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saynay··on Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement
More accurately, you are fine until you try to distribute them, or display them. Giving out free copies would not be commercial, but would definitely be a violation.
saynay··on Passage by 1Password: Add passkey support to your app or website
Most attacks are remote, not involving physical access to a specific (compromised) device. Think a compromised website exposing 1000s of peoples passwords, and trying those passwords against other services. For that threat vector, it is more secure.

The way I would look at it is if that threat concerns you, don't use it for high-value accounts (email, bank, etc). Still is probably worth using for all those other low-value accounts; if an attacker has your phone, and has broken in to it, them having access to your Netflix account is probably the least of your worries.

saynay··on Ask HN: Can someone ELI5 transformers and the “Attention is all we need” paper?
I believe the other big thing is it allowed you to parallelize the training as well, so you could split those colossal training sets across many machines in a way you could not do with LSTMs.
saynay··on Google launches PaLM 2, its next-gen large language model
On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, if they are both going to have liability issues, choosing the one that isn't literally full of lawyers seems like a smart play.
saynay··on Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead
Most still believe that "really intelligent AI" is still a long way off, from what I have seen. Many have started to believe there can be a lot of harm caused by the systems well before then, however.
saynay··on Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content
I think that was more because places like Reddit just linking directly to the image meant they couldn't serve ads to pay for it. So they needed to make an incentive for people to directly visit the site, and the most obvious way was to just cut out Reddit as a necessary component to a user discovering more images.
saynay··on What it feels like to work in AI right now
Bard would not trick anyone into thinking it was sentient, yet something they have supposedly did. I just think Google has far more to lose than Bing, so they are being more cautious.
saynay··on The US Supreme Court doesn’t understand the internet
I am curious which clause of 230 you think would not cover recommendation systems?
saynay··on Podman vs. Docker: Comparing the two containerization tools
Kaniko is what I use as well, since I initially had some containers that were not building correctly with buildah. Not quite as seamless as buildah promised to be, but it can read Dockerfiles with no modifications, so it was easy enough to move to.
saynay··on Podman vs. Docker: Comparing the two containerization tools
I remember VMWare solved this with a balloon driver, that basically asks the guest for a lot of memory at a very low priority, so it has precedence over the page cache, but under any program that actually needs it.
saynay··on AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes
Same as it ever was. What is acceptable to make fun of and what is not is constantly shifting with the times. What seems more constant is people being upset that what was once acceptable is now frowned upon, and the friction that causes them.
saynay··on AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes
Such as Twitch's opinion that this joke was a violation of their TOS, and thus deserving of a temp ban? That opinion seems to be making a lot of people here pretty uncomfortable.
saynay··on Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists
But why? I am under the impression the Q crowd doesn't tend to be the wealthiest bunch. Tesla was also already selling every car they could make, with like a 6 month backorder. Expanding, or switching, your target market makes no sense if they cannot afford your product, and you have no inventory to sell them anyways.
saynay··on Vocaloid 6
As far as I can tell, because it allows one-man production teams. A single person can do everything, without needing to find a vocalist. It allows them to try more stuff quicker and easier, and anything that happened to get popular ends up covered by vocalists anyways (and the producer gets to sell those rights).
saynay··on Signal says it won’t compromise on encryption
Signal also has a grand total of 40 employees. Keeping the application running on the various platforms takes a decent chunk of their time. Difficult development to add something like federation cannot be expected to happen quickly.
saynay··on Copilot under fire as dev claims it emits 'large chunks of my copyrighted code'
You can copyright derivative, transformative work though?

I don't think current legal frameworks are equipped to handle these types of generative works. There will need to be either new laws, or at least some legal precedence established. For example, it would make total sense for stuff posted publicly to optionally have a "not to be used to train models" license. But models are being trained on public data that pre-dates anyone thinking that is something that they should worry about.

saynay··on The AI Scaling Hypothesis
One of the more interesting things I have seen recently is the combination of different domains in models / datasets. The top network of Stable Diffusion combines text-based descriptions with image-based descriptions, where the model learns to represent either text or images in the same embedding; a picture, or a caption for that picture, lead to similar embeddings.

Effectively, this can broaden the context the network can learn. There are relationships that are readily apparent to something that learned images that might not be apparent to something trained only on text, or vis-versa.

It will be interesting to see where that goes. Will it be possible to make a singular multi-domain encoder, that can take a wide range of inputs and create an embedding (an "mental model" of the input), and have this one model be usable as the input for a wide variety of tasks? Can something trained on multi-domains learn new concepts faster than a network that is single-domain?

saynay··on Inflation is at a 40 year high. What can history teach us?
That is a bit of an oversimplification. The presence of money is no sufficient, that money must be in circulation. For example, they can print all the money they want, if they just toss it all in a big bank account and never remove it, there will be no inflation.

That was a big reason why printing a lot of money in the past did not contribute to a lot of inflation: most of that money ended up sitting in the accounts of a few big institutions, who then did not end up spending it on anything.

This time around, we both gave that money directly to people (who then spent all of it), but also were dealing with global supply issues, an energy crunch, a food crunch, etc. Everyone had more money to spend, but there were less things to spend it on, leading to dramatic price increases.

saynay··on Draw Anything – A Simple Stable Diffusion Playground
The reason I saw mentioned is that NSFW content was so prevalent in their training set that, if they did not explicitly exclude it, it was actually difficult for it to NOT produce NSFW results even from normal inputs. For example, if you ask for anything with a woman in it, it would probably give you a naked woman in the results.
saynay··on Try Stable Diffusion's Img2Img Mode
Pretty sure that one already exists. A de-censoring and inpainting one, if I remember right.
saynay··on Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understanding their relationships?
At some point, these discussions always get to some question like "what is 'knowing'?"

Would a person who only ever read articles and looked at pictures of giraffes have a better understanding of them than Dall-e does? At some level, probably, in that every person will have a similar lived experience of _being_ an animal, a mammal, etc. that Dall-e will never share. Is having a lesser understanding sufficient to declare it has no real understanding?

saynay··on Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understanding their relationships?
I am not really sure that this is a basis to say human intelligence is fundamentally different. If you ask a human to draw a picture based on nonsensical input, they probably wont. That might not be a difference in process, but in agency.

So is a single-purpose AI equivalent to the entirety of the Human Experience? Of course not. But can it be similar in functionality to a small sliver of it?

saynay··on Stranger Things is being edited retroactively by Netflix?
More, the author saw mention of it pop up on thier Twitter feed, so wrote an article to cash in on the current "controversy" with no actual research beyond Twitter.
saynay··on Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range
We are going to be seeing this more frequently in cars, and probably hardware overall. Having a single hardware spec that is license-limited to various levels is just cheaper for the manufacturer in how it simplifies their logistics. It also provides additional revenue options from existing customers that might want to "upgrade" at a later date.

On the plus side, if you can figure out how to sideload your car you get a free range extension on your battery.

saynay··on YOLOv6: Redefine state-of-the-art for object detection
The individual ops could be faster, so even though there are more of them, the overall speed is quicker. The authors mention using more 16bit ops, so that might be part of the reason?
saynay··on YOLOv6: Redefine state-of-the-art for object detection
All YOLOs past v3 will be, to some extent, since the original author wont be releasing anymore versions. This one looks to be in pytorch, so it is also not in darknet. I am not really sure what makes it "YOLO" anymore other than being a single-shot detector, but the author claims they took inspiration from the techniques in the original YOLO papers.
saynay··on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
More like 5 people who get to be in charge of whatever they feel like at the time.
saynay··on I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it
The fact that we can say a person revolutionized the field is specifically because their work, at some point in time, got recognized by a larger audience. The fact that an artist had pushback is also context that is used to determine something is revolutionary; you cannot have subversive art if there is nothing to subvert.
saynay··on I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it
I would actually say that humans have an enormous extra set of data that we, as people, are "trained" on. We walk around in our daily lives, seeing things constantly, and that influences our perception of art. Art is always a product of the broader context it was made in (social, environmental, etc). Something that gets accepted or praised today might very well not have been 200 years ago.

One of the things that is interesting with these new big models is it is dramatically broadening the context in use. The models are learning both the textual representation of a concept, as well as the artistic/visual representation and the relationship between the two domains.

saynay··on I made an AI write a story about AI then I made another AI illustrate it
The generation side is actually probably easier than the critic side. I don't know of any network that is capable of determining if something is aesthetically pleasing in an abstract sense, instead they always compare to known examples.
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