More sympathy for squirrels than human beings

Anthropic released an api for the same thing last week.

Every credible wiki has moved away from fandom at this point. All that’s left is the abandoned shells of the former wikis they refuse to delete and kids who don’t know better.

I’d guess the 3 key staff members leaving all at once without notice had something to do with it.

This is actually pretty smart because it switches the context of the action. Most intermediate users avoid clicking random executables by instinct but this is different enough that it doesn’t immediately trigger that association and response.

All signs point to this being a finetune of gpt4o with additional chain of thought steps before the final answer. It has exactly the same pitfalls as the existing model (9.11>9.8 tokenization error, failing simple riddles, being unable to assert that the user is wrong, etc.). It’s still a transformer and it’s still next token prediction. They hide the thought steps to mask this fact and to prevent others from benefiting from all of the finetuning data they paid for.

The role of biodegradable materials in the next generation of Saw traps

It’s cool but it’s more or less just a party trick.

How many times is this same article going to be written? Model collapse from synthetic data is not a concern at any scale when human data is in the mix. We have entire series of models now trained with mostly synthetic data: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/model_doc/phi3. When using entirely unassisted outputs error accumulates with each generation but this isn’t a concern in any real scenarios.

She immigrated when she was 15, 30 years before she made the Queen of Canada claim. You can’t deport someone after 30 years of citizenship for mental illness.

What’s the deal with Alpine not using GNU? Is it a technical or ideological thing? Or is it another “because we can” type distro?

The model does have a lot of advantages over sdxl with the right prompting, but it seems to fall apart in prompts with more complex anatomy. Hopefully the community can fix it up once we have working trainers.

On Discord, the black hole for useful information.

“Tiny shards” probably isn’t the right term to describe particles 20-200 nanometers wide, but this is probably bad nonetheless.

The names missing from the list say more about the board’s purpose than the names on it.

I assumed this was always the case

The main issue here is user knowledge and consent. Otherwise this isn’t a whole lot different from services like vast.ai offering on demand GPU rentals or the KoboldAI Horde. Based on the incentives offered it’s clear that they’re targeting younger or less savvy users which is a problem.

The issue is that they have no way of verifying that. We’d have to trust 2 other companies in addition to DDG.

All of Firefox’s ai initiatives including translation and chat are completely local. They have no impact on privacy.

The “why would they make this” people don’t understand how important this type of research is. It’s important to show what’s possible so that we can be ready for it. There are many bad actors already pursuing similar tools if they don’t have them already. The worst case is being blindsided by something not seen before.