It’s also a big attack surface. Just like how a lot of malware looks for the browser password cache now, it doesn’t take much for a malware developer to just go for the recall store. The malware doesn’t need to pack in software to take screenshots, if the OS serves it up for them on a platter.
The year of the word processor approaches
Also to rouse and inspire them.
“I’m working on a machine that will make you guys redundant, and then I’ll make those booing me see. l’ll make you all see.” is hardly going to do that.
He would be much better off talking about how it was the stuff of science fiction not long ago, and how the graduates would be helping to push humanity forward, and make real, things that were also previously considered impossible.
Some of the talks are also just really bad. I’ve seen a few, and they’re little more than ads, or bragging about a thing the institution is doing that’s unrelated to the graduates themselves. Saw one where the speaker was talking about how the college was using AI for various things. Why even have that in the graduates’ speech?
Distillation isn’t stealing the original model, though. It just uses the models to make synthetic training data to train their own thing. They aren’t stealing the model itself.
Plus, a lot of companies do it. Anthropic’s Claude was calling itself DeepSeek for a while.
It also doesn’t seem like as big a deal as Anthropic and Open AI make it look, IMO. Them treating it like a national security issue where the company gets its models stolen from under its nose just comes across like a media company claiming that every download is a copy they would otherwise have sold at full price, and thus they have accrued trillions of dollars in damages.
I could, in theory, take a bunch of google Gemini outputs, and train a GPT-2 model on them. That doesn’t mean that I’ve recreated Gemini, nor does it mean that i’ve stolen it from Google, either.
To top it all off, it’s not like their services were abused. The companies were presumably paid appropriately for the usage.
Their reputation is also a bit in the toilet, because people hear “AI” and think of ChatGPT.
So “man hospitalised after AI suggested he put glue on pizza for tackiness” would have people think he was using it, when he might well have been using a different LLM.
Do they even make enough heat for that to be viable option? Most computer systems can handle a pretty low temperature before they start having problems because they’re over-heating.
I don’t know, it has the opposite effect, IMO.
It just makes them seem obnoxious, since the example they chose was a parent who was distracted with the computer open in the changing room while they were supposed to be helping their children with their skates, and literally mentions how the other parents have to navigate around the thing.
You’d be more inclined to think that they’re a computer addict who can’t put the the thing down for even a moment.
On top of that, the video is basically a recipe to drop the laptop and have it shatter into fine powder, if you’re holding it by the corner like that.
They’re used for some trains now, though I think that a lot of them have since switched to rheostat or regenerative braking instead.
Slightly odd choice to use a motor instead of an eddy current brake or some such, when it’s supposed to be a drop-in replacement for existing braking systems.
Is it supposed to be a quick hybrid conversion system rather than just a brake?
EDIT: I’m not sure if it is. The article makes it unclear, but going by the manufacturer’s site, the electric motors are meant to replace the piston on the caliper, rather than using the motor itself as a brake.
It’s still a mostly conventional braking system.
We had a rather nice thing going with pure HTML. Sure, it wasn’t the prettiest thing, even with CSS, but almost every device could run and display it in its own way.
You didn’t need a custom thing, or a bunch of extra code adjusting the webpage for each type of device that opened the web page, since that job was all done by the browser.
That’s basically model routing, and has existed a while. Open AI’s GPT-5 and llama-swap do that, for example. If the task is simple, it uses a smaller, less intensive model, and only uses the slower, larger one of the task is more complex.
Though most tend to operate with models on the same device/service, rather than a model run elsewhere.
Back in my day, computer was a job, and all you had was an abacus. We liked it that way. None of this newfangled al-gebra nonsense.
It’s also cheaper, if they can offload a portion to the user’s computer.
So what happens if the artist is dead?
Freddie Mercury would find it difficult to maintain an active social nedia presence to prove he’s human, being rather indisposed at the present.
Who doesn’t like their phone charging them by the word?
To be fair, using react for it was just an odd decision to begin with.
Is this anything new at all?
Even back in the day, you had people wanting to live in the recent past, because the past usually gets romanticised.
So people in the 1960s might have a rosy view of the turn of the century, and want to go back to the 1930 days of art deco and balls, or those today, that might want to return what they believe to be glory days of 1960. Even if it isn’t actually realistic to how you might live in the past. The average citizen in 1930 was not attending balls at a swanky music lounge.
Give it a few decades, we might also have people from 2050 pining for the 2020s, believing it to be just like the advertisements, where we all live in the penthouse level of skyscrapers, overlooking a vast cityscape.
That instance needs a login to show the post.
If you don’t have a Kobo, the file conversion is also a lifesaver.
I have one of the old Kindle e-readers, and it doesn’t support epub, for example. It does support pdf, in theory, but the age of the hardware means any decently large/complicated pdf bogs it down something fierce.
Being able to use calibre to convert my books to a format it does support is nice.
Although I wonder if they could. Microsoft seems like one of those “too big to fail” companies, where they’d never be allowed to fall on their face, since Azure and Exchange prop up so many things. It’s not like there’s a major second option for an OS if you just buy a computer off the shelf like a lot of people do. You either get a Windows or a Mac.
At the risk of going on a tangent, isn’t the entrée the appetiser? You don’t have an appetiser, an entrée, and then the main course.