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I, at least, also consider it unacceptable at hotels... But that battle already seems lost.

Please don't use one loss of privacy to justify more.

Something, something, slippery slope.

I've been thinking for a while, there's not real winners here except the incumbent technology providers. Hear me out: all models are converging towards the same level, gains are getting smaller and harder to come by. The models are commodities nothing more.

This is the leap, nobody really wants to front a model for someone else. If i build an agent, or a service that requires a model, I'd prefer to push the model onto someone else, preferably at no cost. This is a leap as I'm sure right now, most people / businesses are thinking actually i do want to own / front the model.

However, if you accept the leap the easiest way to do this is to make the model the users problem.

From a business point of view that makes things really easy, from a customer point of view, they simply have to accept whatever their vendor of choice is pushing down their throats.

So as a business I build for whatever model Google makes available to android, and whatever model windows bundles, and whatever model Apple bundles, and, excluding the long tail of Chinese vendors and Linux (sorry, its always left out) and that's it, problem solved, and the customer picks up the tab for the tokens

In this episode, I look at the new wave of AI "creators" that are cannibalizing attention and resources away from real creators. It's time to do something but no one seems to care.

That is what they do. Male, female, man, woman, boy, girl are sex categories, not gender categories, that is they predate the very idea of gender as distinct from sex.

Sports categories never had anything to do with gender.

The other difference of sexual development are different sexes

I have proclaimed RAG is dead many times, and I stand by it.

RAG is Dead! Long Live Agentic RAG! || Long Live putting stuff in databases where it damn well belongs!

I think you agree with the people saying RAG is Dead, or at least you agree with me and I say RAG is Dead, when you say "Simply using docling and transforming PDFs to markdown and have a vector database doing the rest is ridiculous."

I fully agree, but that was the promise of RAG, chunk your documents into little bits and find the bit that is closet to the users query and add it to the context, maybe leave a little overlap on the chunks, is how RAG was initially presented, and how many vendors implement RAG, looking at tools like Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases here.

When I want to know the latest <important financial number>, I want that pulled that from the source of truth for that data, not hopefully get the latest and not last years number from some document chunk.

So, when people, or at least when I say RAG is Dead, it's short hand for: this is really damn complex, and vector search doesn't replace decades of information theory, storage and retrieval patterns.

Hell, I've worked with teams trying to extract everything from databases to push it into vector stores so the LLM can use the data. First, it often failed as they had chunks with multiple rows of data, and the LLM got confused as to which row actually mattered, they hadn't realized that the full chunk would be returned and not just the row they were interested in. Second, the use cases being worked on by these teams were usually well defined, that is, the required data could be deterministically defined before going to the LLM and pulled from a database using a simple script, no similarity required, but that's not the cool way to do it.

That non crime hate incident goes on your criminal record and if you need an enhanced criminal records check, it will show up, and can be used to deny you employment. Its not just intimidation.

there's many to choose from, you can google for more. But here's what got Lucy Connolly a 31 month sentence:

"Mass deportations, now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care, if that makes me a racist, so be it".

Racist maybe, although she doesn't seem to care about race.

Offensive, yeah, seems that it could be interpreted as offensive, but thats not technically illegal (the high court has repeatedly affirmed to right to be offensive).

Inciting violence (the offense she was convicted of) no, not at all, she was stating her political opinion and her belief that the lives of immigrants is worth less than british children.

Although people will point out she admitted guilt, but the threat of significant pre-trail imprisonment was used a lot at this time to force guilty pleas.

No, this is exactly how Amazon management works.

Members of a team creates a report explaining the state of their small section of the business, usually a 2x2 grid of boxes to fill.

This is then reviewed, usually in an in person meeting that requires full team participation.

These are joined together to create a weekly business review, that will require another meeting to review.

Each month the WBRs are combined to created the monthly business review, with a massive meeting requiring participation by multiple teams.

The pyramid of documents and meetings continues all the way up to the CEO.

I should probably point out, none of this information is unavailable at any level, its copied and pasted from system to 2x2 then copied from doc to doc. It's a spectacle that needs to be seen to be believed.

And that just the reporting, planning is another exercise in multiple report writing that I'll save for another day. But, hopefully you get the idea.

Amazon is 90% internal document writing and 70% work (9-5 does not really exist, it could, it just doesnt).

It's essentially a massive jobs program for middle management that aren't capable enough to join the TSA and that's being unfair to the TSA.

The only reason I can think for the existence of the reporting is to give managers something to do between pipping staff.