attracted the attention of Bitcoiners.”
The “optional” Bitcoin payment system is baked into the biggest Nostr clients.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 weeks ago:
The protocol was built to exchange cryptocurrency over it. Today, basically nobody uses it except for cryptocurrency shills.
- Comment on Apple Joins Google in Offering Passport-Based Digital ID 2 weeks ago:
Where’s all those Christians who believe digital ID is the mark of the Antichrist?
- Comment on AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’ 2 weeks ago:
It’s always interesting seeing the line people will draw between what they see as art vs product. I would be disappointed by anyone who tricked me into listening to theft-generated music, whether people consider it legitimate art or not
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 3 weeks ago:
Alex Karp thinks people only care about one kind of surveillance. And he thinks he will alleviate our fears if he gives us a pinky promise not to surveil us in that one way.
That way is cheating.
He later brings this up again, saying that most surveillance technology isn’t determining, “Am I shagging too many people on the side and lying to my partner?” Your guess is as good as any as to what that’s all about.
Well, thanks for clearing that up, Alex. That was indeed my sole concern.
(The rest of the article is full of indecipherable quotes from Alex, which demonstrates you don’t need to be smart to be rich.)
- Comment on Google removes Gemma models from AI Studio after GOP senator’s complaint 4 weeks ago:
I thought the government just banned any regulation against AI companies. The inconsistency doesn’t surprise me, but the brazenness sure does.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in' 4 weeks ago:
Especially because they are only good for AI, and they rapidly deprecate in value.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 4 weeks ago:
What’s the deal with the “HPE” in some Register articles? It’s apparently the Hewlett-Packard Enterprise logo, but articles about HPE don’t appear to have that logo.
Is The Register affiliated with HPE now?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
AI companies are definitely aware of the real risks. It’s the imaginary ones ("what happens if AI becomes sentient and takes over the world?") that I imagine they’ll put that money towards.
Meanwhile they (intentionally) fail to implement even a simple cutoff switch for a child that’s expressing suicidal ideation. Most people with any programming knowledge could build a decent interception tool. All this talk about guardrails seems almost as fanciful.
- Comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading 4 weeks ago:
This is good writing.
In promoting their developer registration program, Google purports:
Our recent analysis found over 50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play.
We haven’t seen this recent analysis — or any other supporting evidence — but the “50 times” multiple does certainly sound like great cause for distress (even if it is a surprisingly round number). But given the recent news of “224 malicious apps removed from the Google Play Store after ad fraud campaign discovered”, we are left to wonder whether their energies might better be spent assessing and improving their own safeguards rather than casting vague disparagements against the software development communities that thrive outside their walled garden.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The expectation is for the Foundation to use its equity stake in the OpenAI Group to help fund philanthropic work. That will start with a $25 billion commitment to “health and curing diseases” and “AI resiliance” to counteract some of the risks presented by the deployment of AI.
Paying yourself to promote your own product. Promising to fix vague “risks” that make the product sound more powerful than it is, with “fixes” that won’t be measurable.
In other words, Sam is cutting a $25 billion check to himself.
- Comment on Plymouth scientists win £2m to use AI in deep-sea mapping 5 weeks ago:
Mighty thoughtful of Jeff Bezos to award money to a project that coincidentally promotes AI, and puts his name in the same sentence as environmentalism.
Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos’ dirty secret is the environmental harm he’s causing, and intentionally covering up, while trying to greenwash it.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 5 weeks ago:
Artificial intelligence has been something people have been sounding the alarm about since the 50s. We call it AGI now, since “AI” got ruined by marketers 60 years later.
We won’t get there with transformer models, so what exactly do the people promoting them actually propose? It just makes the Big Tech companies look like they have a better product than they do.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 5 weeks ago:
Sam Altman himself compared GPT-5 to the Manhattan Project.
The only difference is it’s clearer to most (but definitely not all) people that he is promoting his product when he does it…
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 5 weeks ago:
Geoffrey Hinton, retired Google employee and paid AI conference speaker, has nothing bad to say about Google or AI relationship therapy.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 5 weeks ago:
Superintelligence — a hypothetical form of AI that surpasses human intelligence — has become a buzzword in the AI race between giants like Meta and OpenAI.
Thank you MSNBC for doing the bare minimum and reminding people that this is hypothetical (read: science fiction)
- Comment on Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN 1 month ago:
The only browser that has a relatively unrestricted add-on ecosystem, and the best one capable of running mobile add-ons, shouldn’t need to add this as a baked-in feature.
I’m pretty sure this feature classifies as bloat.
- Comment on Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones 1 month ago:
The article is pretty clear that the issue is with the Android devices themselves, not with lazy users. There is no indication that a malicious app has these permissions.