The biggest winner of the AI race will be distributed systems people. Everything is converging onto a distributed network of stuff and it is only accelerating in the last two years.
Congrats to DeepSeek on producing an o1-level reasoning model! Their research paper demonstrates that they’ve independently found some of the core ideas that we did on our way to o1.
For about as long as I've been in AI, it has always been overhyped in some way -- shrouded in a cloud of bullshit. No matter the year, many commentators have assumed that it had incredible capabilities that it clearly didn't, and that it would soon pose risks that were clearly not real.
The trap is to think that, just because dim-witted people hype it up, AI isn't real. It's extremely real, and it will be a much bigger thing in 5 years than it is today, and then an even bigger thing in 10 years. It was already real and well on its way in, say, 2016 -- back when everyone assumed that no one would be driving their own car by the year 2020, back when some VCs were claiming that LSTM text generators were already good enough to replace journalists, back when doomers were already panicking about Bostromian fantasies.
The claims may be BS, but the tech is real, it's moving fast, and it drives an increasing fraction of the global GDP every year. That overarching trend is showing no sign of slowing down.
@rvirding@AndrewChamb any company is bound to follow the rules of engagement in its country of origin, all of the other SaaS AI models as well, not all it makes out to be. Very sensitive/ignorant/censored about their own biases, none of them can be trusted but this one MIT license and can run locally.
@rvirding The service is censored like any other app hosted in China, but the model and its weights are open and will give you a better answer if you ask that question locally.
US Army is testing AI in StarCraft 2 to help in real life battle planning.
I am really curious how does it actually look and how effective the AI is compared to human decision making.
https://t.co/epliFQbtwD
I'm excited to announce an alpha release of an @elixirlang interface to Luerl, ergonomically called Lua.
We've used it in production for over 6 months to power our internal and external scripting.
Feedback and PRs are welcome!
https://t.co/JkAzBRTmdj
#myelixirstatus