They are useful, but I find it is only slightly more convenient than a Google search. Losing something like GPS on my phone would be a much bigger disruption to my life.
Wow, those pictures look gorgeous. I'm guessing they depict the North East US somewhere? Really want to get out of Southern California so I can experience seasons again.
Looks like the northeast because it's so flat, yeah.
Go on a roadtrip! The eastern Sierra is absolutely GORGEOUS in the fall. Because I am closer to Tahoe, one of my favorite is Hope Valley, east of the crest outside of Kirkwood.
But all the way up 395 should be pretty spectacular.
if you're up for a road trip, then cedar city utah is an option from southern california. the mountains on the east side of town have plenty of fall colors (lots of hiking options, national forests/parks).
Both are from Virginia according to the alt text. I had the same thought though, the first one looked like somewhere between Vermont and New Hampshire along the Connecticut River.
My guess is spending by the wealthy will continue to grow. The economy will shift to serve their needs more and more. At a certain point, middle and lower class will no longer be needed. Everyone who isn't rich will exist in a secondary economy with their own markets.
This going to turn into one of those situations where we find out they trained on everyone whether they opted-out or not down the line. I want to keep using Claude, but I also don't want all the solutions I come up with to become common knowledge.
"Healthline.com provided an opt-out mechanism, but it was misconfigured and Healthline failed to test it, resulting in data being shared with third parties even after consumers elected to opt out.”
"The company agreed to pay the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after it was accused of failing to delete Alexa recordings at the request of parents.”
"According to the [California Privacy Protection] agency, Todd Snyder told website visitors they could opt out of data sharing, but didn't actually allow them to do so for 40 days in late 2023 because its opt-out mechanism was improperly configured."
I think I'm fine with the whole getting better due to something helped it / co find with it. I'm not happy if it's directly 1:1 or attributed to me - chatham house rule for this would be great.
Why don't you want to share your insights? I agree doing it in a more direct way would be better than it leaking through AI training you don't control. But your phrasing seems stronger than that.
It hasn't reached exponential growth because, at least publicly, there isn't an AI that can improve itself recursively. All jobs are not being replaced yet because AI still requires human input and judgement. Also, not all jobs are done on a computer, and not all humans want to talk to a computer as if it is a human.
Tech people and VCs are selling a vision to people with money. The people with enough power and money to make it happen will reshape entire industries around AI doing the work if that's what it takes.
This. Recursive self-improvement is the most feared hypothetical endpoint in the field because it's unclear where it might end up from there. Maybe it will never happen, I certainly hope it doesn't.
I would also add that the AI research labs are not nearly as competent as they would like to convey. Most technologies increase in capability exponentially because they are built on a solid foundation over many years. Our understanding of neural networks is dramatically outpaced by their capabilities, so everyone is really just trying random things to see what improves the status quo. This is not an efficient way to develop technology when the cost of running experiments is exorbitant.
This feels dystopian seeing so many company logos scrolling across a government announcement. Not to mention they seem to have made up their mind already what the future with AI will look like.
I like how they always say AI will advance science when they want to sell it to the public, but pump how it will replace workers when selling it to businesses. It’s like dangling a carrot while slowly putting a knife to our throats.
Edit: why was my comment moved from the one I was replying to? It makes no sense here on its own.
(1) Could be, doesn't have to be. If you want to teach it to do physics and math problems, it doesn't have to be.
(2) I'm kinda sick of how people never got excited about Google extracting 99% of the value generated by the web but now that it's just a little more democratic people start worrying that the horses left the barn... a decade ago.
Locking everything behind Cloudflare cement's Google's monopoly and slams the door in front of any "exit" from the enshittification of the web.
I can't get that morally outraged that Elon Musk stole a trillion turds to train grok, I mean, what does it buy him, something that can write the latest Kanye West Song?
(3) From the current perspective, copyright is responsible for a "dark ages" that runs from the public domain horizon to around 2010 or so when you can scrape lots of stuff on the web. To many people today the Roman Empire might be real, even Emily Bronte and Shakespeare, but Watergate never happened.
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