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Don't forget the 2016 Census by IBM.

'In mid-2014, IBM, one of the biggest global ICT companies was contracted to provide a relatively simple e-Census application, ensure the application was available to the public over the 8-week Census response period, provide sufficient capacity to deal with the peak response load expected on Census night of August 9 and ensure effective security for the e-Census system. The contract to IBM was worth around $10 million, within the total Census budget of around $500 million.

IBM failed to deliver the contracted service to the necessary standards, and they have provided financial recompense to cover the additional costs we and the Government have had, and will still incur as a result of this incident.' https://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/d3310114.nsf/home/Australi...

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/ibm-apologizes-for-...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-25/ibm-to-pay-over-$30m-...

Ever tried walking around the corner when it's 35C (95F) and 90% humidity?

Anthropic documented even more proof of that yesterday:

https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-septemb...

Excellent work by Daniel and the authors. 47,000 words plus supplements is a huge read (and re-read), and an even bigger think-and-write.

My early analysis of the analysis:

https://lifearchitect.substack.com/p/the-memo-special-editio...

First AI books (using GPT-3) were published in Aug/2020:

https://lifearchitect.ai/books-by-ai/

You couldn't have included images? Or emojis?

>In total, 24 tons of Loctite adhesive have been used, with around 30 kilograms applied per panel on average. The six central towers comprise 826 panels...

Incredible.

>Externally, they sent the site director for their Florida operations, Ricky Lim, to inquire whether he might visit the roof of the United Launch Alliance building... ULA told SpaceX’s Ricky Lim to get lost when he wanted to see the roof of their building in Florida.

The FAA letter:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Space...

Used one for the GPT-3 Leta Series back in 2021 (all 60+ episodes!).

Still got mine!

https://youtu.be/X6_E69K5WUs?t=327

The old Sony Mavica from 1997! good times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Mavica#Digital_still_came...

Edit: And a related article:

https://casualphotophile.com/2025/12/30/sony-mavica-floppy-d...

>just about the leading EV manufacturer in the world.

China is definitely the leading EV manufacturer in the world. And they aren't mourning the smaller market in the US (sales ~16M/y).

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy01ele412yo

We've got quite a list of history-only LLMs brewing on the Models Table.

https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/

This one is easiest to talk to in a HF space:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/tventurella/mr_chatterbox

Akshually, IBS-D is the least common form of IBS.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3865067/

>Ada's deployment domain meant that Ada's successes were invisible. A software project that compiles without error, runs without race conditions, and has been formally verified to satisfy its specification does not generate incident reports or post-mortems or conference talks about what went wrong. Ada's successes — the aircraft that have not crashed, the railway signalling systems that have not failed, the missile guidance software that has not misguided — are invisible precisely because they are successes.

Um... this is most certainly not true. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Ada was the language of choice at my Australian university for both computer science and software engineering degrees.

I distinctly recall my lecturer telling us a story about a fancy presentation of Ada in military tank (AFV) systems for the DoD. The story goes that during the presentation, in front of a live audience, the presenter AND the audience had to duck after the tank's turret began spinning around and around. The code had entered an infinite loop!

Congrats to the Meta team on being model #800 on the Models Table, I suppose.

https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/

Same story with Connor Leahy and his GPT-2 clone, though his public articulation of how OpenAI sat him down seems to be glossed over.

"

OpenAI reached out to me almost immediately to talk and they were nothing but respectful and understanding... After making it publicly known what I had done, I was quickly approached by a range of smart people with good arguments. Many of them helped me update my beliefs in light of new evidence...

The day after my announcement, I got to talk to Jack Clark, Alec Radford and Jeff Wu from OpenAI. We had a nice hour long discussion, where I explained where I was coming from, and they helped me to refine my beliefs. They didn’t come in accusing me in any way, they were very clear in saying they wanted to help me gain more important insight into the wider situation. For this open and respectful attitude I will always be grateful. Large entities like OpenAI often seem like behemoths to outsiders, but it was during this chat that it really hit me that they were people just like me, and curious hackers to boot as well.

I quickly began to understand nuances of the situation I wasn’t aware of. OpenAI had a lot more internal discussion than their blog post made it seem. And I found this reassuring. Jack in particular also gave me a lot of valuable information about the possible dangers of the model, and a bit of insight into the workings of governments and intelligence agencies.

After our discussion, I had a lot to think about. But I still wasn’t really convinced to not release. Even some people inside OpenAI were still discussing the not-release policy. So while I definitely had things to consider, I was still mostly set on releasing...

We shouldn’t be angry with OpenAI for what they did. We should applaud them for making a point before it becomes a true problem. Prophylaxis is much better than treatment. I still disagree with some of the things OpenAI did and how they communicated them, but I now understand that sending a message that it is ok, even celebrated, for a lone individual to unilaterally go against reasonable safety concerns of other researchers is not a good message to send. I want to support OpenAI’s message. So, while it might be a small, mostly symbolic gesture, I will not be releasing my model. Some day, someone like me may be in a situation just like mine, but it won’t be GPT2. It might be something much, much more dangerous. And that is the person I am trying to talk to here.

"

https://medium.com/@NPCollapse/the-hacker-learns-to-trust-62...

https://archive.md/1HoGz

Source is actually: https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/

>1:45 a.m. – The first bank of transformers, riddled with bullet holes and having leaked 52,000 US gallons (200,000 L; 43,000 imp gal) of oil, overheated...

Actually, Anthropic reckons you've got three.

In 2024 (so now, one).

https://lifearchitect.ai/my-last-three-years-of-work/

750+ here:

https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/