Comment Re:Not loving it (Score 1) 43
Jet Engines are as efficient as the steam turbine generators used at power plants.
Comment Is 250MM punitive at all for Apple? (Score 1) 37
That's something like 47 minutes of profit for the company. Is it really going to dissuade bad behavior in the future? I think not.
Submission + - The Audio Industry Is Grappling with the Rise of 'Podslop' (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Welcome to the modern era of podcasting in which thousands of new shows are released into the world every day with a sizable portion likely being AI-generated. Figuring out exactly which ones fall into that growing category is becoming more difficult just as the industry is starting to take this issue seriously. In only the past month or so, Amazon launched a feature that explains a product by generating a quasi-podcast, complete with co-hosts talking to each other and taking questions from users. Shout out to Business Insider reporter Katie Notopoulos for spotting this (and, naturally, demoing it with an adult diaper rash-cream). Not long ago, Nicholas Thompson, chief executive officer of the Atlantic, noted “podslop” dominated his Spotify search results when he typed in the word “Sora.” This was around the time that OpenAI shut down its user-generated, AI-content-only app.
[...] All of which raises some big, difficult questions. For one, what should the listening platforms do about this incursion? As of right now, Apple Podcasts requires creators who generated a “material portion” of their show using AI to disclose it. The platform also bans misleading or deceptive content. Spotify hasn’t published any specific guidelines around AI, though it maintains general rules around dangerous and misleading content. Where this conversation gets even trickier is when it comes to money. Many of these podcasts are hosted on at least one free service that allows programs to opt into their ad marketplace with zero barrier to entry, meaning these shows (and the hosting service) profit off every listen or download. Spreaker, a company owned by iHeartMedia, is the primary one to watch here. Though it tells users to disclose when they rely on AI, it still allows those shows to opt into its programmatic ad marketplace, which pays creators 60% of the revenue generated by the ads placed in their shows. It stands to reason that most of these thousands of shows don’t reach many people. But in the aggregate, the ears and dollars could add up. Are the advertisers on board with being next to AI-generated content, some of which might be deemed “slop?”
[...] All of which raises some big, difficult questions. For one, what should the listening platforms do about this incursion? As of right now, Apple Podcasts requires creators who generated a “material portion” of their show using AI to disclose it. The platform also bans misleading or deceptive content. Spotify hasn’t published any specific guidelines around AI, though it maintains general rules around dangerous and misleading content. Where this conversation gets even trickier is when it comes to money. Many of these podcasts are hosted on at least one free service that allows programs to opt into their ad marketplace with zero barrier to entry, meaning these shows (and the hosting service) profit off every listen or download. Spreaker, a company owned by iHeartMedia, is the primary one to watch here. Though it tells users to disclose when they rely on AI, it still allows those shows to opt into its programmatic ad marketplace, which pays creators 60% of the revenue generated by the ads placed in their shows. It stands to reason that most of these thousands of shows don’t reach many people. But in the aggregate, the ears and dollars could add up. Are the advertisers on board with being next to AI-generated content, some of which might be deemed “slop?”
Submission + - Cisco releases open-source 'DNA test for AI models' (scworld.com)
spatwei writes: Cisco released an open-source tool to trace the origins of AI models and compare model similarities for great visibility into the AI supply chain.
The Model Provenance Kit, announced Thursday, is a Python toolkit and command-line interface (CLI) that looks at signals such as metadata and weights to create a “fingerprint” for AI models that can then be compared to other model fingerprints to determine potential shared origins.
“Think of Model Provenance Kit as a DNA test for AI models,” Cisco researchers wrote. “[] Much like a DNA test reveals biological origins, the Model Provenance Kit examines both metadata and the actual learned parameters of a model (like a unique genome that comprises a model), to assess whether models share a common origin and identify signs of modification.”
The tool aims to address gaps in visibility into the AI model supply chain. For example, many organizations utilize open-source models from repositories like HuggingFace, where models could potentially be uploaded with incomplete or deceptive documentation.
The Model Provenance Kit, announced Thursday, is a Python toolkit and command-line interface (CLI) that looks at signals such as metadata and weights to create a “fingerprint” for AI models that can then be compared to other model fingerprints to determine potential shared origins.
“Think of Model Provenance Kit as a DNA test for AI models,” Cisco researchers wrote. “[] Much like a DNA test reveals biological origins, the Model Provenance Kit examines both metadata and the actual learned parameters of a model (like a unique genome that comprises a model), to assess whether models share a common origin and identify signs of modification.”
The tool aims to address gaps in visibility into the AI model supply chain. For example, many organizations utilize open-source models from repositories like HuggingFace, where models could potentially be uploaded with incomplete or deceptive documentation.
Comment Phew! Thank god there are alternatives (Score 1) 30
Man I'm really glad my favorite BBS has a web search gateway. I just upgraded to a 19.2k modem so I'm ready to keep blazing the trail on the world wide web! Now what was the name of that IRC server...
Submission + - A 22-Year-Old Dropout Just Reverse-Engineered The World's Scariest AI (forbes.com)
ZipNada writes: When Anthropic introduced its powerful new model, Claude Mythos, this spring, companies and countries freaked out. The general-purpose model, its creators claimed, could discover software vulnerabilities that no one knew existed.
Rather than release Mythos to the world, the company gave it to cybersecurity experts at major companies that build or maintain critical software infrastructure and told them to use it to find and fix bugs before Anthropic unleashed it on the world.
But less than two weeks later, 22-year-old developer Kye Gomez made educated guesses about the core design that makes Claude Mythos so powerful and published OpenMythos, a public project that approximates Anthropic’s breakthrough. Gomez’s code raced through the research community like a prairie fire.
This story has several startling implications: if a self-taught developer can reverse-engineer the structural innovation of a multi-billion-dollar lab in a matter of days, then the proprietary moat around AI architecture may already be gone.
Rather than release Mythos to the world, the company gave it to cybersecurity experts at major companies that build or maintain critical software infrastructure and told them to use it to find and fix bugs before Anthropic unleashed it on the world.
But less than two weeks later, 22-year-old developer Kye Gomez made educated guesses about the core design that makes Claude Mythos so powerful and published OpenMythos, a public project that approximates Anthropic’s breakthrough. Gomez’s code raced through the research community like a prairie fire.
This story has several startling implications: if a self-taught developer can reverse-engineer the structural innovation of a multi-billion-dollar lab in a matter of days, then the proprietary moat around AI architecture may already be gone.
Submission + - Physicists just found a tiny flaw in time itself (sciencedaily.com) 1
alternative_right writes: Physicists are rethinking one of quantum mechanicsâ(TM) biggest puzzles: how fuzzy possibilities become definite reality. New research suggests that spontaneous âoecollapseâ processesâ"possibly linked to gravityâ"could subtly blur time itself.
Comment Blood sugar and eyeballs (Score 2) 20
Apparently your blue sensing photoreceptors in your eye are super sensitive to blood sugar, and you could do a blood sugar test with a color calibrated phone app having people compare two shades of blue side by side. If you can't tell them apart, your blood sugar meets/exceeds/is below a certain threshold. It's not hyper accurate but useful for diabetics.
Comment Re:happy (Score 1) 49
All of Engie's plants use standard designsm there's no shortage of staff who know how they work and how to maintain them. Standardization is a major pillar of why France's nuclear costs are so low and so safe.
Comment Re:I don't live in California but... (Score 1, Informative) 244
In our neighborhood all the kids (who look like they weigh about 75 lbs, so about 2x the hp/weight ratio of an adult) have these borderline dirt bike looking things and they're constantly doing the "ride doing a wheelie for 500' in a mostly straight line" except when they wipe out and slide into oncoming traffic. A couple of kids this year have already gone to the hospital in my area for that sort of thing. I dunno how fast they can go but seems like at least 30mph with tweaks which is street legal scooter territory. Ebikes are nice because there's no license or registration so the cost is low, but they're commuting 3-5 miles each way 5 days a week on public roads, so they're definitely part of normal traffic, and they're absolutely getting in a ton of very messy accidents.
Comment Re:Fascinating how some still believe in VR succes (Score 1) 89
The disorientation goes away for most people after ~1-2 weeks, but yeah, you have to be really committed to the product. I am very resistant to motion sickness but I recall a couple times in the first month where I was in some ultralight airplane sim (like pilotwings type thing) and looking down while banking sharply and almost threw up.
Mass consumer VR is a fucking dumb idea though, I'm stunned apple was still shipping hardware updates, they must have contracted for a million of the displays or something and were hoping they could limp across the finish line without sending too many off to the landfill.
Comment Re:Sell it for $350... (Score 1) 89
They can sell the neo at a loss because parents will buy a kid a laptop even before they buy them a phone. If you've had an apple laptop for three years, what phone are you going to want? And yeah also it's a very transparent education market play, which again, feeds lifelong customers into their ecosystem.
Comment Re:He's an idiot but he still won two elections (Score 2) 287
Yep, to your point, it wasn't Trump who won two elections, it's Democrats that lost two elections that the electorate would have handed to them on a silver platter had they simply not continued to ignore the concerns of 80% of democratic voters in favor of a system that continues to punish poor people for trying not to be poor.
Comment Re:Ideas on phasing out agriculture and plastics (Score 1) 221
Ok you hit your coffee limit early in the day. Sodium battery technology is here, finally, and solar and wind have been mature for a long time. There's no reason most countries can't go fully electric.
Comment Re:My fists have to be registered as a lethal weap (Score 1) 40
I think the idea is to keep shitting out 4.X releases until openai releases GPT-6, at which point anthropic will release whatever version of "mythos" they have mostly working that day as Opus 5.0 on the same day, or the next. They'll probably claim it's so operful they're skipping 5 and just calling it Opus 6 for marketing reasons
Slashdot Top Deals
If in any problem you find yourself doing an immense amount of work, the answer can be obtained by simple inspection.
