Let me guess, only the big name authors and none of the countless people posting their writing projects to the internet (which probably accounted for a way higher precentage of the training data than published novels given how much more of it there is) or the people having back and fourth discussions on Reddit (which was likely vital to ensuring the AI responded to technical conversations in a normal sounding way).

The thing I hate most about the copyright system is how blatantly it helps the biggest creators concentrate wealth while actively excluding smaller and amateur creators. The copyright system is the barrier to entry. You can only exercise the rights theoretically given to every single creator if you make enough money from your art, but to make enough money from your art you need to be able to exercise the rights to it.

Waymos loitering on your property? All I see is free scrap metal, catalytic converters, and expensive cameras and sensors being delivered to you! /s

How do you see it? Is it only on the app?

US libs: “PEOPLE IN COMMUNIST CHINA ARE FORCED TO USE SLANG WHEN TALKING ABOUT CHINESE ATROCITIES TO GET PAST CENSORSHIP!!”

Also US libs: “Unalive” “Music Festival” Bleeping out Palestine “This is fine and way better than communist China”

Also interesting how Tiktok only started doing this after they were forcibly sold off from the Chinese parent company and was forced to conform to “Western values” eh?

One more lane bro vibes

Yeah turns out Facebook users aren’t coherent enough to train an LLM on. /s

Saying “blocked” instead of just blocking and closing the tab like anyone else gives a shit about losing the privilege of having their posts graced by your eyes. Blocked.

Weird, Deepseek runs on a little mini PC.

Can we keep the robot uprising looking like HAL and not Terminator? Please? It’s bad enough to die when the robots conquer Earth but I have to die while looking at creepy uncanny valley humanoids?

More satisfying and gives me a little more motivation to see the tasks I’ve already done.

My Todo app is a Markdown file because I can cross stuff out.

Matt Ferrel has been shown time and time again to support literally anything that fits the futuristic tech bro vibe regardless if the concept is viable or even makes sense. Probably not the best source.

Which does cause problems now that Google search is shit.

Seriously at what point did search engines stop matching results by keyword?! Just a few days ago I tried looking for a quote I didn’t fully remember, but knew the basic thesis and some identifying terms it definitely mentioned and all I got was tabloid articles for pages and pages on end which only vaguely matched the thesis but didn’t mention any of the identifying terms I remember the quote using. It threw me for a loop because I remember being taught in school to search for stuff this way and I don’t know if I’m just stupid or misremembered the quote or search engines don’t actually match keywords anymore. Why would they remove the most basic form of search, literally just regexing for all the strings given?!

China is really practicing what they preach by making the fruit of the workers’ labour available for all. They could have made infinitely more money by offering this as a service and that’s what every Western C-suite would do even if every engineer that worked on it wanted it made public. Both Huawei’s co-op leadership and presumably the Chinese government (even in Western “free market” capitalist countries decisions this significant by this big of a company would be subject to government oversight and export control) choosing to make it open source for free is saying a lot. They’re also seemingly not concerned about preventing the West from using their technology in the same way the West denies China use of their tech, despite the obvious strategic and economic benefits of having something the West doesn’t.

Same with a lot of other Chinese tech investments like Deepseek and RISC-V implementations.

I wonder if they’re making these things open source to counter the Western propaganda that Chinese tech has spyware or built in censorship. If so, I think they’ve made pretty good faith strides and if they’re hoping for countries like Canada to jump ship and work with them on tech instead of the US, I as a Canadian software developer would gladly work for a Chinese company over a US one.

Ironically the US keeps trying to warn that if the world keeps trying to move away from oil, those “money hungry” and “savage” Arab oil producing countries will drag us into the next world war because their investments are threatened by renewables. When in reality the US will probably be the one to do that when everyone else has moved on to renewables and the US has to get a “return” on the obsolete fossil fuel infrastructure only they invested in and nobody wants.

NO ONE SHOULD CARE unless you’re a semiconductor exec. Give me cheap Japanese knockoffs of TSMC chips, I’ll take them along with the cheap Chinese knockoffs. Corporate espionage is morally neutral to me and there are no “good” corporations to begin with, I don’t get why the consumers getting gouged by these corporations feel the need to defend them when other corporations steal their IP.

Ah but you see, they don’t actually care about the environment, they’re only investing in renewable energy because it’s expedient and furthers their evil commie regime.

Gonna guess it’s Deepseek but with nerfed opinions on Israel and the West in general.

The irony of the company who pioneered scraping the internet to feed their AI making me complete a Cloudflare captcha because I use Firefox on a VPN.

Can the seeseepee please come back and start actually censoring it to chinese commie standards?

No but seriously, I genuinely don’t get how a Chinese company can get away with doing this.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon

The appetite for 6G looks much bigger in China and the US than it does in Europe

Don’t know about Europe but most people in North America are still on 4G even though new phones are 5G capable because the ISPs charge a huge premium for 5G plans. No one wants 6G here because no one wants to pay even more.

But hey, China is getting 6G BUT AT WHAT COST?? Probably a lot less than even the 4G plans over here.

operating income down %42

Let’s make it %420 next quarter!

Looks pretty similar to the Japanese SCMaglev. But does that means the track would need to be active like the Japanese one? I tried to research this in the past and all the sources say that the Japanese Maglev has the linear induction motors on the track, in addition to passive coils that the train’s electromagnets interact with.

That’s in addition to Maglev’s intrinsic need for power delivery coils in the track (the bottom of the track basically needs to be primary side of one giant very smart transformer).

Imagine building from Beijing to Shenzhen’s distance in ultra high tech tracks that can’t interop with regular trains, where they’ll have to safely handle a 600 km/h train passing over them in the harshest weather conditions. And you can’t have very thick armor for it because you need the magnetic fields to be as close as possible to make the power delivery efficient, It’s both a construction and a maintenance nightmare. The tracks themselves will offset a lot of the ecological benefits of trains over flying.

SNCF set the wheeled train record at 500 km/h with a test train. Why not try to beat that?

They weren’t sure whether Grok will fit into the culture and agenda of the US government but the MechaHitler incident reassured them.

By that logic, they should euthanize the C suite when they retire.

I mean, she’s literally a grave robber and thinks that’s an honourable career. So definitely believable.

There’s also a good chance she’s killed people trying to prevent their sacred tombs from being desecrated.

Destroying the sacred culture of Indigenous people her country genocided is more profitable than some lame dinosaurs.

A British Museum curator

Have they tried power cycling it?

Its in there. At least for phones without a high enough waterproof rating

Gonna guess all the phone manufacturers will coincidentally determine that waterproofing is a feature desperately needed by the European market on all tiers.

Also won’t affect iPhones since they’re already all “waterproof.”

Unknown Chinese Phonemaker

Shit title and really highlights Bloomberg’s western supremacist views. Unknown to who? Clearly tons of people know about it if it took over Africa.

They have different brands than us because they’re a completely different region and market? Nope, never heard of it so it must be unknown.

Mesh networks can be built on zero trust principles and have everything E2EE. Kind of like Tor.

But the more realistic scenario is the police will just deploy jammers to completely disable all wireless communication.

My new baseless theory: We know that AI is trained on tons of novels and fictional stories. Is it possible that because all novels have significant conflicts and drama, and stories where some person just boringly does his boring job forever aren’t exactly bestsellers, the AI is maybe trying to inject drama even when it makes no sense, since it’s been conditioned that way through the training data? So it’s seeing these inconsequential issues and since every novel it’s ever “read” turns them into massive conflicts, it’s trying to follow suit?

In the same way your fridge needs a web browser.

Though the point of this is probably not that it will be a viable product, but managing a vending machine is one of those seemingly easy and straightforward tasks that make good starting applications to test the AI with. Basically, if it can’t even handle something as simple as a vending machine, it definitely can’t be trusted with anything more complex.

“You call yourself a beverage machine?!”

“I call myself Bev.”

Just say “pfft, you believe in the government?”

Didn’t they already try with Conrail?

Warning Chinese Competition Is Closing In

You know everyone believes in capitalism when a new competitor in the free market is a dire warning and perceived as a threat.

Honestly, I’ve been doing some recreational thinking about this whole thing, and I find myself agreeing with you. You brought up good points I hadn’t considered, thanks!