Drop in session/office hours type deal for constituents. Our mps can help citizens (usually by writing strongly worded letters) with small civil matters like planning/building regulations, issues with county council (local government) and so on. It’s also an opportunity for people to lobby their mp about national concerns too.
Social permission = shareholder permission
He’s saying “we need an ROI on all the cash we are burning before they sell up and the board kick me out for being a delusional and incompetent buffoon”
Get in the sea Nadella
I’d love to know more about that 30% reported increase and how real it is (I know this is never going to happen). Is it a) Nvidia<=>OpenAI b2b stuff where they increased revenue by grifting some other CEO b) massaging the numbers to make it look like AI is popular - Microsoft Office+Copilot style or c) there is genuinely something valuable that people are buying
I feel like there is a whole lot of b) going on with companies baking AI into popular products and then going “ooh line gonup, must be AI” but I could be wrong.
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something that happened two years ago
Looks like this change happened between Jan 19 and Jan 20 2025 - less than a year ago.
Stop panicking, people. It’s silly.
I don’t think anyone is panicking. If anything I reckon most people find it hilarious 😂 microslop are desperate to make some money with their LLMs and it’s funny that noone is interested.
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Just to point out that per the discussion in the screenshot: Synthetic datasets are typically generated from models that were trained by poverty-pay Kenyans. This is basically ethics-washing.
“AI can’t replace you but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with a chatbot that can’t do your job” - Cory Doctorow
How is the hospital food?
Hard labour in a bright orange jumpsuit I believe.
She lost that some time in August 2022 I think. Put it in a “safe place”
Grid-tie is technically legal in my area, but the hoops you have to jump through are insane and there’s a high likelihood of being denied by the power company over the most bullshit of minutiae (
That’s insane. In the UK most solar installs are grid tied and it’s standard practice to get paid by the utility company for back-feeding since they can reduce their natural gas consumption.
I pay £0.26 ($0.34) per kWh imported and received £0.10 ($0.13) for export. Some utility tariffs are dynamic with demand so if you have a battery system you can do arbitrage with import/export
Yeah I agree. Small models is the way. You can also use LoRa/QLoRa adapters to “fine tune” the same big model for specific tasks and swap the use case in realtime. This is what apple do with apple intelligence. You can outperform a big general LLM with an SLM if you have a nice specific use case and some data (which you can synthesise in come cases)
Unlike the dotcom bubble, Another big aspect of it is the unit cost to run the models.
Traditional web applications scale really well. The incremental cost of adding a new user to your app is basically nothing. Fractions of a cent. With LLMs, scaling is linear. Each machine can only handle a few hundred users and they’re expensive to run:
Big beefy GPUs are required for inference as well as training and they require a large amount of VRAM. Your typical home gaming GPU might have 16gb vram, 32 if you go high end and spend $2500 on it (just the GPU, not the whole pc). Frontier models need like 128gb VRAM to run and GPUs manufactured for data centre use cost a lot more. A state of the art Nvidia h200 costs $32k. The servers that can host one of these big frontier models cost, at best, $20 an hour to run and can only handle a handful of user requests so you need to scale linearly as your subscriber count increases. If you’re charging $20 a month for access to your model, you are burning a user’s monthly subscription every hour for each of these monster servers you have turned on. That’s generous and assumes they’re not paying the “on-demand” price of $60/hr.
Sam Altman famously said OpenAI are losing money on their $200/mo subscriptions.
If/when there is a market correction, a huge factor of the amount of continued interest (like with the internet after dotcom) is whether the quality of output from these models reflects the true, unsubsidized price of running them. I do think local models powered by things like llamacpp and ollama and which can run on high end gaming rigs and macbooks might be a possible direction for these models. Currently though you can’t get the same quality as state-of-the-art models from these small, local LLMs.
This is nice to see. I wish they’d actually do something about our water companies too.
Hell, even when it’s not too good to be true and you already feel ripped off! The audacity of these mfs!
We all have to feel sorry for the drones?
I think there are two things. There’s definitely a level of brainwashing where mediocre MBAs who have built a career on “failing upwards” project their own lack of scruples onto their workforce i.e. “if I worked from home I’d just play golf all day so I assume this is true for everyone”. They genuinely don’t understand management models beyond micromanagement because they have no frame of reference for “self-motivated” or “autonomous”.
Then the other factor is that many of the c-level execs at these companies or their bosses (the board) have commercial real estate portfolios. Propping up the value of those units is contingent on companies renting office space. The bosses know which side their bread is buttered and even if they don’t have skin in the game directly will happily do favours for ‘friends’ who they want to impress to help them climb that next rung of the ladder.
Relative privation is when someone dismisses or minimizes a problem simply because worse problems exist: “You can’t complain about X when Y exists.”
I’m talking about the practical reality that you must prioritize among legitimate problems. If you’re marooned at sea in a sinking ship you need to repair the hull before you try to fix the engines in order to get home.
It’s perfectly valid to say “I can’t focus on everything so I will focus on the things that provide the biggest and most tangible improvement to my situation first”. It’s fallacious to say “Because worse things exist, AGI concerns doesn’t matter.”
They’re still evil. It’s more like evil and stupid to evil and incompetent