Rather not waste tokens. Saying thank you literally costs you money.

So they can train on everyone's copyrighted works to create their model, but when someone trains a model off their model it's not okay? Seems kind of hypocritical.

I mean is your place modest compared to the average place in a third world country?

If you're made of money sure and then the cases it can't fix I guess you're just stuck.

token cost will keep dropping toward zero

Can AI actually read binary code and change it?

Yes.

If all you need is a comprehensive suite of evals / unit tests to determine if something functions correctly, and AI can quickly figure out how to change it so you get to the end result, then... seems like we won't need all these programming languages.

I would think modern optimized binaries would be too complicated for current LLMs to handle. LLMs currently get overwhelmed with large code bases, imagine turning that all into binary.

What about AI changes things though? Why didn't you just ignore code quality from humans writing code too?

Honestly? I don't think we really understand consciousness. So it's kind of hard to say something is or isn't conscious.

Could anything be more ironic, the employees that work to track every person in the world are now being tracked themselves :)

I'm trying to have sympathy for those who work there and are opposed to this, but the irony is so thick that it's a struggle.

I don't think they deserve your sympathy. I don't think there is an employee there that couldn't find another great job somewhere else.

Painful levels of irony. These people sit at their computer all day scheming and coding ways to grab any new bits of data they can with the intent of capturing everything they can about the user's friends, location, wealth, hobbies, etc. to push more targeted ads.

I'm interested what they're doing now that they weren't already doing before that has any value.

These companies track a lot of what you do already - a decent percentage of which makes sense from a security perspective.

I'm curious what could possibly be valuable that they weren't already tracking.

Like... How are individual keystrokes and mouse movements more valuable than all the work you already do which is largely tracked at the right amount of value already???

I wonder how much of this is just them actively trying to get even more people to quit, with somehow zero concern for losing their actual talent in the process...

All of MAG-7 is so desperate to shift R&D spending from salaries to CapEx for AI data centers, they'd literally watch ~90% of their talent go that provides ~99% of their actual valuable work in the process.

And it's not because they're idiots that are completely oblivious to what's actually happening on the ground... It's their smug confidence that they can get away with anything and use their market positioning to force everyone to deal with their bad decisions no matter how disastrous they end up being...

If our models end up sucking, so what, we'll just lobby congress to make open weight models illegal...

If people don't like our pricing, oh well, we'll just lobby congress to force the government to pay for our products...

If China or Europe does it better, oh well, we'll just lobby congress to label it national security and outlaw competition...

Etc...

If you look at idioms, human nature has never really changed. Most of our culture and outlook was defined by the Sumerians.

"You reap what you sow".

Just like all those drones we use on our adversaries. The next American civil war will definitely be fought with drones.

I've been thinking about it a lot. I've been looking into becoming an electrician for maybe like 6 years before I retire.

I know someone who was a DBA and became an electrician and now retired after about 10 years doing that. By all accounts he loved it, spent his days doing odd jobs for old people while chatting with them over many cups of tea. However (here in the UK) you do have to obtain and keep up with certification.

Kinda buggy, but impressively nonetheless. How long did it take?

It took 50 minutes, would be ~$20 in API costs (I'm on a Pro sub).

(Correction: I'm on a Max ($100/mo) sub. Realized the mistake too late, so can't edit my comment.)