I agree on the sentiment, it was just a weird turn of phrase.
Social media has done a lot to temper my techno-optimism about free distribution of information, but I’m still not ready to flag the printing press as the decay of free-thinking.
It’s always kinda shocking to me when the detractor talking points match the AI corpo hype blow by blow.
I need to see a lot more evidence of jobs becoming easier, more productive or entirely redundant.
See, I’m troubled by that one because it sounds good on paper, but in practice that means that Google and Meta, who can certainly build licenses into their EULAs trivially, would become the only government-sanctioned entities who can train AI. Established corpos were actively lobbying for similar measures early on.
And of course good luck getting China to give a crap, which in that scenario would be a better outcome, maybe.
Like you, I think copyright is broken past all functionality at this point. I would very much welcome an entire reconceptualization of it to support not just specific AI regulation but regulation of big data, fair use and user generated content. We need a completely different framework at this point.
How do you “destroy it”? I mean, you can download an open source model to your computer right now in like five minutes. It’s not Skynet, you can’t just physically blow it up.
Ah, yes, the 14th century. That renowned period of independent critical thought and mainstream creativity. All downhill from there, I tell you.
I had managed to keep myself entertained this morning and not fret about this but… yeah, nope, there you are, anxiety, I guess you didn’t go far.
Here’s hoping that a bunch of Romanians woke up a little. With how low participation typically is people could figure this out if they could get over their whole “politicians are just thieves” deal for five minutes for anything but supporting Russian nazis.
I’m gonna go see if I can get myself distracted again. Good luck to everybody voting today.
Windows 7 is on par with Mint on the Steam hardware survey.
I’m thinking the stuff you “don’t want to do” after Windows lack of support ranks pretty low on people’s new year’s resolutions.
I accidentally sat on somebody else’s cat once when I was a teenager. The cat bolted out the door and they didn’t see him in three days.
I feel kinda bad about it to this day, but in my defense we weren’t a house cat family and that cat was practically invisible.
Oh, it’s extraordinarily expensive, and what people really underestimate is how HUGE Google’s storage requirements actually are.
Thing is, it’s also a ton of money. Youtube isn’t just ad-driven video streaming, it’s also a Spotify competitor, a Twitch competitor, a video subscription service (and for some reason they still have a movie and show rental thing in there). 10% of all of Alphabet’s money is a LOT of money, and this isn’t the only business of theirs that demands insane storage requirements.
I’m sure they’ll tighten requirements eventually, and they’ve already done a ton of throttling, but they, again, own Internet video.
Let me put it this way, I think if Google decided to offer Youtube to either of us for a dollar on the condition we can’t resell it to anybody and we have to keep running it forever we’d both still take it.
Did not know Thiel was an investor, actually. If we’re judging software based on the personality of people we’ve read random crap about in the press then that’d indeed be disqualifying.
However, I’d argue maybe that’s not a great way to pretend you have any agency in an aggressively oligopolistic environment.
We may need to stop making choices based on knee-jerk personality-driven branding crap and start focusing on systemic issues. Just… you know, as a species.
Operating costs are not known with that granularity, to my knowledge, but it’s a good guess. Best anybody can tell Youtube is 10-ish percent of all of Alphabet’s ad revenue and they have a subscription model as well. Not to mention the data gathering for AI training, plus all the intangible benefits from owning all the video on the Internet, from using Youtube tech for Google Drive stored videos to… you know, owning all the video on the Internet. And all of that without investing the ungodly amount of money Netflix and the other streaming competitors do on content. People just… upload that crap.
However their internal accounting breaks down, I’m pretty sure nobody thinks Youtube is bleeding money.
And your alternative is the cryptobro farm Chromium skin?
I mean, we’re grading on a curve, I guess, but… I think I’m sticking with FF for now.
Man, branding and PR are weird.
Trading processing power for size is a thing. I guess it depends on application and implementation. Well, and on the actual size of the models required.
It’s one of those things that makes for a good headline, but then for usability it has to be part of a whole conversation about whether you want to spend the bandwidth, the processing power on compression, the processing power on real time upscaling, the processing power on different compression tools, something else or a mix of the above.
I suppose at some point it’s all “benchmarks or it didn’t happen” for these things. And when it comes to ML benchmarks are increasingly iffy anyway.
Lossless is the big claim that nobody is fixating on because “AI” discussions only ever run one set of talking points.
I get how semantic understanding would trade performance for file size when doing compression. I don’t get how you can deterministically use it to always get the exact same complete output from a partial input. I’d love to go over the full paper. And even then the maths would probably go way, way over my head.
Dusty, too. Washed jeans went from white to blue, unwashed from blue to brown.
I’m a Daggerfall guy. I’m out here with the outright medieval takes.
I think mine got away with it because it was a small countertop model with a light plastic door. I don’t know if you’d be able to do that for a large embedded family-sized one where you don’t know how heavy the door is because it’s attached to a cupboard cover. You probably do need a motor for that. If not to smoothly open the door at least to give it a little push with a push rod or something.
The point is we have the technology to push a flippy door open automatically, my dishwasher doesn’t need to screech for attention every time it completes a task like a needy toddler.
I never know about “eco” cycles in dishwashers anyway. I mean, those things are efficient in the first place and if you use hot water to wash manually you may not be saving anything against a full cycle. I’m also surprised to hear people complain about them so much, presumably out of getting bad cleaning results. Mine is old and not that high end and I very rarely get a bad load out of it. If one thing was in a blind spot it’s just a matter of leaving it in to go for another run.
I think maybe people don’t know how to use a dishwasher? I’m torn about that one, because on the one hand well designed appliances should be impossible to use incorrectly, so it’s technically the dishwasher’s fault still, but at the same time dishwashers are awesome and having lived without one for a long time I’m never going back to that life. I would get one with an automatic door next time, though.
Hm. Whoever made microwave ovens with an impossible to clean exposed resistance for broiling in the off chance you felt like making lasagna in a shoebox should be shot into space.
Everybody below pointing out that repeated beeping noises are unacceptable is also not wrong. It’s gotten to the point where half a dozen different things may be beeping in my kitchen, nobody knows which one it is and everybody is in a reverse-race to ignore them to see if someone else goes to deal with it.
I once had a dishwasher that opened the door by itself using magnets instead of nagging you like a needy cat and I miss it every day.
We had that in my hometown once. The Chinese place became a pizzeria. The Italian dragon carvings were really authentic.
Pretty sure both iterations were money laundering fronts, though. The fried rice was still solid.
You seem to have a lot more trust in the invisible hand of the market and the inability of corporations to change copyright regulations to their liking than I do.
I have seen no evidence that “as long as people are paying other people” the money goes anywhere but towards billionaires. And… well, the absolute dismantling of public domain has been a running gag for ages.
And again, the corpos would not need to pay anybody anyway. Google already has a perfectly legal license to train AI on all of Youtube, Meta on all of Instagram and Facebook. You are telling me it’ll all even out in 100 years when the Internet goes into the public domain. That doesn’t sound like it’ll work the way you’re saying it’ll work.