Wow bad idea. Domain specific models simply don’t work. Ever. You should not be using some shoddy 3M model for medical purposes when you can spend just a few dollars extra and get GPT that is miles and miles better. The local language value proposition is also exaggerated.

This article keeps repeating the lie that network is hard to find in India and that local models win. This is on the face ridiculous to anyone who has been to India. Almost everyone has access to a smartphone with 4g connection. What they don’t have is the ability to afford a phone that can run a good model. Why would I as a poor farmer in India, use an extremely underpowered 3B model on my 100 dollar smartphone when I can use the free version of ChatGPT that is miles ahead in every dimension?

My 1000 dollar iPhone can barely run Gemma 4 which is hardly usable for serious questions anyway.

I do get the need for Indian ecosystem to build internal competency so that when the time comes they are prepared. But for now pursuing a distillation attack strategy like China looks better. Or have companies that specialise in integration locally - something big model companies don’t have expertise in.

You get comments like "violence is bad but we would not have $x if not for violence" and then you get to justify violence for any pet cause they have.

I expect to see more of this until it dies down because of how ridiculous the premise is.

It is * exactly * the same as a person who spent years perfecting hand written HTML, just to face the wrath of React.

But messagebird is another example.

What if this new model can start proving Millenial problems and provide insights in other fields that was not possible before?

My intuition says that a model that is as good will also be equally well aligned -- but it is still highly risky to give it to the general public because all you need is one jailbreak from bad actors.

At that point I think society would change so dramatically that "access to general public" would be a non issue. Rather, time would be spent on making abundance happen - you might think of the political struggles, economics and new ventures.

Its a bit sad that democratised access is not provided because of negative sum possibilities like cybersecurity.

How would anthropic increase future profits without satisfying customers?

It is not in the interests for Anthropic to screw its customer base. Running a frontier lab comes with tradeoffs between training, inference and other areas.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717587

And here we learn that Mythos is not a big deal. Are there people who believe both?

One day I hear it is all a marketing pitch, another day I hear it can literally end earth so it should be regulated.

How do I reconcile this?

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