This is a very tech-focused message board, populated by mostly tech-insiders, so perhaps a little outside perspective will help people understand.
Tech people are following a religious belief system whose utopian promise is the all-powerful computer that will end all suffering. I once read an article in reason magazine from over 30 years ago about how an advanced computer in the future will bring everyone who has ever lived back from the deat and let them live in paradise. They were completely serious. Atheists reading this may object to my description of the tech belief system as religious, but I believe it is accuarte. The idea that tech is an imrpovement and will improve people's lives is believed as an act of faith. Tech has its own moral systems based on some form of libertarian progressivism. And in the future, through the inevitable scientific magic of exponential something, a computer will ascend to godhood and judge all mankind for their actions before allowing some into eternal paradise.
To what extent any of this is true is up for debate, but most west coast tech elite are actively working towards this future, and these are the ideas that drive them. It's hard to talk to them about it because this is their woldview, and they imagine everyone to believe what they do.
Thank you, that's fair feedback. I'm a full-stack swe, not a designer, so I used Claude to help get to a clean and functional UI. As the product matures, I'll probably invest more time in developing a stronger visual identity. I really appriciate your feedback. Thanks again.
It is impressive how well they've scheduled all their releases, posts, and other news to dominate the tech news cycle almost every day in this pre-IPO phase.
Yes! Install it and you get a live view of where every session's tokens come from — system prompt, each tool's inputs and outputs, the tool schemas, etc.
Would love to see how smaller distilled models perform with this agent enabled.
Frontier models already had all the Q/A in their training dataset and there's not much activity there anymore so very little use for searching new Q/A.
I remember search being excellent about 10-15 years back. Does anybody know what ruined it?
I find it hard to Google stuff anymore, the AI helps even if it has a tendency to be wrong/inaccurate 20-25% of the time. It's pretty helpful when I'm asking a question that has a binary answer.
Tesla still has the benefit of selling actual cars and being a profitable company, plus they’re already in all the important index funds receiving automatic investment.
SpaceX doesn’t really have those advantages from day one.
Tesla may be overvalued but I think the stock would have been negatively impacted if they spent the two years losing money.
But generally, that seems like a lot of power to be able to exclude yourself from an archive machine. Gotta ask yourself why they would want to have it removed.
You jest but I agree. Also I think the "stochastic" arguments is getting old. What if XML was stochastic? Does it matter if it is "stochastic" or does it matter if it is correct?
You know my compiler generates a different binary every time I compile the exact same code. My CPU definitely is not fully deterministic yet it makes a nice show of it being so. I don't care and nobody cares as long as it works. And what "works" means exactly is quite a bit more involved than parroting "determinism".
The monarchy simultaneously has zero power and all the power.
In the sense that it is the entity in whose name the government acts on behalf of the people: it's the representation of the state.
In principle, the monarch could refuse royal assent. In practice, if it did, the entire unwritten constitutional convention that preserves it would collapse.
So in practice, the monarch is the head of state in the same way that the Irish or Israeli presidencies are: it's non-executive, with relatively little indirect influence. "My government will" means "the government will". A formality.
You realize there will be people on the other end wanting and/or being forced to buy buy buy right? They aren't selling into a vacuum.
People seem to have a weak grasp on how supply and demand dynamics actually work in a market. Price doesn't magically plummet; people need to agree to buy and sell at a given price.
It's a tricky problem for sure. Even on CPUs this separation is maintained by architectural guardrails. The CPU will happily execute whatever it is permitted to fetch. There is and cannot be a fundamental divide betwixt the two. It's always going to be an artificial externally managed issue. I suppose this is no different for LLMs.
My thinking is we are in the 50s/60s. Stuff is starting to come forward, it's all very exciting but very, very raw. I don't think this will last.
The notions of "tokens" and how inference works will become arcane insider knowledge like how CPU registers and interrupts work. You don't work with CPUs, you work with "computers" and even then mostly "operating systems" or even "browsers". Reality has been abstracted away from you to a very impressive degree. I don't think it'll be different here, but we haven't had our Xerox PARC and Bell Labs moments yet.
College roommate worked for nvidia and cashed out last year and retired in his early 50s. Tens of millions in cash. After tax too. Am I jealous? Hell yes.
It was only a few years ago people were saying Tesla was going to own the entire car market, and everyone else would go out of business. The Cybertruck was going to be the best selling car of all time, the insurance business was going to be a massive money maker etc.
They are moving at breakneck speed deploying on scales most of us can't even imagine. They are working in a space that's completely unexplored where getting information as quickly as possible is preferred above iterating on some feature until it's "done" while your competitor has released fifteen other features, all sucky, but one of which turns out to be a killer and makes a billion bucks overnight.
In theory they still do. I can't imagine giving up weeks of battery life for wondering whether it's going to last through the day but apple/galaxy watch buyers see differently by a massive margin
I think we’re also approaching the point where AI model development provides diminishing returns. Both personally and professionally I’ve found the higher tier models to be overkill for my goals and detrimental to my usage caps - so I don’t really use them.
This actually gives me hope that locally hosted LLMs like those on HuggingFace may simply get to the point where normal people and businesses have what they need.
Small benefit in the face of the expanding panopticon, but there may be a ceiling for investment.
I'm not a web developer. I built a few websites in high school, but these days I write safety-critical real-time code for robots.
A few years ago I was back in grad school and I took a class with undergrad senior CS students. We had to write a fairly simple web service, and I was blown away by how complicated they were making it. Based on the requirements we easily could have written 90% of it in plain HTML, but everyone else insisted it should be 100% react. Part of that is honors students wanting to do everything the most complex way possible to impress teacher, and part of it is them simply not knowing that other options exist.
Yeah cause all these frontier labs totally followed all relevant copyright and ip protection laws, so of course they'll follow your little contract, and what will be the consequences when it turns out they lied (again)? Oh maybe a fine, something fair like 0.5% of profits, can't make it too high or too anti business.
Tech people are following a religious belief system whose utopian promise is the all-powerful computer that will end all suffering. I once read an article in reason magazine from over 30 years ago about how an advanced computer in the future will bring everyone who has ever lived back from the deat and let them live in paradise. They were completely serious. Atheists reading this may object to my description of the tech belief system as religious, but I believe it is accuarte. The idea that tech is an imrpovement and will improve people's lives is believed as an act of faith. Tech has its own moral systems based on some form of libertarian progressivism. And in the future, through the inevitable scientific magic of exponential something, a computer will ascend to godhood and judge all mankind for their actions before allowing some into eternal paradise.
To what extent any of this is true is up for debate, but most west coast tech elite are actively working towards this future, and these are the ideas that drive them. It's hard to talk to them about it because this is their woldview, and they imagine everyone to believe what they do.