He only stole the recipe, he took out a trillion dollars in debt to buy the ingredients

Funny how xAi isn’t rushing in to flaunt their 1337 hacker skillz.

I guess they’re already satisfied with the amount of illegal activity Grok is producing…

marketing and psyop

These have always been the same thing

Evo generated 700,000 potential versions

For context, the Phi X174 virus they started with only has ~5000 base pairs in its entire genome.

Makes me wonder if the AI actually did any intentional generic engineering at all here, or just spit out as many random variations as it could and then the researchers cherry-picked out the ones that looked like they could be viable.

Yeah, because the ownership class fought tooth-and-nail to corrupt the public’s understanding of the name, just like they’re doing now with ‘AI’. You can’t be mad at the bastardization of one term without being mad at the other when the same forces lead to both.

Language is constantly evolving and the meaning of certain terms shifts between eras. Right now everyone understands “AI” to mean the LLM slop factories being forced on the world by a trillion dollars in investment cash. If you want to be upset about that, be upset at Silicon Valley for spending so much of that VC money on marketing to corrupt the public’s understanding.

Also, “Luddite” isn’t the insult you think it is. The luddites were a pro-labor movement, not an anti-technology movement, and many of the labor protections we have today (despite being under attack by big tech) are owed to their successes.

I’m sorry, 3.2 million? That’s less than 1/10th of a percent of their reported operating revenue…

Looks like they intentionally priced it just a little less than Opus… probably to give the impression that it’s a cheaper alternative without people thinking it’s too cheap for a SOTA model and getting suspicious.

As usual, the AI marketing is more sophisticated than the actual technology.

Exactly. This should be a criminal matter, not a civil one… and xAi should be one of the defendants.

A proper harness will have memory and will get more consistent the more you use it.

Yeah, by creating a bunch of .md files of questionable quality that get fed into an already-limited context window, on top of a pile of all sorts of other context cruft from the harness, the model provider, and whatever else is propping up the system to give the illusion of intelligence…

I’ve experimented with harnesses quite a bit and I don’t understand the hype. The difference in quality has been middling in my experience, but the token burn has been significantly more — which makes sense when you understand that the more of the context window you use, the worse most models perform.

Having worked closely with junior engineers and with high-end models, I strongly disagree. In almost all cases the output of the juniors is on par or better (albeit slower) than the LLMs ,and unlike an LLM, a junior actually learns and becomes much more consistent than the AI over time.

Time wise it’ll probably take the human longer since they require breaks.

This is only true if your only metric for ‘success’ is lines of code written.

LLMs will output code much faster than a human can type, there’s no doubt about that. But when you consider how terrible even the frontier models still are at the architecture and maintenance side of the process, humans are still way, way more efficient.

This reads like one of those mass-delete gibberish Reddit comments, lol

None of the frontier labs are making a bazillion bucks, nor do any of them even have a path to profitability without substantial breakthroughs in the research space.

holy shit, that’s perfect

Jensen can suck my Huang

Well for one thing, it’s creepy and the people around you don’t want to be passively recorded 24/7.

Remember Google Glass? Its users were called “glassholes” for a reason.

Ideally you would work in a language you didn’t have these inane rules about semicolons

I wish I had the luxury of not working with JavaScript… but sadly it’s still the only game in town on the web.

Enslopification

The company I work for did this last year.

Unfortunately the tech industry can get away with this shit because the job market is a fucking nightmare and tech bros all think they’re too smart/skilled to need a union (neither of which is true).