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Is becoming a public company going to help or harm their mission of delivering safe AI?
"Fault" has nothing to do with it. A mouse killed in a trap isn't "at fault" for being in my house when I don't want it to be there
I experienced almost the opposite once.
We had a window with a mirrored film to reduce the amount of sun into its room and the neighborhood crows were obsessed with it. They would fly into it, sit right outside the window and chatter loudly, and peck at the window.
Unfortunately this window was on my infant's nursery and the crow noises would constantly wake her up during nap time. My wife asked me to help and I tried a scarecrow, I tried shooing them away right after they woke up the baby, but neither helped. I finally took a pellet gun and shot one of them after another baby-waking incident. All the crows flew away and screeched angrily at me for ~5 minutes before leaving. I never saw them again.
What is the purpose of this article besides "we can use ludicrous numbers of tokens to reinvent any software we want, and no we're not sharing the code"?
How is Zig doing as a project? I remember they took a hard line against AI
It's complicated, but one of the ways they first cooperated was to break the flag generation algorithm.
I'm sort of winging this, but the ExploitGym challenges involve exploiting a program then getting an HMAC generated "flag" which the scorer can verify. The agents collaborated on a way to produce a legitimate flag for all of their tasks (funny enough this was actually what caused them to escape sandbox, the agents were incorrectly convinced that simply providing a correct flag without accurate steps to exploit the program in their transcripts would cause them to still fail the task)
Has this been verified by the Clay Institute?
I don't think it's all that exciting. The hybrid BSD/mach personalities is somewhat interesting, as are some of the available mach machineries.
It's been a stable foundation for several of the most successful operating systems in history though
Does this company's charter not have language about shutting down the company if it was in humanity's best interest? This is insanely dangerous
Why did Scott Alexander (one of the authors of the original AI 2027 paper) not join/contribute to this one?
how much does this chip help with inference speed?
For those curious, this is a report about firings from the last year. Not a new round of layoffs:
> Oracle shed about 21,000 roles globally in the last year as the US technology giant reshapes its business around artificial intelligence (AI), the firm's latest annual report shows.
"The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. The Orientals score higher"
"These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow. If I tell Singaporeans – we are all equal regardless of race, language, religion, culture, then they will say, 'Look, I'm doing poorly. You are responsible.' But I can show that from British times, certain groups have always done poorly, in mathematics and in science."
"If you don't reproduce yourself, what happens? Next generation you will have a less capable generation to run the country... We must go closer to the evidence of the experts, which shows that about 80 per cent of a person's makeup is nature, inherited, and only 20 per cent nurture, environment and training."
> If Powell hadn't been a racist shit, he could have been as effective as Lee Kwan Yew was
How do you compare Powell's "racism" and LKY's views on race and intelligence? By nearly all definitions of racism, Yew was a racist as well
Apple is the only company doing this sort of processing
At what point does this company undo their name change that was aligned with them pivoting to the metaverse and virtual reality?
That's relevant to the future prospects of the product, but most of the comments are bemoaning the current and previous state of Dropbox. Just seems unrelated to me
Why are the HN comments about how Dropbox's business is not doing well? I don't think there's any indication that Drew is stepping down because of that?
Where is a source for either of these extraordinary claims?
The reason people don't like Spirit has less to do with the airplanes and more to do with the typical Spirit passenger. Most of modern life in America is an elaborate series of choices to maximize the distance between yourself and Spirit airlines passengers. All the usual euphemisms apply: 'good school districts', 'safe suburban neighborhoods', etc
> and a truly 21st-century monolith-microkernel hybrid whose specific design is a mystery to public science
What is this a reference to? Fuchsia?
Spying on and sabotaging weapons development of foreign adversaries is a completely normal government function
Are you claiming that Pakistani nurses and doctors are not educated on the dangers of needle reuse?
This happened before with GPT-2 being touted as "too dangerous to release"[0] at the time by OpenAI. I don't think that means every model will be safe to release in the future, but nothing I've read about Mythos seems like it's going to be different this time.
[0]: https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/
I'm actually somewhat surprised the OS fully boots when it's not connected to the expected vehicle peripherals
Probably a reference to shows like 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives'
At what point does this company un-do their name change to Meta?
This is quite literally the end of open source. projects will find themselves in the position of making their test suites private to avoid being sherlocked like this
Neither is voting free, what's the argument here?