Super nice to be able to finally have voice mode search stuff in the background. The more conservational vibe is also a nice touch. The real game-changer we're all waiting on, though, is being able to vibecode/deeply interact with an OS through voice mode. Until then voice mode will continue to be a niche, interesting product. Once that's implemented, though, it will be one of the most important technologies available. There's a lot of people I know that don't use a lot of the frontier capabilities of AI right now because of the required typing interface. Once that's changed and you can interact with these capabilities through voice mode (and ideally on your phone) I definitely see them and lots of people like them becoming big users of AI.

athyuttamre is a coward if he doesn't answer this

The interesting thing about models this small is they should be able to be put on a single Taalas chip (the HC1 already runs a Llama 3.1 8B model). We're already at the point where half-decent reasoning could be run on an ASIC (and at mind-boggling speeds).

Yeah, if they can fit an 8B model that's really good at improving the output by thinking, running at 16K tok/s on Taalas would be mind-blowing.

Given this and the quality of open models, it makes no sense to me that there’s a future for Anthropic et all?

Packaging a capability into a consumable form will still be business.

It's like web hosting; all the open source tools are there and free, and yet website tools, hosts, etc flourish.

It’s true, but hosting prices are still within spitting distance of rolling it yourself.

SOTA providers are expecting some level of margin. Companies everywhere have a tight eye on their AI bills right now.

The motivation is there if the models get good enough, even if it’s more painful.

Exactly, it's like web hosting.

And I don't see a lot of web hosts with twelve-digit valuations.

it's not like anthropic will stop improving their models

If the way someone is rejecting a trans person is considered a hate crime, maybe that someone is the problem? If someone were to beat you up or misgender you just because you're Southeast Asian that would kind of also be a problem.

Exactly. It's so interesting seeing the unstated assumptions software engineers let slip out. It really reveals the bubble they live in.

PurdueX has had some really interesting courses. I wouldn't recommend paying for them though since you can't deduct them like normal tuition expenses.

Why can't these remotest jobs just be done anywhere in the world? Why restrict it to people who are citizens/residents of the US?

They can and already are suggesting this is not a real threat. And annoyingly, the jobs that could be outsourced, were already.

And that is with corporations playing with the existing visa system AND illegal immigration.

In short, remote addresses a lot of issues for an average worker. It does mess with existing system for corps.

Except OP has noticed that when they go out of ketosis everything gets worse again. They've effectively run numerous trials on themselves.

Surely you realize that this not an effective test against the placebo effect.

If society wants to determine if X is generally an effective treatment for Y, there need to be robust experiments that involve multiple people as subjects.

If, however, one guy feels a lot better doing X, and feels worse they stop doing X, then sure, that person should probably keep doing X. Why does X work for that person? Who knows?

> But instead, the majority of the bettors against Biden bet on the astonishing outcome of “Trump wins by 280+ electoral votes.” That, it should be clear, was impossible — it would require results to be overturned not just in states with tight races but also in Democratic bellwethers like California.

That was not impossible at all once you take into account Trump's VP certification plan, which many people understood very early on. A longshot, yes, but certainly not impossible.

If anything, the prediction markets priced in an insurrection better than any pundit I recall watching. To flip it around and call prediction markets "irrational" in this situation is misguided and ignorant of political history.

> intellectually piracy is still not stealing

Piracy is a clear and self-evident moral good irrespective of how close or not it is to stealing. Justifying piracy based on wordplay opens you up to attack by people and organizations that like to destroy what is good through manipulative wordplay.

While this is true, it is also true that the counter-party, the ones who sell games, use an equivalent wordplay, "buy", "own" to cause moral havoc.

There is this thing called civil disobedience as a tool to keep fairness in check. This might a justification of piracy.

This is a huge source of emotional pain for me to be completely honest.