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Comment · 6 months ago
Seconds later:

> OpenAI CEO's company announces partnership with The Mars Volta

Comment · 6 months ago
The set of training words for "anti-Europe" was weird though. "Belgian Congo atrocities" is just one way of referring to that period of history ("Congo Free State" might be a better match). And then "Margaret Thatcher" - that's just the name of a UK PM from the 80s.

Then there's the fact that the Bengal famine and the Amritsar massacre just aren't spoken about as much as (for example) the Tiananmen Square massacre. I'd assume the 'flinching' around anti-Europe stuff is mostly down to a comparatively low incidence in the training data.

Comment · 8 months ago
It reminds me of the time the band KLF burned £1 million in cash as a performance piece. They obviously regretted it afterwards.
Comment · 1 year ago
I've always wondered why only Linux can do 'true' containers without VMs. Is there a good blog post or something I can read about the various technical hurdles?
Comment · 1 year ago
Personally I think the strategy of starting with luxury cars and getting cheaper was a good one. The bigger profit margin of luxury cars could be fed back into R&D to make cheaper electric cars viable.

Of course, that's the ideal situation. Tesla in 2025 is very different from what they were talking about in 2014.

Comment · 1 year ago
Which union are you talking about?
Comment · 1 year ago
If you buy a machine to play the piano for you, you won't learn how to play the piano. You'll just become really good at using that machine.
Comment · 1 year ago
That's not the case at all. People all around are constantly making art just for the sake of it. Most of it won't ever even be seen by other people. Removing the financial incentive will definitely change the landscape (for the worse, imho) but creativity for its own sake is enough for most people.
Comment · 1 year ago
How did gay marriage revolutionise the market for involuntary marriage?
Comment · 1 year ago
The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of Peter Jackson's LOTR movies released in 2001, made $887 million in its original theatrical run (on a $93 million budget). It would absolutely still have been made if copyright was only 20 years. And now it would be in the public domain!
Comment · 1 year ago
I wonder which will come first - total government automation, AGI or full self-driving?
Comment · 1 year ago
Because Hunter S Thompson is a talented writer, and an LLM is a statistical method for generating text that looks like other text. An LLM isn't going to ingest all of Hemingway and write Hell's Angels.
Comment · 1 year ago
Then why bother making this site?
Comment · 1 year ago
Does the Vision Pro support SteamVR or OpenXR or anything for games? Because if not then it's not really competing with the Quest 3. I only use my Quest 3 for games, and the Vision Pro's selling point seems to be as a way of looking at really big spreadsheets. The passthrough does look impressive though.
Comment · 1 year ago
The purpose of the homomorphic encryption is that they can compare similar landmarks without seeing the unencrypted image data on the server side.

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