And the anti-psychotic drugs Google feeds Gemini makes it hallucinate badly.
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The slightly lower Chinese open models are good enough for almost everything, too, and much cheaper. Like with humans there is plenty of employment for people with below genius level IQ's.
An as individual or small company director, you would get arrested.
If you have billions of dollars to pay for lawyers and have political influence, you are above the law.
https://github.com/aikitoria/open-gpu-kernel-modules
The hardware supports it, but Nvidia disabled it if the driver detects cheaper cards.
It all depends on the definition of "Unemployment". Most governments do not count you as unemployed if you've stopped looking for work, been unemployed for over 6 months, or if you made $25 as an Uber driver for 1 hour's work that month.
So, much like current US politics, we're left with hype on both sides. That's all that gets the clicks/attention, and little balanced analysis in the middle.
Both Zitron and AI execs have good points, but both are trying to sell you something. The murky truth lies between the two extremes.
IMHO, having Zitron around is a counter to the AI leaders. Is he the best? No. Is he the loudest? Yes.
He sold his research to an insurance company, who should have known better: https://www.lemonade.com/blog/oh-behave/
It looks pretty bespoke, so there are likely other variants.
Also targeting the anti-virus executable is a smart way to hide. I don't think this backdoor was cheap to develop.
True about Intel and ECC, but AMD now does similar things, even with their consumer CPUs and chipsets.
These three companies now make very sure that consumer products can never canibalize those juicy data center profits - so they make sure to limit what the consumer segment can do.
Or perhaps they will start throttling downloads for free users.
I don't know what they business case is, it might be to shut them down: I suspect good free models on local hardware is a threat to Nvidia's investments in OpenAI/Anthropic.
His other comments on Nvidia often contain expletives.
MIT then helped the criminal prosecution even after JSTOR settled with him.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/mit-aarons-swartz-case...
A rough analogy would be if the first generation of ISP's spent billions on dial-up exchanges, when fibre could be invented next year.
US companies have spent hundreds of billions on their models, and they are not much better than the cheaper open Chinese models.
Perhaps they can out-compete them. If not there will be increasing calls to limit access to open models on the grounds of "safety".
Basically, if you can't beat 'em, ban 'em.
I hope this trend continues.
Then there's the electrical bus: DDR5 runs so fast it need channel characterisation (sorta like the old model dial up sounds) on the lines between the controller and the DRAM. No more 5V and 0V for TTL signals there.
Claude AI just created something in a few hours, perhaps, that teams of intelligent developers at the time struggled to do in years of effort.
Generally, they are a trailing indicator, like someone appearing on the Forbes millionaire under 30 list (Theranos, FTX). However, they are not always wrong.
Think of Economist writers as intelligent interns - people who couldn't make it in the world of finance, and with a particular ideological bent imposed on them by their editors.
However, when the war is over, things stagnate: The UK bombed the Falklands in 1982 with a radar which was essentially an upgraded wartime H2S/H2X set.
So true. The reverse is also true - when greedy companies overprice their initial release so that it is out of range of the enthusiastic hobbyist they stall progress and adoption.
This is true for hardware (eg failed Intel Optane, Knights Bridge) and software that does not have a cheap or free basic plan.
The BBC series is really good. They don't make documentaries like that anymore. The "Still Secret" episode on Enigma is easily the best coverage of how the system worked, was cracked and the organisation behind it. There is also an accompanying book, which has many more details.
>I think The "Battle of the Beams" is one development that gave us the basis for what we use so much now in general aviation.
Actually it started the other way around. The beams were based on pre-war blind landing Lorentz system.