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How does that manifest specifically?

It’s a capped-profit structure where excess profit will supposedly go back to the no-profit side. From a recent NYTimes article [1]:

> But these profits are capped, and any additional revenue will be pumped back into the OpenAI nonprofit that was founded back in 2015.

> His grand idea is that OpenAI will capture much of the world’s wealth through the creation of A.G.I. and then redistribute this wealth to the people. In Napa, as we sat chatting beside the lake at the heart of his ranch, he tossed out several figures — $100 billion, $1 trillion, $100 trillion.

How believable that is, who knows.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/technology/sam-altman-ope...

Looks like there’s a paid podcast available. I’m sure there’s some TTS apps that could take in the text and make it consumable that way, though.

Interesting comparison with Intel in the PC market:

> the market just wants the software and if the software works the same, the hardware is replaceable

And likely to be true given how much competition is heating up in the AI hardware space. Granted, many of these competitors and startups especially have existed for years and haven’t made much of a dent. Even Google’s TPU doesn’t seem that much better than Nvidia’s stuff based on their limited MLPerf score releases. Maybe this “iPhone moment” for AI will change that and force competitors to finally put some real effort in it.

As for Nvidia, looks like they are trying to adapt by selling their own enterprise software solutions such as Omniverse and their AI model customization stuff. Will be interesting to see if they can transform into more of a software solutions provider going forward.

Shortened title to fit. Full title: Fireside Chat with Ilya Sutskever and Jensen Huang: AI Today and Vision of the Future. This is a GTC talk so it requires registration to view but is free otherwise.

Great talk between them. Ilya makes an interesting point about how the NN used in ChatGPT learns a representation of the process that produced the text and as such has some inherent world model, i.e., not just a stochastic parrot.

Because leaving the mentally ill on the streets is such a compassionate alternative to institutionalization and getting them the help they need.

The supposed purpose of this tax on expensive properties—funding homeless programs—is dubious at best considering the insane amounts of money that Californian cities funnel towards them with no real improvement in the crisis. The reality is we need to treat the visibly homeless (i.e., drug addicted, mentally ill) which would require bringing back mental institutions. But that seems politically unviable.

Regardless, I’m always happy to tax the truly wealthy more.

In this context I think we’re talking about moat, i.e., private data, that they can leverage for personalized experiences. Similar to what Microsoft announced with their Office365 Copilot stuff.

Are you saying that Google doesn’t have a great data moat? That seems completely off considering Google search, YouTube, GCP, Google for Education/Work, Android, etc.

Well said. It so easy to take for granted all these tech milestones with generative AI in particular the last year.

I’m curious what you think your observations say about the qualifications of engineers today.

Is it that most of your applicants are liars with what they put on their resume? Or that those specific skills you mentioned aren’t applicable to their day-to-day work? Or is that your expectations are out of line with the reality of their work or is there something amiss with your interview style?

On the other hand, YouTube seems to be doing virtually nothing to improve theor live streaming experience (UI) and increase their market share.

Report itself: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08774.pdf

Seems like such a bizarre thing to be worried about. What privacy are you losing by showing your ID on a webcam to an interviewer who already has screened you?

It’s annoying but it seems to be the way things are marketed these days to build up hype so I can’t really fault them for it. Better to release info piecemeal as opposed to one big info dump if you want to build up a following.

Not much info other than the fact that it’ll release sometime this year on PS5, XSX, and PC. Teaser trailer is just a bunch of cinematics.

Haven’t used Airbnb in a while but I could swear that’s how it worked. Which is why I’m confused reading all these experiences about retaliatory negative reviews.

This rings so true. It seems socially acceptable to either be a regular social drinker or a renounced drinker.

Agreed. The network architectures have evolved so much in the past few years alone. Imagine what they can do in just 5 years if they can embed domain-specific knowledge to the current “dumb” statistical word guessers. Ten years is truly unimaginable.

I’m not expecting the singularity within that timeframe nor do I think we need it for lots of disruption in knowledge-based work. Still, I’m leaning towards a near future where these AI tools augment our capabilities more than the alternative where we lose all our jobs.

SF is similarly stupid at even higher cost. They really need to raze half the Sunset and Richmond districts and put up “missing middle” housing and a bunch of minimum 6-story condos. Converting some unused downtown commercial office space into residential spaces would be good, too.

>1h a day seems like a lot. What does this look like for you and what benefits have you seen?

> That we are all overweight is another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_r...

Obesity vs overweight (the former is surely a better predictor of health outcomes anyway) aside, we’re definitely higher than comparable nations, but I wouldn’t say significantly so.

Just wanted to say I relate completely. Moved a year before pandemic to a completely new place straight out of school and struggled making friends. COVID ruined what little social circle I had started to form.

If you (or anyone else reading this) are in the SF Bay Area in a similar situation and are looking for potential friends, hit me up at my profile email

Good article. The jist of why nutrition science is so bad is a few paragraphs in:

> Nutrition research tends to be unreliable because nearly all of it is based on observational studies, which are imprecise, have no controls, and don’t follow an experimental method. As nutrition-research critics Edward Archer and Carl Lavie have put it, “’Nutrition’ is now a degenerating research paradigm in which scientifically illiterate methods, meaningless data, and consensus-driven censorship dominate the empirical landscape.”

The specifics of the recent “eggs are bad” study is just shocking:

> The new study linking eggs and cardiovascular disease deserves similar scrutiny. Statistically speaking, 30,000 participants makes for a very powerful study. And in fairness, the study’s defenders say that it did a good job accounting for factors that might have influenced the findings, such as overall fat consumption, smoking, and lifestyle.

> But on the other hand, the study tracked participants’ health outcomes over periods ranging from 13 to more than 30 years, and participants were queried about their diet only once, at the beginning of the study. […] Who eats the same way for 10 years?

What a joke.

You might be right about that actually. I was probably thinking of some of my favorite restaurants and cafes there (e.g., Stable Cafe) but the street itself is a bit empty and can feel sketchy at times.

Well this makes me feel silly for renting a private master bedroom+bath in a shared house in NoPa for $2k :) granted I love the location and convenience of it.

Maybe I should start looking around for these rent controlled places…

Yeah, Mission St is pretty grungy. Had me confused why people thought Mission was such a up and coming place. Then I explored the adjacent streets on either side of Mission St and it’s a lot nicer.

This reads like someone who hasn’t followed Tesla’s AI progress since the hype days of the mid-late 2010s.

This feature absolutely blew me away last WWDC. Having your own customized digital dashboard with the elegant simplicity and consistency that Apple’s known for is exciting. Although I question the eagerness of carmakers to let the tech behemoths control even more aspects of the driving experience.

Great news. Minimizing the amount of street-level pollution will make these walkable cities more pleasant for pedestrians. Reduced noise pollution is another side benefit. Hoping to see a similar effort in SF. Hate walking near NoPa/GGP with all the traffic passing by the Panhandle area.