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Their whole argument is based on this sentence. So I'd expect some rationale. Instead, they provide as "example" links to Google, Microsoft and Apple. The funny thing is that the one by MS is probably the most criticized one, with the company partly backpedaling on it. And Apple is often criticized by LLM aficionados for being quite conservative. Google is the one proposing it.

So my question is: are browsers and operating systems really expected to gain access to language models? If so - by whom: the users or LLM vendors like Google?

True, but this is like saying 10 years ago: you don't need to learn React, you can continue coding in Angular.

People do want to learn and use new tech but instead what is promoted is an access to a proprietary and (increasingly more) expensive API.

Fortunately, we do have more or less open models, and they get better and better each year.

Unfortunately, sama & co hunger for global domination makes them more and more expensive to run.

It's funny because I was watching a lot of amazing new tech appear after I was 35 and most of it was exciting. Learning these things was fun and rewarding. You could say it made me happier.

Not sure why LLMs feel the opposite. Maybe it's because of the terrible marketing and pushing it down everyone's throats. Maybe it's because of the personality of people like sama, or how it's being used to produce the so-called AI slop globally. Maybe something completely different. But there's something bleak and off-putting in it.

> Browsers and operating systems are increasingly expected to gain access to language models.[0]

Are they?

[0] https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api/blob/main/R...

> I’m not from the US and not trying to defend the US actions, but on Iraq and Gaza, much of Europe takes the same position and goes along with it (and even directly joined the wars and sent troops).

What?!

I'm not talking about the recent events when Europe not only didn't joint Trump's war but openly refused the use of its military bases. Even in the past when the so-called "coalition of the willing" was formed, Europe had the biggest protests in its history. There were not hundreds of thousands but millions people on streets.

So your picture of uniformity was already false 20 years ago, and now it's just crystal clear.

> It would only take half a dozen Republicans to stop the madness now

Well, the alternative for now is Vance. Hard to say which one is worse.

I don't believe it's true about the USA, and it's even less true about Europe.

> Europe managed to get off Russian Gas, but didn’t manage to get off Russian uranium industry.

Only Slovakia and Hungary. They will need to find a way. (Finland planned it but cancelled after Russia invaded Ukraine.)

There is zero chance that new nuclear plants in Europe will use any Russian tech or fuel.

> But then a portion of the US started believing the whole gift part, and now they're destroying their own control of the world order and forcing other to realign out of their control

I'm still not sure whether Trump actually believes it or if he's just using it as a propaganda tool. I remember how he reported a conversation with Macron telling him that Macron will have to increase the cost of drugs for French citizens. It was so completely out of touch as drug pricing works completely different in the EU. But he definitely likes to directly imply that all positive aspects of life in Europe are being sponsored by the USA (rather than citizens paying higher taxes). Who knows, maybe he believes it, I wouldn't be surprised really.

> it was transparently obvious that the idea of minimum spending commitment to NATO was intended to prop up the US arms industry

...to Trump. European leaders took it literally: since the USA stopped being a reliable partner, Europe needs to depend on itself for protection. It makes zero sense to buy American weapons if you can produce/purchase them on the continent.

I have so many questions! Why did you decide to use C# instead of Go? How does the C# Operator SDK compare to the Operator SDK or Kubebuilder?

> Seems they themselves realized this after they started moving

I guess most people at Github knew exactly it makes no sense but they didn't really have a choice. Maybe some voiced their statement, got "we hear you" in response and were told to proceed anyway.

The question was about their redefinition of AGI in economical terms for which others provided links, not the one from their (obviously fake) mission statement.

BTW I didn't downwote you (I hate it, if many people downvote a comment it's harder to read), I was just trying to explain why others did. On second thought, my comment was wrong, because your answer was related to the question but it wasn't really the intended one.

Because 1) your answer had nothing to do with the question, 2) you quoted a slogan that life verified as false.

Not sure if you're being sincere or sarcastic but some of us have lived through several AI winters now. And the fact that such a phenomenon exists is because of this terrible amount of hype the topic gets whenever any progress is made.

> It's incredibly damaging to US interests too that they've been unable and/or unwilling to defend allies and their own bases in the Gulf.

The fact that the Gulf turned to Ukraine for protection is one of these strange turnouts one would never expect a few years ago.

You are aware that the number of American soldiers in these bases is symbolic and their presence is meant to be a deterrent for Russia?

Sure, I'd agree with that a few years ago. Nowadays when the USA asks for something like just using their military bases for refueling, they're laughed at.

> The EU pouring even more billions in this would just have meant pouring billions on US tech.

Which is crazy given that ASML is European.

Yeah it's confusing. I mean China has work camps for Uighurs and is very brutal on Tibetans etc. OTOH, their leader is not setting the world on fire every second week and compared to Trump seems like the paragon of reason on the surface. Of course we know it's a facade but man what crazy times to live in.

Well, the politicians learned how to game the system well. Now people need to learn how to game the politicians. A formal verification process of pre-election promises would be a good start.

Not sure if we can call it "beloved". For sure respected for what it did to build the base of modern civilization, but we are aware of its dark sides. And probably Nero would be an excellent example of what can happen to the empire and its people when a crazy person becomes its ruler.

But this makes zero sense. Two different continents, values systems, law systems. Not to mention the current USA administration is openly hostile to Europe. So why would anyone confuse the two.

If you decide to use UDP, do you ignore the transmission errors or write the handling layer on your own?

This argument simply doesn't hold water - their (smaller) competition solved this problem over a decade ago.

Here, I corrected that for you:

> you create a support ticket and spend sleepless night praying that AWS/GCP/Azure wave it

I don't get it. People who take dangerous or risky jobs nobody else wants do get paid more. Higher suicide rate has nothing to do with some privileges being taken away. As for clothes, it depends on your social circle - in mine people couldn't care less. As for make up, I have no idea what you mean.

I invite you to look at the various solutions implemented by those public cloud providers that actually implemented this feature.

Amazon, Microsoft and Google don't offer hard cap. Most other/smaller public cloud providers do. The reasons are quite obvious.