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Comment Funny and sad (Score 4, Insightful) 40

Wonderful news, if this really leads to a cure. But I couldn't help myself thinking that this would have been a much better and convincing story if only they had left out the "with AI" part. These days, anything with an AI angle reads more like marketing text instead of scientific/medical news.

Comment Re:What was he going on about? (Score 1) 33

No, he is not, why would you think that?

I would think that because there are no good parallels between AI and the Linux kernel. AI models are not a single person's passion project, and they're not clearly on track to become core infrastructure. The leading models are closed source and too huge for hobbyists to run, or even most teams to run on-premises. The models that people can run for themselves are still more or less toys in comparison, and have stayed that way. That makes it much more difficult for a loosely coupled team to collaborate.

I would argue that even though Linux originated as a single person's passion project, it quickly became a joint effort, with ever growing contributor base.

Similar argument can be said on the SCIENCE behind neural networks. I read a good book on the history of the subject - since about 2010, as the interest started growing in neural networks, the leading minds insisted that their employers let them publish their findings (i.e. science). This is the reason that others have been able to build on that expertise, in a not dissimilar way from the Linux project.

For example, the idea of transformer architecture, which is behind all current LLMs, originated from Google - and was published as open science for others to build on: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F1810.048... . Later on, as more and more vendors have turned closed source, these Deepseeks kind of re-enable this long lasting trend in neural network research.

Comment Re:What was he going on about? (Score 1) 33

Is he confusing the Linux kernel for all of open source? I thought we got over that blinkered view of open source and free software 25 years ago.

No, he is not, why would you think that? He is talking about Linux kernel, how it blossomed as open source project - using it as an example of a successful open source project.

Comment Re:No need to worry. (Score 2) 66

You have it backwards. Tariffs are paid by the importer and very probably that cost is carried over to the consumer.
And EU exports many items that are quite crucial to US economy, i.e. there are no easy substitutes - thus, this hurts US economy.

Most exported goods from EU to US? Top of the list:
1. Medicinal and pharmaceutical products
2. Medicaments
3. Motor cars (BMW, Mercedes Benz, Audi, Ferrari, Porche, Lamborghini, etc...)
4. Aircraft and associated equipment (e.g. Boeing 777/787 and F35 use Rolls-Royce engines)
And the list goes on. Good luck redesigning the F35 !

Comment Re:It is all smoke and mirrors anyways (Score 1) 31

If only there were some other use for AI than chatbots. Maybe even something that might even get you a Nobel prize.

As that one probably went "woosh" over most people heads here, let me highlight here that Google Deepmind's AlphaFold2 developers won the Nobel prize for Chemistry last year: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nobelprize.org%2Fprizes%2Fchemistry%2F2024%2Fpress-release%2F

Comment Re: Programmed (Score 1) 121

I think you are too young to know how the world works.

Because you are so young, you may not know that

An interesting Argumentum ad hominem. If anything, it highlighted that you are not very comfortable with your own argumentation. Besides, I'm probably way older than you...

"readily available" information as you put it is mostly unauthorized.

I have thousands of books in my bookshelves. Bought used and new. There are no licenses restricting on how I use them. I can lend them to anyone, I can sell them. But if I train an LLM form my own use (local network only), I wouldn't be allowed to feed the LLM with those books?

Comment Re: Programmed (Score 1) 121

But the question is how much more useful will it get than it is today. Besides, they have to have a right to process all that information. So far they have broken the law to get this far.

Why would you say that an artificial brain (say, neural network) would need special right to process information readily available, but a real brain would not need it? Your thinking ability is partially based on those books that you read as a child and in school. Why wouldn't artificial brain be allowed to be fed information in a similar way?

Comment Re:Come back when it's running on my iPhone6 (Score 1) 58

It does not seem to be the RAM that makes AI work. It seems to be the trillions of integer calculations the chip can do in a second.

It this is correct, then this begs a question: why would this affect accuracy of the AI results at all?
Shouldn't it just be slower producing it (not less accurate), when run on a slower machine?

Comment Re:Never in my entire life? (Score 1) 85

I'm almost 40 years old and have never listened to AM radio once in my entire life. Only sort-of exception was when my dad showed me as a kid how it could be used as to detect lightning activity nearby.

As far as I can tell, it's only used for sports, nutjob

I learned about radio interference with AM - revving the engine in our old car would generate a similar sound (going higher pitch with higher revs in the engine) on an AM frequency listened on the car radio.

Comment Re:Unused in France (Score 1) 85

As I am in France, the AM band (called Medium Wave in Europe) is unused. Spain and England use it, though, so I tune in from time to time to hear English and Spanish...

AM does not refer to band, it refers to modulation (Amplitude modulation, as opposed to Frequency modulation).

In Europe, AM is used with SW, MW and LW bands. FM is used mainly on VHF (Very High Frequence, or as in some countries, Very Short Wave (Ultrakurzwellen in Germany, ULA in Finland)).

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