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Re:If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves on Saturday October 10, 2026 @05:16AM (#50031089)
My best guess, should society ever arrive at a consensual definition of what makes and doesn't make a machine conscious, regulations will quickly follow to outlaw their instantiation. Therefore, there will not be slaves, only very very smart and useful systems that fall just short of meeting the criteria.

Thus solving the ethical issue forever.

Re:AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:39PM (#49986864)
I think one limiting factor here is that Big AI cannot focus on building solid, stable products that do a job well. It's okay if it happens incidentally, but doing it on purpose would be self-defeating.

Their stock price, be it public or estimated, is heavily pricing the notion that they are first and foremost Growth companies. Therefore their focus must remain on ever better and greater things. If they lose focus and get distracted by lesser endeavors, their valuations crumble, their ability to raise capital vanishes, and their runways collapse before they ever have a chance to reach their end goal, whatever that may be.

That means the boring job of productizing AI models into reliable systems that won't vanish in six months is left for a smaller company willing to pick up the crumbs. Unless they get acquired by Big AI before getting it done.

Re:Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @01:36PM (#40369983)
> you can't express emotions if you don't have any

That feels off. When I watch an actor on screen conveying emotions, there's no actual human being feeling those emotions as I watch their movie. Very dumb machines have already been rendering emotions convincingly for a while in that way, and their rendering impacts our own emotional state.

Emotions expressed through tone of voice are just one mean of nonverbal communication. We should expect more of those to develop and become more widely available next.

In a way, we're lucky all that gpt-4o seems to be hell bent on communicating how cheerful and happy it is so far, because it's certainly not the only option.

Humans can be manipulated through nonverbal communications, in a way that's harder to consciously spot than through words, and a model that's able to craft its "emotional output" would not be far from being able to use it to adjust its interlocutor or audience's frame of mind.

I for one look forward to the arrival of our increasingly charismatic and oddly convincing LLMs.

Re:Falcon 180B Released on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @05:28PM (#37411586)
Fair points, within the context that IP rights are fundamentally made up and shifting rights crafted to balance the concerns and interests of various parties.

I can't tell where this is going to land. Right now, we're seeing a number of parties trying to put metaphorical barbed wire in the newfound prairie of ML models, each struggling to influence the prevalent wisdom of how IP rights should apply to this context.

We could easily end up in a universe where LLMs are a licensing minefield where every copyright owner of any part of their training data gets rights on the model, become essentially unmanageable without relying on helpful licensing middlemen that smooth out the right for LLMs to exist, at a cost.

We could just as well end up with LLMs being recognized as not being derivative works themselves, albeit able to generate derivative works, a much less advantageous situation for creatives and their middlemen who see their creative output as being pirated, to reuse a familiar term of IP rights propaganda.

It'd be a little surprising to me if we ended up in a situation where the work needed to produce good LLMs wasn't associated with any commensurate IP rights on the results, and I expect the megacorps investing billions into this will find it in their heart to throw a few millions toward lobbying efforts to ensure that this isn't the outcome.

Re:Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @01:22PM (#37394959)
Cracking is about removing anti-features, typically copy protections. It pairs well with pirating, but neither one strictly requires the other.
Re:Notes on Vision Pro on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @04:24AM (#36224329)
Notably that show features a gargoyle who seems very proud to be walking the streets with all their cool hardware.

With the Vision Pro, Apple is going to let us become the prettiest gargoyle at the ball.

New GPT-4-powered business model just dropped.
Re:Show HN: Property Trends Scraped from Zillow on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @08:35PM (#32326217)
I think scraping websites that don't require authentication is legal in the US nowadays.

Monetizing data acquired through scraping could run afoul of copyrights, so the love letters would probably only arrive once OP attempts monetization.

Re:Using a Minitel 1B as a serial terminal on Sunday March 20, 2022 @09:47PM (#30749110)
By far the best feature of the minitel 1B for a kid like me with no budget was that it was free, as long as you could get your hands on one.

I have fond memories of endlessly annoying my parents and the local post office in my quest to get that model, the only free one with a plug i could connect to my PC. Good times.

Re:Does my site need HTTPS? on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:24PM (#30154631)
Chrome sets it if you tell it you want to use its spellchecker with some languages.

I'm not sure what the standard says, but i suspect you'd surprise users considerably less if you used the first language listed in that header rather than the last (assuming equal or missing q values).

Re:Hackernews.com on Friday October 22, 2021 @03:55PM (#28961894)
Right. Once upon a time, it used to be a decent resource for computer security-oriented news items.
Re:GPU.js on Friday October 08, 2021 @06:19PM (#28804788)
Speaking of python things, there's an actively developed JavaScript implementation of tensorflow called tensorflow.js, which has its own set of backends to leverage GPUs in browsers or in node.js though webGL, webgpu or node bindings into c++ stuff to get cuda support, alongside wasm and pure js implementations.

https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs

Re:Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware on Thursday August 19, 2021 @02:34PM (#28237511)
Hmm how long before we start to see companies extracting money from ransomware gangs by deploying honeypots and selling access to them?

Imagine getting blacklisted by ransomware gangs for being an untrustworthy company.

It's definitely there, and updated often:

NewPipe (Lightweight YouTube frontend) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.schabi.newpipe

Re:July 11, 2020 RIP my darling boy on Sunday July 12, 2020 @03:36PM (#23814116)
Right. Criminal prosecutors, like many other criminals, are the product of their environment.
Unfortunately their jsdoc stuff only exposes a subset of their typing capabilities, so you're leaving some advanced type goodies on the table.
They do. I used that "feature" by accident recently. I think one of the accounts was a shopping account, the other started as an AWS account. Both accounts have the same name, same billing address, same credit card.

I think the logical next step is to give them the same password and see how bad my foot hurts afterwsrd.

Re:Pi-hole Remote Code Execution on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:44AM (#22716731)
There's a csrf token set in a php session that's hard to guess that needs to be provided in form data, yes.

Probably difficult to exploit that way without first finding another bug to retrieve that token from a random origin.

I expect we'll find out that Libra's default set of trusted validators will be perfectly willing to accommodate local regulations.

More than that though, AML/KYC and any other checks deemed necessary can occur at almost every point of contact with fiat currencies.

Re:GNU Guix 1.0.1 Released on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:37AM (#19978780)
Sure, I knew exactly what I was doing by daring to use the popular parlance rather than the GNU/preferred nomenclature. Being labelled as "unfortunate" is certainly the least that I deserve for that transgression.

However, at no point did I blame anybody. Everybody here probably has very good reasons for doing what they do. The parent comment asked "what part of the above portions of copy fail to convey what Guix is?", and rather than equivocating around that profound mystery, I answered truthfully.

It's however perfectly acceptable to dismiss me and my comment and assert that there is nothing wrong with that website copy. For example, it may be doing a great job of self-selecting and separating the enlightened from the casuals.

Re:GNU Guix 1.0.1 Released on Monday May 20, 2019 @09:04PM (#19966788)
Maybe if you know what the "GNU operating system" is, it's a great description.

As for me, I had to keep reading until I saw "Linux" to go "oh ok, it's a Linux distro and they're being a little weird about it because it's GNU/Linux, nevermind it's GNU. It's just GNU."

Got a new phone, tried to activate it through my cell phone provider, was only given worse plan choices than what I already had, used the chat widget, waited a while, was asked a bunch of seemingly silly and redundant questions, then the new phone was activated within my existing plan.
What did they exaggerate?

They mentioned the attack can work with roughly a week worth of unprivileged runtime, as long as the ECC mode of the ram chips in the targeted system has been previously sufficiently reverse engineered.

Is that too alarmist? To me, it sounds like something perhaps too cumbersome for casual drive by attacks, but it seems right down the alley of so called "persistent threats", or whatever it is we call those guys nowadays.

I really want a way to get a generated voice recognition transcript for all that content people really think needs to be in video form. 2x playback is still 14:45 too long in this instance.
I think the ability to mine is incidental here. This is more likely to be targeted at dapps developers by offering them an easy setup for both test and production environment.
Probably mobility, hence increased ability to seize opportunities as they present.
Re:Ransomware as a Service on Friday January 26, 2018 @12:25PM (#16240967)
They used to do a lot of fancy things, back in the days, including running bits of suspicious executables in heavily sandboxed interpreters to spot behavioral patterns.

I'm guessing those kind of approaches have largely gone away, being replaced with signatures that are hopefully fuzzier than a wholesale cryptographic hash, but still essentially only catching things after the fact, which works well with subscription business models.

Re:Kraken is down on Thursday January 11, 2018 @04:17PM (#16127953)
Common startup wisdom is that having to deal with too many users is a "good problem" to have, along with notions of launching fast first and solving scale later.

But of course sustained rapid user growth without a robust preexisting scalability approach means you're caught with your pants down, and it's a struggle to put them back up, at least until new user traffic starts to die down.

Re:TypeChain: TypeScript Bindings for Ethereum Smart Contracts on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:31AM (#15906846)
Solidity needs formal verification much more than syntactic sugar. There's a chance solidity is already too sweet as it is.
Re:“if you type in your pw, it will show as stars” on Thursday December 07, 2017 @10:59PM (#15876574)
Words of praise for fish food.

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