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Must have been worth as much as toilet paper considering his history of bankruptcies. I would be highly suspect of every person involved in letting him earn a degree in anything.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/ge...
Trump's greatest talent is in lying with a straight face, then finding explanations for the lies:
>Why the discrepancy? Perhaps this will give us an idea: Trump told Washington Post reporters that he counted the first three bankruptcies as just one.
His failed businesses include money printing machines aka casinos.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/hackers-could-read-n...
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/in-major-gaffe-hack...
Something that doesn't happen much, if at all, with Google or Amazon.
Microsoft is one of the most incompetent and impotent corpo out there and considering how much critical infrastructure relies on their software it would do good for the world if the government intervened like they should have back in the antitrust lawsuit days. Break them up. Separate the cloud, windows and office businesses. Make them stand on their own merits.
And the two competing search engines I mentioned are pretty much all there is. Other names like duckduckgo aren't real search engines, they are just a frontend for another search engine (DDG uses bing). There just isn't many out there willing to front the bill for crawling and indexing the whole web.
People trying to explain away google's success solely from a marketing standpoint are arguing from bad faith.
Nope. And accessing the website/online banking portal is not allowed without going through the smartphone app 2fa too.
Literally all of them are trained on wikipedia and SO. But /none/ of them are /only/ trained on wikipedia and SO. They need much more than that.
> Also, no human needs to read millions of pirated books to become intelligent.
Obviously, LLM architectures that were inspired by GPT 2/3 are not learning like humans.
There has never been anything remotely good in the world of LLM that could have been said to have been trained on a moderate, more human scoped amount of data. They're all trained on trillions of tokens.
Models trained on less than 1T are experimental jokes that have no real use to provide.
You'll notice even so called "open data" LLMs like Olmo are, in fact, also trained on copyrighted data, datasets like Common Crawl claim fair use over anything that can be accessed from a web browser.
And then there's the whole notion of laundered data by training on synthetic data generated by another LLM. All the so-called "open" LLMs include a very significant amount of LLM-generated data. If you agree to the notion that LLMs trained on copyrighted work are a form of IP infringement and not fair use, then training on their output is just data laundering and doesn't fix the issue.
I think this sort of power transferred to twitter, with most of the users who haven't left facebook being boomers who keep reposting AI slop over and over and over.
The rare times I look at my facebook account, all I see is the older members of my family spamming AI garbage like shrimp jesus, "look at this nice dog sculpture I made out of wood" (that I didn't actually make), videos of random nonsense like dogs taking care of toddlers and behaving like humans etc.
FB has become AI slop no man's land.
I don't even understand how facebook continues to operate at this point.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/14/nx-s1-5258952/new-york-times-...
They didn't even consider doing this before. They still, as far as I know, haven't paid a dime for any book, or art beyond stock photography.
Lawsuit is still ongoing, if openai loses it might spell doom for legal production and usage of LLMs as a whole. There isn't enough open, free data out there to make state of the art AI.
It is increasingly tiresome to see this clearly racist bias at work when every US company doing AI has been acting the same way.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
https://piracymonitor.org/chat-gpt-trained-using-pirated-e-b...
There is nothing to dismantle because it's already gone.
The society that elected Donald Trump on his current program is an exceedingly low trust society. The whole point backed by DOGE is that you can't trust government and must reduce it to the most basic, barebones function. A lot of the current silicon valley elite fell prey to the nonsense preached by people like Curtis Yarvin who preach forms of anarcho-capitalism and despise democracy.
The United States of America are no more.
Everyone imitates the market leader so it really feels as if competition doesn't exist as an alternative to amazon here. They're all as bad, and sometimes worse.
Your sarcastic tone reminds me of a Steve Jobs interview.
> In 2010, a New York Times reporter had a conversation that revealed a lot about the life of the founder of Apple. Nick Bilton commented, “Your kids must love the iPad, right?” After the launch of the device. Jobs replied, “They haven't used it. We limit the amount of technology our children use at home. "
Yeah, they know what it is that they are doing to the world. And they do not care, profits > humanity.
> Apple Music exists as an ecosystem play
And so? Are you implying MS doesn't need an ecosystem of their own?
MS has. stopped. competing. That's it. That's all. Azure is not a moat, it's highly profitable but it also highly prone for disruption. Office is all they have left.
Man, they don't even need to have as much marketshare as Apple for their presence to be meaningful in the mobile market. They just need enough to be sustainable on their own and keep the competitors "honest".
The more MS transitions to cloud stuff and browser based apps the more they become Google's sharecroppers. It is NOT a good thing for markets to consolidate as much as they have over the past decades.
I believe the core reason to be different: Microsoft lost the will to compete.
You can say any number of negative things about Steve Ballmer, but at least the guy tried. He tried. He may fail, but he would try, again and again, no matter how many time he would experience losses.
When he got replaced by a bean counter Microsoft stopped trying. It isn't just browser engines they've abandoned. There is no Windows Phone anymore. Windows 11 is worse on tablets than 10. Closing down their Apple Music competitor (Groove) etc.
Recently, they've been arguing for less exclusivity on gaming consoles and releasing their games on Playstation.
If we anthropomorphized corporations, modern Microsoft is the thin skinned loser who will fold at the slightest provocation.
Countries unwilling to sign regulations that would have them lock up scammers/DDoS botters and other toxic e-criminal, or unwilling to enforce their own laws when they exist, should not be allowed to continue to pollute the internet at large. Block them until they learn their lesson.
In the west, you can and will lose your access to the internet even if you are not doing this sort of shit on purpose but have an infected computer. See for example : https://it.slashdot.org/story/05/04/13/0320249/major-aussie-...
We enforce the rules on our own citizens, why are we tolerating this level of criminal traffic from China, India, and, the worst of them all, Russia, the country through which we are very much fighting a proxy war right now in funding Ukraine?
We can send missiles to kill russians but we can't cut them from the internet at large ? Really?
Internet access is not a human right. Just like driving on the roads is not a human right and terrible drivers get their license revoked.