Posts by David 164

Apple AI boffins puncture AGI hype as reasoning models flail on complex planning

Re: Expert

A lot of these companies have put in firewalls to prevent these models from learning from the public becuase the public teaches them to be little hitlers for a laugh.

Re: Truth regarding 'AI' !!!!

Human lie and helluciate all the time. That has nothing to do with whether these models are intelligent or not.

Lies and helluciations are a problems because they are for profit companies working towards commercial applications where companies don't want their product lying to customers, unless it a company producing sex robots, then you know they will need them to lie.

I think the first one scares a lot of people who been studying AI for decades and getting into highly complex discussions about AI, when in reality it was fairly simply to do, we just didn't have the data or the hardware and a few programming concepts to do it until we did.

Alphawave Semi swallowed in Qualcomm's $2.4B connectivity conquest

unless british shareholders find a backbone and say no.

Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek

Re: US export restrictions

US motto should be, If we can't complete, we ban.

"We now know this tool [DeepSeek] exploited US AI models a

Do we, I thought that was just a unproven hypothesis from a sulking openAI that got outmaneuvered by a Chinese upstart.

GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison

Re: Disquieting features

I'm guessing most, if not all of this case was heard behind close doors, we will likely never get a answer to those questions.

Re: How?

I hope It was a plan to get real solid evidence on him before raiding his home. An that some security measures were intentionally deactivated to allow this to happen.

LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite

LLM are all well and good but it will be the companies that narrow down their LLM into doing something useful and controllable and accurately and repeatable that will own that niche.

Teacher,

Doctor,

lawyer

Are the probably going to be the big ones companies will aim for.

Law enforce and military will be the next ones.

Google, Open AI will own the generalist consumer market but they will be to unreliable to be use outside of that.

UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London

Re: Wrong question

I suspect most people either don't care or think it is. UK generaly only really care when the technology is use wrongly, not before hand. Even then the vast majority will give great leaveway to the police.

Re: Wrong question

It improving every year, if not every other month.

iRobot may be iDead in iYear

If it was a viable business, I'm sure more companies than just Amazon would be sniffing around to buy them.

UK court says Chinese operation must sell Scottish chip biz stake without delay

Re: why?

Might be that they have done some off the book for the government, USB spying devices.

Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy’s still screwed

In 50 years I suspect society will view people like him as luddites, may be even consider him as dangerous luddites.

IBM banks on friendlier US regulatory climate for dealmaking

when did competition mean being able to buy anyone competing with you?

DeepSeek's not the only Chinese LLM maker OpenAI and pals have to worry about. Right, Alibaba?

Re: An Inevitability

Thing is the only thing you can spend on is server farms and electricity. Why in reality they are chasing something they know is achievable with a fraction of the computing resources and about 1500 calories of energy a day.

White House attempts to 'explain' mystery drone sightings: The FAA authorized 'em

Re: Eh?

I'm guessing it FAA policy not to tell the public about the military testing new aircraft technologies.

So military testing new drone tech. As most people guessed.

Guess who left a database wide open, exposing chat logs, API keys, and more? Yup, DeepSeek

Open AI terms and conditions forbid it ai answers from being use to train other AI. Open AI clearly don't want it AI being social with other AI, even through it could improve it own models.

Yes because Google been doing it for 20 plus of those years with it webcrawlers.

DeepSeek isn't done yet with OpenAI – image-maker Janus Pro is gunning for DALL-E 3

Yep, it the American way, can't beat them, ban them.

How long before US ban US citizens and companies from using Chinese AI technology.

Europe hopes Trump trumps Biden's plan for US to play AI gatekeeper

Re: No limit for the Netherlands but for EU?

This was my first thought, the EU has a direct and highly targeted way to hit back on US sanctions here. If the US don't want us to have them fine, they can't use our technology to make them.

Look like Europe should respond by cutting of US access to European equipment that make computer chips and bar their use for manufacturing US chips in third countries like Taiwan. If the EU can't have access to them then either can the US.

Asda decided on a 'no go' for 'mass rollout' of store IT conversion

Re: Who is running the project?

Tesco rolled out new till software for customer services at the beginning of this month.

UK orders Chinese biz to sell majority stake in Scottish chipmaker

Re: FTDI, really, the USB Serial/TTL chip people

or the UK government will acquire them and combine the operation with Octric Semiconductors UK.

China Telecom's next 150,000 servers will mostly use local processors

Are the Chinese buying the processors from Arm the UK base, Japanese owned. US listed company or the Chinese subsidiary that was hived off a few years ago?

Google expands visual, audio search, lets AI handle layout

Re: A good thing...

It took 6 years and a research team of thousands and probably the GDP of a medium size nation to achieve it current success. To me it one of the key components of building what a average person would call a AI, is image recognition. The fact Google Lens is so damn good means we are another step closer to skynet

Feds charge 3 Iranians with 'hack-and-leak' of Trump 2024 campaign

Twitter is Musk 20bn dollars and falling toy and nothing else. It will probably bankrupt him in the end.

OpenAI reportedly considering for-profit plans, but what would that be good for?

Re: Copyright Claim Would Fail

But so can a significantly well read human.

Re: Copyright Claim Would Fail

Many are suing because their content was copied from their servers to "insert a AI company" servers, then manipulated, aka tagged and categorise and then expose to their AI to learn from.

That copying and reusing which is violating copyright law, perhaps.

However if the AI simply learn by browsing the web, even at a billion pages per hour, i don't see that violating copyright, especially if it did it via web cam staring as a screen. Are we close to having such a free learning AI, I don't know, probably not, but who knows.

So they didn't want to hand power of open AI to a individual but now Altman has instead become that individual.

Anyway you can't train or bring up a human without copyright works, so you certainly can't create a good AI without it.

Hands up who hasn't made an offer to buy some part of Intel

Re: The UK Government?

I raise a eyebrow in reading that report and it hasn't been covered anywhere. A interesting acquisition, I'm wondering if we will eventually see it acquiring licenses to manufacturer a much wider array of computer processors in the coming years. At least enough capacity, we can supply the military ourselves and not rely on imports from Taiwan and US.

I also wonder if eventually it be transferred to the sovereign wealth fund to run rather than kept at the MOD. The sovereign wealth fund would have more interest in expanding it beyond just military applications.

Messaging app makers' dilemma: Keeping comms private and funding open source

Re: You can't do this stuff commercially any more.

Actually that the US model, which is essentially Five Eyes model, they have been demanding backdoors into everything for decades.

China's chip tech still lags the West – by up to five generations

So they recommend not to trying to beat china in fair competition but to try an regulate China out of the game. So much capitalism.

Brit tech mogul Mike Lynch missing after yacht sinks off Sicily amid storms

Re: Coincidence or what !!!

Face that his co-defendent also happen to die this week as well, does raise my suspicions. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/19/mike-lynchs-co-defendant-in-us-trial-fatally-struck-by-car-while-jogging#:~:text=Stephen%20Chamberlain%2C%20once%20Mike%20Lynch's,Cambridgeshire%2C%20his%20lawyer%20has%20said.

Disney claims agreeing to Disney+ terms waives man's right to sue over wife's death

Bet the mouse has already spent more than 50k arguing this point than just settling with the claimant.

EU AI Act still in infancy, but those with 'intelligent' HR apps better watch out

You develop your models and are technology outside of the EU, then you do the bureaucratic hurdles jumping afterwards. By that point your tech is so far ahead that the EU tech companies who have had to do the hurdles jumping from day one and US if they follow the EU, they can't compete with your technology anyway once you decide to expand into those markets.

See the Chinese and their electric car technology or even TikTok, where Facebook and US car companies only response is to run to congress to ask for protection.

Re: Simple idea

So we shouldn't use Ai to develop newer, better drugs faster?

of cause not, anyone innovating in this field will just move to where they can innovate more freely.

Once again the Americans, the Chinese will capture virtually whole market. May be UK will go along with them an get a slice for themselves.

Say 'ahhhh' – AI robots are now gunning for your gums

Re: Well I guess the one nice thing

I don't think the article is accurate. Root canal, followed by a crown takes 2, 2 hours visit. But last time I had just the crown fitted it was about 20 minutes.

Re: Yes but…

My current female dentist is pretty fit actually, fitter than her assistant, which is the first for me. Not that I actually say more than hello, good bye, ouch.

Is AI going to pay its way? Wall Street wants tech world to show it the money

Fall in results is because everyone fears Israel and it daddy USA is about to have a pissing contest with Iran and short of perhaps OPEC declaring another oil embargo or find another way to say Israel has been punished it assassination, there going to be war in the Middle East.

They simply using pretend poor numbers from the companies to cover it, so normal investors don't panic.

Anyone interested to keep track of their SIPPs knows 1 day down or up doesn't matter, it the average over the 30 or 40 years you should be saving in one.

Didn't it take google nearly ten years before it started paying it way? An other company equally as long. This is new technology, it paying it way might take equally as long.

Five months after takedown, LockBit is a shadow of its former self

Re: "its best earners have fled for crews with better opportunities"

Yeah well it kind of hard to stop them permanently when they hang out in countries like Russia, China and North Korea.

Who want to be that at least one of the new startups is a police honey trap.

Payoff from AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain

I notice AI have been more successfully use by individuals using it to speed up their own work on projects rather company wide centralise schemes.

The current generation of LLMs are unlikely to lead to substantial job cuts for at 5 to 10 years an that what most business wanted them for.

Microsoft puts ex-DeepMind boffin in charge of London AI hub

There goal is to steal Deepmind and Stability AI an companies AI talent. They are more likely to be successful if those people don't have to move their homes whilsts moving jobs.

So London is their best choice.