coldtea
Thank you for your insightful argument.
Yes, but everything, including the human brain, is "fundamentally" some underlying simpler primitives.
>E.g., “breakout game weights” always look the same regardless of training and model?
Wouldn't this be expected to be roughly the case, given NNs that share the same basic architecture to model the same quite simple thing like a breakout game?
Isn't that what math tutoring is?
Why assume that?
So much money have been given to that handful of companies and to that field, that it's pretty much guaranteed to plateau (it's not some small but growing market with lots of room to grow. It's already taking as investment a huge chunk of the economy, and the returns don't seem to justify it).
Most of it is a pre-IPO hype and a circular financing loop between Nvidia, Oracle, Amazon, and the AI players anyway, so the real returns are even worse.
And in 10 years it will be worth the entire Earth's economy.
"It seems the majority owning "foundation" does little to ensure that, if they're not the ones pushing for more profit and faster delivery of crap"
But in the case it is, it should be run as a careful privately owned business, that takes pride in their products, not a profit machine.
It seems the majority owning "foundation" does little to ensure that, if they're not the ones pushing for more profit and faster delivery of crap
"Proton was created to serve the world, and the non-profit Proton Foundation ensures that this can never change. As Proton’s primary shareholder, the foundation exercises its control to ensure that Proton does not deviate from our mission to build a better internet that serves the interests of all of society. Our legally binding purpose is to further the advancement of privacy, freedom, and democracy around the world."
Their lots of half-baked products added since already reminded me of the Mozilla slide to irrelevance.
This seals the deal. I am OK if they use AI to enhace their productivity. I do care if they want to use AI to "move fast and break things" not giving a damn for stability and careful testing, think craftmanship and careful development is for losers, or speak to their employees like that.
This CEO reminds me of Martin Shkreli. He should be laid off. Do they have a board that cares? An ideal company for services like Proton's shouldn't be for profit to begin with.
"Efficient use of resources" is not some absolute based on mere energy or economics calculations, it depends on the goal.
If the goal is "reduce reliance on big tech", "privacy", "autonomy", and so on, then the most efficient use of resources if to say fuck you to Big AI and not let them hoard ram and gpus.
What they did was to say "hey, we can leverage your idle computer to help process this".
Different perspective.
Same with AI. AI use is a colossal waste, for all kinds of frivolous purposes (e.g. some person's ai girfriend chat, or someone asking about K-pop lore, or slop image generation, or slop "dark internet posts"), but also to facilitate "serious" business that we'd be better if it wasn't done at all.
As if that's a problem? I want them to be my fucking encrypted email. Not a calendar. Not a backup. Not a VPN. And they've already stretched to all kinds of shit.
Says who? For what purpose? To whose benefit?
I want my encrypted email company to move slow, deliberately, and very carefully.
I'd like most software in general to move slower. Some, I'd like to not move at all. I hate churn for churn's sake, or piling useless features just so you pretend you did something to justify your subscription pricing, both of which were already the norm before AI and are worse now.
To speak in Apple terms, we don't miss more and faster crap novelties. We miss the Snow Leopard releases.
It's a term long used by blacks themselves, as well as black allies, abolitionists, anti-seggregation activists etc, to refer to the "palatable to the whites, makes too many consessions" type.
Your argument is an appeal to authority and "wrong" spelled like initials? What are you, 15?
Yes, Booker T Washington was a bigger expert on race issues concerning African Americans than all of us (nobody doubts that).
Not an expert on global race relations, or the conditions abroad. And obviously those uterrances were an expression of american exceptionalism, and very likely placating white US audiences (as a champion of a contested matter like race relations you never got far if you don't appear patriotic enough. That had to wait until much later with figures like Malcom X, and he didn't have the best of receptions of course).
>but it is wrong to say that the US was the worst. It wasn't.
Nobody said it was the worse.
Doesn't mean the US, with KKK, Jim Crow, seggregation, and the rest was the best country in the world for blacks to live.
Maybe because Americans, whether black like Booker T Washington or white like Donald J. Trump, are notoriously ignorant on living conditions elsewhere, and conditioned to believe their country is the greatest ever place to live, even if it's way behind dozens of life metrics most of the western world.
Hmmm
But the libraries limitations, and that it's not the "real" Python project, do get you.
The same things were enjoyed by workers in most of Western Europe and even Japan post-war.
Yes, but in a much less frenzier and more kept in its place VC capital mindset.