The typical definition goes something like this:

Consciousness is the state of being awake, aware of one's surroundings, and experiencing subjective sensations, thoughts, and feelings

Think about a thermostat, it's awake, aware of it surrounding temperature, it "feels" that the it is too hot, which is unsettling, and causes it to signal the AC motor to turn on and suddenly feels ok, no more tension.

Consciousness is either: supernatural an ill defined or describes a simple feedback loop with some internal state.

We need a better concept.

Before release, you add a phase of vulnerability discovery, to find as much as you can with the latest and greatest models and fix those before release.
It makes sense to defuse the threat before it becomes an issue, otherwise your attackers will do it for you and won't tell you what they find.

I mean, Leia was mostly AI in the latest ones.

I mean, 10PB is not easy to store.

The moment you start charging for access, it's no longer open in the traditional sense.

It may be free as in freedom, but you cannot exercise that freedom unless you pay up?

We'll end up with a bunch of Mozillas trying to maximize ~shareholder~ community value.

SaaS is not going away, some may be replaced by AIaaS. At least for relatively simple things, but most companies paying for SaaS are paying for the support that comes with it.

You can definitely vibe code a lot of crap, but once you get into regulated environments where liability is really high (GDPR, HIPPA, FedRamp, etc.) it's risky to trust that a probabilistic interpretation of a prompt is compliant.

I mean, the picture and sound quality at home movie watching has gotten so much better that dealing with all the strangers in the cinema and all that hassle makes no sense.

In fact most HDR movies are way better in a large, modern TV than on a cinema screen.

And even mid-range sound bars with subwoofers can approximate the audio experience very well, algorithmic audio does magic with Atmos data.

The structure is the easiest part of building a house (and also the easies to automate).

  All the other tiny little details take most of the time: electrical, plumbing, drywall, painting, flooring, etc.

All my smart TVs never seen the internet. They're completely offline, I just feed them video and audio via HDMI.

Software companies have been evaluating people again and again because a degree is meaningless.

That's why interviews are so grueling, you have CS master degree holders that know shit about software.

Really, I so rarely reboot, my daily drivers only reboot when an update requires it. I care more about wake from sleep time, which is usually under a second.

Reboot it's probably a few seconds mostly.

As a former Oracle employee, they have way too many seat warmers. They could probably function with 50% of their current payroll, assuming that they fire the right people, but that's a huge if.

30k is probably healthy if done competently.

You can use it with a local model, it's a pain in the ass to setup, but some people have it running with for example "minimax m2.1 4bit", it needs a model that handles tool running properly.

Pretty much any feedback loop that models it's internal state can be said to be conscious. Consciousness is a crappy concept, without a well defined boundary that comes from human exceptionalism.

In practice it doesn't matter other than the emotional response humans have towards a thing.

If agents were people, they would be responsible for their fuckups.

So, no, they're not people. Whoever deploys the agent is responsible for any consequences of their use. As with a hammer or a car.