> The software had a built-in limit of 200 bot detection features. The enlarged file contained more than 200 entries. The software crashed when it encountered the unexpected file size.
A built in limit is:
if ( rule_count > 200 )
log_urgent('rule count exceeded')
break
else
rule_count++
process_rule
This sounds like it did not have a built-in limit but rather walked off the end of an array or something when the count went over 200.
Somehow, we'll find something to charge you for.
It's different from humans in that human opinions, expertise and intelligence are rooted in their experience. Good or bad, and inconsistent as it is, it is far, far more stable than AI. If you've ever tried to work at a long running task with generative AI, the crash in performance as the context rots is very, very noticeable, and it's intrinsic to the technology. Work with a human long enough, and you will see the faults in his reasoning, sure, but it's just as good or bad as it was at the beginning.
You weren't in the room when the decision was made.
How do you know that?
Correct. This is why I don't like the term "hallucinate". AIs don't experience hallucinations, because they don't experience anything. The problem they have would more correctly be called, in psychology terms "confabulation" -- they patch up holes in their knowledge by making up plausible sounding facts.
I have experimented with AI assistance for certain tasks, and find that generative AI absolutely passes the Turing test for short sessions -- if anything it's too good; too fast; too well-informed. But the longer the session goes, the more the illusion of intelligence evaporates.
This is because under the hood, what AI is doing is a bunch of linear algebra. The "model" is a set of matrices, and the "context" is a set of vectors representing your session up to the current point, augmented during each prompt response by results from Internet searches. The problem is, the "context" takes up lots of expensive high performance video RAM, and every user only gets so much of that. When you run out of space for your context, the older stuff drops out of the context. This is why credibility drops the longer a session runs. You start with a nice empty context, and you bring in some internet search results and run them through the model and it all makes sense. When you start throwing out parts of the context, the context turns into inconsistent mush.
We have a 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech -which includes the right to publish information that we know about an individual.
Really? Meet my friends in counter intelligence. They'd like a word with you. They have a comfy room for you in GITMO while they're talking.
I heard earlier today that a court has determined that since governments are using all of this data, including license plates, that a FoIA request for all of the license plate data gathered from Flock in a city area for a range of dates was valid.
They want to have a power advantage over their serfs but turning their advantage into a burden changes that dynamic. Something to look into for those so inclined.
We seem to be well past the point of being able to expect them to follow the Law or "do the right thing".
> I see no reason why the government shouldn't be allowed to buy the same data that jim-bob the farmer can purchase.
Jim-bob is likely to face some serious problems if he smashes down your door and drags you away in a pre-dawn raid.
The IRS people get a promotion.
This is why the Constitution places strict limits on the actions of government agents.
(in its original interpretation)
Here I am about to think "damn, people losing their jobs to AI" and then I realize its the "pizza in 4-easy payments" people.
They should probably go all-in on AI as soon as possible. For their investors' sake.
because you want to take a free trip to Monaco on the company dime
Any reasons I'd have for traveling to Monaco would tend to make the actual travel expenses look like loose pocket change. I'd much rather (illegally) characterize a trip as recreational than have to explain to Herr TaxMan what kind of business I was conducting. After all, we are living in a regime of strict capital controls. On the other hand, those who don't know how to move assets other than to stuff them into carry-on luggage don't deserve to keep them.
selling the data to anyone with a checkbook
Anyone?
Asking for a friend in Chinese intelligence.
No. The company offered the information to the government.
It's not the company's information. It's mine.
It seems to me that Oracle is just some rich sucker that got invited to a back-room poker game. Like Warren Buffett said: If you're playing poker and after 15 minutes you don't know who the patsy is, you are the patsy.
AI is just a shakedown.
Its the exact opposite of a belief in self government where the challenge is to make sure everyone is listened to. Not because its their "right", but because otherwise you get poor decisions based on narrow interests with limited scope. And you get decisions that serve the interests of the authority regardless of how well they serve the interests of those excluded from the discussion.
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At one point 85% of the people dying of COVID in Minnesota had come out of a nursing home or other institution where they caught the disease. But the governor was consulting with hospital administrators from Mayo Clinic, so protective gear was reserved for hospitals and emergency responders. Do you suppose if the process had been public, that the folks operating nursing homes, the residents and their families might have pointed out that nursing home residents were the more vulnerable than hospital staff and in situations where they had almost ability to control their own exposure?
More vulnerable, yes. But if you put it up to a popular vote, the nursing home residents get the PPE and the hospital staff, exposed to higher viral loads don't.
Sorry to break it to you. But grandpa is probably going to die if he catches Covid, masks or not. But the hospitals have to stay open for a lot more people than just the Covid patients. There are heart attacks, traffic accidents, industrial injuries. And yes, here in Seattle, the public hospitals have more then their deserved share of drug overdoses. (My opinion: Outlaw Naloxone. Users demonstrated a desire to die when they took the drugs. Leave them on the sidewalk.) If you put it up to a vote, grandpa wins. The hospital staffs stay home. Lots more people die. This is where the experts were right*.
The whole "listen to the people" exercise is well known here in Seattle. It's a process wherein you have public comment. You sit on the city council and nod your head. And then you ignore the people's shrieks and do the right thing anyway. But this is why we limit the power of bureaucrats. They have their areas of expertise, but we don't want them to accumulate power beyond those we granted to them, which is human nature. So; Sorry. We all know that the people would vote in UBI. But there's this little issue of property rights. And we can't just go squeezing a smaller group of people to keep the majority of voters happy.
*The PPE problem was pretty dire in NYC. Where they came within weeks of running out at city hospitals. Until an NGO stepped in, bought a load of it and contributed it. So my question is: Clearly the supply was there if the NGOs could buy it. Why couldn't the city? My guess: They are a bunch of cheap bastards that refused to pay retail.
Bursting of the AI bubble can't come soon enough. Far too much tech bro nonsense, DRAM / GPU prices way too damn high while unhealthy levels of collateral damage accumulate.
There is too much value in the ability of corporations to custom train models on internal datasets for the whole world revolves around our centralized AI service thing these AI corporations are dreaming about to have ever worked.
To make matters worse generative AI space is stagnating. Going forward cost of local inference is declining at the same time distance in capabilities between centralized corporate models and publicly available weights shrink. Regulatory power plays have stagnated as the public tires of AI scare mongering and so they are out of options.
What is going on currently with the colossus stargates is a destructive desperate hail mary to brute force their way out of the massive hole the industry keeps digging for itself.
"It is hard to overstate the debt that we owe to men and women of genius." -- Robert G. Ingersoll
