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by jfoster 5d ago
That seems in the interest of the savvy media teams, but surely Google would be better off having a market that encourages all healthy competition?
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by jfoster 5d ago
I keep hearing it too. The bit I don't yet understand is, wouldn't it be in Google's interest to not do this? They ban on both sides of the market for seemingly no reason. Wouldn't maximizing all legitimate participation
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by jfoster 17d ago
Feels like those kinds of terms are moot in the big picture. Could they enforce it? Perhaps they can if a significant amount of the data produced is their IP, but who would they enforce it against? Consumers? Not much to be gained by going
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by jfoster 18d ago
At this point, who could bring a copyright claim? Well, considering the massive AI training effort hoovering everything up, seems it might be approximately everyone. Who would they be making the claim against? Well, considering the massive
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by jfoster 1mo ago
But incumbents have a natural advantage, right? So any type of control trying to ensure similar levels of access is clearly going to be to the advantage of incumbents.
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by jfoster 1mo ago
I don't know anything about this specific case, but in elections more generally, wouldn't filtering all candidates equally simply favor incumbents?
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by jfoster 1mo ago
You seem to be baking-in the assumption that extreme precision is what can make the difference when driving a car, but I put to you that the vast, vast majority of human-at-fault accidents are not due to the precision being slightly off. It
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by jfoster 1mo ago
If he/she was an LLM I don't think it would've forgotten insurance among the costs.
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by jfoster 2mo ago
Could multiple Chinese characters be counted as a single token?
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by jfoster 2mo ago
I've been contemplating that recently. You're of course correct that subsidized tokens won't be forever, but that might only be half the story, since there's two opposing forces in action: 1. Phasing out of subsidized to
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by jfoster 3mo ago
Presumably you'd be paying for that, right? What if the CEO of that one will come along and notice all the fat stacks of money he's leaving on the table by not advertising to all of those rich contrarians?
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by jfoster 3mo ago
In this case it seems like a bit of coaching could have retained a talented employee who has a preference for taking initiative. I have a hunch that the order of the day within big tech is to let go of anyone they can. As long as they provi
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by jfoster 3mo ago
I'm surprised explanation is necessary, but OK. Even if the criminals don't themselves consider the presence of cameras, the cameras likely ensure they will not have freedom for too much longer.
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by jfoster 3mo ago
But they might stop it from happening again if the perpetrators are imprisoned as a result of the footage.
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by jfoster 3mo ago
They might not, but there is a further defence against their lack of consideration about consequences. It's called incarceration.
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by jfoster 3mo ago
The entire concept of a review is that it's one person's opinion.
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Why Tech CEOs Are Quietly Cancelling Their AI Plans [video](youtube.com)
3 points by jfoster 3mo ago|1 comments
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by jfoster 3mo ago
As I see it, you're making a few mistakes in your thinking in this post: 1. You assume that the recent change is that we are close to building in space, but actually what's changed is that it's becoming clearer what might be
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by jfoster 4mo ago
If you read his articles over the years you would continually think that Tesla should go out of business in the near future, yet they never do. He might not specifically lie, but puts such a negative spin on anything Elon-related that the o
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by jfoster 5mo ago
Fair, but actually you'd surely want your choice of those three, right? And what's being discussed here is what the better implementation of option 3 is. My point is that if you're going with one of the possible implementatio
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by jfoster 5mo ago
Why are you pretending those are the options? The options are: 1. 22GB per website 2. 22GB per browser 3. 0GB / No AI capabilities By having this in Chrome they are simply ensuring that option 2 replaces option 1. You still have option
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by jfoster 5mo ago
Good for Google Cloud, bad for Gemini = ??? for Google
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by jfoster 5mo ago
Also much better than every website wanting its own 22 GB rather than the 22 GB being a shared resource.
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by jfoster 5mo ago
Doesn't sound great, but consider how much better this is than every webpage trying to load their own models. If it turns out useful enough I'm sure browsers will just start including it as (perhaps optional?) part of installation
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by jfoster 5mo ago
> those days seem so long gone now. Well, Musk v OpenAI kicks off in one week from now with the objective of forcing them back to their roots. A jury will be deciding whether a nonprofit accepting $50m - $100m of donations and then disca
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by jfoster 5mo ago
> ... because of how homogenous the internet has become... Designs have been settling on a local maxima. If you are aware of a better hill to be climbed, please do let everyone know.
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by jfoster 5mo ago
It can write (some) code that works. Just roughly guessing from my use, but I think of it as being a bit like ChatGPT circa-2024 in terms of capability & speed. Disappointing if you compare it to anything else from 2026, but fairly impr
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by jfoster 5mo ago
These are speed bumps for you but they make it nearly impossible for something to go mainstream, so rest assured they work extremely well on others.
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by jfoster 5mo ago
Suspicion is in the eye of the beholder.
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by jfoster 5mo ago
Really cool! Is this using a Google API? How is it not costing a small fortune?

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