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It’s true employees at the big AI firms are living in the future, but since this disclosure is in marketing materials to sell their stock to investors, it’s important to note that almost all the money in personal computing was made in mobile which didn’t use any of these ideas, and in desktop computing the money was made by Microsoft who treated the GUI as ancillary and competed on distribution.

I think the point stands: does it seem like they are increasing operating excellence at 5x-10x the rate they were in January? Or is the volume supporting having agents do the same work in 5-10 the commits that a human + agent was doing in 1 commit in January? There is some interesting data people pulled by comparing weekday to weekend contributions in the chart (much of the increase seems to be in the baseline rate).

Yes Anthropic’s chief compute officer said nice things about one of Anthropic’s chief providers of compute. Recall that compute constraints are one of their existential risks.

In particular, harvesting identities for online fraud is an industrial market for various criminal organizations.

This is a superficial complaint. In practice, the US doles out enormous amounts of social assistance. Disability, social security, and healthcare are an enormous part of the federal budget. Maybe it will be gated behind make-work or some other scheme.

It’s kind of useless to argue through metaphors here. There are a hundred researchers with more significant contributions to theory and practice than Karpathy. If you disagree, I’d love to see what papers or implementations you think he’s offered that pushed SOTA.

He can be at the frontier while just having a regular job. Every other option is a lot more work.

GPT-1 presumably, which was released a year after he left. Prior to focusing on GPT, OpenAI was pursuing a lot of research directions.

No it doesn’t? It matches his skills to the lab’s needs. Karpathy is a media personality, manager, and educator far more than he is a hands-on researcher.

Average people don’t want to spend their lives managing permissions. You could go ahead and use Android or ChromeOS.

No average person cares about your side project, and most people prefer Apple’s product decisions over the ones you’d like them to make. Based on your history with technology, you are a Windows developer who would like to distribute apps on Apple’s platform without learning about what makes for a great app on that platform.

Browser vendors have been able to ship their own engines in the EU for almost 2 years now. What great benefit to consumers has that enabled?

You aren’t going to run a network connected 24/7 online agent from a laptop because it’s battery powered and portable.

OpenAI did not "bet" on Jony Ive. They bought his company io Products.

The people complaining about Safari often are running enterprise crapware that requires some esoteric Chrome API or bug to operate correctly and should actually be an app on iOS but cannot be funded as such because its creators don’t care about its users.