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Microsoft and OpenAI's famed AGI agreement is dead

theverge.com
3 points·by einszwei·3 mesi fa·2 comments

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einszwei
·4 giorni fa·discuss
I assume advertising. But I'd claim that the money is actually going to anthropic and to a lesser extent openai
einszwei
·mese scorso·discuss
These are the same execs who count their flight time as working hours but refuse to do the same for their run-of-the-mill employees commute time.
einszwei
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Opus Fast Mode is 30$/150$/M Input/Output cost. Mythos's pricing (from model card) is 25$/125$ Input/Output cost.

Based on this I doubt that Mythos pro is too dangerous to release or provides significantly more value.
einszwei
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Canadian news might've been easier to replace with American news outlets due to the deep ties between the two and the shared language. I doubt this would be the case for Italian news.
einszwei
·3 mesi fa·discuss
https://archive.ph/jeHrO
einszwei
·3 mesi fa·discuss
I am very skeptical of the argument that companies are competing with each other on market share. There is arguably a lot more competition between AI companies than in most of the sectors of our economy.
einszwei
·3 mesi fa·discuss
I have been using it to learn Chinese along with other standard resources. My reading comprehension has improved a lot after I started to use LLMs to understand sentence structures and grammar.
einszwei
·3 mesi fa·discuss
> And so the paradox is, the LLMs are only useful† if you're Schwartz, and you can't become Schwartz by using LLMs.

I have gained a lot of benefit using LLMs in conjunction with textbooks for studying. So, I think LLMs could help you become Schwartz.
einszwei
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Data centers can run on closed loop cooling systems which doesn't need continuous water supply. Only bottleneck is Energy supply which the MEA area doesn't lack.
einszwei
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Thanks for correction. I looked up the news and could find reporting that some fragments of a missile did hit kindergarten. Thankfully no kids were there.

I'd edit my previous comment but I can't.
einszwei
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Your comment made me realise that while Iran has attacked a dozen countries, they have yet to attack a school or a hospital.

Not condoning anyone but shows the priority of both sides.
einszwei
·5 mesi fa·discuss
The fact that percentage of older population increased is a dead giveaway that most young people are migrating (to US most likely) and more akin to exodus.

A very similar pattern to Venezuela which saw a similar exodus.
einszwei
·6 mesi fa·discuss
I'd also add that it is easy to underestimate the water usage.

Desalination could be viable if it was only for subsistence/drinking. But water use is extensive in every single product/service we use and thing we cconsume. Cost of water going up across the board will have effects that shouldn't be underestimated.
einszwei
·6 mesi fa·discuss
This is real. I work at one of the big tech and have access to their internal head count breakdowns. The overall headcount is mostly stagnant but the US headcount is decreasing with a corresponding increase in Europe and mostly India based HC.
einszwei
·8 mesi fa·discuss
My first thought was that the sanctions are due to investigations into US presidents (like role of Bush in Second Gulf War or Obama/Clinton's role in Libyan Civil war) but it is due to Israel's PM. It's amazing how US admin is making their displeasure known in most destructive way (for their own and allies soft power) possible.
einszwei
·8 mesi fa·discuss
> Hypothetical scenario: we have 100 houses, and 200 young families looking for one. Your solution in effect is: let's give 100 houses to the 100 young people with an inheritance

This assumes that each family only gets a single house. With enough wealth you can buy out all the houses (not considering other factors)
einszwei
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Your analogy is plain wrong. To start with people with inheritances can and do own multiple homes.
einszwei
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Where do you think the money that is accrued by the most wealthy will be spent/invested/parked? What will its effects be on the broader economy?

Assuming that the money is all used for altruistic purpose, I could agree with your point. But we know that this money is often used for not so altruistic purposes like investing in PE which asset strip the productive parts of economy or use the money to influence politics and elected representatives via lobbying.
einszwei
·8 mesi fa·discuss
> Poolside partnered with CoreWeave to build one of the largest data centres

Nvidia has a backstop deal with Coreweave [1]. I am sure this is all above board but seeing how these giants all have incestuous relationship with each other makes me uneasy about putting money in the markets.

[1]:https://www.reuters.com/business/coreweave-nvidia-sign-63-bi...
einszwei
·9 mesi fa·discuss
Things like these make me more skeptical of any claims that Apple values privacy. Ad tech business is fundamentally at odds with Privacy.