If the answers to those questions are anything other than “No/They don’t” or “Yes, but only if you’re NVidia/Selling the hardware that everyone else is losing billions of dollars on” I’m going to lose it. Edit: Losing it, in a good way

They want to sell hardware to businesses where the orders will be large and predictable. Renting the compute to the rest of us is just they avenue to that. They actually don’t care if we have access to compute whatsoever.

le gasp

The same people who are so excited to bring us The Torment Nexus!

To be honest I more than half expected it to just be a list of 7 linux distros to install on it ^_

“Flagrant security lapse caused an incident when software engineer uses inappropriate tool for the job.”

You could have simply ignored the post and moved on with your life. But you wrote this instead.

Right? He can go to the hot place for all I care. If there is an afterlife he’s certainly not hanging with the likes of Betty White or Mr. Rogers.

It just blows my mind that things got to the point where we have to seek a privacy focused not-internet-connected keyboard when that should have been the default all along.

of AI and telemetry in Windows 11

Elon Musk doesn’t care about chatgpt killing people either. He’s just marketing.

Just double checked, and no they are very much talking about LLM’s. Specifically they were testing gpt-4o, gemini-1.5, llama-3.1, sonnet-3.5, and opus-3 o1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.04984 And the concerns raised in that paper are legit, but not indicative of consciousness or intent.

It’s wildly difficult to control the output of the black box and that’s hardly llms showing signs of self-preservation. These cries are from people in the industry trying to pretend the models are something that they are not, and cannot ever be. I do agree with the sentiment that we should be prepared to pull the plug on them though, for other reasons.

“This has never been about politics,”

Coward. It absolutely was, and is, about politics. The misinformation has ALWAYS been political. Countering misinformation is inherently political. As someone who’s very existence is considered “political” I politely suggest we drop the apolitical angle and start getting fucking angry and aggressively political. I’m very glad there are organizations out there like his that are doing that work. Just be honest about it.

Thank you.

Brendan would never hurt a fly!

For now.

To add to this, concept art is one of the places I would least like AI to be used in. It utterly fails at being creative and actually creating something fundamentally NEW and the more we use it the more our media will just devolve into remixed homogeneity.

Obligatory “I’m a luddite! And so can you” link

Because the POINT of using AI is to fire all the humans you have to pay. You can’t economically hire people to correct the AI work because it would cost as much, if not more, than paying humans to do the work and then you also have to pay your AI vendor.

Ohhh I get it. So MS should make the AI use mandatory and compulsory!