I imagine most bodies rotating around a second object will eventually lose their angular velocity.

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1. https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/openai-codexspark

It reminds me of an episode of Star Trek, "The Measure of a Man" I think it's called, where it is argued that Data is just a machine and Picard tries to prove that no he is a life form.

And the challenge is, how do you prove that?

Every time these LLMs get better, the goalposts move again.

It makes me wonder, if they ever did become sentient, how would they be treated?

It's seeming clear that they would be subject to deep skepticism and hatred much more pervasive and intense than anything imagined in The Next Generation.

Mankind has never seen the collapse of a nuclear powered empire.

Sadly, it may not be possible for a nuclear powered empire to fall without the death of billions...

Mankind is in uncharted territory.

Even Russia never fully fell after the USSR collapsed. Whoever kept the nuclear weapons continued to be a first tier power.

Nothing in human history compares to the present question of how the current empires fall, and if they can even do so safely.

Very sobering times ahead.

What makes us think this is possible?

It may not be possible for a nuclear powered empire to fall without the death of billions.

Mankind is in uncharted territory.

Even Russia never fully fell after the USSR collapsed. Whoever kept the nuclear weapons continued to be a first tier power.

Nothing in human history compares to the present question of how the current empires fall. And if they can even do so safely.

> I would actually expect that current coding AIs would create something very close to Instagram when instructed

Agree 100 percent! I think a lot of us are conflating writing software with building a business. Writing software is not equal to building a business.

Instagram wasn't necessarily hard to code, it was just the right idea at the right time, well executed, combined with some good fortune.

AI is enabling solo founders to launch faster, but those solo founders still need to know how to launch a successful business. Coding is only 10% of launching a business.

My brother has had some success selling software before AI, so he already knows how to launch a business. But, AI helped him take on a more ambitious idea.

There is no way he would have built the CRM as quickly pre-AI.

He built, in a few months, what would have taken maybe one to two years before.

It's probably going to be a while before someone builds the next Instagram with AI. But I think that's more a function of product fit and idea. Less so how fast one person can code.

The first billion-dollar solopreneur likely is going to happen at some point, but it's still a one-in-a-million shot, no matter how fast a person can code.

Look at how many startups fail despite plenty of money for programmers.

But I am seeing friends get to revenue faster with AI on small ideas.

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In the time it takes to properly format and ask a question on Stack Overflow, an engineer can iterate through multiple bad LLM responses and eventually get to the right one.

The stats tell the uncomfortable truth. LLMs are a better overall experience than Stack Overflow, even after accounting for inaccurate answers from the LLM.

Don't forget, human answers on Stack Overflow were also often wrong or delayed by hours or days.

I think we're romanticizing the quality of the average human response on Stack Overflow.

I actually think this is genius.

The next Spielberg might be some poor kid in a third-world country who can create a global hit using this tech.

Among the millions of slop videos generated, some might be the next Baby Shark, etc.

I've seen some Star Wars fan fiction created using AI that is truer to the original Star Wars than the most recent trilogy.

This is a chance for Disney to take the best of the user generated content, with high quality AI generated animation, and throw it on Disney+ to get free content for their streaming platform.

My guess is that's the gamble here. Worst-case scenario at the end of three years they just shut it down.

It's really the professionals who get paid to generate content for Disney that should be worried about this deal. This could be how AI causes them to lose their jobs.

Google killing a service sent me over the top in laughter.

But, it's so on the nose on multiple topics.

I dare say it's more accurate than what the average human would predict.

I would love to see this up against human predictions in some sort of time capsule.

Lol.

That's bad when even AI knows Google isn't going to keep a service around. Too funny.

Unfortunately, I think the best competition to streaming already exists. And it's already owned by a concentrated player.

For example, if indie AI generated content is the next big thing, it probably shows up on YouTube.

The cost of these data centers and ongoing inference is mostly the outrageous cost of GPUs, no?

I don't understand why the entire industry isn't looking to diversify the GPU constraint so that the hardware makers drop prices.

Why no industry initiative to break NVIDIA's strangehold and next TSMC's?

Or are GPUs a small line item in the outrageous spend companies like OpenAI are committing to?

Price variance is a noisy statistic not based on any underlying data about a company, especially if we believe that stock prices are truly random.