Younger software engineers don't feel the need to optimize.
That's not really true, though. The optimization methods of younger software engineers are things like Microservices and NoSQL.
Of course, they don't profile to see if their "optimizations" actually go faster, but when have programmers ever bothered to measure?
initial talks between Annapurna co-founder Nafea Bshara and Amazon executive James Hamilton...Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who led AWS when the acquisition occurred
All this name dropping makes it look like office politics leaking out into the public. The article also mentions "Matt Garman" for no reason whatsoever. If office politics are that bad that it leaks out into the public, then Amazon is going to quickly become a very bad place to work. Unless you like fighting office politics, then go work there.
Incidentally, the rack wiring in the picture in TFA needs some work, I would never be satisfied with a datacenter with such sloppy wiring.
You shouldn't have to resort to cleverness and effort to find this out. AI training bots should log the URLs they ingest, and anyone should be able to query those logs to see if their site has been used to train the model. Given the vast sums companies are spending on training their models, the marginal effort of maintaining a public log wouldn't add any significant cost, other than the litigation costs they'll face when sites discover their TOSs have been violated.
The whole "move fast break things" ethos counts on creating a new status quo faster than regulatory bodies can respond. Tech startups rely on creating a fait accompli before government even notices the problem, but if they fail in that a well-funded company has recourse to deceptive PR, then lobbying, then lawyers to gum up the works. In AI, companies are already racing each other as fast as obscene gobs of money can propel them forward; it wouldn't take much to slow down any public regulatory response so that it will have to be mounted against the winner of that race, a company that will be in a much more commanding position to fight back.
In the meantime your hypothetical whistleblowing engineer probably is compensated to a substantial degree with stock options, and his continued employment prospects after ratting out his company are bleak in an industry where everyone is doing the same thing.
I'm not saying its impossible, but I'm a lot more pessimistic than you about it being *easy*. I suspect that enabling private actors to move against AI companies would be a lot faster. Since damages are hard to prove or quantify, simply creating statutory damages would allow intellectual property owners to take the initiative against infringing AI systems. It would help if there were transparency regulations which aided IP owners in detecting unauthorized training. Of course the downside is the volume of litigation that would follow.
I don't need guard rails and hand-holding. Give me make and gcc, and gtfo of my way.
I use a Makefile even when I use Rust or Go or React because when I haven't looked at a project for a while, the Makefile remembers how to build and run the project.
The good thing about C++ is that it does not force a single "paradigm" on you, as so many programming languages do.
That's sort of true, but inevitably you need to work with other people's code, and they choose a paradigm and you have to work with it.
Rust would prevent a bad developer from writing unsafe code (assuming no unsafe)
That's not true, though. It means you won't have any memory leaks, but there are a LOT of other ways code can be unsafe.
People do not realize what it means to have a country with the kind of military America has completely in control by a combination of absolute basket cases
Still better than Bush. (At least until the day he actually does invade Greenland.)
worse than the science popularizations have suggested so far - and they were already called alarmist, when in fact, they were understating the problem.
What are you talking about, the alarmists are saying the oceans will boil, not that the results will be in the upper level of estimates.
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word. -- Robert Heinlein
