Em Adespoton

On the plus side, the US government has now ensured Anthropic will do more than the bare minimum in the US.

Of course, that means it’s now OpenAI making kill decisions.

Isn’t “theshamblog” AI generated? So in this case, including the Ars article it’s referencing?

The pieces are dated 2024.

This might be romanticizing the early Internet.

I can remember plenty of flame wars in the late 80s and early 90s that were all about shutting down meaningful discussion. Informed debate flourished in niche areas, but it still does today, in a similar volume. What’s changed is the massive volume of social media that’s grown up around it, including many types of voices that were in short supply on the Internet in 1989, and many of which are uneducated and/or tribal in nature.

Nothing xenophobic about it. That’s just the model we already have documented information about. Notice I mentioned CCP and government, not “the Chinese”.

That’s like calling someone an antisemite for being against the Israeli or Iranian government.

Ollama with standard Gemma2 model open to the Internet. What could go wrong?

I call out this one because the Chinese government has already examined it for exploits and flaws.

Letting it run outside a sandbox on the Internet is tantamount to sharing any information and capabilities it has with the CCP.

Well, I guess in this case, there WERE spoons.

I wonder if DailyMotion is hiring?

They also own Ars Technica and the Financial Times, but seem to keep a hands-off approach to those two and Wired.

The thing about Altman is that he actually believes in what he’s doing.

Ultra wealthy ideologues are extremely dangerous because they think their wealth means they’re morally correct.

The problem with that is the rash of deaths of people with copyright over desirable content.

And this isn’t just speculative.

And as soon as people start doing this, demand for the chips goes up and it becomes more expensive than buying them pre-assembled.

Seems to me like Pirate Television should be really easy these days….

Conversely, the company I’m working for has been around for 45 years, isn’t unionized, promotes from inside, and provides reasonable wages and great benefits.

They know that if they mess that up, we’ll all leave and go work somewhere else.

Of course, the company isn’t American, which likely makes a difference.

Is there a slide deck or transcript of this? I don’t watch videos this way.

They’re not text predictors; they’re text transformers. So, more for translating a text from French to English, or providing you a summary of what a large input text is trying to say.

They can do prediction, but not well, and not without a lot of extra computation, as they’re really trying to summarize everything you’ve said, including the bit you haven’t written yet.

90 cents per charge? And no cable that you discover after you’ve pulled up to the charger is broken?

Seems like this will pay for itself in short order at fast charging stations.

They used existing archives; the pages were actually archived earlier. But they could only incorporate the pages that had actually been archived, which was mostly major services (Geocities, ProHosting, Lycos, etc) and public institutions.

The Wayback Machine started saving web pages in 1996. I’ve got Geocities pages I created at the time where that’s the only way I can access them now.

The frustrating thing for me is that Wayback only saved web pages; all the Gopher pages and FTP pages just vanished.

Regular cars have been increasingly slaved to the on-board computer since the 1990s though.

You can only buy a few modern cars that don’t send constant telemetry back to the manufacturer, for example — just like televisions.

Why not revert to the Internet of the 1990s, before it was commercialized and before Internet became synonymous with Web Services?

Of course, the truth is, even back then, there were a lot of dark memes on Usenet.

I don’t really care if there’s only one browser engine — but that engine had better support the latest international standards around stuff like progressive web apps.

Apple still supports PWAs, but they’ve become second class citizens. It should be possible to deploy most software as a PWA from XCode instead of a dedicated binary, including with access to hardware interfaces. And it would still be secure, and wouldn’t require app stores or sideloading.