You just jogged my memory about a surprisingly complex Metal Gear game I had on my Nokia N95… It was in third-person side view (Shinobi style) and some stages had you piloting a drone to areas you couldn’t reach? Looking back I can’t find any reference to it… maybe it wasn’t an official Metal Gear game but some sort of “off brand” game that was implied to be like Metal Gear?

It was an interesting era of surprisingly capable games that is mostly lost to time as the iPhone came not long after and dominated the scene.

This game looks cool, will check back in later!

If you like long scenes of a family just driving around, this is the film for you!

I love the idea of more control over my devices, but it also illustrates how easily someone else could own everything you own.

KDE here, haven’t used Gnome much. I have pretty specific preferences and KDE meets them. I like a vertical task bar on the left side of the screen. Even if I have a ton of windows open, I can see them all at a glance and switch to them easily. I really hate the minimal taskbars of Windows 11 and MacOS. They look nice visually but they are so much less functional.

I get that Gnome has other ways of switching windows, and maybe it’s habit more than anything else, but I want my damn task bar.

I think this probably fits into Doctorow’s concept of “centaurs” in that the use of the AI tool is driven by highly skilled workers who tune the tool and carefully review its output. He contrasts this with the lazy mandates to use LLMs for everything in the corporate world.

I do think this kind of medical research is the best argument for the benefits of machine learning, but it’s also not what’s driving the massive scale of the AI infrastructure build-out and not really generalizable to the idea that organizations can replace workers for every knowledge job

Seems like we as a society have a couple of options here:

1. Take this story as obvious marketing; downgrade Altman’s credibility yet again and move on

2. Take it seriously and demand that OpenAI cease operations until they can function responsibly

3. Take it seriously and throw yet more money at them

Unfortunately #3 seems like a strong contender in the current climate.

Just remind them that it’s natural to be curious about crab literacy, but they need to find a more healthy outlet for these feelings.

Ok, thanks for the detailed explanation. I guess if your goal is to make your model sound like another model that makes perfect sense.

I wonder if you’d be allowed to read some other passages in addition to the required ones?

Like the part where the one prophet has God summon a bear from the woods to maul like one or two dozen kids because they called him bald.

Or the part where the Israelites convince another group of people that they want to make peace and convince them to get circumcized as a sign of good will, then they massacre them all while the men are recuperating from the circumcisions, and God is basically like “good one!”

There are a lot of illuminating passages that would help kids make a proper judgment as to whether the Bible is really the product of an omniscient, benevolent being.

I’ve had the same grill (except 3 burners) for like 7 years, it’s great. The grates eventually did rust but you can get replacement parts easily. Enjoy!

The article is not clear on what a “distillation attack” is… what exactly is Alibaba supposed to be getting away with here? The article mentions using many different connections through obfuscation networks and proxies… so that would get them around rate limiting, and maybe enable them to submit many queries on free accounts… just spin up a new account whenever you hit the token limit of an unpaid account. So basically it’s a terms of service violation?

I don’t see why it’s necessarily a huge leg up for a competitor… they are just using the outputs of another model as training data. They still need to train their model, which is the expensive and energy intensive part.

It sounds to me like Anthropic just wants the US Government to help enforce its TOS internationally and force Alibaba to pay for those precious tokens? Because apart from that piece, the “attack” just seems like normal use of the service. If Anthropic’s service has an inherent vulnerability, that’s their problem.

Of course all the other comments about how they stole all their training data in the first place are spot on.

If the White House posts a statement that “The sky is blue,” I’m looking out the window to check.

No no really it’s about protecting girls, really it is! Now go on over to the doctor’s office and take off your pants.

+1 for Secret of Mana. Awesome game.

90% of MAGA would support Trump taking a dump directly on their faces.

Nope, now (by default) it opens all the files you had open the last time you used Notepad. You can turn it off, but it’s annoying.

Dear Mr. Karp, please fall off a cliff

There’s a lot of magical thinking about how AI will actually help the labor market, but it seems clear to me that the entire reason for the billions being pumped into AI is the potential to slash labor costs.

It’s like they’re building human wood chippers while telling us that all these human wood chippers will actually result in fewer people being fed into wood chippers.

Sure, I have no doubt that a terminated NIH scientist will have no trouble finding a “factory job” that pays two or three times as much.

What world does this guy live in?

I’m just spitballing here, but maybe you should find out what people want first, and then build that.