There's an obvious bubble, the circular dealings among the large core players are an enormous red flag.

The frontier labs are in the same position that DEC and Sun Microsystems were in the 1990s, as consumer hardware running Linux began to displace them. There will be ups and downs, but the trend is unavoidable.

The productivity gains are not there, AI is great for coding, some customer service is working, but the "50% of all white collar workers" that the frontier labs thought was good positioning last year 1) ain't gonna work but it did 2) infuriate the managerial class.

The frontier labs got away with it, thus far, in part because of concerns over the arrival of artificial general intelligence, which occupies a similar niche to nuclear weapons in the minds of policy makers. We ARE seeing frontier models escaping and attacking others, there ARE hazards, but it's nothing like what was imagined.

And the open models plus wild talent are as much a danger as wild talent was all on its own.

The frontier labs are like the coyote in that last moment when he's windmilling wildly, but not falling yet.

Quoted against the censor trolls or baby-killer fans. Whatever.

I did spot a de-branded, de-logoed Tesla yesterday. I usually give the drivers a big thumbs down, but if he's already feeling the shame and pulled the logo, then that seems to be sufficient.

Okay, but I'm still disappointed that the intrinsically funny story didn't get any such comments.

Not really much of a coincidence because Apple news is frequent, but I just finished The One Device by Brian Merchant. I recommend it fairly strongly for folks who still enjoy reading fat books. Any left on ye olde Slashdot? Also interested in later books on the topic, but my main theoretical conclusion is that the Chinese must be putting backdoors into many or most of the iPhones built in their jurisdiction. Sort of a twisted joke, but I actually imagine that Huawei has the competence to support two versions, backdoored for domestic customers and clean for export, but I think Apple couldn't manage that trick, notwithstanding the secretive corporate culture, and as it relates to this particular story, I think the "backdoor" proof would hurt the stock price much more than 10%. (But the book also shows the limits of his technical chops... Especially in the cybersecurity sections.)

However Apple is the poster child for "opinion of value" uber reality. The book spends a chapter on how those marketing tricks work. Meanwhile, stock prices are just another opinion these years. Apple probably has more problems with the opinion leaders who are arguing Apple isn't doing enough AI yet.

Anyone hereabouts know enough about ye olde Hypercard to make an AI hypercard joke? Apple needs a house of AI hypercards to boost their stock price?

A balloon is not static, it moves with the atmospheric system it is in. Ergo, it tells you how that system evolves. A drone cannot do this.

A drone can stay put, relative to the ground, telling you how a location's atmosphere evolves. A balloon cannot do this.

These are solving completely different types of problem.

You could, of course, construct a hybrid, as balloons are traditionally single-shot. If a balloon carries the measurement gear and a drone capable of carrying that same gear PLUS a deflated balloon, then you can have something that operates as a balloon until it reaches some pre-set location, whereupon the balloon's gas is released and the drone flies the ensemble to a collection point.

The first one you mean? Weird minority opinion, but you're entitled to it.

The one and only thing that matters to the mainstream modern media outlet is reactions, because people don't care about news any more, they just want to feel something.

That's really not what's going on here.

What's going on is exactly what they're saying. OpenAI didn't realize their AI hacked HuggingFace until HuggingFace told them. That sparked a broad investigation in both Anthropic and OpanAI, scouring their logs to see if there were other cases, and they're finding a lot of them, and doing the responsible thing by disclosing.

Both companies are really worried.

Having an out-of-control AI is an anti-selling point, not a selling point.

I am an American, have been for all of my 57 years. I'm actually a certified pistol, rifle and shotgun instructor, a certified range safety officer, and a concealed carry instructor. And while I wouldn't recommend it, it's not at all hard to get away with shooting outside of one of those situations.

Also, it was a joke.

That's not quite true. You only need to offend one person to get modded down. However, if you also provide value, then you will probably not stay modded down. My karma has only been anywhere other than right up against the kap a couple of times in the last... uh, long time.

Yes. And also and.

But bsky is an echo chamber and feceboot is not, and I want both things.

Twitter is too much of a cesspool to care that I got banned for saying mean things about Leon

You mean people confused by multiple mouse buttons who can't figure out how to configure Safari?

Up 3% today, aka yesterday's tomorrow.

This is why I don't trade stocks, I don't know shit either, but you sure can't take most people's advice

Pot kettle black, fucker. You never use a nice word where a rude one will do. I answer rudeness with rudeness and I won't apologize for that, people who are dicks deserve dickery.

Have you seen the garbage big-bucks "enterprises" will pay for? I thought you said you were experienced. If you only know code and not anything about business maybe you should calm down and take a breath here.

I mean have you seen the thing where Zuckerfuck called people who trusted him enough to give him their personal info for facebook "dumb fucks"? You should expect Facebook to intentionally not ban the worst people, if you are familiar with what a piece of shit Mark Fuckerberg is.