"Facebook is not a person. Facebook should not have "rights" nor "political views"."
In the USA, the supreme court has ruled a corporation DOES in fact have rights. Like the lawsuit of advertising medicine that a state banned-- the SC ruled that was infringing the rights of corporations to "express" their speech.
As someone from UK, I find this whole "Corporations have more rights than I do" very disturbing but thats how it is
That's why I write "should" and not "does". And in the UK and the EU, corporations also have more rights than they should (according to my worldview anyway). I think you should find the UK and EU laws disturbing in the same way as the USA's. Corporations also have way less liabilities (example: imagine if you could deduct your "operating expenses" (e.g. food) from your taxes, in the same way corporations do) and face way less penalties for their misdeeds than you do, which a bigger problem.
I thought I'd give his podcast a listen a while back because it's good to keep an open mind.
Halfway through one episode, he mentioned his contact in the industry who was telling him about how the agents are actually useless and people have to do all this cleanup work to use the output they generate, and of course Ed promised his audience that's the entire industry and that the collapse was imminent.
That was right at the moment that the models were getting so good that we could "one shot" an issue.
I knew then and there this guy was hot air and I never took him seriously since.
> I knew then and there this guy was hot air and I never took him seriously since.
He's definitely not a software guy, and has been dead wrong on the software use-cases for LLMs. They are really, really bad in most other areas though (because we haven't built decent harnesses for broader "knowledge work").
We'll get there, but it'll take a decade or two. My plan is to ride this wave into retirement/death/immanence of the machine god, whichever comes first.
I've seen a lot of his interviews and he often makes two arguments:
1. LLMs are not fit for purpose and aren't nearly as useful as people say.
2. It is literally impossible for OpenAI and Anthropic to generate enough profits in the next decade for them to fulfill all of their obligations and return money to investors.
I agree that the first one is sometimes iffy, but even if you think LLMs will replace x% of white collar work by 2030, the second point remains.
"I'm finding these LLM announcements to be pretty meaningless. They all look the same, with different numbers and graphs, even though the graphs are almost all identical."
How dare you, sir/ma'am! the LLM spent a whole 0.9 tokens creating the numbers and graphs!!
Tried to read article-- hundreds of cookie choices all selected by default. literally, "cookie A, shared with 400 partners, cookie b shared with 100" etc etc
What a whiny blog, just press the dictation button on your keyboard to have direct dictation capabilities without any rewriting. If you don't want this AI-based rewriting, just don't use it.
"Within Microsoft’s cloud and AI sector, monthly AI spending limits have reportedly been slashed from $100,000 per employee to approximately $10,000 in the majority of instances."
And what were they doing with $100,000/month? I'd really like to know.
They did the same thing in India/ There were student protests that were widely covered by Western media (and the students did have a valid concern, I dont want to downplay that)
The problem is when Indian Prime Minister posted a video asking for calm, that was blocked by Meta.
Pushing one side/narrative is something western media companies like BBC and CNN do a lot, and now it seems Meta has joined the party.
In the USA, the supreme court has ruled a corporation DOES in fact have rights. Like the lawsuit of advertising medicine that a state banned-- the SC ruled that was infringing the rights of corporations to "express" their speech.
As someone from UK, I find this whole "Corporations have more rights than I do" very disturbing but thats how it is
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