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Comment Re:Well it was inevitable (Score 3, Interesting) 102

They are willing to build data centers at scale with no regard for the environment or citizen's opinions on the matter, subsidize the hardware, reverse engineer the models, and distill the training done in the US. The only thing holding the US back is itself. We honestly shouldn't compete, because the playing field is far from level. Let them spend the money and destroy their resources, and we'll distill THEIR models.

LOL. We bet the farm on this.

Also, we don't have to distill their models. Their models are open-source, open weights.

They did jump ahead a few times and we did use their techniques and learnings to jump past them in the next round.

Comment Re:Chinese models = Chinese Guardrails? (Score 1) 102

I"m curious...do these Chinese models contain Chinese guard rails?

I mean, will it censor you if you ask about the Chinese premier looking like Winnie the Pooh or tienaman (sp?) square....will it say it can't answer that...or give answers that only praise china?

Genuine question with potential genuine concerns....

They remove that kind of data from the training and so model has no idea what you're talking about. They don't add guardrails after the fact.

Anyways, its open weights/open source. You can fine tune it to your liking. Lots of companies do that. Even the company Cursor that SpaceX just bought for $40 billion used a Chinese model, fine tuned it and ran the company on it.

Comment Re:Of course they don't (Score 1) 100

"More fundamentally, AI models may not understand 'stakes' as humans perceive them."

Of course they don't. They don't *understand anything*. They just predict which word(s) is statistically most likely to come after all these other word(s).

This is just as reductionist as saying emotions are just chemicals, our thoughts are just electrical spikes and the entire internet is just 0s and 1s.

A complex system is not just a lot of the basic operations but has inherently different characteristics as a complex system.

Comment Re:Wrong homework. Homework needs to be AI proof. (Score 1) 153

I don't know what the solution AI is but it has to be found.

The problem is that you're looking for a kind of solution that doesn't exist. There probably isn't now any undergraduate math problem that AI can't do, and if there is, there soon won't be. Trying to find kinds of problems that students can do but AI can't is fruitless.

The only answer is to get students to understand why they really need to do the work themselves -- and it's the same reason that they need to learn integration by parts even though the CAS can do it far faster and more accurately -- because learning develops their minds. And, for the students who are unwilling to understand, test them on it in a context where they can't rely on AI: Pencil and paper tests in a room free of any sort of electronics.

I disagree. It is a waste of time.

But, I think you're probably right in a different way.

Even when I was in college decades ago, we used to say, "what you learn in school doesn't matter, what matters is that you showed you can jump all the hoops to get the degree"

Comment Re:Wrong homework. Homework needs to be AI proof. (Score 1) 153

If AI can do your homework, the homework is wrong. The teacher needs to create a homework that is AI proof.

I don't think there is any homework that is AI proof. If the kids can do it, the AI can do it. Hell, the AI can probably do it better than the teacher.

The solution to my calculus was to make the problem into a "word problem" where you had to get obtain the equation.

Yeah, good luck writing a basic calculus word problem that frontier AI models can't do today.

Seriously, give it a shot and I'll feed it to a few models.

This is my pet theory but we don't need to do homeworks like we think of where we ask questions and expect answers from the students.

If AI can generate answers, we should ask people to make questions as homework.

Other camps will say homework should be to generate answers and understand how to use AI to generate answers, like using a calculator or CAS like a tool and be able to verify it.

Word problems were a solution to CAS. I don't know what the solution AI is but it has to be found. If it can't be found then there is no reason for the field to exist and no reason for people to study it anymore.

Comment Re:Wrong homework. Homework needs to be AI proof. (Score 1) 153

homework doesn't need to be AI proof at all, whats important is how the homework is checked. If the child can demonstrate an understanding then whether they used a text book, google search or AI the goal has been achieved. So what needs to change is how they check the child actually understood and can demonstrate the ability.

That's just time wasting.

Heard stories of older professors who would do 3x3 matrix inversions by hand in front of the classroom. Going back to my example, doing integration by parts over and over again in front of the students.

Comment Wrong homework. Homework needs to be AI proof. (Score 4, Insightful) 153

This reminds me of my college days when calculus teacher would ask me to integrate an expression and CAS could do it it in a fraction of a section. Instead we were expected to spend half an hour doing it, documenting all the "tricks".

If AI can do your homework, the homework is wrong. The teacher needs to create a homework that is AI proof.

The solution to my calculus was to make the problem into a "word problem" where you had to get obtain the equation. The integration part would then be done by CAS.

In the AI world, it can't be questions that is trivially solvable by AI.

Comment Climate participation trophy (Score 0, Troll) 175

Americans should be able to buy the car they want.

Affordable vehicle ownership is essential to the American Dream and a primary driver of economic mobility out of poverty in the United States. Americans rely on vehicles to reach jobs, education, health care, and essential services. This is especially true in rural areas and regions without robust public transit.

We should be improving affordability and expanding consumer choice and ultimately advancing the American Dream by making it easier to reach jobs, grow small businesses, and participate fully in the transportation and logistics systems that power the U.S. economy.

Comment Re:Use BitTorrent for downloads (Score 2) 24

One idea to reduce costs is use BitTorrent for distribution of the packages.
Web site hosts only a torrent file.
Everyone has to download via the torrent file. If nobody is seeding.... well then bad luck.
If somebody wants a URL for the package manager, they will be required to download from torrent and set up their own local mirror.

Yep, package distribution via peer to peer would happen if those "grants" dried up.

There is every incentive to never have such a system even pop up for the companies selling centralized data access.

Comment OpenAI hasn't laid off tens of thousands workers (Score 1) 47

You probably meant Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Google that are laying off employees and are making huge speculative investments.

However, they were already sitting on mountains of cash and so can afford to burn it.

I know the narrative is that AI capital investment is bad but this is a bit of a stretch.

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