They are unfortunately the most common example of (subjectively) bad immigration policies seen first-hand among tech folks in the West (I.e. people likely to be on HN). The parent was obviously referring to this fact sarcastically. It's a tech trope.
> But letting anybody do anything that would benefit them is of course not reasonable.
Who is talking about letting anybody do anything? The parent is talking about people working in tech as a means of upwards mobility. Is that not reasonable?
There is a good definition of intelligence. It's what intelligence tests measure. If you define it like that, you can make harder tests, but as long as both humans and AIs can attempt to solve them we have measure and something to compare.
Consciousness though might be fully illusory and meaningless as many philosophical concepts before ultimately turned out to be.
eh, momentum has a pretty rigorous definition and it's possible to define it qualitatively. perhaps a better example would have been hardness, where A is harder than B when it scratches B in a test. but it's borderline, and quite a bit different from true circular reasoning
test X measures I(x)
I(x) is defined as the thing test X measures.
Therefore test X measures the pre-existing psychological trait intelligence.
There was no pre-existing trait called intelligence to measure.
The was just a vague idea that some people might have a bit more of some underspecified general quality but there never was any good idea what exactly that might be. So making a test that measures something correlated with outcomes that people associate with this nebulous pre-existing idea of intelligence is honest and fair stab at something that eluded our grasp for millennia.
Intelligence as people were talking about it before we created intelligence tests is something like atoms of Democritus. And IQs are atoms as we mesured them today.
10 years ago the Us had enough global leadership to actually influence the world and at the very least stop China. It’s amazing, and sad, how quickly it’s thrown it all away.
Tourism and travel is 10% of global GDP, or about 10 trillion dollars. And it's not the only sector where translation between languages is a benefit. However, I am not sure that the trillions of dollars of value from LLM translation in the coming few years will translate into trillions of dollars of income for the AI companies.
Commercial grade translation between dozens of languages would take enormous amounts of disk space.
But we'll see. Text editing tools are included on all digital devices, yet companies pay for commercial solutions like MS Office. Cameras and basic image editing tools are included on all smart phones, yet there are millions of advertising agencies around the world. And so on.
LLM frontier companies are more akin to infrastructure like chips and airplanes and the internet than applications built on top of it. There will be products built on top of them that generate revenue.
eg. processors are needed for everything on the planet. No Intel isn't going to generate annual revenue in the trillions because of that. In the case of frontier companies the moat is even smaller with dozens of players competing. LLMs will become a low-cost commodity. You meanwhile can make billions building applications using them though.
1.4 also adds a lot of features so its more than a port. Plus Claude Code has been using the rust port since atleast July 19. So its definitely less than 3 months.
Or, more likely, the amount of crappy auto generated code and “features” they crammed into this release resulted in so many bugs that a “simple rewrite” would up being 3 months of whack-a-mole with the issues they created. That’s the predictable result from the lack of engineering discipline involved here.
Claude Code has millions of users and like I said had been using the 1.4 canary a lot earlier than 3 months. But even 3 months is an absurdly impressive timeline for this. And its even more insane to think LLMs are only going to get better. Jeez.
Huh Tata is the best selling EV manufacturer in India.
Their new Chery tieup is utilizing the Freelander architecture from the Chery and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) joint venture in China instead of a pricier internal or JLR roadmap. Remember they own JLR.
Edit: no-one is upset by what you said lmao cmon. Just clarify what you are really trying to say.