Not relevant but fun: https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/
Is this Human Resource Machine for GPUs rather than single core CPU assembly?
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The "leaders are owners" bit is a great idea from the shareholders' perspective, but a bit of a raw deal for the employees. That is, every owner wants the employees to act as if he has as much skin in the game as an owner does. But the employees simply do not. They might have some equity, but at Amazon it would only be the tiniest sliver. If you can convince such employees to act as if they are owners, then good for you I guess. But savvy employees would only act as owners to the extent that they are given upside potential to match.
Ownership without corresponding property rights.
That’s what has been seen in practice though. SOTA LLMs have been shown again and again to solve problems unseen in their data set; and despite their shortcomings they have become extremely useful for a wide variety of tasks.
Mind linking any examples (or categories) of problems that are definitively not in pre training data but can still be solved by LLMs? Preferably something factual rather than creative, genuinely curious.
Dumb question but anything like this that’s written about on the internet will ultimately end up as training fodder, no?
He also released an internal memo on atoz today with a grammatical mistake in the first sentence.
I have a slightly different opinion. I agree that we humans have a creative spark that drives research, true art, etc. However, I am 90% seeing AI tools as a means to let me create more, and faster. I have co-pilot integrated with my Emacs and VSCode setups, and it is hard to imagine turning back time and not having co-pilot available. Yesterday I wanted a snappy title for a new open source project (inspired by last Friday’s All-In podcast) so I wrote up a three paragraph description and asked mixtral-8-7B (running locally on my Mac) as well as Anthropic’s Claude 2 and ChatGPT for project name suggestions. Lots of good ideas, I chose my favorite.
Last February I was writing a book on ‘safe AI’ and after I wrote each chapter, I had ChatGPT read it and asked for additional topics I may have neglected. It was also good for generating end of chapter summaries that I re-worded to fit my style.
For the last ten years I have tried to be on a ‘digital diet’ - limiting time on digital devices except for high productivity sprints. This includes limiting time on HN and X. It feels good to use AI tools to get more done quickly so I have more time to cook elaborate meals for my family, hike and hang out with my friends, and read.
Any recommendation for copilot integration with Emacs?
Business/career implications aside, normalizing people thinking about computers as tools that execute arbitrary instructions is an almost purely good thing.
I can't think of many other social trends that would be more beneficial for increasing general support for user agency, data interoperability, sideloading/modding, etc... we should applaud every single attempt to democratize coding and lower barriers of entry.
It's not about whether or not someone can replace your job or whether or not they take something that's a hobby project or an occasional side-task at their job and turn it into a professional career. It's not about whether or not the things they make are any good. It's about giving them a little bit more agency in how they interact with devices/software, and about reinforcing to them that as a user they should have agency over their devices/software.
We don't need everyone in the world to be an engineer, and we don't need everyone to write good code. The goal is not to make everyone into a programmer, or to elevate engineering as some kind of universal subject that everyone has to embrace. But it is good for average people who aren't engineers to be embracing a philosophy about computers that says, "I should be able to arbitrarily describe to this thing what to do, even if its designers didn't think about my use case, and it should do the thing I tell it to".
> to democratize coding
Does that mean we collectively vote as to whether the next addition is a for loop?
While a company may mean to make more widely accessible but used charged language, I think we should fight the urge to parrot.
> Facebook does not maintain "accounts" on non-users in a meaningful way and they have stated this multiple times to multiple regulators
And surely they'd never mislead anybody regarding what data they keep.
Which admittedly makes it a bit hard to explain how, despite having completely deleted my account several years ago (yes, not just deactivated, I went through all the little guilt-trip pleas not to delete), they managed to accidentally (a bug, presumably) send me a Friend Suggestion email several weeks ago (suggesting someone I actually do know, no less) considering that by their own words they should have wiped both that email address and the social graph associated with it several years earlier...
Same boat - I get really frustrated by the “someone tried to access your account” emails from Facebook.
Oh, you mean the account that you confirmed as deleted 8+ years ago??
loosetypes commented on Microsoft gaming chief calls for industry-wide game preservation axios.com/microsoft-old-g... · Posted by u/tosh
Related but not totally on topic:
How much would it cost to buy the rights to an essentially now semi-zombie game, that may have been been popular a decade+ ago?
Say a wealthy benefactor wanted to do so strictly to open source and preserve a series, not create new titles.
Maybe for a series that stills sells copies here and there, but is well past it’s prime?
Say, the Empire Earth franchise?
Or something with relatively more recent releases, like Heroes of Might and Magic?
Would it be the millions? Would one be able to do so for individual titles within a series?