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piyh
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- Wish I was smart enough to know how the math ties in with this article from last month
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/openais-embarrassing-math/
- >A force-directed graph is a technique for visualizing networks where nodes are treated like physical objects with forces acting between them to create a stable arrangement. Attractive forces (like springs) pull connected nodes together, while repulsive forces (like electric charges) push all nodes apart, resulting in a layout where connected nodes are closer and unconnected nodes are more separated
- You have thousands of dollars, they have tens of billions. $1,000 vs $10,000,000,000. They have 7 more zeros than you, which is one less zero than the scale difference in users: 1 user (you) vs 700,000,000 users (openai). They managed to squeak out at least one or two zeros worth of efficiency at scale vs what you're doing.
Also, you CAN run local models that are as good as GPT 4 was on launch on a macbook with 24 gigs of ram.
https://artificialanalysis.ai/?models=gpt-oss-20b%2Cgemma-3-...
- I know the basilisk is well trodden ground, but it comes up in conversations in my day to day with people who I'm relaying AI concepts to and I'd like to put my thoughts into words. I haven't read anything that makes my exact argument before, so I'm making my first substack contribution now.
- Presumably the artist is a human who directly or indirectly paid money to view a film containing an archaeologist with the whip.
I don't think this is about reproduction as much as how you got enough data for that reproduction. The riaa sent people to jail and ruined their lives for pirating. Now these companies are doing it and being valued for hundreds of billions of dollars.
- I listened to the podcast "Kill List" where journalists got backend access to a hitman for hire website and do episodes featuring targeted individuals they notified.
What I got out of it is a garden variety abuser crosses the threshold to actually ordering a hit when the abuser felt they lost power over the abused.
A whistleblower about to publicly testify would 100% match up with that.
- Applications that I thought of as I read this:
Real-Time mapping of the environment for VR experiences with built-in semantic understanding.
Winning at geoguesser, automated doxing of anybody posting a picture of themselves.
Robotic positioning and navigation
Asset generation for video games. Think about generating an alternate New York City that's more influenced by Nepal.
I'm getting echoes of neural radiance fields as well.
Procedural generation of an alternative planet is the kind of stuff that the No Man's sky devs could only dream of.
>The Index measures where AI systems overlap with the skills used in each occupation. A score reflects the share of wage value linked to skills where current AI systems show technical capability. For example, a score of 12% means AI overlaps with skills representing 12% of that occupation’s wage value, not 12% of jobs. This reflects skill overlap, not job displacement.
>The Index reports technical skill overlap with AI. It does not estimate job loss, workforce reductions, adoption timelines or net employment effects.