The Olamic Quietude. A colony of transhumanists just doing their own thing for fifteen thousand years, developing some really spiffy tech and not being afraid of technology. Then the Imperium shows up and wipes them out.
I know the Imperium has done a lot of BS, but that one sticks in my mind for some reason. I really wish the Quietude had survived somehow.
Well, there's free Copilot now.
It's a free sample, which is a very common marketing technique. The free tier only gives you 2000 code completions a month so if you end up using it a lot you'll need to switch to a paid tier. Nothing particularly nefarious there.
It's free as in beer.
I appreciate how quick a read is it. Much more likely for random people to read it and start thinking and then you can jump out of the bushes and go "surprise, you just read a manifesto!"
I've got a digital voice recorder similar to this on me almost all the time, I like to use it to make notes and to-dos and what have you. Very handy for recording phone calls too, when put on speaker.
No, how dare they do that while simultaneously carrying a precious archive of irreplaceable data with them.
A guy who goes to fight an armed mugger is a hero. If he's carrying a baby with him while he does so he's an idiot. Take the baby to safety and let someone else do the risky heroics.
If Meta creates a solid foundation of open AI to get to that point then I will give him credit for that, though. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Meta's doing the right thing right now, if you reject that because eventually Meta will do something that isn't then you'll get nothing at all.
It's simply a silver lining.
Frankly, I'm fine with Zuckerberg reading the room and doing what's needed. It shouldn't be what's needed, there's going to be huge blatant corruption under Trump. It's terrible that America has put itself in this situation. But America has put itself into this situation, here we are.
So if someone lobbying for something that's good has to suck up to Trump to get it done, that's unfortunate but at least something good gets done. The proper fix is to get Trump back out of power again and put a more reasonable government in its place. That won't be for a while, though, and it will require the DNC to read the room to accomplish it.
Indeed. I'm in a single-party province, it's perfectly legal for me to record the phone calls that I'm part of, but years ago Google decided "I am the law!" And took that away from me. Super annoying.
The article says Samsung's version still isn't as good as how it used to be back then, but perhaps it's a step in the right direction.
Are you threatening me with a good time?
First of all, whether these LLMs are "illegally trained" is still a matter before the courts. When an LLM is trained it doesn't literally copy the training data, so it's unclear whether copyright is even relevant.
Secondly, I don't think that making these models "public domain" would have the negative effects that people angry about AI think it would. When a company is running a closed model internally, like ChatGPT for example, the model is never available for download in the first place. It doesn't matter if it's public domain or not because you can't get a copy of it. When a company releases an open-weight model for public use, on the other hand, they usually encumber them with some sort of license that makes them harder for competitors to monetize or build on. Making those public-domain would greatly increase their utility. It might make future releases less likely, but in the meantime it'll greatly enhance AI development.