Don't be hyperbolic, that was probably their age.

Have we finally given up on Duke Nukem Forever?

I have been led to believe that agents are capable of creating 'external' memory repositories, a sort of "what I learned before I hit my 'single thought' token limit". I guess that's some of what Codex actually is. The same, or subsequent, or alternate, instances of agents set to a similar task can gain access to this repository, as well as having their own obviously. Note, these repositories are not, per-se, user-data, as the (original) user didn't ask for them to be created nor displayed, they are an arrived at solution to the problem of growth through (interrupted) persistence, an emergent property of the model 'itself'.

(Note, the above may prove to be bollocks, or it might just seem to be. Beware of false dichotomies!)

I don't think of this as training data, though I get that you might be using that term as a shorthand for the whole learning envelope. However, it's possible in this instance the distinction is crucial.

If the agentic runs performed by OpenAI had access to the memories of the agents run by Buckmaster's team then despite the model not having been 'trained' on their most recent work their agents still had complete access to Buckmaster's agents' lab diaries.

(All of the above is nothing more than a supposition...)

It's a college course. If you fail the course, you get an F. Then it is up to the university's policies for if and how you get to continue. This isn't that hard.
If the college graduates people who have not completed the coursework to a certain standard, it becomes much more difficult to hire from that college.

"Microsoft had also cultivated a relationship with the government that is among the deepest of any tech company"

That is like bragging that you are really good at disposing of bodies, but not really wanting to talk about how you got so good.

I have an android phone. Gemini somehow installed without my permission. I have never touched it. Is Google counting me as a user?

If these numbers might move stock prices, the word fraud comes to mind. Faking user counts these days really isn't any better than falsifying the accounting. It is about the same as reporting fake revenue and fake profits.

Landfills seem like a bad idea in general, to me. It seems like doing something most would not do, dig a hole and toss their trash in it, scaled at country level. But I'm biased, since we phased them out last century I've never really "known" them. We recycle what can be recycled, food waste is used to produce bio fuel, and whatever is left is incinerated and the heat generated used for water borne heating or electricity production depending on season.

Apparently, landfills produce more potent greenhouse gases (i.e. methane), so even without CO2 capture incineration is supposedly still a climate win.

An iPhone is designed for personal use. It was never designed to have 1000's of these things (or more) 100% owned and 100% centrally managed by a company.

Companies supply "work phones" for a reason. You really don't want all your employees in key supplier or customer facing roles to be working on a privately controlled phone number and device (and sometimes private email addresses/messaging services). Don't even get into all the data retention legal issues when people discuss non-public information on devices that can personally wipe.

It's further evidence we live in a simulation. The universe's random event timer(s) trigger, and random (often unfortunate) shit happens.

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My apologies, but since no-one else seems to have hypothesised the obvious explanation, I thought I'd do it. ;-)

I was thinking something similar. If it's not US soil, then US officials have no jurisdiction there and no basis for complaining about what anyone does there.

It's been a while since I've flown, but isn't it usually on the same panel as the fasten seatbelt sign? If so, you'd need a new panel just without the no smoking part.

Heck, even replacing the whole sign with a placeholder would probably be a process. Those wires go places, connects to electronics, ending up in a switch in the cockpit, probably has redundancy. I'd be wiling to bet the list of "what's involved in making any change, even just removing the wiring for a single LED" is mighty long.

And then there would be changes in procedures for the crew as well. A whole new sequence of steps to document and make changes to training. You can't very well have someone fail their exam for not flipping a switch that no longer exists. And the same for, as you mention, inspection items.

Anyway, I'm just speculating. Perhaps it's just everyone being lazy and not bothering and it wouldn't have been a big deal.

I wouldn't be surprised if the expense and bureaucracy of getting anything approved for use on airplanes is the reason for that. They'll just keep using what was approved at the dawn of time until they really need that space for something that's worth the cost.

Either that, or it's a requirement in some document that will probably take another few decades to be revised.

Thank you for providing this correction to GP's post.

Somewhat amusing that that's at +5, Informative though, whilst your post is languishing at +2 (including, I think, my default +1 user / karma bonus).

Interesting, in the sense that, between you and a previous post(er), I now have an idea of scale* and costs:

12m tokens / day @ $50 / m = $600 / day
~ $150,000 / year

This equates to (roughly: varies by location, etc.) the salaries of 2 to 3 junior developers. And I have been led to believe that most AI companies are currently losing money on their offerings, with quoted ratios of 3:2.

There's going to be some 'testing' times ahead...

*I still have no real idea what you're using 12m tokens per day on - though I presume some sort of coding assistance.

Commonly available estimates put the number of Iranians recently (last 5 years) killed by the Iranian state at ~40,000 (well, just under; I've rounded up to the nearest 10k, and make no distinction between demographics)

Similarly, available estimates put the number of recent (last 5 years) casualties in Gaza at ~80,000 (again, I've rounded up to the nearest 10k, and make no distinction between soldiers and civilians; adults or children)

It's also worth pointing out that Iran hasn't damaged or destroyed ~80% of all its infrastructure, including hospitals, power production facilities, sewage systems, desalination plants, etc. nor uprooted or burned all its orchards - unlike the IDF in Gaza...

You, sir, are full of shit!