Posts by iron 2253 publicly visible posts • joined 25 May 2017
> machine intelligence is a threat to the human species," the site explains. "In response to this threat we want to inflict damage on machine intelligence systems."
If a machine intelligence existed, sure, but LLMs are not intelligent.
> "Poisoning attacks compromise the cognitive integrity of the model," our source said.
No they don't. Cognition requires understanding and LLMs do not understand anything.
So no Browse button or drop down list? What is it with the current crop of big tech devs that they always replace a working feature with a new, less capable and not fit for purpose version?
I'd have given this such a scathing code review that the incompetant snowflake responsible would need therapy!
“For whatever reason, because we had certain people in our company, we won't go into the names, who didn't want to build it and that building that database that drives it, well, already we're selling product and really doing a phenomenal job there,”
Is it just me or does Benioff sound like Trump? Maybe they both have the same brain disease?
Whatever, I wouldn't trust any product from this security nightmare of a company and its terrible CEO.
So good ethics would be to do no security research and let Meta continue to shit all over their users and crooks make off with their data?
Downloading one or two records would not convince Meta, they didn't even speak to the researchers till informed they were about to publish. The data was deleted afterwards - that is ethics.
> no such thing as an immutable general purpose operating system
I'd love to hear what he considers a general purpose OS. SteamOS, for example, might be designed for gaming but it is perfectly capable of school work, office work or running the lights for a concert.
How more general purpose can an OS be?
It would be nice if Mr Söderberg wasn't lying to sensationalise his point.
Any game I play that has online data collection also has a switch to turn it off, and I use it. So no, when I play my data is not collected and analysed.
(assuming the game company abides by the switch, obviously, but that is not what he said)
> Oracle - they don't seem to be playing the AI game
Lesurie Suit Larry is literally part of the 500 beeelion dollar OpenAI & Softbank deal mentioned in the article.
Oracle are touting their cloud as the best for AI.
They are very much rolling the dice and moving the top hat round the AI board.
"Russia, however, has yet to formally commit to keeping the station going past 2028."
In fact Russia committed to manning the ISS until 2030 earlier this week.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/russian-space-chief-says-country-will-fly-on-space-station-until-2030/
(Ars space reporting is excellent although somewhat SpaceX biased.)
WP Engine already contribute dev time on Wordpress, Mullenweg's problem is they don't contribute to his personal wealth.
And nor should anyone else at this point. I cancelled my Pocket Casts (an Automattttic product) back in September when it became clear to me as an open source developer that Mullenweg is a blight on the industry.
Oh noes three different web browsers!!!111!!
What are you smoking Liam? I can name more than three web browsers off the top of my head for Linux, Windows or Android. Obviously not iOS because whatever they're called they're all really Safari.
Hell I used more than three different browsers on Unix back in the 90s.
I can only assume that this article is intended to provoke an argument.
My 5 year old self-built Ryzen 7 system can handle Windows 11 but is still on Windows 10 despite MS nagging me to "uprade" every so often.
My work laptop has Windows 11 and.... I don't like it.
I don't like the barely functional Start Menu.
I don't like pinned icons being in the center of the screen.
I really, really don't like the retarded new context menu in Windows Explorer that breaks my workflow hundreds of times a day. (or did till I worked out how to disable that PoS)
I don't like or want Copilot or any other LLM based features.
I don't like using my work laptop because it has Win 11 on it.
There is nothing about Windows 11 that I do like and my Steam Deck keeps whispering that maybe I don't need Windows at all.
This should worry MS more that it seems to given I'm a software engineer who has worked with Windows and MS platforms for almost 30 years.
One thousand days is approximately 2.7 years. A "few" means three, or thereabouts. Three thousand days is roughly 8.2 years.
Or in other words Mr AltMan is telling us AI is 5 - 10 years away. Just like the flying car, cold fusion and many other science fiction pipe dreams.
I was surprised he was so honest in that essay.
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