I don’t think it really matters how old the target is. Generating nude images of real people without their consent is fucked up no matter how old anyone involved is.

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”

– IBM Training Manual, 1979

We’re going so backwards…

The diminishing returns are kind of insane if you compare the performance and hardware requirements of a 7b and 100b model. In some cases the smaller model can even perform better because it’s more focused and won’t be as subtle about its hallucinations.
Something is going to have to fundamentally change before we see any big improvements, because I don’t see scaling it up further ever producing AGI or even solving any of the hallucinations/ logic errors it makes.

In some ways it’s a bit like the Crypto blockchain speculators saying it’s going to change the world. But in reality the vast majority of applications proposed would have been better implemented with a simple centralized database.

Check again. Going from 600:1 to 60:1

On the bright side, after 10 years of doing it, you might improve the ratio to 1 hour of feeling like an idiot and 1 minute of feeling like a genius.

It must be hard to admit he spent billions on a slop machine. Sunk cost fallacy is probably one of many things they’re fighting.

AI Company: We added guardrails!

The guardrails:

Well on the bright side, maybe in a few years when people search for “office software” they’ll be directed to libreoffice instead of Microsoft

“High Quality Audio” in terms of the sample rate and bit depth, but considering the quality of most of these DAC/ADCs you get integrated in cables like this, I somehow doubt the data rate is actually the limiting factor on quality.

Personally I can’t tell the difference between 192kHz and 96kHz samples rates, or 16bit and 24 bit either (maybe a young kid with perfect ears could, but they’ll probably also notice background noise due to most of these using unfiltered USB power). The dongle manufacturers seem to care more about the marketing value of bigger numbers than actual usability.

Well considering almost every time I reboot it seems to do a windows update, those optimizations are probably running every time anyway. It’s almost fair.

Are we looking at the same image? I can’t even tell the brand of the drives, let alone the model or specs. One of them might be an HGST drive? It’s too pixelated/JPEGd to tell.

I had blanked this from my memory, but my very first programming job was to reimplement some FoxPro code in… Visual Basic. FoxPro is so strange to work in. It’s like programming in SQL, and the codebase I was in had global variables everywhere.

This guy should be smart enough to realize he’s complaining about not getting free storage from Google. You can’t just run a business off other people’s infrastructure and expect it to work out without any business agreement or contract. Google Workplace is a thing, and it sounds like this guy is just cheap if he won’t pay for either it or his own harddrives.