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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. This is basically something scientists have been alarming about for the past year: We're moving into a future where science may be tiered into the haves (those with access to premium c
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
I can see legit use cases where people simply can't communicate in any physical way. People with locked-in syndrome, etc. But, obviously those only make up a small number of people. Strapping a mind-reading machine onto some detainee i
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
Truth be told, they didn't put much effort into it before GenAI. Those restaurants that use AI menus now? They just used free templates before. Few mom'n pop restaurants could afford spending money on graphic designers to work out
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
I’d argue it is even more common among successful startup founders.
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
I've found AI to be very conservative when it coms to financial advice. Before AI I used to make my own models, and did that to the point of obsession. In the past year or so AI has become good enough with producing spreadsheets that I
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
I always found it interesting how different things are in US (well, more so startup hotspots) and Europe. In the US you're simply given more chances if you have the right personality and superficial elements. In so many European countr
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
I don't think PG posts are aimed at us normies. I do read his blogposts when they are published, and for all these years I've always thought that they were aimed at ambitious students and professionals alike, but with a certain pe
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
If you have issues with having to label your GenAI slop as "AI made", I'm going to assume you are not trustworthy. Just label it.
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
There’s a few startups pushing this kind of product. Basically agents to run your whole business, and the owners of those startups are making money, while their clients are bleeding cash on agents doing the same thing as this article outlin
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
I don't expect non-foundational or non-frontier startups to do, or publish much heavy hitting research. "AI" has become such a ubiquitous description, it is probably easier to find non-AI startups.
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
Machine learning could need, and probably has needed, some unified math notation for the past 15 years IMO. With that said, it was worse back in the day - when ML papers were the products of researchers from all over, you'd see some wi
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
Imagine if all oil, electricity, water, internet, or anything of importance were to be served by a small cartel only. Mainly due to regulatory capture. Yeah, no thanks.
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
I'm not a lawyer, but my work domain revolves around data analysis of certain types of crime. Often times the suspects are flagged and under surveillance, so if and when they cross borders or go through check-points where you have a gr
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Top American AI Execs Sound Alarm on Chinese Models(wsj.com)
8 points by TrackerFF 2mo ago|5 comments
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
That's the way it is where I live, too. It might not be "fair game", but if people really want to help their kids, they should do everything in their power to get them into the housing market ASAP. When I grew up, that was se
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
It isn’t that long ago that AI was heavily gatekept and had some serious barriers of entry, due to its origins from academia. I figure most of these are working on products, rather that deep frontier research.
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
I have a theory: People are are less critical to GenAI, slop even, if it is content that is directly related to them. For example, if a friend generates some silly AI video or photo of you or other, you're less likely to act negatively
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
One interesting aspect is of course that the movement from the same user can be different depending on what type of mouse they use. I use a mouse at work on my PC, touchpad on my private laptop, and thinkpad nipple on work laptop. Three dif
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
Is interrail still a thing? It was popular in Europe back in the 70s and 80s, when young people could buy a interrail pass. Many of my older relatives (now in their 60s) did that back then, but it was more or less dead when I was old enough
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
I’ve watched “In The Mouth of Madness” so many times. It is in my top 3 most re-watched horror movies list. Perfect Lovecraftian horror, and Sam Neill was perfect in it. Do you read Sutter Cane?
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
If we look at the progress made from ChatGPT 3.5 (Nov 2022) and up to today...shoot, I'm really starting to wonder if we'll even be reviewing code in 4 years. And I'm not saying this as some sort of AI maximalist. If progress
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
I noticed last year that FB did some change to their recommendations engine, that they’ll show posts by random people based things you’ve searched. A friend was diagnosed with cancer last year, I searched extensively, and now I’m exclusivel
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
Could it be that someone there just didn’t like or vibe with you? FWIW, I’ve referred someone 3 times to the same position because I’m very sure he would be a good fit, and I’ve seen his work. But for trivial reasons ( “He doesn’t seem enth
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
For the arguments sake: What if that is the authors natural voice?
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
It detects drones which send out RF signals at the same frequency band. Most drones used in Ukraine are tethered with thin optical wire exactly because one of the first anti-drone measures was to simply jam them at the frequencies the opera
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
The revived (AI) versions have this...thin and hollow sound to it. It is difficult to explain, most AI-generated songs have this when they're modelling acoustic drums, stringed instruments, etc. FWIW, I'm (now a hobby) musician an
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
AI has just accelerated what has always been out there. LinkedIn has more or less always been a place where people write scripted BS stories, AI just made it a lot easier.
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
I was somewhat surprised to find out that illiteracy does not mean that someone needs to be a total (or near) analphabet - but rather that it is a broad and wide spectrum. I always imagined that “teenagers can’t read” meant that they couldn
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by TrackerFF 2mo ago
I sometimes see people "celebrate" this, with the rationale that China is cracking down on white-collar crimes and handing out sentences unheard of in the west. But, are these sort of things just examples of selective prosecution?
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
One important part of the story is in the very beginning: The founder’s motivation. To become wealthy. You see this in the startup world a lot. Founders with 5+ failed startups in different sectors, because said founder picked the fields ma

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