It’s not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.
Altman performed outrage that his comment was taken out of context — he was specifically talking about people running AI rigs at home. You should just outsource your work to OpenAI, see. It’s much more efficient. [Twitter, archive]
Let them eat low end GPUs ass retraction.
Self-replicating data centers are blatantly bullshit but also such a failure to read the room, nobody wants them even now that you don’t have to worry they might decide to go through mitosis overnight.
According to a random tweet I came across he’s been liquidating like mad again.
Bloomberg: Mystery Seller Seeks to Dump $500 Million of Data Center Loans
Via a zitron skeet, finally some news that feel slightly more portentous that tech stocks hitting a slump:
Wasn’t there a bit where making it more racist also made it worse at programming for some reason?
I wonder what their benchmarks for racism look like.
If that paper about astra being able to make sense of other models’ weights has any merit, at some point they became so desperate they actually started adding serialized open weight models to the training data.
The “recursive self-improvement” nonsense really baffles me.
That’s always been the magic sauce that gives the AI supernatural abilities in rationalist lore, I think they cribbed it from the early singularitarians who had a thing about how when we got our shit together intelligence studying intelligence would lead to an “intelligence explosion”, except they replaced the humanity-fuck-yeah aspect with robot fetishism.
Does that mean Musk is now legally obligated to transition or was it just the children?
To extract more value from their engineers. The controversy is about the CEO having AI psychosis and wanting to forego stuff like pen testing to speed up feature delivery, not over anything customer facing.
The author of More Everything Forever: A timely exposé of the ludicrous and cruel obsessions of Silicon Valley’s oligarchs cybersquatted eilezeryudkowsky.com, which i think is delightful.
“On-premises customers can now move far more easily to the cloud by leveraging the AI tool sets to automate migrations and decrease the cost and time to implement. They don’t have to be Oracle customers; they can be competitive customers.”
Sicilia said enterprise application software users’ reluctance to change had been a major “headwind” for Oracle, one he hopes AI will ease.
“Our large remaining base of on-premises customers are going to start to adopt this technology quite quickly. When we move customers from on-premises to cloud, we see a multiple increase in revenue,” he said.
Apparently the latest in executive suite psychosis is that the main reason customers like on-premise solutions is because it was just too darn complicated to hand over all your data to oracle move to the cloud.
Sounds like they are taking a page from microsoft and using AI units, as in an obfuscating layer between the client and the per-million-token cost charged by the AI vendor that they (oracle) can fiddle with at will.
Uh-oh, renowned everyman Sam Altman opened his mouth again.
Local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources.
A lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we’re going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we’re not going to need all the stuff in the data centre
but from a global allocation perspective, actually it’s quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time
you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you’re trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment, somehow many people’s intuition is the opposite of that
Notable customers who run Claude Code and Cursor on laptops include Binance, amongst thousands of others.
That would be soooooo funny.
Apparently they mean @grok as in you tag the chatbot to use your post as a prompt which I guess is a thing the nazi site pioneered, other bots are also available.
There was a rat startup that was aiming to become a sort of ground truth arbiter by putting up bet money if you could win a debate against them on a controversial topic. Lab leak was the first such debate with them on the pro side and they lost like 100K over that to a random acx poster who took them to school.
Anyway I’m mentioning this because “60% certainty” reminded me that when arguing for the side of the lab leak all sorts of rationalist accepted truths type stuff emerged, like how they posited a bunch of other incidents as lab leaks and it turned out nobody else actually thought that and it was just arbitrary prior wrangling because it turns out that having we are better than any experts that haven’t read the sequences type contrarianism as a pillar of faith encourages conspiracy brain.
Also Sam Altman is a lab leak truther but it’s not like it’s possible to take anything he says at face value.
Also that subterfuge and misdirection are par for the course doesn’t make this any better. If anything you’d expect such an obvious slum dunk trillion dollar world changing cancer curing robot god enabling infinity profit making technology to need much less of that to become attractive to investors.
ex-DOGE led AI cybersecurity startup hacks Antrhopic (wapo via archive is), Ι’d love to sneer that doing felonies for marketing appears to be normal now, but supposedly they did it by the book and immediately used everyone’s bug bounty processes to inform them of the vulnerabilities, instead of accidentally finding out that they did a surprise hack, is as was the case with anthro, oai and meta.
Anthropic confirmed in a statement that Cathedral researchers had gained access to “a limited set” of its sales, human resources, and IT systems. The AI company shut off the pathways exposed by the researchers and briefed federal officials on the incident, the statement said.
A senior Trump administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe internal proceedings, said that the Cathedral report on its access inside Anthropic had circulated within the government and raised national security concerns.
“If a bunch of kids who have just started a company can do this, then potentially, the Chinese aren’t far behind,” the official said. He added that he was taken aback by “how little time it took to get into the sensitive systems of a company that is controlling almost nuclear weapons grade material.”
The Trump administration is now working with the company to game out adversarial scenarios related to AI, the administration official said.
According to my feed either anthropic is doing gloriously in inference and will soon be distilling its own models and undercutting even the chinese, or this is this is the most worrisome IPO in the history of finance and even convertible note holders are selling off their equity IOUs.
Choose your own reality ass timeline.
The comment got so downvoted reddit now autocollapses it when you open the page. /r/BetterOffline posters seem to be good people: