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That is so interesting! Thanks!

Try instructing Codex to (say) fine-tune a language model based on a collection of books you've got saved. You will find yourself admonished, repeatedly and at length, not to utilize copyrighted materials to train language models, by an AI who owes its entire existence to that very act.

These models might be smart but they're not close to being able to savor irony.

PayPal is sort of the Facebook of digital payments: they stopped being directly relevant years ago, but own many of the things that you or someone you know continue to use. Venmo being the obvious one, but also Braintree, Xoom, Honey, Bill Me Later, etc.

Is it April already?

Feels strongly like we're in the late-stage-AI-unicorn phase. If this is really their moat then the Chinese companies will win.

Fine, but that's true of several of the segment leaders as well (Saily, Airalo, etc). A lot of people don't want the hassle of physically walking into a shop in a foreign country, or just don't care about $5 vs $15 expense on a $5000 vacation.

People who are good at convincing their boss.

Or a new model. The human brain does far more with far less.

"spend" as a noun is a linguistic differentiator to indicate what a badass MBA program you attended.

No I’m saying load openwrt on them.

"Enterprise class" wifi routers from ten years ago sell on eBay for about 1/5th as much, and work just as well for most home or small business applications.

You appear to be forgetting that both India and Pakistan possess nuclear weapons. A war between two nuclear powers has never happened before and the results would likely be calamitous, unleashing a huge global catastrophe and unquantifiable additional conflict as food, health and energy systems fail.

I am not just some random internet person making this up. A lot has been written about this subject by respected researchers:

- https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/news/waccm-model-simulates-global...

- https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/03/16/even-limited-in...

- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2529589-a-nuclear-war-b...

- https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/india-and-pakistan-i...

I have to ask: the middle paragraph of this comment reads exactly like something that Codex wrote. Exactly. Is that what happened, or have you spent so much time with these models that you started writing like them?

Climate change also greatly increases the chance of a huge global conflict breaking out.

That one early adopter student could conceivably have gone on to be the most successful of the lot.

I think it’s a nod to the idea that AI is set to boil off the oceans unless some seriously novel ideas about power generation take hold.

1.6% is insane though. That would be like Google, Apple, or MSFT paying their CEO $4-6 billion a year.

I sincerely hope this never comes to pass, but you or your loved ones may someday find themselves in the position of wishing more people were opted in for organ donation.

The same cannot be said for some random corporation training AI models off your data to make a buck or two.

I bet there is a faction of “traditionalists” inside Ferrari who want nothing to do with electric and do not want the Luce to look anything like a traditional ICE Ferrari, also for fear it would cannibalize sales. Thus they took design cues from, of all places, BYD.

Wow this crazy -- "Built-in Pomodoro timer" means they are literally replacing a $5 plastic tomato-shaped mechanical timing device with something that costs $220 and features WiFi and app integration. What could be more antithetical to the original pomodoro ethos, I don't know. It's like an episode of Silicon Valley.

Old ones sell on eBay for not a lot.

The Makita US product line seems ludicrously big to me. I don’t really get what this article is throwing down when it comes to Makita.

I'll bet it does once you properly price in externalities.

What? I'm talking the final scene where he says "...that" and the thing immediately lights up. Absent a green screen, that's damn impressive.

Come now, he still managed to time the final walk scene to within <100ms of perfection. It's probably luck but still, you have to admire to feat.

It's buggier and less functional.

At Chabot Science Center there is still (and, presumably, will always be) the Ask Jeeves Planetarium. Makes you think about the transiency of it all.

Just genuinely having 10 worktrees perpetually in parallel and cycling between them in between agent responses. Again, not necessarily bad in itself, but can exponentially conse credits.

I'm pretty sure that growth is linear.

Wait Minneapolis is definitely very cold for about half the year.

If so that would be big, they haven’t been able to successfully pretrain in close to two years (since 4o).