So… back to my question: what should they do instead?

That’s true, but sitting in a warehouse is costing someone money and I’m sure they were more than happy to sell the books even if they knew they’d eventually get destroyed.

But the other thing is, what should these companies do instead? They scraped the internet and got skewered for that. They pirated books and got in trouble for that. Now they are legally purchasing books to scan. They can’t donate or sell the books since they’ve effectively copied the book and that would get them into piracy trouble again.

The biggest loss is probably the fact that destroying the physical books removes them from circulation

And these are books that have been sitting in warehouses that haven’t been able to be sold because no one wanted them. They were removed from circulation long ago.

I don’t think it can be considered a ‘surprise attack’ when you are attacking someone that you are openly in war with.

A surprise attack would be when you deliver a massive, unprovoked, decapitation attack against a country that you are actively having productive diplomatic talks with… you know, what trump did on February, 28.

I think you hit the nail with ‘no camera’. Honestly, a camera isn’t needed… if you want a picture, use your phone. If you want a POV image or video, use a Go Pro.

Smart glasses should be a display only (well, maybe speakers too).

Glad to see they got most of the drool wiped off his face.

It’s also a reasonable number of students who would read the answer before just blindly putting it into the answer sheet.

32 out of the 35 students across two classes simply copied the question, pasted it into a chatbot, then copy and pasted its output into the answer window

So, 3 students proofread the output and removed the offending sentences from their answer?

So the issue is that he entered a code that wiped his data, but what is he entered a code that opened a dummy profile?

I don’t know… I kinda like the $5 bill with the astronaut on it.

It was a tradeoff between replaceable RAM or high throughput. For this device they felt the performance was more important than the ability to replace / upgrade RAM.

The technology isn’t the problem. Believe it or not, LLMs are incredibly capable at a variety of tasks, including coding, curating news articles, writing and reading config files, system administration, note keeping / summarization / evaluation, and a whole lot more. Yes, there are a lot of things that an LLM is not good at, but just because I can’t fly a helicopter doesn’t mean I couldn’t drive you to the airport.

The problem isn’t the technology, it’s the potential for the technology to be completely owned and operated by corporations rather than people.

The Chinese models are being released as open weight models, which are what people who want to run these systems locally are using. By banning them this just means that in the US only corporate models will be available to anyone.

I’ve been using The Cursed Clock from Nine Inch Nails Ghosts: Locust album.

It starts out soft and low, but slowly builds.

I’ve been using this for years and it’s about as perfect of an alarm as I’ve ever found.

LLMs are okay at writing code, but not good at software architecture

This is very much the case. I have a local LLM that does a fairly good job of writing code for quick and easy apps that I might need - for instance, last week I wanted to create a simple floor plan of my house and couldn’t find exactly what I wanted online, so I had my machine create a web based app to do it. But, when I tried to use it to create a fairly large and complex text based adventure game when it reached a certain size my LLM just couldn’t handle it any longer. That project stalled for a bit until a couple of weeks ago when Fable 5 was released… as a test I pointed Fable at that code base and in about 45 minutes it had completed the entire game engine.

I really don’t like the idea of corporate owned LLMs, but I am very impressed with Fable and can’t wait until the Local LLM community is able to replicate its functionality.

This was the one for the Google Home Mini… the fabric on the top was causing some of the devices to constantly record (there is a sensor up there that you could tap to ask a question instead of using the wake word). Once it was discovered Google disabled the tap feature.

I remember hearing about issues with Alexa also constantly recording some years ago, but I don’t recall the specifics of that case enough to be able to easily search for it.

The rumor is that this parasite is what killed Lindsey Graham.

It’s a rumor I’m starting, so pass it along.

As I drove around town today it was really touching to see all the flags lowered to half mast in his honor.

That was a quote from his manifesto.