agitator (u/agitator)

agitator commented on Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets apnews.com/article/china-... · Posted by u/kiwicopple

vasco · 2 years ago

> We have strict safeguards to prevent the theft of our confidential commercial information and trade secrets

This is just something companies have to say to keep their certifications / audits valid and not get sued by shareholders. In the end any system is leakable if workers really want to.

agitator · 2 years ago

It's also to be defensible in court. If an opposing party can make the valid argument that "They leave the doors wide open and scatter IP willy-nilly, why wouldn't the IP get leaked?" it makes it harder to argue "Person X stole information when it was obvious that there was an expectation of secrecy"

agitator commented on OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired businessinsider.com/opena... · Posted by u/meitros

DebtDeflation · 2 years ago

1) Where is Emmett? He's the CEO now. It's his job to be the public face of the company. The company is in an existential crisis and there have been no public statements after his 1AM tweet.

2) Where is the board? At a bare minimum, issue a public statement that you have full faith in the new CEO and the leadership team, are taking decisive action to stabilize the situation, and have a plan to move the company forward once stabilized.

agitator · 2 years ago

As much as I'd love to hear about the details of the drama as the next person, they really don't have to say anything publicly. We are all going to continue using the product. They don't have public investors. The only concern about perception they may have is if they intend to raise more money anytime soon.

agitator commented on Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI” semianalysis.com/p/google... · Posted by u/klelatti

kweingar · 2 years ago

> In Google's case they are still really focused on search whereas LLMs arguably move the focus to answers.

I would love to see what proportion of searches are questions that would benefit from natural language answers. The huge majority of my searches would not be improved by LLMs and in fact would probably be made worse. “Thai food near me”, “IRS phone number”, “golang cmp documentation”

agitator · 2 years ago

And isn’t that the problem?

Why do I need to translate my question into an optimal set of keywords that will give me what I want while minimizing unwanted results? Google search was a great stepping stone and connects you with the web, but it’s broken in many ways when it comes to what value we are really trying to extract.

A machine that can hone in on what I’m getting at in an intuitive sense while having all of human data available to generate a response is so much more powerful.

agitator commented on The smash and grab of Kroger-Albertsons mattstoller.substack.com/... · Posted by u/connor11528

bee_rider · 3 years ago

> Folks get invested in their local grocery stores, we do at least.

It is kinda funny (Stop & Shop or starvation I say!). I suspect it is because getting groceries is one of the rare shopping activities that is just 100% always a chore. Like if you are going clothes or electronics shopping, you are probably hoping to stumble across something surprising. Food -- I know what food I want, no need for novelty, I just want to get in and out.

agitator · 3 years ago

I can't relate to this statement at all. I actually enjoy grocery shopping. I look forward to it every week. It gives me an opportunity to pick out what I want to eat or make during the week. I love cooking and discovering new food, so it's a bit of a hobby. I know its incredibly inefficient and something that I could do faster ordering online, but shopping for food is weirdly nostalgic and human to me. Procuring food, even though it's still within the structure of industrialized grocery, is the last thing in my life that hasn't been completely digitized and I find it pleasantly inefficient and archaic.

I mostly shop a Trader Joes, aside from other specific things I may need at a specialty store.

agitator commented on What is it like to have a brain? Ways of looking at consciousness lareviewofbooks.org/artic... · Posted by u/Hooke

notfed · 3 years ago

For starters:

- Why is there something rather than nothing?

- Does a universe with no one in it to observe it count as something or nothing?

Then, imagine we're building an AI and want to know whether it's reached our level or not:

- How can we determine whether the AI experiences qualia the same (or similar) way we do, and isn't lying?

- Where to draw the line between conscious being and computer?

agitator · 3 years ago

How do you know if the people to your left or right experience sensations the same way you do?

When they look at the sky does their mind paint the sky with the same color?

agitator commented on Make-A-Video: AI system that generates videos from text makeavideo.studio/... · Posted by u/hardmaru

agitator · 3 years ago

What's mind blowing is that you can extrapolate where this is going to go. Eventually, you will be able to generate full movie scenes from descriptions.

What's interesting to me is how this is so similar to human imagination. Give me a description and I will fabricate the visuals in my mind. Some aspects will be detailed, others will be vague, or unimportant. Crazy to see how fast AI is progressing. Machines are approaching the ability to interpret and visualize text in the same way humans can.

This also fascinates me as a form of compression. You can transmit concepts and descriptions without transmitting pixel data, and the visuals can be generated onsite. Wonder if there is some practical application for this.

agitator commented on Apple Car: Bad Idea After All mondaynote.com/apple-car-... · Posted by u/spking

dylan604 · 3 years ago

You are not alone. I like the idea that gauges are connected directly to the thing they are measuring. However, I may be disconnected from modern reality in that what might look like a "traditional" gauge might already be connected to the car's computer rather than direct measuring. I'm just not a grease monkey to know the inner workings.

agitator · 3 years ago

Yeah nothing in the UI is connected directly to a sensor these days. The UI is just a display for relevant data on the CAN bus.

Sensors have redundancies and detections in both sensing and communications so that the receiving end knows when there is an issue and doesn't display false information, resulting in an error code being thrown and displaying a "check engine light".

agitator commented on Student loan forgiveness will cost US $300B · Posted by u/samspenc

IceMetalPunk · 3 years ago

On the other hand, if my other buddy Alice was unable to pay her loans and struggling to pay for food without debt collectors knocking at her door, and now doesn't have to deal with that anymore, that'd offset my ire.

In fact, in a case like that, you should be pissed off at Jeff, not at the people helping everyone which happens to include Jeff.

agitator · 3 years ago

So why not a tax return for all lower income brackets?

Why should someone with a B.A. be fed and not someone with only a high school diploma?

agitator commented on Student loan forgiveness will cost US $300B · Posted by u/samspenc

kodyo · 3 years ago

Why isn't the government paying off my car, then?

agitator · 3 years ago

Because your car loan was approved based on your credit history.

A student loan was approved on a gamble.

Now the lenders are trying to find a way to guarantee their returns by making everyone else pay.

agitator commented on Student loan forgiveness will cost US $300B · Posted by u/samspenc

spoils19 · 3 years ago

Big companies with that money can hire more employees, offering the community more jobs and furthering our economy. It's very rare for a large company to take a subsidy and hoard it, or not use it for public goodwill.

agitator · 3 years ago

Big companies top priorities are investor returns, not employing the masses. The result you describe is dependent on many more variables, like product demand actually necessitating hiring.