Seems like this pretty much, though perhaps the more interesting piece is that 'generate a bunch of tokens consistent with human output associated with the environment without more specific direction' influenced the models to have what seemed to be better tokens generated later when they had to now be consistent with specific scenarios.

Though I'm too lazy to read the paper and the 'generally beat' phrasing gives me some wondering about how definitive this observation is versus how much of it might be finding what they wanted to find in the results.

As much as it can apply to online communities in general including slashdot, Reddit and reddit-likes *really* take the cake for creating circle-jerk communities. Creating niche communities with moderators that ban at any comment they didn't want to see. Saw a reply to one of my comments that I thought to be a bit dumb (basically, that we should replace TLS certificates with blockchain), but not horribly unforgiveable or anything, and the comment got removed and the user banned from the community. Mod saw 'blockchain' and while I understand a negative gut reaction, nothing that should have rated a moderator going that far.

FYI, the original XBox release price back in 2001 is the equivalent of $569.18 today.

So they're still doubling or trebling the price of something that's now commodity, even once you take into account inflation.

Rand Paul must be crying into his dress right now. Fauci was right. Ais DID IT, and succeeded wildly! Rand Paul should resign in disgrace

Alternatively, some people in that subreddit can't stand that anyone could express valid concerns about Tesla and decides that it must be some irrational, inexplicable blind anti-Tesla rather than informed and real concerns.

Not to worry, recall that Musk *also* has ambitions of X being a finance company, so voila, every child can have an 'X brokerage account' waiting for them with a share in it. Now he gets every child defaulting to his network, no problem.

I don't think a grant of one share of a specific stock will be a particularly educational event. I think generally in school a teach will, at some point, do a more educational exercise where students are actually doing mock trading and, critically, trying to evaluate different companies and make predictions on where things will go.

It's not tech, it's the people who've decided that their need to dominate the market justifies repeatedly harassing those who refuse their unwanted advances until they get the victim to relent, to answer the question in a compromised state, or to slip up. And if the victim is superhumanly steadfast, they take it anyway. When I see UI elements like that, I call the company and its employees rapists, and I'm not wrong.

Yeah, that latter one basically focused on the fact the output looked verbatim like the 'training' material, so the judgement was that AI was more an excuse than a demonstrable transformative thing.

Note in some other case I recall the AI company arguing that the ingest and training of material is 'transformative' but the engines could be used to violate copyright, but then the *operator* would be on the hook for infringement, as the operator supplied the prompt that resulted in infringement.

There was also that OpenAI deal with Disney that was going to let Disney characters be used in OpenAI output but that got dropped. Lots of mixed assumptions in play with the AI companies asserting that they don't need permission, getting permission or forcing permission anyway, and shifting responsibility to the users.

Even if it exactly works as advertised, if you thought a rock kicked up by a tire was bad, just wait....

"removes support got SysVInit scripts"

Well... there's an OS I'm not upgrading to.

SystemD STILL needs to absolutely die.

Which means you could have done that all along - you just didn't give a shit. It was more important to you to turn my machines into walking adverts for your products, trying to push everything I own into your cloud, and jump on every fad imaginable, rather than make an OS that would actually allow me to use my machine.

Which is why I don't have any Microsoft OS at home any more.

Oh, and I never had less than 64GB in a Windows machine in the last 8 or so years. But it was still a shitshow.

This sudden "lets make the OS actually work for users" drive is decades too late.

And thanks to hiring 1,000 new people to patch it, now they have N * 1.5 vulnerabilities!

I meant infested, not invested

*You* would not want this.

However on endpoints vaguely related to your work, your employer *loves* excuses to give Microsoft money to invest as many endpoints as possible.