What's interesting about algorithms?

The challenge of doing X with as few resources as possible (memory, etc).

What do OpenAI + friends do? The opposite.

"Lets assume we have unlimited resources & try to build a god."

No wonder they're losing their shit with the DeepSeek thing.

Addendum: whether DeepSeek or OpenAI, there's no such thing as AGI & attempting to build it results in harm: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636.

Don't make this into a "US vs China US has to win on AGI" thing please 🙄

Absolutely zero surprise here. One of the biggest reasons we need real OSS (including data, as much as possible) to win in AI is because the alternatives are extremely grim from not just a speech perspective, but from a simple “whose facts” perspective.
https://mastodon.xyz/@johl/113901040086503989

Oopsie 😛

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/27/tech-shares-asia-europe-fall-china-ai-deepseek

If you ever had doubts whether technology is political:

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/72603

(Short recap: Github CoPilot stops working if you have gender-related words in your code, anything related to sex and so on).

BTW It's not just meat... weigh your OTHER foods, especially your dried goods, etc.

Canadian grocers continue to rip off Canadians with zero transparency and/or accountability. . https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/meat-weigh-grocers-1.7440150 #cdnpoli #polcan

So, there were no black people in the US military ever... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74e175p40qo

#trumpistan #pissantadministration #USLIES #USA2025

TIL big specialized forums have started backdating millions of LLM-generated posts. Now you cannot be sure a reply from 2009 on some forum for physics or maps or flower or drill enthusiasts haven't been machine-generated and totally wrong.

https://hallofdreams.org/posts/physicsforums/

Tech's core regulatory proposition is "it's not a crime if we do it with an app." It's not an unlicensed taxi if we do it with an app. It's not an illegal hotel room if we do it with an app. It's not an unregistered security if we do it with an app. It's not wage theft if we do it with an app.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/25/potatotrac/#carbo-loading

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88% of residents support it, the businesses complain (about more business?) so they cancel it.

Fuck PM.

https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article733060.html

Google just removed their promise not to use AI to build weapons

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-04/google-removes-language-on-weapons-from-public-ai-principles

but you won't stop doing business with them, will you