You got me to read it. Sounds like an AI trying to be "idiosyncratic like a real human" to fool the readers. But the content sounds more idiotic than idiosyncratic.

Good to see. Microsoft has Embraced Rust and Extended it's reach including providing it with access to new places where it can run. I'm sure the future is bright.

Valid useful comment - shame you do it as AC and so don't get seen. If you have something to hide (like a main account that pretends not to know how to be sensible) then consider getting two different accounts.

I think your comment should really be addressed to the grandparent. The idea that value to humanity is taken into account was in their assumptions and I just didn't want to question it and cause a needless argument. I agree that most of the funding doesn't come from universities. Mostly it comes from funding bodies that have some specific aim (e.g. including prove that cigarettes are safe/prove that there isn't global warming/work out how to kill more people quicker). However some of those funding bodies are honestly trying to work for humanity and it shouldn't be excluded completely. I'm kind of assuming that what they are really talking about is how funding should be allocated in their future imaginary world where they are grand (benign) dictator of the world. I don't see the urgent need to disturb their happy fantasy.

This is wrong. Facebook's main business is being paid by people to manipulate other people to do what they want them to do even though it's strongly against their own interests using Facebook's data against those people. That includes things like voting for Brexit / vote for Trump / buy a vape / buy a ticket at a far higher price than they should through dynamic pricing driven panic. There are a bunch of obvious uses for LLMs and other forms of generative AI in that space.

Facebook may not directly be able to generate the AI driven content because of being a large target for legal liability but they are definitely pushing an ecosystem of dependent companies that will do exactly that. If there's a credible way for AI to wipe out humanity, it's Facebook being paid to stop people from doing anything about global warming or pushing the world towards greater aggression and warlike stances whilst at the same time reducing solid investments in actual defense.

If you can do it and get it to work reliably in the long term in the nasty environment that is a toaster, I'll definitely contribute to your kickstarter to buy one. I'm sure the problem looks easy, but when your sensors all get smoked up in uncleaned and dirty toasters it turns out to be much nastier than you think.

Sorry; messed up the link

https://www.weforum.org/storie...

I was wondering if someone did a writeup and of course a simple search finds what we for cooling data centers in space. What that still doesn't mention is that Elon's probable target market is the military who don't actually need that much compute, they just need identification and targeting algorithms that continue to work at large scale when earth to ground communication is heavily disrupted and satellites are under attack. Never underestimate America's billionaire's ability to get by on welfare cheques.

I wonder how that works. Where I come from we do Bachelor's of Science. Do they read pop science and do the equations on feelz?

(sorry to the various serious American physicists hit in the collateral damage here.. Just too tempting. Too tempting.)

No such luck, however

Good opening joke.

As usual I went down the list of features to see if there was one I would donate money to pay for. Usual string of nopes. (Not to be confused with the strange drink "Nope", which actually tastes much better than you'd think from the marketing.) But I suppose there are new bugs in there... Definitely wouldn't pay for those if such choices were offered. (Reminds me of Microsoft's emergency patch this month. Nothing to see here. Just some failures in the regression testing. Why do I want a remote desktop in my Windows machine again? (And why is my Chromebook still trying to reset its password after that Wi-Fi fiasco last week?))

More meta: Slashdot is running much slower for new stories these days. Good change, editorial shortage, or a sign of fading out?

There are already a bunch of people putting LLMs out there with loops to try to achieve a goal by exploring around. That can include them to instructing other other LLMs.

"They" (whoever they are - it includes small children messing around with OpenClaw) have no idea what they instructed the LLMs to do.

Getting the toast actually brown but not burnt, and getting both the different sides of a bagel right actually sounds like a real valid use for AI. I think it's a proper hard problem, as the failure of various toasters with browning sensors shows clearly. My only fear is hallucinations leading to house fires.

I guess you are probably right, however there's a comment on your twitter thread:

Look in the training data and confirm/deny that Buckmaster's data is or isn't in there. Until you do that, it's very very hard to trust anything OAI says or does.

and until you see that and compare also with his and other mathematicians unpublished work, which might be where the more advanced proof came f you cannot be 100% sure. Their refusal to publish the inputs, including all of the training data they used for this model together with its sources, is a big problem.

No. There are many mathematicians (N) and there are probably many more opinions about why they do math, with "because it's fun" or "because I read about the notes in the margin and always wondered if I could be the one" probably at least as common as "understanding the world". If you want to understand the world you become a physicist, a biologist or, if you are young and naive a sociologist.

Plain paper mathematics is not like, for example, physics or sociology. The resources you need for much of it are much smaller and are at the level that it's reasonable for universities to give people just for being good at what they do, not because of the value they give humanity. There's a good history of people doing research entirely for their own pleasure and entertainment and that turning out later to be useful, often contrary to their own explicit wishes (look up the history of matrices). Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water just because one such person has a bit of a tantrum.

I feel like I should ask for insider details about what is going over there, but I'm going to focus on the bugs around the Submit button. Most of those links seem to work badly or not at all. However in this particular case I also got a notification that the topic had been front-paged when there was nothing on the front page. On one hand, I figured it must have been a slow news day in the first place to consider the story, but on the other hand, WTF?

Pretty sure it isn't funny, but here's a bit from another website. These days I write less and less in the Slashdot direction...