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HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments(techcrunch.com)
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by jacobr1 17d ago
The main benefit to the fiction is limited liability. Without delegating to the corporation the responsibility for corporate actions would need to be defined as belonging to the owners, or all employees or some other structure where it all
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by jacobr1 22d ago
They still are, if what you want is roughly the same as the prior generations capability with some uplift (making then number up, but say 20% faster or more ram or whatever). What is changing is that there genuine demand for more capabiliti
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by jacobr1 2mo ago
How much does the average knowledge worker actually use desktop apps anymore? At this point I would bet the super-majority of work is done in a browser, and secondarily electron-apps.
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by jacobr1 2mo ago
+fees, though ideally the fees would be capped too
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by jacobr1 3mo ago
Wouldn't that be covered by using PPP comparisons rather than just market currency conversion rates?
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by jacobr1 3mo ago
Demand for the big cities is still increasing pretty much everywhere, even if some countries are seeing net decrease in demand on the whole. Also remember that supply deteriorates. The number of "ready to move into" homes can decr
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by jacobr1 3mo ago
Right - the point I was refuting is that LLMs are "just statistical models of words." More is going on. Does that imply "understanding?" I don't know, I'm not sure we have a good enough definition to say. But i
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by jacobr1 3mo ago
The surprising bit is that 10% of Americans DO NOT own a smartphone. That must be exceedingly difficult. Increasingly everyday activities require them, without fallbacks. I presume those numbers exclude children, and then if you account for
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by jacobr1 3mo ago
LLMs as clearly doing more than just modeling words. In order to predict word placement, they need to build some kind of model, their latent space, of the types of things they are able to predict. Not really full world models yet - but they
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by jacobr1 3mo ago
The new siri models will be some variant of the gemini models. This framework seems to be more generalized than that though.
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by jacobr1 4mo ago
Where are the "Safe Guardrails" ?
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by jacobr1 4mo ago
Older ML systems were much better at exposing their internal confidence. Plenty of papers reverse out this kind of interpretability for open weight models. All the models exposed logprobs early on. This seems solvable if prioritized. The un
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by jacobr1 5mo ago
well, technically they can ...
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by jacobr1 7mo ago
I half agree. But two points: 1) if you can formalize your instructions ... then future instances can be fully automated. 2) You are still probably having the AI perform many sub-tasks. AI-skeptics regularly fall into this god-of-the-gaps t
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by jacobr1 7mo ago
There is a lot to be done with good prompting. Early on, these code agents wouldn't do basic good hygiene things, like check if the code compiled, avoid hallucinating weird modules, writing unit tests. And people would say they sucked
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by jacobr1 7mo ago
Except it often is the case that when you break down what humans are doing, there are actual concrete tasks. If you can convert the tacit knowledge to decision trees and background references, you likely can get the AI to perform most non-c
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by jacobr1 7mo ago
Normal isn't a myth. The mistake people make is taking the mode as normal, or worse mistaking their own experience as normal. But humans generally do tend to have a range of common behaviors that a significant percentage of people fit
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by jacobr1 7mo ago
Yep. ChatAI - show the top 50 online retailers by revenue in the US and note any that have credible new stories about quality control issues. Save all of them except StoreX and StoreY in your list you use for comparison shopping. Or maybe a
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by jacobr1 8mo ago
Unless they have agents reading those emails and responding ...
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by jacobr1 8mo ago
All the hard work is always chasing down edge cases, scaling, operational issues and other things that don't show up the user-exposed features. And talking about features, the innovation in coming up with them, or iterating on making t
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by jacobr1 8mo ago
Business crave both data for analysis and checkboxes getting checked for compliance sake. If those don't align to the value of the work - then you have the classic of employees hating the "TPS Reports" they are forced to make
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by jacobr1 8mo ago
> this is sub-par and neglects important aspects of your business But that is exactly the right way to think about it. If you have an army of sub-par workers that aren't going to think deeply about their value to your business, but
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by jacobr1 8mo ago
Also consider that while the OP looks like a skilled, experienced individual, all too often the documentation is being written by someone with that context, but rather someone unskilled, and with read empathy. Quality is quite often very po
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by jacobr1 8mo ago
The common thread is that people are bad and saving and delayed gratification. The easiest path to instant gratification wins more often than not.
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by jacobr1 8mo ago
Depends on the service, and timeframes. For geforcenow, you also need to consider the upgrade cycle - how often would you need to upgrade to play a newer game? I'm not sure but probably at least once within that 8 years. Buying a new c
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by jacobr1 8mo ago
Already happening at the in vitro level, might be possible in vivo as well. Neither require the more abusive approaches from the first eugenics era.
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by jacobr1 9mo ago
Honestly it feels like what I, or many of my colleagues would do if given the assignment. Take the current front page, or a summary of the top tropes or recurring topics, revise them for 1 or 2 steps of technical progress and call it a day.
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by jacobr1 9mo ago
Is anything objectively amazing? Seems like an inherently subjective quality to evaluate.
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by jacobr1 11mo ago
The cycle repeats frequently in industry. New waves of startups address a problem with better UX, and maybe some other details like increased automated and speed using more modern architectures. But feature-creep eventually makes the UX cum

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