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Comment · 3 days ago
The last two words of their old motto "don't be evil"
Comment · 7 days ago
It looks interesting. The same concept could be applied to different parts of the training process.
Comment · 8 days ago
I know someone who recently came across a scammer where a guy impersonated a sheriff's deputy and tried to get money out of her. She told me the guy sounded like a real sheriff and made her believe the guy until he asked her to pay some money in Bitcoin. I can imagine that this type of scam could go viral soon. Even worse, someone could record our voice and fine-tune a model like this so that it can produce our voice and then talk to our family members to deceive them. It'd be a real trouble.
Comment · 16 days ago
Good for a date I suppose. It has the suspension bridge effect.
Comment · 21 days ago
It's ironic that ML researchers don't fully understand why their models behave the way they do, yet continue to make progress using benchmarks to guide the efforts. Human understanding is important but whether and to what extent it's necessary seems to be a separate question, and the answer may depend on the nature of the field.
Comment · 22 days ago
Maybe I'll build a Turing machine out of beer cans as a way to grieve my loss.
Comment · 24 days ago
This news is exciting and sad at the same time. I've heard that AI chess programs sometimes have blind spots or quirks that human players don't. I've also heard that human players are learning from AI's playing styles (essentially human and AI evolving together). Maybe something similar will happen in mathematics.
Comment · 25 days ago
Comment · 29 days ago
Some publication companies like NYT prohibit the use of ai for both writing and illustration. I’m glad that they’re going this direction for the reason you mentioned.
Comment · 1 month ago
> It could also create limitations for customers who expect a security camera to provide footage after a break-in, package theft, or other incident. How Apple’s wider security system would handle those situations remains unclear.

What would be the main advantage of this design? My understanding is that it captures image frames, retains them in RAM, and processes them with a CPU without saving them to a flash (or an SSD). Even if an attacker manages to compromise the camera, there wouldn't be historical data to retrieve. But couldn't an attacker with sufficient access read the frames currently in RAM and possibly capture footage while maintaining the access? Could hardware isolation prevent this even if some of the camera's software were compromised?

It feels like it's becoming harder to strike the right balance between privacy and the actual utility that the device is supposed to provide.

Comment · 1 month ago
When I worked at a startup, I didn't care about my stock option at all. My expectation is really low for any early stage companies. I understand why something like this could happen.

The author would have sold the shares before Nvidia stock skyrocketed even if he had received them. So, the actual loss might not be as large as a billion dollars in reality.

Comment · 1 month ago
It casually apologies to me after I point out its hallucinations and sometimes scares me. I can't imagine fully trusting AI for making critical decisions about military operations without having a thorough review process. One twist might be that it could be better than human overall, considering we also make mistakes. The same can be said for other applications of AI like medical diagnosis.

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