quiggy posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo

Jonny 290 posted:

what do we think about ipfs

in a well actually posted:

my impression was that twitter was not a particularly big customer of gcp and that it was their trust and safety stuff from an acquisition

on the other hand who knows what counts as a big gcp customer anymore

maybe elon got a heads up on this from sergey’s wife during pillow talk

fart simpson posted:

if you had invested in nasdaq at the height of the first tech bubble, it would have taken you something like 12 years for it to rise back up and earn your nominal money back

fart simpson posted:

you saved $40k by cutting back on coffee?! how much coffee do you drink

echinopsis posted:

has anyone said nasdank yet

quote:

The regulatory agency, which is led by Big Tech critic Chair Lina Khan, also alleged the company’s leadership slowed or rejected changes that made canceling the subscription easier.

It said those patterns were in violation of the FTC Act and another law called the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act.

Launched in 2005, Prime has more than 200 million members worldwide who pay $139 a year, or $14.99 a month, for faster shipping and other perks, such as free delivery and returns.

In a news release announcing the lawsuit, the FTC said though its complaint is significantly redacted, it contains “a number of allegations” that backs up its accusations against Amazon.

It also accused the company of attempting to hinder the agency’s investigation into Prime, which began in 2021, in several instances.

“Amazon tricked and trapped people into recurring subscriptions without their consent, not only frustrating users but also costing them significant money,” Khan said in a statement. “These manipulative tactics harm consumers and law-abiding businesses alike.”

LanceHunter posted:

Never heard of the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act. This could be interesting.

qirex posted:

they're not exploits they're just very specific prompts that lead to powerful outcomes

they're spells, we've reinvented magic spells

qirex posted:

they're not exploits they're just very specific prompts that lead to powerful outcomes

they're spells, we've reinvented magic spells

Beeftweeter posted:

some of them are pretty interesting, like inserting escape characters or language switching

but this part was kinda funny (sorry for the screenshot but it looks like the disabled the clipboard on the pdf)

armpit_enjoyer posted:

Wait, am I reading this correctly? Daily financial loss of less than $300? Why is that a problem?

armpit_enjoyer posted:

Wait, am I reading this correctly? Daily financial loss of less than $300? Why is that a problem?

rotor posted:

do you like losing $9k/month?

haveblue posted:

wait, there are companies that let you make free queries against a pay api? what did they think would happen?

armpit_enjoyer posted:

anyway, the lesson here is together we can bankrupt an ai startup. together, we can cause problems on purpose

dioxazine posted:

not cause problems! create solutions

Beeftweeter posted:

https://twitter.com/PhilKomarny/status/1669301379981246464

can't wait for microsoft to shove GPT into literally everything

armpit_enjoyer posted:

anyway, the lesson here is together we can bankrupt an ai startup. together, we can cause problems on purpose

matt levine posted:

Business idea

For a while in the 2010s, arguably the most lucrative business model in the world was “get a guy who can flatter Masayoshi Son and let him just go nuts and bring back billions of dollars of SoftBank financing.” This was basically WeWork’s business model, and while it didn’t necessarily work out great for WeWork in the long run, it did work out great for Adam Neumann, WeWork’s founder and fundraiser and Masa-flatterer.

But now it is 2023, we are in the early stages of an artificial intelligence boom, and obviously the best possible business model is “get an AI chatbot who can flatter Masayoshi Son.” The Wall Street Journal reports:

SoftBank Group Chief Executive Masayoshi Son says he has rekindled his appetite for investing in technology by talking with ChatGPT in the wee hours about ideas for inventions that the bot validated as wonderful.

Son, 65 years old, told shareholders Wednesday that the artificial-intelligence tool helped revive his spirits after he had been driven to tears by the sense he was nearing the end of his career without having pursued his dreams. …

He said he used ChatGPT every day for brainstorming and has come up with more than 600 ideas. He described one lengthy exchange—at around 3 to 4 in the morning—in which he pitched an idea and then answered the AI chatbot as it raised objections.

“After we repeated this several dozen times, I really felt great because my idea was praised as feasible and wonderful,” he said.

I hope the chatbot told him that it appreciated how he was crazy, but that he needed to be crazier. I feel like there are a lot of people in the world who would be happy to tell Masayoshi Son that his ideas are feasible and wonderful — whole industries were built on the basic premise of telling Masayoshi Son what he wanted to hear — but there are only so many robots in the world who will tell him that, and now he is looking for robots. Presumably somebody is building more of those robots; it would be silly not to.

Chris Knight posted:

post hole digger posted:

i wouldnt want to lose $300 every day.

rotor posted:

i have no idea what the context here is i just love 2 post

haveblue posted:

wait, there are companies that let you make free queries against a pay api? what did they think would happen?

Sapozhnik posted:

if we waste anymore time on "Masayoshi Toku," we'll be bankrupt by the end of the month!

quote:

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Instead of comparing AI's intelligence to humans, Suleyman proposes tasking a bot with short-term goals and tasks that it can complete with little human input in a process known as "artificial capable intelligence," or ACI.

To achieve ACI, Suleyman says AI bots should pass a new Turing test in which it receives a $100,000 seed investment and has to turn it into $1 million. As part of the test, the bot must research an e-commerce business idea, develop a plan for the product, find a manufacturer, and then sell the item.

He expects AI to achieve this milestone in the next two years.
...

Pile Of Garbage posted:

one of the most asinine and facile things ive read in quite some time: AI Leader Proposes a New Kind of Turing Test for Chatbots

truly astonishing

Pile Of Garbage posted:

one of the most asinine and facile things ive read in quite some time: AI Leader Proposes a New Kind of Turing Test for Chatbots

truly astonishing