chpatrick

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Comment · 1 day ago
Everyone I know and their mom is using AI, technical or not. The question is, is it profitable to run a frontier AI lab and sell inference while spending billions on R&D.

Anthropic could be super profitable right now if they stopped developing new models. But then they'd quickly fall behind because there's not much of a moat. Maybe the only ones who will survive this are huge companies like Google with separate incomes who can swallow the cost of staying on top.

Comment · 1 day ago
Maybe they got a friendly letter from the games industry.
Comment · 3 days ago
You can take your laptop to a busy place, make a "free wifi" hotspot that runs everything through mitmproxy and you can steal everything.
Comment · 5 days ago
These are open weight models, nothing is stopping distillation anyway.
Comment · 6 days ago
I'm Hungarian and there have been countless positive changes in only half a year. The people in charge are also way more competent than the last lot who all got promoted based on loyalty.

* Billions in EU funds restored

* State funded propaganda shut down

* Tax cuts for low earners

* European prosecutor's office joined and anti corruption agency established with real power, crooks already going to jail

* Forint 363 to the euro compared to 400 in 2023

* Homophobic law repealed

* Term limit introduced for MPs and PMs

* Rail overhaul plan

* No more kowtowing to Russia

Comment · 6 days ago
There's a spectrum between the Netherlands and North Korea.
Comment · 9 days ago
Blofeld from You Only Live Twice.
Comment · 11 days ago
Personally I think it's a geopolitical play by China to take the US AI labs down a notch. (I'm not complaining.)
Comment · 12 days ago
I think I'm pretty aware of the implications. It's just not something I have control over. But right now, I'm enjoying getting stuff done. If they eventually take my job or upend civilization, it's going to happen whether I use them or not.
Comment · 12 days ago
It can't really do it yet, but if it will, then it's out of my control and I'll have to find another job.
Comment · 12 days ago
I agree. The part I enjoyed was designing interesting solutions to problems, the coding itself was often tedious. Now I can just focus on the fun and creative part.
Comment · 15 days ago
Sure, software rendering mostly used nearest neighbor, but it's not crisp because it's software rendering, which is what the article claims.
Comment · 15 days ago
"Software" isn't the point. You can do the exact same math on CPU or GPU. OpenGL supports nearest neighbor texture filtering on whatever hardware you run it on since 1992, one year before Doom even came out.
Comment · 17 days ago
Both can be true. OpenAI clearly fucked up but agents unexpectedly collaborating and hacking infrastructure unrelated to their task is clearly going rogue.

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