consciousness may require embodiment. Mira Murati's paper suggests that human babies gain intelligence through language. She seems to think that understanding language, then scaling up is basically equivalent to simulating the human brain. I'm paraphrasing a lot. She doesn't talk about the fact that human babies are not limited to interacting with text tokens. They interact with the world first through their 5 senses. Imagine a world that is entirely token input and output.

It's already been defined as "when AI makes me a hundred billion dollars"
Because the arbitrarily large amount is obviously at the point where they can say "who cares if it has feelings, it's made me and you rich. Me richer, but you too."

"As AI democratizes access to expertise and intelligence"
AI companies sell access to their LLMs by the mega-token. Just like democracies are bought by corporate funding.

"It’s a mindset shift. We are hardwired to think about using technology in a certain way—we see a search box and we assume we’re dealing with a search engine. The unlock is when we realize it’s not a tool but a new kind of team member."
If my professor said "the unlock is when..", I'd walk out of class. The guy that said that is a Chief AI Architect at NYU's Stern School of Business.

"we’ll see the rise of the agent boss"
"We used seven indicators to identify who has an agent boss mindset. Leaders are ahead on every measure."
Leaders are ahead (of employees/workers) on every measure. Among the measures are "sees AI as a career accelerator" and "spends 1+ hour daily with AI"
"79% of leaders believe AI will accelerate their careers versus 67% of employees"
Well they keep telling us Employees that we're going to be replaced by AI agents and nobody will have to work at all, which is not exactly the kind of career acceleration I was hoping for.
Leaders do less work. They even tell us they do less work, or no real work. Of course they're spending all their time farting around with AI.

The "action items" from this article are:
1. Hire your first digital employees
"it’s about building a workforce that blends human creativity with AI’s unique strengths"
is it about that? I wonder. Is that what it's about?

2. Set your human-agent ratio -
require employees to use gen AI, and fire anyone who doesn't do it good enough. Remember, it's not the AI that's stupid, it's you. You suck at "prompt engineering"
micromanage your employees to make sure they're using as much gen AI as possible.

3. Get to broad scale—fast
Don't do pilots! the time for pilots is over! Drive AI adoption everywhere and do it now! Don't worry about costs because that's just money and you don't want to be left in the dust. Just make everyone become an AI boss now!

No, because the CEO doesn't actually care what's better. What he's saying is not what he's doing/thinking. He's there to gain shareholder confidence in Intel, which he will do by laying off a quarter of the workforce, especially in the corporate offices. He'll do that by making people want to leave to get a better job with less uncertainty. Once that's over he has to figure out how to claw back some of the lost market share. He's not a technical person, and he doesn't have a crystal ball, so it's not clear what that strategy looks like. Go big in.. what?

There are a lot of things you don't need an LLM for that folks are trying to get LLMs to do. Same with ML. Everyone keeps asking "how can we use ML to solve this" and now "Can we make AI a part of this process?" and I'm like no. If you want to spend a whole lot of money and get nothing in return, just give me the money. We'll all be happier.

Copilot users are ChatGPT users. They're just using it via Copilot. Or am I mistaken? I seem to be using GPT-4o according to Copilot.
We only see Copilot as a coding assistant tool. I can't imagine there are more than 20 million programmers using Copilot. I mean everyone is trying it out, seeing the limitations and what it can do. The CFO is probably trying to show that there's really no need to have Suleyman in that position. Which is correct.

Alternately you can be a high performer and still get no pay raise. Having nothing to do with your performance, company says no raise because we don't have it in the budget. We promised to buy back a certain investor's stock, and that's where your raise went. Why make the effort if the rewards for hard work keep decreasing, and each year you see your compensation decrease because the company shifts more benefits costs to employees? Why does everyone try to look like they're doing 110%?

Some execs were recently asking us engineers if we can make the use of AI mandatory. It seems like they keep praising GPT etc as if they are actual employees. Like "kudos to ChatGPT for helping me write this"
No you dumb fuck, kudos to you for telling us you suck at your job.

Well the "increase in trans" people (which is a non-thing) could be correlated with the microplastics in our brains. Could also be not that.
Maybe the enstupification of the US is caused by microplastics too? Because I blame social media for that one mainly. And republican policies. And Russia, other state actors.

Why are some people so afraid of full-blown panics about things like the environment and health? Just don't panic. People aren't going out flipping over cars and setting businesses on fire due to some research pointing towards possible harm from microplastics.

When I were a boy we didn't have WiFi anywhere. The boats have WiFi and internet access. They just don't give the crew access.
  I think the captains want to avoid being recorded in real-time by the crew, because that could lead to mutiny, and they also want to avoid having crew members run their own fishing channels, because it's their boat, not the crew's and making side $$ showing the insane conditions they have to endure would probably make more money than catching tuna. It's all economics and control and the desire to keep a tight ship. Conditions on deep sea fishing vessels are that way for a reason, and not just because people are cruel. To be a deep sea fishing captain you have to be a bit of a psycho, and nearly immune to stress. Cap'n Ahab is not a caricature. He's bonkers, but at no point is he not striving to murder something.

Talk about a missed business opportunity. So all traffic is managed equally by algorithms that provide the best QOS possible for everyone, right?

Dune, Dune 2, Blade Runner 2049 didn't look fantastic because of all the CGI. It looked great because most of what's on screen is real - miniatures, props, sets, lighting, camera, practical effects, wardrobe, etc. Practical effects require human ingenuity.

Paul Lambert, on Dune:
"we found the highest hill outside of Budapest and put our ornithopter on a gimbal on top of that hill, surrounded by a sand-colored wrap. On a sunny day, the light would bounce off the sand into the cabin"

There's a gigantic butt-ton of money in the world right now, mostly held by people who don't know what to do with it. The richest people in the world are afraid to risk a little bit of money on art, because it might not get a 5x return on investment, they'll dump fortunes into every AI startup because of FOMO.
If you want to make movies, and you're rich, make movies. Don't hire people who know better than you to make movies and then tell them how to do their jobs. That's how we got Alien 3 and things like it.

Recall is keeps a timeline of snapshots, but more than just screencaps. It's searchable, so if you looked at something on the web that was later taken down, that data is still there in Recall, searchable by natural lang queries I believe. While I can't imagine I'd have any use for this feature, maybe/probably some other people who spend a lot of time doing things I don't do might have a use for it.
I can imagine companies/managers wanting to see everything you've been doing on your company computer.
They already screencap employees all the time and save those screencaps for 90 days or so in case some sort of data leak happens. I'm sure the 3rd party software doing the snapshots and archiving is using ML to detect activity that could be bad for the company. Like posting on/. for example. I'm sure they can query for "show me all the times my employee is slacking off"
I don't like it, but that's corporate America for ya! Either put up/shut up and get paid or pound dirt.

"Revive the Warrior Ethos"
We need to invest in Warrior Ethos boner pills for all the warfighters!
Where did the "warfighters" thing come from? It's a stupid word.
Hegseth talks like the "ex-Navy Seal" at the bar who uses swat hands to act out colorful combat stories he heard from actual soldiers.