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Comment · 8 months ago
I have wanted to do something like this for the UK as well. But scared of losing my job.. if I could do this anonymously - oh man - that would be great.
Comment · 8 months ago
This is awesome - but they shouldn't have revealed the secret on how they caught them.. like 1000's of other offenders could land up making similar mistakes. It just makes sense to keep your mouth shut and keep on hunting.
Comment · 1 year ago
Reading through Sutskever's deposition is a great example of where the approach to AI mentioned in this post, is failing. The way the world is setup means you need politicians who are hungry for power and willing to do the not so human thing.

Asking for consent to train content, make sure sure AI is "green".. these of idealogical fancies that don't match up to the real world and the winners the folks walking straight over these.

In both cases a smarter model should be help to help offset the greenhouse gas effects and then some when used to discover new materials etc. Hallucinations can be managed, detected and corrected in most cases when doing research and in many cases are just treated as failed attempts as it is easier and cheaper to just ask the model to try again.

The only idea worth chasing here is a community driven and open source approach.

We have this in may formats... my fave is Ben Goertzel's OpenCog .. but there is more. I think Emad Mustaq is doing something similar with decentralised compute/AI.

Again - all bleeding edge is for profit.. not even OpenAI's idealogical foundation was able to be saved from being turned in to a for profit gig.

Comment · 1 year ago
Honestly.. probably in the top 100 best things China has done. These rings are responsible for kidnapping, trafficking and the deaths of many a victim. Smells like justice to me...and a fair warning!
Comment · 2 years ago
How to induce mass layoffs without needing to offer severance packages.. without telling employees this is a massive layoff without severance packages being available..

Surprise surprise.. ... not really .. when it comes to Amazon.

Comment · 2 years ago
Should we just not grow robots organically then? We have the DNA structure.. why not..
Comment · 2 years ago
All of those are great.. but let's be honest.. they services they are replacing are way way way slicker and easier to use.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's all about installation.. most folks just can't be bothered to install a different OS then the one their laptop came with. I liken it to the small community of people who tune their cars vs most of the the people who use cars.. just use what they get when they buy.

There is the fact that gaming is a faff with Linux vs something like Microsoft.

It's amazing.. I am a Linux fanboy.. but it's just not a mainstream platform.. and I don't think it will ever be.. and that's OK!

Comment · 2 years ago
Yes, because that's going to stop competitors.. it's why they didn't release code I guess.

This is yet another large part of a biotech related Gutenberg moment.

Comment · 2 years ago
I've heard you have to have some sort of registered person do or sign of your tax returns or something ridiculous like this. Something about an entire industry of tax return specialists or something that exist purely for taxes to be done correctly. Of course the US is massive so it might be some random state maybe or something.

Honestly I see America like a collection of large countries as groups of states almost. They are so different in so many ways.

Comment · 2 years ago
The fact that this was not a thing until recently is mind blowing to me as someone who lives in the U.K.

Doing your taxes is so easy here - takes me 30 mins max, all online and there is even a mobile app to set reminders and give you updates on any rebates or messages.

Dam...

Comment · 2 years ago
If there were ever a "this is a massive bubble" flag - this headline would be it. When it starts to get silly - it is..
Comment · 3 years ago
Dystopia vs Utopia - fine we're aware of potential final destinations. Lots of talk on how we get to either. I wanted to take a harsher approach on changes happening in the near term and what they could mean.

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