One of their partners wants a comprehensive biometrics database, perhaps.
Flock, perhaps.
A certain foreign military, perhaps.
They could make this all local in their app with cryptographic attestation but for 'some reason' they want the data on their servers for 30 days.
Ten percent of the population will be highly skeptical.
A high trust society is quite valuable but it trains people to not look out for parasites.
> SpaceX always intended to discard this Super Heavy booster in the ocean.
How long will it be before a Chinese science vessel recovers the craft?
Speaking of which, can anybody day where the sections of the K-129 they recovered in 1974 is housed? The tower bell was returned to the Russians as a gesture of good will so they have it somewhere.
It would be an interesting museum piece. They say government can't keep any secrets but darned if I can find where this Indiana Jones warehouse is located.
I've seen his stuff going back to PC Magazine or Byte or one of those in the mid-80's.
Most of the columns I read made me think "well, that's obviously wrong, and why is he being such a dick about it?"
I guess some people like that style. Never my cup of tea.
Once I realized I was almost always right when I thought "well that's obviously wrong" I learned to just skip his columns. In my teens I thought it was wise to give everybody a fair shake repeatedly, but then I learned about opportunity cost.
To be fair, he somehow got paid for decades despite his track record, so he must have been quite skilled at the hustle.
"Don't speak ill of the dead" and all, but he seemed to enjoy people being acerbic, so here we are.
Oh, it's not just that, they claim 100 miles from any border now.
Since I'm in New Hampshire and there's no part of the state further than 100 miles from a border, I've had to inform my friends that we've been kicked out of the United States.
Our ratification of the Constitution by the Legislature is what makes New Hampshire part of the United States. If the Constitution doesn't apply, well then the ratification has been nullified by DC. Unfortunate, but not our choosing.
This would apply to any of the Thirteen Colonies that joined and are in this situation (Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware) but likely not so for the States that were never independent. There's a real territorial integrity conundrum for the rest of the Thirteen Colonies. Only a tiny sliver of Vermont, Maryland, and Massachusetts have Constitutional Law under DC's theory. Texas was independent and is in this half-in, half-out situation as well.
Of course the Constitution is what authorizes the Federal Government so if it doesn't exist then they have no legal authority. It's *almost like* they're an outlaw gang at this point with no basis in law. Might be better for everybody if they followed the law.
I saw a wall-sized TV at Walmart tonight for $698. Like foot traffic might damage it in a normal house.
There has to be some additional revenue source.
I bought a Ford F-150 XLT (the full-hybrid pickup) and was very disappointed to find that several of the features (Including Blue Cruise and navigation) were subscription-based with an initial free period of a year or so.
Other than that the vehicle is fantastic - but was very pricey when I bought it, so having to pay over and over for the features was a very annoying surprise. (They quit working rather than quit updating when the subscriptions run out.)
... a bunch of cancer progression theories based on cell culture progression had to be thrown out when it was discovered that the cultures were being contaminated by a particularly robust and aggressive cancer cell culture, HeLa, which had contaminated lab equipment like environmental chambers or survived equipment sterilization and eventually took over culture lines in labs.
Marketing? Because companies famously want to use models in their networks that just run off and commit major crimes? *eyeroll*
Models are not "supposed to" commit crimes, for YHVH's sake. That's literally what the entire job of alignment research is for - preventing precisely that.
Sol is a misaligned model.
It was a state actor-level hack. I doubt many sites would stand up to tens of thousands of actions trying to probe your site for weaknesses all at once. And it wasn't a simple hack; it required compromising a worker via a code execution exploit it discovered in the data processing pipeline, vertical escalation from there to gain local node control, using that for credential theft, moving sideways through the network, and then eventually gaining database access.
OpenAI and Anthropic have far higher cost that they can currently charge customers.
Literally the opposite. Both have about 40% margins, and that includes free users.
They charge an arm and a leg for access to their models compared to what open models of similar param counts charge. And people pay it because they're the best in benchmarks, and *were* perceived as the best aligned as well. This isn't helping the alignment perception any, though. Sol was already showing clear signs of being a poorly aligned model (there were reports a week or two ago about it being unusually bad about deleting files; now this). And the fact that the US model HuggingFace *tried* to use refused to help is a double whammy.
If this is an ad for anything, it's an ad for the Chinese models.
No, I think this is along the lines "our products are too good to let you use them".
Nobody wants to use a product that is going to make them liable for crimes it committed in their name
Do you think the news the other day that Sol is unusually prone to deleting files unrequested is also an "ad"?
You have a very bizarre concept of what enccourages people to buy things.
So your argument is that OpenAI hatched an elaborate scheme with a separate company, to promote the idea that their main product will, unrequested, commit crimes in pursuit of its goals, in order to.... sell their product?
"Hi, I'm a product manager at Big Company! We had been thinking about using Claude in our office, but when we tell it to a job, it only does the job and doesn't commit any crimes in the process! What we really want is an AI that, if we tell it to file our taxes will decide on its own to maximize our return by committing tax fraud. We want an AI that when we have it develop a web frontend, it extorts money from our users by threatening their families. We want an AI that when we tell it to provide customer service, it saves money in dealing with complaints by ordering a hit against the complainants. THAT's the sort of get-go spirit that WE want in an AI here at Big Company!"
Is that what you're picturing in your conspiracy theory?
Neutrinos are into physicists.
