In my neck of the woods it's fairly common that when a person doesn't know how to help you they just don't reply, instead of saying "I don't know how to help, sorry". AI-generated responses seem like the evolution of this attitude that one must either ignore or respond in a (superficially) helpful manner.

I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation.

You're right that they're using a harness like everyone else. The general idea of giving the model a harness is not going to change. I mean even humans need harnesses to accomplish some things.

Then I see a solution! Why don't we simply put the entire company on one big team?

Maybe that's the best one can do when describing something very new and strange. A series of vivid, incompatible metaphors might be the best guide for a while. "Intelligence" as we normally understand it is a significant overstatement, while "parrot" is a massive understatement.

> mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breaths life into ideas both old and new. The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others. All of us have clear understanding of a few things and murky concepts of many more. There is no way to run out of ideas in need of clarification.

Yes! And this applies to all human culture, not just math. Everything people have figured out needs to be in living form to carried on. The more people the better. If math, or any product of human skill, is only recorded in papers or videos, that isn't the same as having millions of people understanding it in their own ways.

Modern culture often emphasizes innovation and fails to value mere maintenance, tradition, and upkeep. This can lead to people like the OP feeling that they have nothing to contribute, when actually, just learning math, being able to do it, being able to help others learn it - all of these are contributions.

We are all needed to keep civilization afloat, in ways we cannot anticipate. We all need to pursue some kind of excellence just to keep human culture alive.

I agree it's weird but ultimately the check against dumb lending is natural consequences for the lender, right? If you ask me for billions in loans for your zero revenue company and I give it to you, whose problem is that but my own?

When the author says we cannot truly observe infinity, what does that mean? Infinity is a mathematical symbol we can observe. We can't observe infinitely many objects, but even if we could, it wouldn't be the same as observing infinity. You can't observe the number one by observing one stone.

I think there is some confusion in this article between symbols and what they can stand for, and I can't help but wonder if that same confusion is at the root of ideas like ultrafinitism.

Not that I am remotely interested in defending Meta, or optimistic that they would proactively address privacy issues. But I don't feel that sympathetic to the outsourcing company here either.

I don't know what happened behind the scenes. I'm just going off what is said and not said in the article. If I were whistleblowing about something like this, I would take pains to describe what measures I took internally before going public. I didn't see any of that here.

EDIT: Look, to be clear, I think it's bad that naive or uninformed people are buying video recorders from Meta and unintentionally having their private lives intruded on by a company that, based on its history, clearly can't be trusted to be a helpful, transparent partner to customers on privacy. I think it's good that the media is giving people a reminder of this. I think it's good that the sources said something, even though the consequences they suffered seem inevitable. But to me, there is nothing essentially new to be learned here, and I don't know what can or should be done to improve the situation. I think for now, the best thing for people to do is not buy Meta hardware if they have any desire for privacy. Maybe there are laws that could help, but what should be in the laws exactly? It's not obvious to me what would work. I suspect that some of the reason people buy these products is for data capture, and that will sometimes lead to sensitive stuff being recorded. What should the rules be around this and who should decide? Personally I don't know.

Is this a practical viewpoint? Can you remove any of the specific architectural tricks used in Transformers and expect them to work about equally well?

Or is the idea that SQL is such a great language to write in that a lot of people will be thrilled to do their ggplots in this SQL-like language?

EDIT: OK, after looking at almost all of the documentation, I think I've finally figured it out. It's a standalone visualization app with a SQL-like API that currently has backends for DuckDB and SQLite and renders plots with Vegalite. They plan to support more backends and renderers in the future. As a commenter below said, it's supposed to help SQL specialists who don't know Python or R make visualizations.

AI 2027 predicted a giant model with the ability to accelerate AI research exponentially. This isn't happening.

AI 2027 didn't predict a model with superhuman zero-day finding skills. This is what's happening.

Also, I just looked through it again, and they never even predicted when AI would get good at video games. It just went straight from being bad at video games to world domination.