Astra is amazing.

My team supports 4x the infrastucture with 50% of the people with agents following human workflows.

They could literally clear all of the remaining Millennium problems and people would still be coping. This will happen.

Self reinforcement learning works, and it hasn't been about LLMs in a long time.

Hang on. Learn to hang drywall.

Cheers

Susan Collins called and she wants her "deeply concerned but I hope they have learned a pretty big lesson and will be more cautious in the future" policy back

Right... because my posting history and frequency matches spam / generated content. Obviously time traveling agent of Roko's basilisk and your incisive criticism of the elites triggered my defenses.

If more than one sentence challenges reading comprehension - I can simplify:

People can do things that are bad without being illegal, and people can do illegal things without being punished.

This is not a bad thing, its a hard-won feature of non-authoritarian governments. Tyrants love systems where the law is strict and justice has no discretion, because then every respite is a personal favor, to be granted or recanted at their whim.

If you think democracy is not working right instead of karma-baiting, exercise your political voice not just in elections. Let your elected officials know their political career improves if they show good judgement of public interest and ends if they're clearly partisan or performative. Complaining in what-about-isms does the opposite.

A legal defense for an illegal act does not need to be logical im the "it makes common sense" way. An illegal act does not need to be criminal offense in "the state will prosecute and may send you to jail" sense.

Neither criminal nor civil offenses need to be prosecuted in "the state attorneys believe they can win the case... *and* its worth it for them to prosecute the case". (whether for them as an institution or a person)

The prosecutorial discretion and incentives are by design biased against the state filing frivolous prosecutions. If you've seen the alternative in practice, it can be a lot worse. But its on the voters to hold their elected officials accountable on how they use that discretion.

Government entities are naturally conservative and courts / judges are going to be skeptical for years about using AI for official work, considering every public anecdote about AI in since the "i'm not a cat" lawyer would be career enders in that role.

But I would expect more sophisticated prompt injections to be a larger concern at interfering with opposing counsel which may have to review and include a pile of documents as LLM context ("Harvey" is a thing,).

Nice, so now... I can sleep well with the confidence that my home directory can will get corrupted and my entire os might become useless just because. And that I'll have no warning about any of it until my entire os catches fire, because there aren't any meaningful logs anywhere.

Here for it.
This is the change we needed.

Okay, but, and I'm trying to read this charitably... aren't you just verifying the presence of a file in your photo directory?
What about the existence of any given file gives you the provenance you need to prove "reality?"

Rural communities could deal with the problem by selective enforcement - i.e. the local sheriff chooses not to be a dick. But this seems a problem better solved with different license types.

If some states can give a junior license with restrictions on nighttime driving (w/o licensed supervision, etc) they could make it easier to get a basic license w/ road restrictions based on verified id + online test.

No, no, non you don't understand. AlphaFold demonstrated serious artificial intelligence could help solve real, expensive, research problems with provable results and quantifiable value.

That is the worst thing you can do in the current environment; why would you want provable results? The moment you can prove which type of problem you can solve, everybody only asks about the 100 problems that have no line of sight to production and the 1000 problems you can only prove this cannot solve. That's how you get into ROI conversations in the first place and a single millions-lives-saving problem cannot justify trillion dollar valuations

But if you are *pre-solutions* and stick to demos and trustmebro benchmarks - you can say its all about AGI, baby! You're a pure potential play.

Its not what your tech can do, its about making promises large enough the investors can't risk to ignore the opportunity, and get them to invest large enough sums they can't afford to let you fail

The cope has been nauseating.

It works. Everyone onboard now?

Now it's about how it scales and how we optimize use and lower release cycle time.

Everyone agonizing over token costs doesn't understand the exponential cost decay.. and how are you going to compete with hyperscalers who have essentially unlimited, near-free tokens.

Buckle up.

TFA from Techcrunch is basically "creative editorializing" the original reporting of other sources (axios mainly) to justify the clickbait headline. But it you click through to the original sources the story is more nuanced and more interesting.

The surface dynamic is anthropic is in a delicate position and struggling to manage a "temperamental" regulatory power *and* strategic customer shortly before their IPO.

The background dynamic is multiple sources close enough to the matter in the exec branch felt so strongly this was an unnecessary escalation and that anthropic was the party who could and had to fix it, that they're talking to axios reporters the next day.

  In an administration that is proudly punitive of leaks, don't assume multiple people are spilling the tea to reporters this quickly out of civic interest or a strong belief in the role of free press.

Its not just who remains after the bubble pops - its we dont know yet *which product* will pay the bills, and *then* who remains selling that product.

OpenAI has more users overall, but they have mainly "sold" a free / loss leader product. Anthropic has become more popular on the enterprise "maybe eliza doesnt pay the bills" business model. OpenAI pivots but if this were "search" its too early to figure out if either of these is google or they're yahoo and altavista.

Nvidia seems to be betting this is the PC + MPC redux and all these folks are trying to be IBM selling mainframes; which is less of a "worst timeline" but they're biased since their valuation already priced in the "mainframe" market. Democratizing AI is a larger addressable market for a chips seller whether its a real market or not.

Or the real business model could be elsewhere altogether - I still remember the early aughts when the future of growth for the interwebs was telecoms and iTV and Netflix was shipping CDs and the video streaming business was licensing codecs.

It's everywhere right now.
Projects are rejecting AI contributions in needlessly cruel and unnecessary ways.
All they need to do is post an agents md file.
The theatrics are needless.

This kind of thing makes me angry.
Here's a fork I made that explicitly removes the malicious prompt injection.
https://github.com/LynnColeArt...

Spicy autocomplete indeed.

Chuckle.

AI is real. The implications of this are not priced in.