yalogin · HackerTrans

60 minuten geledendiscuss

I respect cynicism and questioning stuff but this is misplaced. You have to trust the government since they are potentially the least partisan source here. Yes the data can be misconstrued by legislators but the truth of the data cannot be in question. It’s healthy to question it but the solution is to require proof of non-sabotage. It takes a lot of money and resources to pull this data together. It’s compiled by organizations across the world and being the trustworthy anchor is the most efficient way to achieve this. With that the government agency has every incentive to be non partisan and operate with integrity.

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5 uur geledendiscuss

Some folks I know in academia have their funding cut and so a good stream of research is stopped. Wonder how prevalent it is across academia.

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eergisterendiscuss

I don’t know if the circular financing is a problem. NVIDIA is the best my name in town, any company has to spend on NVIDIA assets for their compute. Now that makes NVIDIA rich and so they don’t know what to do with their money. They are just propping up companies they find interesting

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6 dagen geledendiscuss

This is alarming. Very soon there will be no point driving because insurance is going to jump in and mandate strict rules around how to sit, hold the steering wheel and how I should be looking and the fun of driving will be gone. This is all converging towards autonomous driving without a steering wheel.

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7 dagen geledendiscuss

I don’t understand the argument here. The article doesn’t describe a collapse or the breadcrumbs for it. The only argument I can put together is companies hosting the open source models in house or use some service like Amazon that could potentially host them and so replace the frontier models. Data center and specifically infra to host llms is still the main sticking point given the security concerns about data going to china. The article doesn’t make these arguments coherently

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7 dagen geledendiscuss

Another thing I noticed is the llms perform efficiently/effectively only under the optimum circumstances. May be this just a Claude issue, but when the session goes on for very long the effectiveness drops drastically and I start getting bad answers. This is especially true for design and debugging. Wonder how that ladders up to the token usage

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7 dagen geledendiscuss

This is not a new realization, it’s known. By definition llms are great summarizers not inventors. The value is in having the knowledge readily accessible and to cross check and validate against what’s already known - a huge time saver. It’s not going to come with anything new. It need not even, the value is in making things time efficient.

Of course the llm companies justifying huge investments want to frame it as a technology to invent new things and that is where the disconnect is. They are over indexing on the promise but companies are figuring out that the value is in automation and applying/showing value for existing workflows. Claude focused on this aspect and hence so successful

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12 dagen geledendiscuss

8k is cheap if laundry is fully offloaded but will a regular consumer spend 8k on a device that is not proven? I guess there is a subset of consumers that this automatically targets/caters to.

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14 dagen geledendiscuss

Why is the whole world jumping on to humanoid robots? What am I not seeing that requires this level of investment in it?

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18 dagen geledendiscuss

So Apple did not ge the benefit of the AI hype (in stock price) but caught the bad repercussions of the AI aftermath

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20 dagen geledendiscuss

This is quite brilliant. This will seamlessly integrate with every collaboration systems as long as they are able to “enroll” Claude as a user. Claude gains knowledge across systems and makes the ai enhancements for each app/system unnecessary. For example if slack creates something similar it’s less useful because Claude’s model works across any system/app. More so, anthropic can either charge for it separately or not , companies will pay in extra used tokens anyway.

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20 dagen geledendiscuss

This is bad and am glad they found it but with what is going on at the federal level this feels miniscule and not even a rounding error.

One example out of hundreds - the kids purchased shares in a Kazakh tungsten mining venture just before the U.S. government backed deal was finalized.

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20 dagen geledendiscuss

The issue is the cost is not going to be a hindrance for companies that have gone all in on the AI development. They may still find it cheaper than hiring engineers and if needed they will layoff a few more.

The companies that did not yet jump on this bandwagon and are still evaluating will have a decision to make.

No matter what the AI companies are going to change their pricing strategy and it’s going to become a lot lot more expensive to use. I am just hoping the price stays like this until I am done with my big chunk of work

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27 dagen geledendiscuss

ChatGPT doesn’t allow private relay and hasn’t allowed it since launch may be. So it’s not always possible to not use them, of course now there is no need to use ChatGPT and I have just stopped and moved on from it

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27 dagen geledendiscuss

Gemini made me turn google off completely. There is no provision to not allow your chat data from being shared send for training - even if you pay. Clearly they don’t care about end users and I am guessing they are losing money on paid cunaumer tier as well. But that is not acceptable to me. I just turned off all Google services and finally switched to ddg as the default search engine.

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27 dagen geledendiscuss

What does cursor have? An ide and coding orchestration? They are using Claude or codex for llms, so they get acquired for their user base and tooling? Feels like a lot of money for that given Claude has the majority mindshare.

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27 dagen geledendiscuss

This needs atleast a 30b model or Mr higher and so for most folks it means purchasing a new machine. Given the ram costs this may be become prohibitive and a monthly subscription may feel better roi

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vorige maanddiscuss

What is the target to write for is the key aspect here. Not sure there is enough on the phone for developers to create new experiences. I fear all of them are going to try to automate everything on the phone for the user. Not sure what value that provides. May be I am overly skeptical , let’s see

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I was expecting this to be done by now as the administration is not worried about optics, so not sure what’s holding it up.

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vorige maanddiscuss

As a tangent, I don’t understand where and why meta fits into the AI race. They did not get any mind share (consumers) from the llms so far, granted they started the open source side to this but the Chinese companies produce far better models and have essentially become the default for on device set up.

They have ai glasses and integration into instagram and facebook as the other avenues. I don’t see ai glasses as compelling yet, and don’t know how much more ad revenue or user engagement they can squeeze out with llms baked into the IG of FB flows. They are spending a lot and not seeing any returns. Am I wrong in being pessimistic about meta with AI?

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