Lots of people are losing their shit because the EU has enacted their AI Act. But obviously nobody has actually read it. They haven’t blocked any AI developments, they have banned governments from building mass surveillance social credit systems based on AI of the type in use in China. eg in the EU it’s now illegal to walk around public places outting gay children with your smartphone. Nor can you create / operate facial recognition databases via CCTV. (I don’t live in the EU btw)

Seen this? Open Source AI is pulling ahead. Might order a TinyBox for Christmas? magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5546272da9065eddeb6fcd7ffddeef5b75be79a7&dn=mixtral-8x7b-32kseqlen&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce RELEASE a6bbd9affe0c2725c1b7410d66833e24

In 2023 the US deficit is 7.5% of GDP. If you genuinely know what the deficit actually is, this is just an incredible figure.

OK, this is the most profound forward looking thing that’s occurred to me in the past 6 months. For 30 years big tech is built on B2C models that leverage the enormous surface of the internet. Build 1 good monetisation channel and just scale it to 10^9 people. But AI is not like this. Not at all. AI is a solution to the sprawling complexity of discrete connections that network throughout the entire economy. It is 10^6 monetisation channels each occurring 10^3 instances. To win this space you need a B2B biz model and you need legendary workflow management. This makes it much easier to filter out winners and losers over the next 10 years. I actually think ChatGPT will disappear as it’s a loss leader product and only the OpenAI API will survive, but it will have to compete with a bunch of other API’s and local models. I think it’s obvious that the end state is local AI. There will be a day when training peaks and then terminally declines as economics is the real law of the jungle. Chasing diminishing returns is simply not worth the cost. There is no free lunch here.

Something like this… MSFT -> OpenAI: Attached, letter signed by shareholder quorum for an emergency AGM at 0800 Monday. Agenda below: Vote of Confidence, Ilya Sutskever Vote of Confidence, Adam D’Angelo Vote of Confidence, Tasha McCauley Vote of Confidence, Helen Toner Have a great weekend, Satya

MSFT 8,617 - 0 Startups OpenAI in talks with Altman to return as CEO.

The Verge

OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO

Altman is “ambivalent” and wants governance changes.

Watching Science and Technology journalist fumble their way through the past 24 hours is actually pure comedy. “The inventor of AI has been fired” 😲 “The rocket broke in two and exploded” 🥹 Embarrassing. News orgs should hire 1 engineer to cover this stuff instead of a brain dead nepobaby. Joke products.

Has anyone created a text file of all the NIP’s yet, so that I can very quickly / easily pass them to GPT?

Lots of people are comparing Sam Altman to Steve Jobs’ firing at Apple, partly because they were both founders But wrong! At OpenAI, the product development guy just fired the CEO. That’s the opposite of what happened at Apple in ‘85. Some people are blaming the inexperienced board… who hired those people? Some are blaming the overly complicated corporate structure… who built that? If OpenAI is going back to their charter… Open Source… Not For Profit… will they FOSS these models? 🤔

Occam’s Razor: Ilya Sutskever didn’t like watching someone do victory laps, and take all the credit for his life’s work.

$10,000 says whoever the permanent CEO of OpenAI they select is, it is someone who is an active participant / member of WEF.

Ruthless.

Earlier today… Board: So Sam, can we make ceoGPT?

First person to lose their job because of AI being the CEO of the company that created it… probably not a great omen for the rest if us!

WorldCoin dude loses his gig leading world’s most invogue corporation. sama fired?! Did not see that one coming. https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition