The full commentary from mathematicians asked to review the proof is thoughtful and worth a read: cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085...
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Webpage: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us. (Princeton) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision
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I don't understand how people can report on companies complaining about distillation and IP theft without mentioning these companies' entire tech stack depends on distillation and IP theft. It's an important detail!
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- Twenty-five companies including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and IBM signed a July 24 letter urging Washington not to restrict open-weight AI models.
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Alphabet and Amazon were absent; OpenAI added its signature only after the omission was widely noticed on X.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called open source 'a red herring,' while David Sacks accused the closed labs of pursuing regulatory capture.
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In _The Ideas Letter_, Leif Weatherby, Tyler Shoemaker, and I wrote about the creation of reality through pseudoscience, religion, and psychosis. Of course, the piece is mostly about AI.
Adding fuel to the fire, here's a post I wrote about open corpus models last July. It's all still true. www.argmin.net/p/an-open-mi...
Now that the entire tech industry is on board, here’s a call to build AI models not just with open weights but with an open corpus.
Come the fuck on. I'd be less annoyed if there wasn't a deep-pocketed, credulous audience for this idiocy.
Three years of argmin and what year four might hold.
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Have to appreciate the audacity of Anthropic defending three successive model releases with diminishing quality by claiming it's both intentional and for our own good.
I'm disappointed that the heated fight between tech bros and medtwitter about midjourney ultrasound snake oil hasn't broken containment over here.
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