Comment We had been in the age of truthiness for years (Score 2) 55
and now, thanks to the collapse of the educational system and AI, we're boldly entering the age of vibe-reasoning.
Comment Fuck PWDEA (Score 1, Informative) 22
People Who Don't Explain Acronyms
What's RTO?
Mira Murati's Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product (wired.com) 33
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Thinking Machines Lab,a heavily funded startup cofounded by prominent researchers from OpenAI, has revealed its first product -- a tool called Tinker that automates the creation of custom frontier AI models. "We believe [Tinker] will help empower researchers and developers to experiment with models and will make frontier capabilities much more accessible to all people," said Mira Murati, cofounder and CEO of Thinking Machines, in an interview with WIRED ahead of the announcement.
Big companies and academic labs already fine-tune open source AI models to create new variants that are optimized for specific tasks, like solving math problems, drafting legal agreements, or answering medical questions. Typically, this work involves acquiring and managing clusters of GPUs and using various software tools to ensure that large-scale training runs are stable and efficient. Tinker promises to allow more businesses, researchers, and even hobbyists to fine-tune their own AI models by automating much of this work.
Essentially, the team is betting that helping people fine-tune frontier models will be the next big thing in AI. And there's reason to believe they might be right. Thinking Machines Lab is helmed by researchers who played a core role in the creation of ChatGPT. And, compared to similar tools on the market, Tinker is more powerful and user friendly, according to beta testers I spoke with. Murati says that Thinking Machines Lab hopes to demystify the work involved in tuning the world's most powerful AI models and make it possible for more people to explore the outer limits of AI. "We're making what is otherwise a frontier capability accessible to all, and that is completely game-changing," she says. "There are a ton of smart people out there, and we need as many smart people as possible to do frontier AI research." "There's a bunch of secret magic, but we give people full control over the training loop," OpenAI veteran John Schulman says. "We abstract away the distributed training details, but we still give people full control over the data and the algorithms."
Big companies and academic labs already fine-tune open source AI models to create new variants that are optimized for specific tasks, like solving math problems, drafting legal agreements, or answering medical questions. Typically, this work involves acquiring and managing clusters of GPUs and using various software tools to ensure that large-scale training runs are stable and efficient. Tinker promises to allow more businesses, researchers, and even hobbyists to fine-tune their own AI models by automating much of this work.
Essentially, the team is betting that helping people fine-tune frontier models will be the next big thing in AI. And there's reason to believe they might be right. Thinking Machines Lab is helmed by researchers who played a core role in the creation of ChatGPT. And, compared to similar tools on the market, Tinker is more powerful and user friendly, according to beta testers I spoke with. Murati says that Thinking Machines Lab hopes to demystify the work involved in tuning the world's most powerful AI models and make it possible for more people to explore the outer limits of AI. "We're making what is otherwise a frontier capability accessible to all, and that is completely game-changing," she says. "There are a ton of smart people out there, and we need as many smart people as possible to do frontier AI research." "There's a bunch of secret magic, but we give people full control over the training loop," OpenAI veteran John Schulman says. "We abstract away the distributed training details, but we still give people full control over the data and the algorithms."
Comment Call it the 757 SUPERMAX (Score 1) 72
for when whoever designs the next flight augmentation feature with no redundancy finally does time in jail when the design kills people, unlike what happened with the MAX.
Comment So it's like mediocrity battle royale? (Score 3, Funny) 104
Redditors vs Youtubers.
Who will win? Will I have enough popcorn to watch this to the end?
Comment Re:Can we give some to the president? (Score -1, Insightful) 56
Literally TDS, but you knew that already. A news story about a new drug therapy, and you immediately change the subject to Trump. Because of course you did. I'm sorry your life is like this. I hope it gets better.
Comment Re:I don't see ads on Facebook (Score 2) 24
I don't see ads on Facebook either, because I don't do Facebook.
Comment Pay to end the most obvious abuse (Score 2) 24
whether their data is used for personalised advertising
If you pay, your data won't be used for advertising purposes. But rest assured it will be used some other way.
Because crucially, the one thing Facebook isn't saying is that paying will stop the data collection.
Of course, the best way to avoid Zuckerberg collecting your data is not patronizing any Zuckerberg site.
Comment Re:Who wants this? (Score -1) 70
Slashdot went from news for nerds to hardcore Left politics ages ago ago. Drove off the old user base of dotcom era users. Look at the story of James Damore with like 2000 comments. Browse at -1 because all the dissenting opinions got modded down by cabals.
Comment Much diddling with the economy for conservatives (Score 1) 48
I'm guessing MAGA didn't onboard the economic laissez-faire espoused by the traditional - now defunct - Republican party.
So just like the GOP, MAGA pretends to have national interests at heart. But unlike the GOP, MAGA's approach is much more socialist.
A kind of national socialism if you will...
Comment Meet national security concerns (Score 4, Insightful) 58
my ass. Even indigenous US social media platforms are a complete privacy and data safety nightmare.
At this point, I genuinely question which of China abusing Americans' private data or the American monopolies in cahoots with the American fascist state doing the same thing is worse.
Comment Replacement of awful by terrible (Score 5, Funny) 133
replacement of SAP with Oracle Fusion
"We like pain and misery, but we'd like to get it from a different vendor".
Comment Re:I know they'll be consistent (Score -1) 106
The Israeli war aim since day 1 has been the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza followed by annexation. This isn't a secret. Ethnic cleansing is a form of genocide. In Europe people like you go to prison for genocide denial. They have specific laws. Never again, they said. Yet here you are. How is this not modded down to -1? I bet I get modded down though.
Comment Trump is the only rational for this (Score 0) 79
Intel banks on Apple publicly saving an American trainwreck to butter up the orange utan for favors.
That's it. It's the only strategy here. None of this would happen absent Trump.
Comment Re:The fact that this only has 37 comments (Score -1) 180
This site. Became a left wing echo chamber long ago. Remember all the complaining about politics infecting our technology discussions? We were rudely told off that the personal is the political and there can be no neutrality in the age of King George W., the president who was literally Hitler. Remember when we used to have actual NASA scientists comment on space articles? Drove them all off, with the rest of the dotcom era crowd. And I've been reading this site since it was a web log called Chips N Bits. I've been nodded into the dirt by a behind the scenes cabal who silence anyone to the right of Mao. If you wonder why there aren't 500 comments, a decade of far left politics replacing tech topics is the reason. I think I'm about done, too. I eventually left EFnet IRC and I'll leave Slashdot too. A relic of a bygone age. This entire comment thread is the hard Left whining they don't get their way. Politics instead of tech.You killed Charlie Kirk and it's OVER. Americans are sick of your shit. Go find another country, you can't stay here with us, that much is clear. Go now and lick the hand that feeds ye, and may history forget ye were oura countrymen.
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