Sunday, February 18
Daily News Stuff 18 February 2024
Final Offer Edition
Yeah, twelve twenty twenty-four hours of it.
Plus Canadian bonus lawyer:
Final Offer Edition
Top Story
- I can fail to do it for just $1 billion.
Chip architect Jim Keller - involved in the creation of AMD's Athlon, Hammer, and Zen CPUs, DEC's Alpha, and Apple's A4 and A5 cores - told Sam Altman that he could achieve OpenAI's chip production dreams for one seventh of their budget. (Tom's Hardware)
Which to be fair is still $1 trillion, or as much as the entire industry spends on new chip factories in ten years.
Tech News
- Two Q1 PCs were found intact in a box by a cleaning company in England. (Tom's Hardware)
The Q1 PC is little known, but it was one of the first ever personal computers.
Introduced in 1972 - four years before the Apple I, two years before the S-100 bus - it was powered by an Intel 8008 and 16k of RAM.
- Reddit has reportedly signed a licensing deal to hand its content to an AI company. (Mashable)
This is the real reason Reddit killed its API.
No details yet on who or how much.
- Representation Engineering Mistral-7B an Acid Trip. (Vgel is Me)
That might be somewhat hard to parse, but the article discusses, in detail, how to make an LLM (specifically here the open-source Mistral) act as if it were on drugs.
Or merely very depressed.
- On the other end of the scale, a new AI chatbot called Goody-2 follows such strict ethical rules that it refuses to discuss anything at all. (Tech Crunch)
This is art.
Everything You Never Really Wanted to Know About the Nijisanji Train Wreck and Didn't Ask Explained in Excruciating Detail by a Former Corporate Lawyer Videos - Plural - of the Day
Yeah, twelve twenty twenty-four hours of it.
Plus Canadian bonus lawyer:
And a sad rabbit reacting to the lawyer reacting to Nijisanji:
Plus a detour into WACTOR, which is somehow even worse:
Disclaimer: I do not understand why everything in this script must inevitably explode.
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