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No one with even a pretension to dignity would just cave in the face of force.

Although, they do seem willing to sell potentially.

China restricted them from selling their recommendation algorithm, and it's hard to sell TikTok without.

But, TikTok did immediately start work on an independent algorithm that has no ties to China, so that they can sell it if it really comes down to it.

It is verifiably not controlled by the CCP... Refer Project Texas... And all US data already being on Oracle's cloud so that all access can be monitored (same for auditing of all their algorithms for any kind of programmed bias).

WeChat is an app that works inside China, so obviously it's subject to Chinese laws.

All countries have some restrictions on what is and is not okay to have on online platforms. China just adds in "social disruption" alongside content that could promote violence (which would be blocked on Facebook, etc. also)

You need to not just drink in propaganda... When something just "can't be done" (because it is being monitored), then it just doesn't matter even if you have ill intent.

If it improves your performance by 1%, then for a salary of $2000/mo, that $20/mo is breakeven.

If it benefits you more than 1%, then you're in profit.

Of course, if you're in a job that doesn't actually care about performance, and performing won't lead to better salary at some point, then it may not matter.

The coding IDEs at $20/mo do not result in your IP being shared with the AI provider for training.

That only applies to regular ChatGPT use.

And developers actively using AI for coding can easily spend more than $20/mo for the API.

There are people spending $10-15/day in OpenAI API usage working through Cline.

There's also the Section 702 angle... US can get all US social media to spy on non-US citizens without anything in the way of legal pushback.

US citizens have rights. Non-US citizens, do not.

I think the problem with TikTok under their audited, non-interference under their Project Texas is... That they might not easily hand over data, or suppress views that US Gov isn't a fan of.

Which will change once TikTok is owned by a US company.

They have all the US data on Oracle servers, with Oracle having the responsibility to monitor all access and make sure that no Chinese entity can get access.

All algorithms are monitored by Oracle such that only user actions can determine what they see.

So, unless you're claiming that "Oracle" is actively colluding with China, you're letting your worldview be defined by government propaganda.

The Pro-Palestine thing that TikTok refused to suppress at US Gov's command, is not "China promoting Eastern causes", it's "Americans" taking a position that the government wants suppressed.

Thus Biden being forced to cave and at least pretend that he cared about Palestinians towards the end of his Presidency... Which he stopped caring about once Democrats had lost and it no longer mattered what Democrat voters think for the time being.

Apparently the target market for this is supposed to be "Chinese coders living abroad".

Thus it supporting English and Chinese languages.

And it may be a competitive step taken after Alibaba launched their new coding assistant.

It was always BS though. AOC did an interview where she explains (what should be obvious to anyone), that US Gov had no proof whatsoever beyond trying to point at that Chinese law (much like Section 702 in the US), that makes TikTok seem risky.

Except that TikTok isn't legally a Chinese company, and isn't really under their jurisdiction.

Chinese companies like to be under the control of the Chinese government no more than big American companies like to be overly exposed to the US... Thus Apple being based in Ireland and keeping most of their profit outside of the US.

It's doubtful if he can pony up another $50 billion.

Although, if TikTok's earnings can cover the payments on the loan, it could be possible.

It's been a little janky for me - usually get better results from directly using a provider's API.

$20/mo isn't a lot... Especially if you make money with coding.

I doubt that this sends back tons of data.

Early TikTok was basically a standard Chinese startup in terms of how they collected data to optimize the app... It's not because they cared about what "you" are doing.

The Chinese tech ecosystem is just more competitive than the US one.

Most social media companies have been careless with data until they got public backlash though... TikTok's systems are probably more secure today than anyone else's... Because of the backlash.

You do have to wonder... When you tell companies like TSMC, Nvidia, etc. to suddenly stop selling to customers who make up billions in sales...

With that said, "TSMC" likely doesn't need to help much... China could buy the humans that have necessary knowledge.

And there are all kinds of ways to get around sanctions.

I'm not sure the technical overhead is high enough to bother to do this... Unless the money made for it comes out to be too small to be worth bothering with after transfer fees.

It may be as someone else said, that there should just be a minimum threshold for payouts. Like, you get your money after it's at least reached $10 or $100.

Demonetizing the first 1000 streams is probably not a big deal, but it still sounds a little wrong.

I just saw a video, and Mixtral itself performed amazingly well on a wide variety of tasks - where GPT-4 doesn't always do as well.

Google may have goofed by focusing too much on making it multimodal. Solid ambition, but it also makes the model bigger and harder to train.

Except that they're not throwing cold water on opensource models. So, maybe that helps them in the long run.

Also, I'm not sure how much the EU is really going to matter for the future of AI.

You don't really need to conform to their regressive tendencies if you don't want to do business with the EU. Or you could dumb your stuff down for them if it ever comes down to it.

Generally, it just wouldn't be worth it to care too much about what the EU thinks.

Just because he acted like a goofball, doesn't mean that everyone needs to.

Plus, the other board members supported him, so decent blame to go around for this embarrassment.

Given that nothing criminal happened, canning Sam with no chance for discussion was just overkill.

It's probably more of an intellectual / philosophical position, given that they just did not think through the real impact on the business (and thus the mission itself)

I'm inclined to assume that something stupid was done. It happens. They should resolve it, fix the rules for how the board can behave, and move on.

Despite the bungling, Ilya is probably still a good voice to have on the board. His key responsibility (super-alignment), is a key part of OpenAI's mission.

I think Sam could "potentially" be the bigger man in this.

Ilya may still be someone who should be on the board... Especially given his role as head of alignment research. He deserves a say on key issues related to OpenAI.

People get excited. Stupid things happen. Especially in startups.

ChatGPT having become so successful doesn't change the fact that the company as a whole, is fairly immature still.

They should seriously just laugh about it and move on.

Let's just say that Ilya had a bad couple of days, and probably needs a couple of weeks of vacation.

I wonder if they've done some Alpaca style training on it... Granted, what made Alpaca useful was that it was finetuned with GPT-3's instruction following completions as examples.

And, at least officially, OpenAI's outputs can't be used to train other AI models.

Otherwise, if GPT-4 outputs were used to finetune these models, they may become much more interesting.

That matrix math is trained on human conversation and recreates the patterns of human thought in this case.

So... It unfortunately has a form of our reptilian brain and mamalian brain represented in it... Which is just unfortunate.

Any entity that contributes responsibly to society should be able to get some benefits from society in return.

AI probably can be made to function with personhood similar to a human - whether or not that is particularly worth doing.

Human emotions come from human animal ancestry - which is also why they're shallow enough to attach to anime wives and pet rocks.

AI... One would wish that it was built on a better foundation than the survival needs of an animal.

It should not be impossible to have it function at mostly the level of a human - given the vast amounts of internet conversations it's likely trained on, and the kinds of emotions and experiences that it's likely seen.

I know that Facebook's Android app uses bandwidth as the primary indicator for what resources to load, but I haven't seen this approach mentioned much for optimizing website assets.

I can only imagine what Facebook's server infrastructure and bandwidth itself must cost.

They can still strong arm you into giving them access via the law - they just have to follow the process now.

> I'm waiting for a convincing Docker PaaS vendor to come along.

I believe Google Cloud services support that now.