Will this be the new "pelican on a bicycle" test for frontier models?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
What if the AGI takes an entire data center to process a few tokens per second. Is the still a first-arriver advantage? Seems like the first to make it cheaper than an equivalent-cost employee (fully loaded incl hiring and training) will begin to see advantage.
Good point. It’s 2 conditions and both have to be true :
- Arrive first
- Use that first arrival to innovate with your new AGI pet / overlord to stay exponentially ahead
Genuinely curious if anyone has ideas how an LLM provider could moat AI. They feel interchangeable like bandwidth providers and seem like it will be a never ending game of leapfrog. I thought perhaps we’d end up with a small set of few top players just based on the scale of investment but now I’ve also seen impressive gains from much smaller companies & models, too.
One view is that it’s not first mover, but first arriver advantage. Whoever gets to AgI (the fabled city of gold or silver?, Ag pun intended) will achieve exponential gains from that point forward, and that serves as the moat in the limit. So you can think of it as buying a delayed moat, with an option price equivalent to the investment required until you get to that point in time. Either you believe in that view or you don’t. It’s more of an emotional / philosophical investment thesis, with a low probability of occurrence, but with a massive expected value.Meanwhile, consumers and the world benefit.
Can I read a book with it, too? Or just enjoy the boredom without much digital interaction?
you can use the iPad kindle app and it works great.
phodo commented on Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend? · Posted by u/0bsolete
I try to use as few things as possible, here's the highlights:
- Alfred -> Launcher and some small tools
- Rectangle -> Simple keykinds to move windows around, easier/simpler than a full tile manager
- Alacritty -> Anything other than the default Terminal
- Obsidian -> Best note-taking app I've found
- TickTick -> Todolist, Calendar and Habit Tracker, syncs with phone, love it
Obsidian +1
phodo commented on Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search? · Posted by u/phodo
Thank you all for the comments. Got a lot of good input and ways to think thru the tried and true tools (enjoying ripgrep-all + fzf) plus the standard ai/rag-style tools. I do think there is room for a bridge or an integrated way to pipe in similarity / embedding into the ripgreps of the world. Maybe something close to fzf’s piping model. Will explore if I have some time.
I made a daily word puzzle called Tiled Words.
https://tiledwords.com
Currently about 2,000 people play every day and I’ve released 59 puzzles!
One feature I’m excited about is crowdsourcing puzzles. Today’s puzzle is a “community puzzle” made entirely from clues that players submitted! I plan to do this every week or two.
I wrote about launching and the first month of puzzles if you want to learn more!
https://paulmakeswebsites.com/writing/a-month-of-tiled-words...