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If they did it by growing open source competitors, it would be brilliant. Linux-equivalents for all major categories.


X shows a "LOCK" icon when they are coming in VPN. To out them. Also, it shows which country's app store you installed your app. For this reason, when they use their mobile app, it will be outted that way.


Lock means the account is private, not that it's using a VPN.


The onus is on FireFox to deliver "the killer feature". No killer feature, nobody will bother with it. Mozilla needs to shift into entrepreneurial innovation.


I think this is because older AI doesn't get done what LLM AI does. Older AI = normal trained models, neural networks (without transformers), support vector machines, etc. For that reason, they are letting them go. They don't see revenue coming from that. They don't see new product lines (like AI Generative image/video). AI may have this every 5 years. A break through moves the technology into an entirely new area. Then older teams have to re-train, or have a harder time.


I would expect nearly every active AI engineer who trained models in the pre-LLM era to be up to speed on the transformer-based papers and techniques. Most people don't study AI and then decide "I don't like learning" when the biggest AI breakthroughs and ridiculous pay packages all start happening.


I really doubt that. Most of the profit-generating AI in most industries... decision support, spotting connections, recommendations, filtering, etc... runs on old school techniques. They're cheaper to train, cheaper to run, and more explainable.

Last survey I saw said regression was still the most-used technique with SVM's more used than LLM's. I figured combining those types of tools with LLM tech, esp for specifying or training them, is a better investment than replacing them. There's people doing that.

Now, I could see Facebook itself thinking LLM's are the most important if they're writing all the code, tests, diagnostics, doing moderation, customer service, etc. Essentially, running the operational side of what generates revenue. They're also willing to spend a lot of money to make that good enough for their use case.

That said, their financial bets make me wonder if they're driven by imagination more than hard analyses.


FAIR is not older AI... They've been publishing a bunch on generative models.


FAIR is 3000 people, they do tons of different things


This seems like the most likely explanation. Legacy AI out in favour of LLM focused AI. Also perhaps some cleaning out of the old guard and middle management while they're at it.


This is not "older AI". This team built everything up to and including Llama 4.


It's a good theory on first read, but likely not what's happening here.

Many here were in LLMs.


There always has been a stunning amount of inertia from the old big data/ML/"AI" guard towards actually deploying anything more sophisticated than linear regression.


There's a lot of areas where you need to be able to explain the decisions that your AI models make and that's extremely hard to do unless you're using linear regression. E.g. you're a bank and your AI model for some reason appears to be accepting applications from white people and rejecting applications from african americans or latinos. How are you going to show in court that your model isn't discriminating based on race or some proxy for race?


Research is finding MicroTubules in the brain likely are the LINK (quantum entanglement) to where Consciousness "lives" (is located). Note that the Microtubules link STOPs while under Anesthesia.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=microtubules+co...


Your idiosyncratic use of capital letters only adds to my skepticism.


Yeah he types weird and linked some generic YouTube search result that pops Joe Rogan up for some people, but there's some pretty interesting research along these lines that's becoming harder to dismiss as just Roger Penrose stepping way outta his field (I don't see people personally attacking Hameroff or Tuszynski for their roles in this research which always struck me as telling). I think it's more trying to zero in on how consciousness works from the perspective of trying to figure out how xenon administration in anesthesiology works to induce its effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXElfzVgg6M

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07936

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S157106452...


First video when I hit that YouTube link was Joe Rogan.

Skeptic meter caught fire before I could get a reading.


This is such a weird way to navigate life.

Joe Rogan has interviewed plenty of people, different people that have very little in common, just because some of them have controversial views that make you nervous that doesn't mean all the information is useless.


We are constantly bombarded by links to information. It is reasonable to make snap judgments about the quality of the information based on who is providing it. If I’m looking for accurate, factual information on a topic that is clearly prone to magical thinking, a provider whose reputation is to listen to anyone, including people who very much engage in magical thinking, is actually a very bad source. Because they will not filter on anything beyond “is this neat to listen to.”


You are correct. However, Joe Rogan should not be the first stop for assessing the scientific plausibility of a new idea. If that is where someone is sending you, that can- and should- be a red flag.


On the other hand, there's no shortage of information out there, so it's not particularly weird to filter out the sources you already have found to be unreliable rather than spend the time to try to listen to everything else they have to say


Nothing weird or new about it: Suppose the foremost source for Dr. Example's claims happens to be the one time they interviewed on Coast To Coast AM [0]. That tells you something about the media-landscape they seek—or have been stuck inside.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_to_Coast_AM


And to add to that he's interviewed just as many absolutely mainstream scientists whose ideas are not considered controversial


I don't think it's the controversy of his guests so much as many of their unqualified ramblings that get treated as expertise. It's really obnoxious that it all gets put into political controversy when it's just often facially stupid BS.


And you're enough of an expert on all subjects to judge?

Or are you rather shielding from whatever makes you think?


This is like Gell-Man Amnesia, but for the YouTube age. If I can recognize a source is unreliable for my area of expertise, it's more strange to expect that I would trust it in other areas just because I don't have the expertise in that area to directly evaluate all of the claims


The odd defensiveness of it wherever any criticism is labeled as some sort of philosophy against thinking.

>And you're enough of an expert on all subjects to judge?

Never claimed to be


I havent even RTFA to be fair but I like how often Bayesian heuristics like this turn out to be... Useful... If even not provably "true".


Why does consciousness have to live somewhere? I currently prefer to think of it as an emergent phenomenon that arises (somehow, we have no clue) from the complex and distributed computations in the brain. Many different systems contribute, and saying that a single level of abstraction is where it lives seems meaningless. Kind of like saying that your video game “lives” in a transistor. It’s not wrong, but it’s not useful.


We don't seem to be able to find it inside the physical brain, and not for a lack of trying. Just throwing emergent behaviour out there changes nothing, just like it doesn't for AI.


What would "finding it" mean, whether inside the brain or out? It's quite easy to perturb consciousness by messing with the pieces of the brain, via pharmacology, injury, electrical stimulation, etc. I'm not sure why we need to assign responsibility to a single specific component like microtubules. That seems like saying the axle is responsible for a car moving. Sure, not wrong, but not right or explanatory either.


Yeah we don't even have a strict definition of consciousness.


There are observed differences in brain function between conscious and unconscious patients. What's wrong with that as an initial characterization of "consciousness in the brain"? The investigation of these "neural correlates of consciousness" is quite a rich research field in its own right


Obviously, but that doesn't tell us shit where consciousness comes from.


why not?


It sounds like it's time for The Talk [0].

The whole thing is good, but the final punchline in the last three panels are particularly relevant.

[0] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3


Step 6: The facebook / Instragram / X equivalents then lose their ad revenue. They then may capitulate to keep the ad revenue.

See BlueSky just rolled out Terms ToS that the automated UN Safety (censorship) laws they will accept. This is an automated pipeline for the "censorship demand data notice" can be applied in an automated why. It is plumbing for automating censorship. See "DSA" part of those laws and how BlueSky's ToS is responding.


> See BlueSky just rolled out Terms ToS that the automated UN Safety (censorship) laws they will accept. This is an automated pipeline for the "censorship demand data notice" can be applied in an automated why.

I feel like you are missing some words or have some typos because this isn't comprehensible English.


It's an understandable English even for non-native speaker like me. You are probably not very exposed to non-native speakers.


I've spent years living abroad and have had many long discussions and friendships with non-native english speakers.

This could be a non-native speaker, but the complexity of the attempted sentence structure leads me to think it is a native or fluent speaker who made some mistakes (I make those kinds of mistakes all the time.)


English speaker for approximately 43 of my 44+ years on this planet. I have almost no idea what this sentence is trying to convey.


Damn what’s up with that gap? You’re falling behind.


"You are probably not very exposed to non-native speakers."

If native speakers have to talk to people of other languages to understand it, then it's not even English at that point. What it is, who knows.


I am non-native speaker and I confirm that the post was gibberish.


I found Asana's TO DO app the best for me. Great for mobile, ipad, Mac app and web based.


They should add grok. I use grok.


I just added grok


We must enable competition in credit cards and payment systems with POSes.


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