And yet whenever some achievement is made, the headlines are “Musk achieves great feat”

Not at all. It’s not “how likely is the next word to be X”. That wouldn’t be context.

I’m guessing you didn’t watch the video.

I’m not wrong. There’s mountains of research demonstrating that LLMs encode contextual relationships between words during training.

There’s so much more happening beyond “predicting the next word”. This is one of those unfortunate “dumbing down the science communication” things. It was said once and now it’s just repeated non-stop.

If you really want a better understanding, watch this video:

https://youtu.be/UKcWu1l_UNw

And before your next response starts with “but Apple…”

Their paper has had many holes poked into it already. Also, it’s not a coincidence their paper released just before their WWDC event which had almost zero AI stuff in it. They flopped so hard on AI that they even have class action lawsuits against them for their false advertising. In fact, it turns out that a lot of their AI demos from last year were completely fabricated and didn’t exist as a product when they announced them. Even some top Apple people only learned of those features during the announcements.

Apple’s paper on LLMs is completely biased in their favour.

it just repeats things which approximate those that have been said before.

That’s not correct and over simplifies how LLMs work. I agree with the spirit of what you’re saying though.

It’s been talked about to death. It’s been analysed to death.

But here’s a very detailed and thorough breakdown:

https://youtu.be/0Udn7WNOrvQ

Lied

15 years ago, maybe. But I haven’t had any compatibility issues in many years.

He’s on float plane

I’ll never support anyone on that platform. I’ll never do anything to give LTT a cent.

The funny thing about that story, and the outset that no one covered after the fact, is that Munich reversed direction again and ultimately did go with Linux and open source stacks.

This is corporate AI against open source AI.

Show me where I can download Midjourneys full model to run it locally and then we can agree to call it “open weights”. Unless their base model and training data is also available, it’s not open source.

I did acknowledge that it’s not exclusive to the US. And I didn’t say “it is”, I said “it feels like”.

FTX, Theranos, Fyre Festival, Enron, Bernie Madoff, Logan Paul’s CrytoZoo, Charles Ponzi (the OG Ponzi scammer), etc.

While scams exist everywhere, the US seems specially suited to embolden people to run scams. At least high profile ones.

It’s a whole hell of a lot harder to rig when your name is everywhere when you win.

This also sounds like a uniquely US problem. Not that there aren’t scammers everywhere, but it feels like it would be more prevalent in the US.

who have invented their own language about syncing up, achieving alignment, creating action items

My soul contracted in upon itself a little as I read that.

Ok, so you’re implying people were using their videos for free instead of paying for the streaming services. Then Plex wanted more money so they’ve started to charge people for using their own stuff.

That’s fine, and frankly I agree with that.

But your initial reply to me is still irrelevant to the discussion.

It’s irrelevant because even Plex themselves made no mention of their in-house streaming stuff. The discussion is about being charged to view your videos, hosted on your own self-hosted server, viewed on your own device.

But the blog post from Plex was specifically talking about charging for remotely accessing your own files. So your point is irrelevant to the discussion.

Streaming requires high-performance, high-bandwidth machines that cost anywhere from several dozen dollars to several hundred dollars a month. You build a resilient high-availability network, and you could easily be looking at several tens of thousands of dollars a month.

Are you under the impression that Plex uploads the movie files to their servers and then transcodes them there, or something?

And the hard work happens on your own hardware. All Plex’s servers are doing is acting as a signaling server, but no media or routed through Plex’s servers.

That’s not better, you didn’t allow any smart TV to connect to the internet.

I bought a Samsung TV that wouldn’t let me change the input until I connected it to the internet, I returned that crap within the hour.

There’s also the tribal knowledge of people who’ve worked somewhere for a few years. There’s always a few people who just know where or how a particular thing works and why it works that way. AI simply cannot replace that.