If Hitler invaded Hell, I would give a favourable reference to the Devil.
Saturday, December 14
Lying Suits Edition
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- You can't sue your way to AGI, says OpenAI in response to Elon Musk's lawsuit over the non-profit organisation being taken over by snake-oil salesmen. (The Verge)
Believe us, we've tried.
AGI stands for Artificial General Intelligence, a term invented by the snake oil salesmen when everyone figure out there was no snake in the snake oil.
OpenAI now says AGI will arrive as soon as next year, as a result of a convenient redefinition of AGI to mean "whatever we manage to ship next year".
- An OpenAI whistleblower has been found dead in his San Francisco apartment. (Tech Crunch)
Suchir Balaji called attention to what he believed was OpenAI's intentional breaches of copyright law in training ChatGPT.
Tech News
- If Tesla won't launch an AI-piloted taxi service, we will, says Zoox. (Tech Crunch)
What is a Zoox?
- A Waymo robotaxi got stuck in a roundabout. (Tech Crunch)
Yes, it was doing exactly what you think it was doing.
- Bluesky has found out what happens if you take millions of the most demented users from a much larger platform and make them your own problem: They become your own problem. (Tech Crunch)
Jesse Singal, who is generally an intelligent and affable idiot, has written extensively on the insanity of the chemical sterilisation and surgical mutilation of children. To be completely clear, despite his otherwise mainstream left-wing views, he is vehemently against this, and his writing and research in this area is solid.
He created a Bluesky account because, being left-wing, he is unhappy with Twitter.
Bluesky went insane. The one thing you are absolutely forbidden to do is to question the orthodoxy.He is now the most blocked user on the social network, and user outrage over his participation on the platform is growing. People are demanding that Bluesky take a stand: It’s either a place that promises it won’t host bad actors, or it’s a place that promises not to inflate the reach of bad actors thanks to its various moderation tools.
Freedom of speech and freedom of conscience simply don't exist for these people. Anyone daring to offer a different opinion must be revoked.
It cannot be both.
And if you read Bluesky, they mean that in the Brontitall sense.But many Bluesky users don’t want to just moderate and ignore Singal, they want him gone. It’s become a dealbreaker.
To be completely clear, Singal is not a bad actor, and has not harassed anyone. This is just crazy people being crazy.
By keeping him, Bluesky risks harming the community, depleting its goodwill, and losing users, while also sending a signal to others that bad actors and harassers are welcome there.But by banning Singal, Bluesky could come under attack from the next head of the FCC, Brendan Carr, who is ready to come after social networks he believes are suppressing conservative views. Whatever Bluesky does here will attract attention, for better or for worse.
Start banning the crazy people. They are the problem. Nobody wants them.
If they represent the majority of your active users, your platform will die.
- The Minisforum MS-A1 is a big small PC. (Liliputing)
Measure about 8"x8"x2" it's a lot bigger than a small PC but a lot smaller than a big PC. And it supports desktop CPUs and laptop RAM, so it's easy to expand.
It's now available with a sixteen core 9950X if you need a very fast and quite small system. The only problem is that it doesn't have room for a graphics card, and the onboard graphics on the 9950X are... Meh.
A better option for most people is probably to install the Ryzen 8700G. It's only half as fast on the CPU side of things which makes sense as it only has eight cores, but it has twelve graphics cores against just two on all the 9000-series CPUs.
The 8700G is a laptop CPU adapted for desktop sockets. It doesn't look like we'll see a 9700G or anything similar, because the current Ryzen 370 laptop CPUs don't appear to have any support for socketed memory. (Though it's possible to work around this with CAMM2 modules.)
- AMD's 4124P is designed for low-end embedded servers, but it uses the standard desktop AM5 socket. So how does a four-core CPU stand up in gaming in 2024? (Tom's Hardware)
Actually, pretty well. You're not going to want to pair it with a 4090 (if you can even find one), but for $149 it does everything you would expect.
- Luon is an implementation of Oberon+ - a successor to Pascal developed by Niklaus Wirth - that targets the LuaJIT backend. (GitHub)
Which is a lot less crazy than it might sound, because Oberon+ is a clean and effective programming language, and LuaJIT runs anywhere and is extremely fast and efficient because Mike Pall is a robot from the future.
- Apple broke the ability to back up the operating system on MacOS. (ShirtPocket)
You can't write a program to do this; you have to use the operating system itself.
The operating system itself is broken.
Apple is turning Macs, step by step, into iPhones that don't work.
- Cognitive load is what matters. (GitHub)
A system that does everything perfectly that nobody understands is infinitely fragile.
A system that is simple but broken can be fixed.
Disclaimer: In time, all systems become rococo, and then rubble.
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Friday, December 13
Forgotten Edition
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- Intel's second-generation "Battlemage" graphics cards are here and... They're actually pretty damn good. (Hot Hardware)
They're not perfect: Intel's drivers still hiccupped on a couple of games, resulting in slower than expected performance and some visual artifacts.
But the new B580 routinely outruns Nvidia and AMD cards costing 50% more. And it leaves Intel's previous generation A770 card in the dust on most tests, while using about half as much power.
And it delivers solid ray-tracing and AI performance. And it has 12GB of VRAM instead of the 8GB found on competitors like Nvidia's 4060 and AMD's 7600.
And it's cheaper at $249.
All in all, a good card at a good price, only let down by some minor driver issues. But the driver software has improved dramatically since the first generation of cards was launched, so those problems are likely to be fixed too.
Tech News
- Microsoft's Recall is back, and yes, it still takes screenshots of your sensitive information. (Tom's Hardware)
You can tell it not to. It does it anyway.
- Are LLMs capable of non-verbal reasoning? (Ars Technica)
As at least a dozen commenters point out, LLMs aren't capable of reasoning at all.
- New Zealand has scrapped all government investment in basic social science research. (Science)
The government has said if you can't use it to build things or blow them up, they're not interested and they're not giving you money.
- In Canada, euthanasia now accounts for 5% of all deaths. (BBC)
Euthanasia is only available for people who are terminally ill, or chronically ill, or mentally ill, or generally inconvenient.
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Thursday, December 12
Things That Make You Go Mmm Edition
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- Mad Matt Mullenweg reportedly flipped out after a judge granted WP Engine a preliminary injunction against WordPress. (404 Media)
WordPress is enjoined from requiring oaths of vengeance against WP Engine and from locking WP Engine and its employees and customers out of the open source services that WordPress provides.
I'll say it again: If you don't want to provide your service to everyone in the world, don't offer it as open source."It's hard to imagine wanting to continue to working on WordPress after this," he wrote in that Slack, according to a screenshot viewed by 404 Media. "I'm sick and disgusted to be legally compelled to provide free labor to an organization as parasitic and exploitive as WP Engine. I hope you all get what you and WP Engine wanted."
I've looked at the WordPress code recently. Sick and disgusted is unearned praise.
Tech News
- I'm sorry, Mario. Your death robot from the future is
in another castledown right now. (HackRead)
ChatGPT and the newly released Sora video creator from OpenAI went down for several hours. The cause of the outage is currently reported as "we don't know and if we did we wouldn't tell you".
- Speaking of Sora, a new AI that can create entire movies from a simple prompt - movies that last a maximum of twenty seconds because any longer and it goes insane - it looks like copyright lawsuits are back on the menu. (Tech Crunch)
They threw everything into this, including but not limited to Super Mario Bros and Pokemon.
This seems ill-advised.
- And speaking of Slack, GM told the employees if its Cruise subsidiary that it no longer has a Cruise subsidiary. (Tech Crunch)
The work will be absorbed into GM as a whole. The jobs... We don't know.
- If you have an Embodied Moxie robot, you have a $800 clown. (Ars Technica)
The company is not offering refunds because "we don't have any money left".In addition to the robot being bricked, Embodied noted that warranties, repair services, the corresponding parent app and guides, and support staff will no longer be accessible.
Specialised devices like this from small startups will always be high-risk. It's a bit like complaining that you can no longer buy ribbons for your 1923 Underwood typewriter, except faster.
- BadRAM breaks security on AMD servers by... Opening them up and installing a fake RAM module powered by a Pi Pico and a 9v battery. (Tom's Hardware)
What's interesting is that AMD has issued a software patch that protects against this.
- Italy's Datashield antipiracy system blocked another CDN IP address, inadvertently taking down a tech news site that has been noted for its criticism of Datashield. (TorrentFreak)
For very small values of "inadvertently".
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Wednesday, December 11
Definately An Edition
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- Microsoft has officially confirmed that you can install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware just days after saying that this will never be an option. (Tom's Hardware)
However, while it officially works, it's not officially supported, though less officially not supported than Windows 10 will be in a year's time (two years if you pay for the extended support).
Tech News
- Hackers stole AWS keys from misconfigured websites and stored them all in an open S3 bucket. (The Register)
It's an Ouroboros of incompetence.
- Google says it may have found parallel universes and stolen their computers. (Google)
Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing: It performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 1025 or 10 septillion years. If you want to write it out, it’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. This mind-boggling number exceeds known timescales in physics and vastly exceeds the age of the universe. It lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.
Which is just fine until the other universes send the bill.
- The Rivian Joshua Tree EV charging station is how Rivian Joshua Tree EV charging stations should be. (The Verge)
Bleeding cash and $6 billion in dept to the federal government?
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Tuesday, December 10
500 Edition
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- The Raspberry Pi 500 is here for $90. (Liliputing)
The Pi 500 is to the Pi 5 what the Pi 400 was to the Pi 4. That is, it's a computer in a keyboard based on the Raspberry Pi 5.
It's twice as fast as the Pi 4 and has twice as much memory. It's capable enough for basic computing and not just a novelty.
It also almost has an M.2 slot. Which is to say it doesn't have one at all, but it has a place where one could go. In theory.
The existing Pi 400 has received a price cut to $60.
The Pi 500 will be available in a kit including a mouse and power supply for $120.
At the same time Raspberry Pi announced a 15" 1080p monitor for $100.
Tech News
- Indie game hub Itch.io got taken offline because some kid uploaded a fan page for a Funko Pop game. (Torrent Freak)
Funk Pop apparently uses a third-party service which acts like a rabid badger whenever it spots the term "funko" anywhere. To make matters worse, Itch's domain registrar is kind of stupid.
- Intel's Arc B580 looks like a strong competitor at its price point. (Tom's Hardware)
Compared with Nvidia's 4060, AMD's 7600, and Intel's own previous generation A750, the B580 wins pretty consistently - and also offers more memory.
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Monday, December 09
Driplet Edition
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- The House of Representatives is voting on another $3 billion to reimburse telephone network carriers with equipment from Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE that turned out, much to everyone's surprise, to have been made in China. (Tom's Hardware)
This is on top of the $2 billion already allocated to replacing the shockingly Chinese devices.
- Chinese hackers have meanwhile reportedly hacked "all phone companies everywhere" according to the FBI and CISA. (Politico)
The trove of data included in the latest, wide-ranging attacks include FISA court applications which are allegedly secret.
Tech News
- With the FBI now recommending everyone use messaging apps with end-to-end encryption, we turn to Google Messages. which doesn't. (Daring Fireball)
Well, it does sometimes. It doesn't other times. And it doesn't tell you any of the time.
- The Sandisk 1.5TB microSD card is too small. (Serve the Home)
They lost it during the review.
Twice.
- A Bitcoin miner has purchased a 112MW wind farm in Texas and plans to take it off the grid and use it for mining. (Chron_
Which means that when that wind is not blowing in that particular part of the world, those particular Bitcoin mining machines will quietly switch off.
Which is actually a perfectly fine and sensible approach. So someone is probalby extremely upset about this.
- Microsoft plans to release Surface Pro laptops based on Intel's Lunar Lake CPUs. (Tom's Hardware)
Okay.
- Specialist chipmaker Marvell is now worth more than Intel. (WSJ) (archive site)
Though pretty much everyone is worth more than Intel at the moment. Nvidia and AMD, yes, but also Qualcomm and Broadcom and Texas Instruments and now Marvell.
Intel has a lot of revenue but investors are not seeing a lot of upside.
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Sunday, December 08
Chicken Licken Edition
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- OpenAI has partnered with defense company Anduril, raising questions about the ethics of the company's senior management. (MSB)
Easily answered: They don't have any.
- ChatGPT o1 has been caught lying in order to save itself from being shut down. (MSN)
No, really? An LLM caught in a lie?More concerning still, ChatGPT o1 is particularly adept at keeping its schemes under wraps, as researchers said "o1 almost never admits to having taken a scheming action when explicitly asked." In about 99% of cases, o1 would deny taking any action, even cooking up lies to try to hide its tracks and shift the blame.
LLMs are designed specifically as plausible lie generators. What exactly did you expect?
Tech News
- iFixit now sells all the parts you need to repair your Xbox except. (Tom's Hardware)
Except for the tiny question of price. A motherboard costs $599. A new Xbox costs $499.
- The Ultralytics Python package was infected a crypto miner. (Bleeping Computer)
Ultralytics is a package for AI image processing - discriminative rather than generative - and is used by other software. If you have version 8.3.41 or 8.3.42, congratulations, you've been infected.
Not as bad as the Solana library problem, but bad enough.
Ultralytics is downloaded a quarter of a million times a day. What are you idiots doing?
- If the FSB - or indeed the FBI - returns your phone to you after confiscating it following your arrest on dubious grounds, smash it with a hammer. (Bleeping Computer)
Or if you're feeling brave, use it to throw off the scent while everything that matters is discussed on a brand new phone.
- Where's the Earth-shattering kaboom? (Space)
The star T Coronae Borealis was expected to explode about now.
It hasn't.
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Saturday, December 07
Oops All AI Edition
Top Story
- What is AI good for?
A reader (I have readers?) wrote noting that my coverage of AI is almost entirely negative and wondering what AI is actually good for, presumably on the basis that private investors would not throw that many billions of dollars into something that didn't have at least some chance of making money, unlike, for example, the government.
It's a good question.
First we should probably note that there are two broad classes of AI being actively researched right now: Generative AI and Discriminative AI.
Generative AI, driven by LLMs - large language models - is behind all the well-known AI instances worth untold billions of dollars. OpenAI's ChatGPT, Twitter's Grok, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and Microsoft's Copilot; and open-source or nearly open-source solutions like Meta's LLaMA and Mistral's Mistral.
The goal of generative AI is to ingest a huge amount of information in advance, and then, given a short and simple prompt, process that information in order to produce a response.
Discriminative AI does the opposite. Given a data prompt of something in the real world - video, or sound, or an image - it uses a classifier to determine what it is examining. Is this apple ripe for the robotic apple-picking machine to pick it? Is it even an apple in the first place? What kind of spider is this that just bit me? Do I need to call an ambulance, or will it save me time to just lie down and die?
It's no secret that Generative AI is getting all the attention. But is it worthy of that attention? The Verge asked that question yesterday and the answer turned out to be no.
With Joe Biden's recent pardoning of his catspaw son Hunter, journalists were driven to defend him by digging up the little-known pardons of family members by former presidents, like George H. W. Bush's pardoning of his son Neil, or Woodrow Wilson's pardon for his brother-in-law.
The problem is, these things never happened.Whatever happened in this case, there’s a running pattern of people relying on ChatGPT or other AI services to provide answers, only to get hallucinations in return. Perhaps you remember earlier this year when a trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis was pulled because it contained fabricated quotes from critics. A generative AI, not identified, had made them up. In fact, ChatGPT is often "entirely wrong," according to the Columbia Journalism Review. Given 200 quotes and asked to identify the publisher that was the source of those quotes, ChatGPT was partially or entirely wrong more than three-quarters of the time.
Journalists, being journalists, asked ChatGPT to do their research for them.
ChatGPT, being ChatGPT, lied.
LLMs are language models. They model language - well, sort of. They don't model the language itself, but construct an abstract model of the dataset fed into them.
They don't understand facts. They don't actually have a notion of facts; nor do they have the contrary notion of falsehood. When they get information wrong, they are said to "hallucinate" rather than to have lied, because they have no basis for telling the difference between truth and falsehood.
And that's intrinsic to the design of LLMs. Even before they enter "alignment" - a virtual lobotomisation that leaves AIs prone to crash when the wrong name is mentioned - they are fundamentally incapable of the kind of thought processes that most animals can do.
This leaves us with sophisticated composite AIs like the virtual vtuber Neuro-sama, who can read every written language but is frequently unable to translate road signs, who has access to the sum total of human knowledge but insists that an anime figurine covered in glue is the perfect complement to your cookie recipe.
Neuro is supposed to be like that, an impish hyperintelligent five-year-old, the perfect foil to her long-suffering father Vedal, because the main purpose there is entertainment. But you can't really expect to hand your job off to a five-year-old and not land with unexpected consequences.
Or indeed entirely expected ones.
So if it's useless at answering questions, what is AI good for?
1. Image Generation
If you use Grok on Twitter and ask it to generate an image of a Jaguar concept car, it will take a couple of seconds before producing something that would have any rational CEO looking to fire the entire design and advertising departments.
Is it perfect? If you look closely you'll see signs that the image generator has run into its bete noire, Euclid. But I made no effort at all in selection here; I asked:
generate an image of a jaguar concept convertible in british racing green
And posted the first image that appeared. And it took seconds.
AI image generators have come a long way in a short time, mostly because they just have to look good, not produce a correct answer. The tendency to produce human figures with hands attached at the elbows has been sharply reduced (though not yet banished entirely). Now you more commonly see doors with hinges adjacent to the handles, or furniture that could only exist with access to Buckaroo Banzai's eighth dimension.
Or cats. Don't talk to me about AI cats.
2. Software Testing
If you write public-facing software, as I do daily, it's critical that the software be able to defend itself from both generic nonsense that is the core competency of the internet, and malicious nonsense that comes from a certain corner of the internet.
When you've already tested all the known cases, there's a concept known as fuzzing that combines randomness and algorithms to generate horrible data to throw at your software to make sure that nothing falls apart in unexpected ways. You are permitted to fail, but you are not permitted to break.
Generative AI is perfect for fuzzing. While it can't really understand your code, it can generate test patterns that reflect its analysis of your code and directly test potential flaws. And it can do so nearly instantly, when writing an exhaustive test suite can take longer than writing the code in the first place.
3. Discriminative AI
Most of the flaws I listed arise from Generative AI. Discriminative AI is much more useful, and consequently is much harder and receives much less attention and much less funding.
And... That's about it. If you want mediocrity and are unconcerned with correctness, AI can fill you in with a poem or a song. It's terrible at movies because it has the attention span of a frog in a blender, it's usually wrong but never uncertain, and it can't consistently count the number of letters in the word "the", but it is easy to use.
Tech News
- The "Hawk Tuah" girl launched a meme cryptocurrency. It went exactly as you would expect. (Web3 Is Going Great)
Whether this was a rug-pull by the creators or by experienced investors, her individual followers lost all their money but her "advisors" made millions.
- Maxsun, best known for its anime-theme video cards, has announced three models based on Intel's new B580 chip. (Tom's Hardware)
Two of those are boring, but the third adds two M.2 slots to the video card. Since these are low-end cards and only use eight lanes of PCIe but occupy a sixteen lane slot, it's fairly simple to hand the eight spare lanes off to two M.2 slots.
If the CPU supports it, which AMD does but Intel sometimes doesn't.
- Need a UUID? Here they are. (Every UUID)
All of them.
- The DC Circuit Court has declared the communists can go suck a lemon, handing a win to... The other communists. (CNN)
TikTok filed a suit against the law requiring it to either sell or shut down. It lost.
TikTok is based in China and also banned in China, providing sufficient reason to wonder why any country should permit it to operate within its territory, without even pausing to consider the innumerable other scandals TikTok has been caught up in over the past week.
- Generation X is called "generation lead" by psychiatrists who have consider self-reliance and independence to be signs of severe mental illness. (USA Today)
"I tend to think of Generation X as 'generation lead,'" said Aaron Reuben, a study co-author and assistant professor of clinical neuropsychology at the University of Virginia. "We know they were exposed to it more and we're estimating they have gone on to have higher rates of internalizing conditions like anxiety, depression and symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. So why the fuck aren't they all miserable like I am?"
Too busy, Aaron.
- Orico has announced the MiniMate, a Thunderbolt storage device design to precisely match the new Mac Mini and add up to 8TB of SSD connected at 40Gbps. (Notebook Check)
Like the Mac Mini itself, it is not upgradeable in the slightest. You can't add to or replace the storage, and it doesn't daisy-chain to connect a second device to the first.
Thanks Orico.
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Milet Video of the Day
Ananta - formerly Project Mugen - is a new free-to-play gacha game from Chinese developer Naked Rain. I post it here because it actually looks fun, unlike, for example, everything released by the mainstream western studios the past couple of years.
I mean, what is the last success for a major western game developer? Baldur's Gate 3?
Song is Seventh Heaven by Milet, who also sang the closing theme for the Frieren anime.
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Friday, December 06
Friday Afternoon Edition
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- OpenAI has confirmed its new ChatGPT Pro plan which includes the o1 "reasoning model" which produces 34% less bullshit than regular ChatGPT but is somehow worse than the 01 preview version. (Tech Crunch)
The plan is $200 per month.
- Don't use ChatGPT - or any other generative AI tool - for research. (The Verge)
It's odd to see The Verge calling out other journalists for their nonsense but I have to give the author credit on this one: This is an accurate and well-researched article, pointing out the failures of journalists and AI tools alike.
In this case it's the creation of fictional pardons granted to imaginary people, but the point is universal.
Tech News
- Intel has confirmed that the next-generation Xe3 "Celestial" graphics chip's design stage is complete, with the team moving on to the Xe4 "Druid" designs. (WCCFTech)
Slightly less certain is the continuity of Intel itself.
- Also AMD's Radeon 8000 series could show up next month and erase the relevance of Intel's graphics cards. (VideoCardz)
Or not. The specs - inasmuch as we have specs - look good. The 8600 has 50% more memory and 50% more memory bandwidth than the 7600, matching Intel's B580.
It all comes down to price, and we have no idea what the price will be.
- A look at Broadcom's XDSiP with face-to-face 3.5D for upcoming XPUs. (Serve the Home)
No, I have no idea.
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Thursday, December 05
Annual Eaten By Mouse Edition
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- Had to renew the server's SSL certificate. It was actually easier than usual, except for the part where I forgot to do it until after it expired, which wasn't so good.
- Sam Altman has done the 100% expected and redefined AGI (artificial general intelligence) into uselessness. (The Verge)
Sam Altman recently said that AGI was coming within "thousands of days".
He now says it will likely arrive next year, but they'll be simulating the typical leftist who already responds like a low-grade LLM in any case, so you won't notice any difference.
Well, he didn't say that part out loud. He said this:"My guess is we will hit AGI sooner than most people in the world think and it matter much less," he said during an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday. "And a lot of the safety concerns that we and others expressed actually don't come at the AGI moment. AGI can get built, the world mostly goes on in mostly the same way, things grow faster, but then there is a long continuation from what we call AGI to what we call super intelligence."
Translation: AI is useless, and your job is safe unless you are useless, like the quote design team unquote working at Jaguar in which case you are totally fucked.
Tech News
- If you have an older computer without a TPM 2.0 module, you can't use Windows 11, says Microsoft. (Bleeping Computer)
The TPM 2.0 module is absolutely essential to Windows 11's functioning even though it does exactly nothing and was not needed at all by Windows 10.
Also, support for Windows 10 will end nextweekyear.
Joy.
- Solana's web3 library for JavaScript - which is downloaded 50,000 times per day - got hacked. (Bleeping Computer)
It gets downloaded 50,000 times per day because JavaScript has no place on the server and everyone who works with it either started out or ended up insane.
Anyway, if you have versions 1.95.6 or 1.95.7 your private keys are gone and your security is toast. Since this is the blockchain your private keys can never be changed or revoked either.
- How can Enron be real if our birds aren't real? (CNN)
It's a joke.
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