WTF! As a US citizen let me just ask: Why can't we get good deals like this‽
We'll spend millions to achieve nothing. Billions sometimes!
These places... All they do is wine!
More importantly, they found nothing:
Investigators said they found no derogatory information on dozens of New Jersey groups they examined, found no suspicious financial activity in another nonprofit review and closed a separate Ohio inquiry after exhausting its investigative leads.
So they broke the law in order to prove their xenophobic beliefs were real and ended up disproving them. Will this stop them from continuing the xenophobic bullshit? Of course not!
Given the monumental difference between those two figures, investors across the world of finance are taking it as a sign that demand for AI is much lower than previously thought
No. Demand for OpenAI's services is lower than they thought.
Every day, the open weights models get smarter and cheaper and new competitors are coming online every few weeks. They cost a fraction of what OpenAI charges.
Demand for AI products and services is continuing to grow at a break-the-world pace. It's just these big "AI first movers" are in trouble because it's too easy to copy what they do. They expected an enormous "first mover advantage" (which is a real thing) but it turns out that AI is trivial to train and replicate (just have to scrape the Internet and scan a lot of books).
In other words, it's turning out that "first mover" is a disadvantage in this (AI) industry.
Thou shalt not eat the holy kernel.
Potential titles for this isekai:
- Fowl Reincarnation: All I Asked For Was a Quiet Life, Not a Holy War Over Breadcrumbs!
- Pond Overlord
- The Demon Lord is Quackers!
- My Life as a Qillainess: Peace was never an option!
Be the change you want to see in the world!
We all know you've always wanted to get a crucible, an anvil, and a power hammer!
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Wow, that's a lot to unpack but two things:
- Linux runs just fine on Macs.
- These days, you don't need a super experienced dev to make phone firmware because AI can do it (or make it a heck of a lot easier for a non-android-expert dev). 🤣
RISC has nothing to do with it. It's because there's no universal hardware discovery (e.g. ACPI or PCIe) for ARM. That feature is what enables Linux on x86 to enumerate what's connected (peripherals) and do things like dynamically load the necessary drivers as-needed (in addition to knowing which IRQs do what and where the registers live).
Because ARM chips lack that (and necessary documentation!) each Linux kernel put out by a SoC vendor includes binary blobs that take care of all those things (and hardware device tree files, but more on that below). They call these "hardware support packages" and they're almost always tied to a specific kernel version that never gets updates once the hardware is released.
Also, the vendors like Qualcomm, Mediatek, etc license ARM but then include their own proprietary stuff like video decoders, HDMI interfaces, etc that need proprietary drivers in order to work. If they just open sourced these drivers (aka "doing the right thing") that would make huge inroads towards better Linux adoption of their chips but apparently, management at these companies thinks their very, very specific code to drive their chips is some how a "trade secret" that their competitors could somehow take advantage of if they had access (which is bullshit).
The fix is for these chip vendors to get on board with the Arm SystemReady program: https://www.arm.com/architecture/system-architectures/systemready-compliance-program
That would give Linux the necessary ACPI equivalent and standardize their device trees (DT).
These vendors also need to work with the Linux maintainers while their chips are still in development (like AMD and Intel already do). That way, all the necessary drivers and kernel configuration steps will be "mainlined" which means everything you need to run their hardware will be built-in to the Linux kernel. You'd then be able to download the source from kernel.org, configure it for your ARM hardware, then build it—all ready to go on launch day!
Other nice things they should do:
- Fund FOSS development for their shit. For every SoC there's some poor developer out there that's writing a driver or fixing bugs. SEND THEM SOME FUCKING MONEY YOU GREEDY BASTARDS.
- Decouple the firmware from the OS media. On a lot of cheap SoCs, you need a specifically-formatted/configured microSD (or whatever) which means you can't just replace the OS without potentially fucking up the boot process. They need to adopt standard SPI flash or dedicated eMMC boot partitions so they can decouple the OS/firmware from the boot process.
If it works/does the job it's not "slop". I don't care who or what TF wrote it.
Slop has been around for a long, long time—before LLMs existed. Just because AI was involved in making something, that doesn't mean it's slop.
Example: AI was used to discover that Baricitinib (a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis) was a good candidate for treating patients infected with COVID-19. Trials were expedited and it turns out the AI was right: Baricitinib proved to be effective.
I know this isn't a popular stance in this community, but AI writing code is a machine writing for a machine. It's not really in the same ballpark as AI writing SEO bullshit, spamming bad content, or being used to generate/spread propaganda.
"If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid."
This is far more than mildly interesting!
The dude gave a lot of fucks in his will!
Doesn't surprise me: The ARM (SoC) ecosystem is a fucking mess!
Until ARM hardware is as generic as regular PCs, it will always have issues like this.
Note that I didn't say, "ARM Linux". This is because it's a fucking mess for all operating systems!
"Will my program run on this ARM chip? It runs on other ARM chips."
"Probably? Maybe? Who TF knows‽"