Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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This display of a man hoping AI reclaims the awe in technology he once felt as a 17 year-old:
Sam Altman is the snake oil salesman who might restore Silicon Valley to its former glory https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2024/06/25/opinion-ai-altman-silicon-valley-revival/
thinking about how I was inoculated against part of ai hype bc a big part of my social circle in undergrad consisted of natural language processing people. they wanted to work at places with names like "OpenAI" and "google deepmind," their program was more or less a cognitive science program, but I never once heard any of them express even the slightest suspicion that LLMs of all things were progressing toward intelligence. it would have been a nonsequiter.
also from their pov the statistical approach to machine learning was defined by abandoning the attempt to externalize the meaning of text. the cliche they used to refer to this was "the meaning of a word is the context in which it occurs."
finding out that some prestigious ai researchers are all about being pilled on immanetizating agi was such a swerve for me. it's like if you were to find out that michio kaku has just won his fourth consecutive nobel prize in physics
it’s like if you were to find out that michio kaku has just won his fourth consecutive nobel prize in physics
hell of a stinger there at the end
rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded
AI continues to be going great...
we have internal confirmation that the rabbit team is aware of this leaking of api keys and have chosen to ignore it
european regulatory clarity approaching at mach 5 (that is if they ever sold this thing in EU)
we have internal confirmation that the rabbit team is aware of this leaking of api keys and have chosen to ignore it. the api keys continue to be valid as of writing.
but of course. rabbit’s done pretending they give a fuck now that their shit flopped (not that they gave much of a fuck to begin with)
https://x.com/xyz3va/status/1805689140639408277
rabbit has revoked the keys!
breaking every R1 still in service
fucking amazing. like, I shouldn’t be surprised they deployed a bunch of embedded devices without a sensible way to rotate keys OTA, but it’s always fun to watch a circus act
breaking every R1 still in service
Total losses estimated at $7.13
thought it was bad enough when the hackers got into my rabbithole, now this
lol holy shit
presently:
(you can turn it off but in typical fashion: sneaky new setting, default-on, way to make it turn off is hidden in settings instead of a direct “no fuck this” button. same shit twitter and fb pulled for years)
double kicker is that the opt-out settings have been been in "No, do not use my data" for months
discord feedback: "Thank you for sharing your concerns. We understand your frustration regarding ads in the client. Discord continuously explores various features and changes to enhance the user experience, including the possibility of advertisements. As of now, having a Nitro subscription does not exempt users from seeing ads in the client. We appreciate your feedback and will make sure to pass it along to our development team."
As of now, having a Nitro subscription does not exempt users from seeing ads in the client.
wait what’s the fucking point of nitro again? is it seriously just the ability to use more annoying reactions and upload slightly larger attachments?
I ask, having instantly closed the nitro ads discord regularly pushes to my client cause the feature list looks roundly annoying and irrelevant to how I use the app (open source project docs that only exist in this completely inappropriate medium, DMs, and an annual game of Quake)
wait what’s the fucking point of nitro again?
Remember when people used to smugly say 'unless you pay for it, you are the product' turns out you always are the product!
is it seriously just the ability to use more annoying reactions and upload slightly larger attachments
and server boosts! (and better video quality I guess?)
irunno the whole mechanic is a bit weird but I've been "okay" with it in the sense that at least it meant discord was getting revenue from rich-enough gamers and that would mean they didn't have to suck on the VC nozzle. ostensibly.
like I would've likely never bought nitro for myself because idgaf about the featureset, but I would consider it if it meant no ads. alas.
how I use the app (open source project docs that only exist in this completely inappropriate medium
yeah. god. it hurts how many projects have done this shit. and now I bet that exact fucking thing I predicted may start coming around...
also, slack, ~1h ago:
Free workspace content older than one year will be deleted
Your workspace, , is on a free Slack plan. This workspace has content that is older than one year which will be deleted once the policy takes effect. Moving forward, Slack will not retain messages and files older than one year for a workspace. This policy will impact your workspace starting August 26th, 2024.
the ouroboros must be hungry.
Not a cult.
from r/EnoughMuskSpam
I like the wet your finger and stick it up in the air forecasting model. OK - there’s 1.5 billion pocket-sized iPhones - so let’s say 2 billion person-sized robots, you know,
I’m wondering about the supply chain issues just making the extra half billion robots, might be kind of a big deal. Are there enough rare minerals in the whole world to do this? Lithium batteries? Computer chips?
Also, yeah, valuation based on revenue and not EBITA / profit margins, but whatever.
Amazing claim considering there are I think about 10k cybertrucks in the world right now, and all of them are broken. Ok I admit, that is due to the wiper recall, but even if you ignore the wiper recall the amount of broken cybertrucks is massive.
Haha this reminds me of humanoid robots belong in the trash
heck yeah I love ~~Physics Jenny Nicholson~~ Angela Collier
indeed! I rarely get to watch them because of the length, but they're always so good, thoughtful and thorough. one of best talking heads on yt I know of
format/delivery is technically more than just talking head, I guess, but ykwim
seemingly yet more chatgpt jailbreaks just by providing input that barrierbreaks some n times, and then readily provides details
y'know, if I were the one making safety nets for these systems, I'd make them return such kind of results (or other typical honeypot type behaviour). and it's possible that that's what oai did. but it seems extremely unlikely that that's what they did, because it goes again the bayfucker gottagofast philosophy (and, frankly, against the level of competence I've seen displayed in the genml space overall)
It turns out the 'I' in "AI" stood for "Linux" all along!
User friendliness aside (who in their right mind would want arbitrary code execution except shitty and indeterministic?), I sandbox stuff at my job* and it's hard to evaluate how secure / privacy preserving this is without more details.
If they're running a full fledged VM and super extra careful around the sandbox boundary** it's probably fine; otherwise it seems perhaps a bit loosey-goosey.
Someone will eventually try to run a Monero cryptocurrency miner in it if they haven't already. So I hope they have their timeouts and resource limits in order (actually I hope they don't, for the lols).
* But like no one told me how to do it or gave me a certificate or anything I just had to do my best
** This is often way scarier than programmers are used to, unless they've written a secure parser before. I wrote a vulnerability into my code a few years back when I was younger and foolish, by trusting an array length from inside the sandbox. My coworker found it while fuzzing the code.
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