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AGI

AGI hype

Altman’s “brink of AGI” hype is lulz, what we have is as far from general intelligence as a nail is from an elephant. Because it’s so dumb, it wastes mongo bucks to run, driving a need for more funding: a self-sustaining hype loop. Altman learned hypebeast fundraising
19 Nov 2023 1 min read
ML

Machine lucre

As generative AI moves from research to product, co’s should pay for training inputs: either buy the book / art or use public domain. Paying creators for random, one-off output is silly. Neural nets regurging a lightly modified version of what they’ve seen before is called “an intern.
10 Nov 2023 1 min read
Cruise

Cruise robotaxi near-accident

The crosswalk incident On my first robotaxi ride, the Cruise car almost hit a young couple in a crosswalk at 15th & Mission, SF, trying to beat oncoming traffic on a left turn. The pedestrians were crossing from west to east shortly after 9 pm last night. The car braked
20 Jun 2023 3 min read
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