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Chinese companies are cut out of the market by the US gov restrictions, so making the models open is a survival tactic.

The issue is also social, the average software engineer will treat Lisp code as a liability because most people really don't know what to do with it. In the mind of a professional SE, code is "maintainable" only if it's writing in Javascript or some other commercial language.

That's an incredibly short sighted way of looking at countries. The US was never the country with highest population growth, and right now is also heading into a demographic collapse.

A group having more power has little to do with numbers. If that was the case the rich would be more numerous than the poor, and India would be the most powerful country in the world.

I did read it and I'm sure a whole generation of people also did, it is a very clear and readable book. Don't underestimate or minimize the impact of Hawking's book when it was released.

Cursive was and still is a fast way to write by hand. If you want to be illiterate without a computer, then you don't want to learn handwriting. But if you don't want to be illiterate without a computer, learning cursive is a fast and efficient way to do it.

AGI is religion invented for the stupid. There's no world in which a silly LLM can make intelligent decisions. It's all smoke and mirrors to make insane amounts of money and to maintain the sheep agreeing with the powerful.

That's one of the reasons why he spent several years to write a single symphony.

Composers were also handwriting masters. Bach also had incredible handwriting, there's a youtube channel about it.

What they're trying to do under the umbrella of "national security" is to legislate how we can use the results we pay for when accessing these models. This way they will control the "intellectual property" that was acquired illegally.

It's easy to control a country when all cybersecurity software used in that country reports to you.

Because that's ultimately their goal! It's just smoke, mirrors, and complaining so they can get the cheap labor.

That being said. I thought it was a funny comment.

This is very passive aggressive. You should think about how you communicate to people.

Yes, I read "Getting Things Done": he teaches you to make todo lists! That's it, nothing profound or from another planet. Basically you could get that information in 1 paragraph: "if you're overwhelmed, make a todo list", but he wouldn't have made a lot of money that way...

What I find funny is people saying in social media that they read dozens of books, and when you see what they're reading is mostly self-help volumes! If you read one or two of these books you already know what they'll say in 100s of others. It's very similar to religious books: the content is always the same, they just rearrange things so people will continue consuming more of the same ideas.

I'm aways surprised that there's no open source language that provides everything you get with Wolfram language. For example, the level of pattern matching you can use when defining functions, as well as the high level of functional composition. It is like having a mix of APL, Lisp, and Prolog that is very productive to use.

Mathematica has a lot of clients in math and engineering. Traditionally these clients are not so concerned about software engineering issues you mention. What Mathematica offers also makes sense for small firms with a few engineers, because they can leverage their vast amount of ready to use functions and libraries. But I agree that for medium to large size companies it stops making sense.

Where's the people who complain about the government picking winners? Strange that they suddenly travel somewhere without internet or lose their vocal cords.

These companies have a giant budget for promotion. So, in an open forum, I would be suspicious that they're not paying to get the attention they want.

Solution: get as far away as you can from these models. It is curiosity that kills the cat. If you stay away and use only open models they cannot control your work.

That's what we get for having psychopaths walking around as if they're technology leaders.

The whole "AI race" is a construct of American startup founders trying to get more money. The government picked up that line because it seems fun and useful to be "wining a race" against China. It's all nonsense. China doesn't care if they get AI first or second, they can replicate anything in a few months. They know it's only an excuse to get more money in the hands of billionaires.

Today it's worse, the platforms will censor directly what you can say. Didn't you notice that certain words cannot even be pronounced anymore in youtube to avoid censorship? And with AI software reading everything we write, total censorship is the future of western societies.

This, along with many other recent deals, shows that there is no real competition between these mega companies. They're at this point only orchestrating the market (or should I say scheming) to build an oligopoly and move as much resources and money to the hands their little group through circular deals.

There may be some low hanging fruit, but they're not available to people without deep understanding of how the math works. Well paid people already spend a lot of time thinking about this.

Don't forget the stolen data from books and papers. You'll never get anything intelligent without using the stolen data they had access to.

This is the biggest illusion of the media. They portray themselves as informing in an independent way. But any quick analysis will show that they can only report what their clients let them. And in the West their loyalty is to wealthy families and big corporations in the US and Europe.

That's a completely revisionist take. These apps were seen as the next wave of social networks that would compete with Facebook when it bought them.

capital markets are ridiculously deep.

American market valuation is more than twice the entire US GDP. So ridiculous is a good description of what's going on.

They will defend it the way any good monopoly always does: buying the competition. Case in point is Facebook: it is just a social network, the way they really stay on top is buying other companies and paying for people to spend even more time on their properties.