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Wild that this about behavior from 7 years ago - imagine additional fines that will need to be paid in 7 years for current market manipulation by some of these giant players (incl in US). Things are moving really slow. The amounts are also just a drop in the bucket...

Splitting up Google seems more and more likely, probably would raise the overall market cap and drive innovation

Re:BeyondCorp on Sunday June 23, 2024 @08:37AM (#40767017)
A lot of people wrongly believe this means no firewall. If you don't use firewalls (yes, even for web traffic and SaaS, limit who can access your stuff), you are doing something wrong.
For anyone who didn't know Google apparently deleted (like in making it unrecoverable) a larger customers subscription (and GCP data) and also all backups as far as it sounds. The customer luckily had their own backups elsewhere outside of GCP.

That's insane.

Re:Apple's new ad: a perfect reflection of society on Friday May 10, 2024 @10:20AM (#40319358)
Just out of curiosity, do you play an instrument?

I'm wondering if it impacts people with strong emotional bond to art more than others.

I felt it was just super weird and nonsensical.

Whenever this story comes up I think of this movie, called 23, that's tells the story from the hackers perspective.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(film)

Both stories are fascinating.

Re:Starship's Third Flight Test on Thursday March 14, 2024 @06:09PM (#39709527)
I think each test served exactly its purpose and it's incredible to see the rapid progress. Unclear why you believe the first two were not a success at all? Did you expect a novel vehicle like this would just work the first time?
Re:What if an SQL statement returned a database? on Monday December 11, 2023 @06:34PM (#38606977)
Multiple resultsets is a common term. Where a resultset is a table basically.

SQL Server (since 2005) can actually even have multiple active resultsets on a single connection. Assume same is true for most other database servers.

What are the reasons that makes this possible? The articles I have seen are not explaining what makes this different? What needs to be invented to get end to end security for push? I might be missing the obvious, apologies upfront.
Re:Extracting Training Data from ChatGPT on Thursday November 30, 2023 @08:19AM (#38473108)
Read OpenAI's response to this security issue carefully - it tells you a lot about how they think of being responsible for issues like this. I remember they put all the blame on the open source library, rather than taking responsibility themselves.
Re:Amazon-Unveils-Q on Thursday November 30, 2023 @08:06AM (#38472990)
I have trouble understanding what Q is. It can't be that new Chatbot named Amazon Q in AWS, because it has very few capabilities. It's kind of embarrassing.

What am I missing? Is there something else shipping in future?

doubt any of the media outlets actually used it, they are just repeating Amazon's statements

Re:Amazon Introduces AI Assistant for AWS on Thursday November 30, 2023 @02:23AM (#38470689)
I have trouble understanding what Q is. It can't be that new Chatbot named Amazon Q in AWS, because it has very few capabilities. It's kind of embarrassing.

What am I missing? Is there something else shipping in future?

Re:Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @09:51PM (#38468847)
Yeah, OpenAI lost a bit of its magic. It's sad because it was really fun so far to see all the great progress.

But there are so many unanswered questions still and the lack of transparency is an issue, as is the cult like behavior that can be observed recently.

Re:Yann LeCun on why AI must be open source [video] on Sunday November 26, 2023 @07:03PM (#38426522)
Wouldn't open source mean you can recreate the model from scratch by knowing the training data?

There is a weird definition of open source that creeps in here.

Llama2 is effectively, proprietary compiled software. GPT-4 is proprietary compiled and hosted as SaaS.

We have yet to see a true open source LLM...

AI/ML is reinventing so many terms it's a bit annoying.

Re:OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO on Saturday November 18, 2023 @09:09PM (#38327666)
Elon brought him in, which is quite the irony. Funny even. It also is the reason Elon and Larry Page don’t get along anymore.

Ilya is certainly world class in his field, and maybe good to listen to what he has to say

Re:OpenAI Investors Scramble to Reinstate Sam Altman as CEO on Saturday November 18, 2023 @09:05PM (#38327621)
Three engineers isn’t a lot honestly after such a stunt. I’d assumed there would more loyal folks, but maybe most are really in for the mission.

The next couple of weeks will tell.

Re:Major Outage Across ChatGPT and API on Saturday November 18, 2023 @01:01PM (#38322383)
It’s 195 countries!
Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition on Saturday November 18, 2023 @12:58PM (#38322341)
I doubt this was a surprise to them, I’m sure Sam was well aware of the concerns and repeatedly ignored them, and even doubled down. Putting OpenAI’s mission in jeopardy.

Many politically aligned folks will leave, and OAI will go back and focus on mission.

New company will emerge and focus on profits.

Overall probably good for everyone.

Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition on Saturday November 18, 2023 @02:38AM (#38316605)
His timeline.
Re:Major Outage Across ChatGPT and API on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:23AM (#38202122)
I don’t think there are 230+ countries, at least not on this planet.
Re:Introducing GPTs on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @02:25AM (#38174126)
No, it’s 11:24 pm pst and not available for me.
Re:Introducing GPTs on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @02:20AM (#38174098)
ChatGPT and plugins were already agents. An agent just does stuff on somebody else’s behalf. Browsing, browses the Internet for the user, code interpreter creates and runs Python code for the user…

What you describe are what’s called autonomous agents, and i agree that I also expected some interesting announcement there but probably too many security issues.

Re:Introducing GPTs on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @02:16AM (#38174075)
Yes, thats also why policies aren’t enforced. I assume OpenAI knew all along that plugins probably are a dead end. Wonder if they will be around 6 months from now.

But Actions will have all the same security challenges basically.

Re:GPT-4 Update: 32K Context Window Now for All Users on Friday November 03, 2023 @11:15PM (#38137821)
Yes, a prompt injection will persist longer and can have impact later in a conversation for instance.
Re:Google agrees to invest up to $2B in OpenAI rival Anthropic on Saturday October 28, 2023 @07:24AM (#38048956)
Maybe it only does a certain amount of sub queries? Like a DOS protection?

To be fair. It says research yourself and provided data for most of the others saving the user enormous amount of time.

The genie is out of the bag.

Re:Ask HN: 6 months later. How is Bard doing? on Monday September 18, 2023 @10:14PM (#37564890)
Bard’s biggest problem is it hallucinates too much. Point it to a YouTube video and ask to summarize? Rather then saying I can’t do that it will mostly make up stuff, same for websites.
Re:Degraded performance on ChatGPT on Thursday August 31, 2023 @10:20AM (#37337568)
That plus they seem to have added additional security checks (probably doing multiple LLM calls, like additional validation calls) since about that enterprise announcement. I noticed certain things being a lot slower since a few days ago.
Re:We Call on FOSS Contributors to “Exit Zoom” on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @08:04PM (#37141011)
Google Meets is far behind- even image quality on 1-2 people call is quite low.

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