This is Intel CEO, Hock Tan, speaking.When you have an aggressive and combative CEO, executives at this man's level become flesh puppets channeling the CEO's business vision. Yes, a business needs vision but this behaviour is a bit sad because it harms creative thinking.

Yes, Intel could nickel and dime their open-source efforts. That is true but has little relevance. Intel fell behind in hardware. Focus on the hardware ocean Intel - not the little software boat floating on it.

Back when Europe was innovative, could companies fire workers more easily?

Oh absolutely. Most code generation will be via prompt, or, at the very least, involve AI 'pair programmer' squinting at your code as you type and peppering you with feedback.

"I don't think you want to do that Al!"
"Let's step back for a second; what are you trying to do here?"

Ultimately, AI should translate programs on the fly.

Say, I know only Perl well, but I want to edit a Linux kernel device driver written in C. So I fire up 'aidlin', my favourite source code editor. aidlin reads the C file, but what I see on screen is pure Perl - a Perl representation of the C program. As I edit, the program translates Perl to C. The edited C source is eventually compiled, linked, etc.

In such a world, whose popularity did my little edit session contribute to? C or Perl?
I'd say it's Perl.

Code and search queries won't suffice anymore to rank popularity.. We'd need the programming equivalent of the set top boxes used in Neilson ratings to see what languages are the humans actually using.

Customers? We fired.them too. They kept demanding these pesky "goods and services" in exchange for cash..Our AI predicted we won't need them. Instead we do this other thing AI told us to...

"work insane hours"

Yes, but at what intensity of work?

Are they intensively conceptualising, cross-referencing, designing, analysing, critiquing themselves before others, holding 2-down and 1-down meetings?

  Or are they flicking through reports, glancing at dashboards, lazily delegating, unfairly haranguing and generally ordering people around at insane hours?

I guess for most CEOs it falls between these two extremes..
The more intensively you work, the less you tend to be lord it over your fellow man.

Thanks. Interesting!

The termination does not cover derivative works though (LLMs?).

Also, termination is a pain:
"A copy of the notice shall be recorded in the Copyright Office before the effective date of termination, as a condition to its taking effect"

Ah yes, the famous Watergate-gate.

Yes, that happened to me. Reddit may also earn income letting companies guide content moderation.

I tried to post on /r/EBay about how eBay had helped a buyer defraud me (they refunded them $800 and let them keep my goods) and ask what my options were. My posts were instantly deleted (by 'auto-moderator'), saying they were related to account suspension or restriction (which was not true).

I finally could post my question on eBay forums, after a few pokes to admins there. Ironic Reddit was more Catholic than the pope.

An Android upgrade of my introduced Gemini on my phone which made Voice commands slow like molasses (and slows down the phone too)

Is it possible to excise just Gemini from a phone?

Reddit gains an irrevocable, sub-licensable, royalty-free license for user-created content posted on its site. So while the term "Reddit data" is somewhat inaccurate, it is a passable approximation of the truth. The more correct term would be "Data that Reddit has irrevocable, sub-licensable, royalty-free license to". But where's the fun in saying that? :-)

"Reddit data" does obscure the fact that the Reddit user retains full copyright ownership of their comments. So if a user wished to, they could independently license their content to GOOG, AMZN, META, MSFT et al. Theoretically, all the other users in a Reddit thread could make same decision, cutting Reddit out of the licensing loop entirely.

But the logistics of organising this are onerous. Even if a few crucial users in a thread refuse to license content, there will be 'gaps' and intelligibility and utility for AI training will suffer.

But if replies briefly quote the specific content they are responding to (as I am doing here), the context becomes much more clear. In that case, individual comments become much more intelligible and useful. Legally speaking, there should be no problem here because brief quotations fall under fair use.

Concievably, GOOG and other browsers manufacturers could offer to store your user-generated content in a browser repository ("keep a record what you wrote", like Windows Recall) or in the cloud, with the option of licensing the content to GOOG. They could also generate AI-summaries of the context you were responding to.

Why don't they strike their beloved South Korean home market with these "value-strengthening" ads first? :-/

Does it violate an unspoken social contract the Korean people have with their chaebols?

A few weeks ago, my 2 year-old Samsung 'The Frame' TV proposed new TOS to me. I think I rejected it... :-\

Your first assumption is correct, my usual ingredient panels are in English. Allergens are helpfully highlighed.

Yes, I occasionally point my phone at English ingredient panels - but only to blow up minute fonts, not interpret their information.

(No, I am not willing to learn Korean - I have an AI for that. Even if I did learn, a little knowledge can be a dangerous. Say I recognized Korean representations for milk and cheese and whey. But then missed the significance of the Korean word for sodium caseinate)

And as far as checking CT images go, I do have a medical consultant. It is a question of curiosity, to see how capable LLMs are.

As far as researching Pubmed papers goes, I do what good PhD advisors do - use free labour if you have access to it.

Looks like I have set off your LLM allergy. Or is it simply an Altman allergy? Well, there's no accounting for taste.

Yes, I have a learning difficulty, you insensitive oddity! I don't understand that things like whey and sodium caseinate derive from milk if the entire ingredient panel is in Korean. And have you ever seen the *amount* of ingredients in Korean processed food? Pages! Your typical 'Whole Foods' product it is not.

  So ... I just tell the AI my allergy, take a picture and have it sort everything out and give me a yea/no answer. And move on to the next product. I could lovingly decipher Hangul or/and brush-up on food chemistry. But I don't like unnecessary cruelty, especially on myself.