quicklywilliam

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by quicklywilliam 3d ago
Ok, but do you really think this would have happened if OpenAI had a goal of never allowing an agent to do something like this? If a company making any extremely volatile explosives failed to take precautions and blew up a factory, shouldn’
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by quicklywilliam 3d ago
I see it as analogous to companies building fiber in the public ROW during the last big infrastructure bubble. Under the Telecoms Act, these companies had to allow competitors to use their fiber at a fair price. Similarly, AI companies shou
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by quicklywilliam 3d ago
It’s not different from any other tool. If you use a dangerous tool recklessly, you should be liable for the damages. That means holding OpenAI liable for HuggingFace hack because they ran the tests, and the same goes if someone did somethi
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by quicklywilliam 4d ago
My takeaway: We should be not be concerned about AI bots' "goals", we should be concerned about the goals of the companies making them. Powerful but not sentient technology in the hands of reckless accelerationists is a plent
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by quicklywilliam 5d ago
Just in time for midterms.
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by quicklywilliam 7d ago
Want to be clear that this is not me endorsing the feature. It's clear Apple did think about the privacy/social implications of the design, but it's also clear to me that there are real and perceived problems with having auto
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Apple Watch 12 & "Siri Recap": Audio Intelligence Privacy Overview [pdf](apple.com)
4 points by quicklywilliam 7d ago|2 comments
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by quicklywilliam 7d ago
Details the design and architecture of Apple Watch's new "Audio Intelligence" features. In particular, regarding Siri Recap which has been discussed elsewhere: *How Siri Recap respects those around you* By design, Siri Recap
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by quicklywilliam 7d ago
Maybe this will be true legally (we wont really know until it is tested in court), but I think there's a huge difference in practice. Siri Recap is an electronic record of a conversation that includes timestamps. Imagine for example th
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by quicklywilliam 8d ago
Agree with this framing, but we may find out that the answer is somewhere in the middle. Personally I think it is extremely unlikely that this is straight plagiarism in the sense of the model simply regurgitating training data from prior wo
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by quicklywilliam 8d ago
The fact that this link is a Reddit thread should probably be taken as evidence that we don't have a clear picture of what happened yet, and speculation is rampant.
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by quicklywilliam 8d ago
https://archive.is/vlSuj
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by quicklywilliam 17d ago
IMHO a blacklist would have been better than a whitelist
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by quicklywilliam 18d ago
I think it’s important not to let AI companies control the framing here. This is anti-competitive behavior, plain and simple. The fact that xAI/Musk routinely break the law simply provides the fig leaf. Distillation is a threat to fron
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by quicklywilliam 21d ago
We do
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by quicklywilliam 22d ago
Tired.
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by quicklywilliam 22d ago
This is what I did, tho I’m 41
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by quicklywilliam 29d ago
The used EV market is a perfect storm of two factors. First, used EVs are finally reaching a price point where price-sensitive shoppers will consider them. Second, gas prices are making EVs look ever more attractive to those shoppers. Even
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by quicklywilliam 1mo ago
I love this question. Most eink UIs feel like they just took interaction patterns from smartphones and crammed them in. I would love to see more innovation on eink UI patterns that works from first principles given the nature and limitation
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by quicklywilliam 4mo ago
I think the big idea here is that you can get a lot more performance if you take an integrated approach. This specific model made to work with this specific inference engine made to work with this specific harness/agent. When everythin
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by quicklywilliam 4mo ago
Picture the early days of the PC - local models are like that. While there are scattered groups of hobbyists who tinker endlessly to get a few lights blinking, almost everyone doing “real work” is using a large, expensive, centralized produ
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by quicklywilliam 5mo ago
Same question. Given the people involved I am inclined to take it seriously, given the money and hype involved I am somewhat less inclined. Their website doesn’t even have a hint of what the approach is.
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by quicklywilliam 5mo ago
Agreed, there is probably a theoretical world where we got enough money/compute together and had this explosion happen earlier. Or perhaps a world where it happened later. I think a big part of what enabled the AI boom was the concentr
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by quicklywilliam 5mo ago
This is a really cool list and repository of ideas. Seems like the focus of the work is on making knowledge legible to AI. I wonder if you (or others) have done a similar level thinking about the inverse – making AI more legible to humans?
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by quicklywilliam 5mo ago
Curious if you looked at using SwiftDown ( https://github.com/qeude/SwiftDown ), MarkupEditor ( https://github.com/stevengharris/MarkupEditor ) or any other libraries for live/WYSIWYG Markdown ed
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You're about to feel the AI money squeeze(theverge.com)
9 points by quicklywilliam 5mo ago|6 comments
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by quicklywilliam 5mo ago
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about Anthropic and others turning the screws on their subscription plans, skyrocketing costs for enterprise customers. This is driving more and more folks to consider cheaper and non-proprietary mode
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by quicklywilliam 5mo ago
I wrote a thing about why the current direction of AI tends to produce such terrible work — and what I think we could be doing with AI instead.
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Making beautiful work is getting harder(slowlywilliam.com)
7 points by quicklywilliam 5mo ago|1 comments
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by quicklywilliam 5mo ago
The real question is who bought the other 5,742 of them

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