How Generative AI Video Works
It’s not magic, it’s noise.
Technology
Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI
If the models are so good, how come the company making them cannot make profit? “even if you remove the cost of training models from OpenAI’s 2024 revenues (provided by The Information), OpenAI would still have lost $2.2 billion fucking… Read More »Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI
Why is China smashing its tech industry?
Maybe it is just different values and culture. “China may simply see things differently. It’s possible that the Chinese government has decided that the profits of companies like Alibaba and Tencent come more from rents than from actual value added… Read More »Why is China smashing its tech industry?
“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone.” Why?
Simple as this. “Never repeat in the clear the identical text of a message once sent in cryptographic form, or repeat in cryptographic form the text of a message once sent in the clear. Anything which will enable an alert… Read More »“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone.” Why?
AI Sleeper Agents
Theory. Will it work?
Nuclear Batteries Can Power Devices for Decades. Is That a Good Thing?
Why don’t we use them more if they work? “The technology works, it has many advantages over chemical batteries, and it can be utilized safely. But what very few companies have been able to do is find a new market… Read More »Nuclear Batteries Can Power Devices for Decades. Is That a Good Thing?
Why China can build so quickly and America can’t
It is not good for a lot.of stuff, but it is good if you want to build shit. “There isn’t a single answer to the question about why China can move fast and why we can’t, but Wang offers one… Read More »Why China can build so quickly and America can’t
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Seems to me it is. I see people changing because of AI overuse to the point, it is almost impossible talk with them. “From this morass, we are told, an “artificial general intelligence” will eventually emerge, turbo-charging the human race… Read More »AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually
Great illustration of what currently LLMs are good for and what not. “I think we will be more distracted than ever. We can’t even have 2 seconds to think before Grammarly, Copilot, or Cursor suggests something. So instead of doing… Read More »Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually
Hacker and Physicist
Without basic knowledge it can get funny really fast. “The response that came back was so pure, so innocent, it almost broke my brain: “We’ve never heard of certificates. What’s a certificate?”Now, if you work in security, this is like… Read More »Hacker and Physicist