Last I checked, we had a perfectly good agency that was doing great work on this front, before some idiot fired everyone, hollowed it out, and renamed it "US Doge Service" 🤦

Fair point. We don't need more articles breathlessly hailing our glorious AI future; nor decrying all such systems as irredeemable, colossal boondoggles. Both sides' lack of nuance poisons the discourse.

Tech bros predicting mass unemployment, and AGI burning TWs of energy, aren't helping either 🤦

Is it really so difficult for us to hold two concepts in our minds simultaneously?

Yes, the SV hype machine has gone off the rails with AI and ethics.

And yes, ML/AI techniques can be incredibly useful in solving difficult problems. DeepMind's protein folding solution is a huge win for biology.

"Intel said the United States would invest $8.9 billion in its stock, on top of $2.2 billion [...]"

Can someone please help me understand how this is Intel "giving the government $10B"?

"The new curriculum was drafted by a review committee that includes Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation."

Oh good. Now they're skipping the "put crazy people on school boards" step and just letting Heritage write out curricula.

What could possibly go wrong?

And for completeness, I do realize that we have to take the amortized energy cost of training into consideration to get a full accounting.

I'd love to get a transparent breakdown of this aspect as well, and where it's trending. E.g., are we spending more or less as we train newer/larger models?

Absolutely. There's so much borderline-religious zeal on both sides of the debate, losing science and engineering in the shuffle.

We need a lot fewer inflated claims derived from motivated reasoning, and a lot more data. This is why I applaud Google's openness here, even as I hope for more.

That doesn't seem crazy. I don't know where the state of the art in TPU power efficiency stands over most GPUs, but ~30% seems reasonable.

Yeah, it's kind of a shit show over there. I'm at the point where I only login to FB or Instagram because my family sends me something. Otherwise, it's just not worth wading through.

My kiddo goes absolutely nuts for these shrimp chips!
I have to admit, they _are_ pretty damn good.

This is also why I hate it when Altman and Co go around telling everyone we're going to need terawatts of cheap power. We want model providers competing over efficiency, not just trying to scale up as though energy were free.