Didn’t Elon breathlessly explain how the plan was to have Grok rewrite and expand on the current corpus of knowledge so that the next Grok could be trained on that “superior” dataset, which would forever rid it of the wokeness?

I’ve been using it for 10+ years on a combination of Netgear, TP-Link and Raspberry Pi hardware, so at least that long?

Weird, I must be seeing a different screenshot, because all I read here is “TP Link would like you to overwrite its firmware with OpenWRT.”

I’m from a very Italian neighborhood. Angelo is a common name, if you’re feeling a bit ethnic and don’t want to stray too far from what you grew up with. Plus you’d get to learn all the hand gestures.

Put 5 biologists in a room and ask this question and you’ll get 5 different answers :)

But generally you’d be looking for at least some signs of:

• using external energy to manage internal entropy (metabolism)
• reproduction or perpetuation

Damn, I wish Ruby Rhod was in my head. I’d be supergreen.

A combination of strong state level incentives from China, Korea, and Taiwan, disinterest in super expensive R&D by GlobalFoundaries after they were spun out of AMD, and decades-long mismanagement at Intel.

So every AI’s gonna identify as an Arch user with striped socks now?

Ok reading a little more the class has been certified but it hasn’t gone to trial, so there’s still a possibility of a closed-door settlement of some sort, though given the number of parties involved that seems unlikely. Maybe I’m just being optimistic. But if it goes to trial and makes it to judgement there will either have to be cases where using copyrighted materials to train AI (which seriously how is that not for generating derivative works) is found to be ok, or copyright will be held sacrosanct and the whole gen AI industry will have to pay… something. Punitive damages would make the industry cease to exist overnight, and I’d bet most publishers would prefer a check instead.

It has to set some precedent though. Either there are valid reasons to violate copyright are there aren’t.

The term “artifex” itself is from a book called Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson (it’s set in the same universe as his Snow Crash, which is where the word metaverse is from). In the story it’s a kind of honorific/title used to denote someone who has honed their craft and created something really exceptional. I, sadly, have not done that yet, but I am a compulsive maker of things (some of which are kinda ok). I’m currently a manager of people who make things at a software company. As for the logo, I just thought it looked cool, it was a 2-min photoshop job :) (my first few jobs was as an artist/graphic artist).

Every “note” paper of mine is maybe 15% notes, 85% doodles. Has been they way since the 2nd grade, many decades ago.

When this happens to me it’s usually a cloudflare problem. Sometimes it fixes itself in a day or two. A few times it has been broken for weeks and I’ve had to use a VPN to reach it.