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"Next-token predictor" is the wrong mental model for LLMs

I just think its a meaningless dismissive term. It literally does predict the next token. But it ignores that it coherently predicts long continuous sequences of those tokens, that tokens can be anything, and you can do almost literally anything with that capability if it does it well enough.

How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

At the moment there is no other hardware manufacturer making similarly secure android phones. *NONE* There is no android hardware coming close. If there is, please name it. As far as I know it's only some unspecified, upcoming Motorola flagships. If you call the unwilling, pragmatic choice an "intense hypocrisy", it's pretty clear to me you're simply driven by emotions and tribalism, that the facts don't matter. Are you saying that using Google hardware equals using stock Google os? You must be a little more.... Coherent with your metaphors :)

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

Pretty sure it's an ad, they did it on purpose, just like the hugging face attack

Bin Laden's "Letter to America"

Man, I haven't seen propaganda like that in decades. "They hate us for our freedoms," quality stuff. Not even lying, the current administration could learn a thing or two from the neocons. They started off strong with "Make America Great Again," and Trump used to be able to end someone's whole career with a snarky quip, but now they're just shitposting memes and your racist uncle sounds more coherent when he's drunk than Trump does sober.

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

wouldn't it be interesting if nVidia buying hugging face was part of hushing up the fallout there On the face of it, they would have very good cause for some action there, assuming they wanted to.

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

That's a truism, of course a "sufficiently smart" intelligence is uncontainable. The real question thus moves to the threshold of intelligence and 1. whether it's possible to emerge during training based on the architectural limitations of the agentic/LLM paradigm, 2. if the hardware substrate is sufficient for said intelligence and 3. that such intelligence could replicate onto other hardware that could support it. e.g. If the threshold for uncontainable self-replicating intelligence takes 2000 football fields worth of GPUs that solves the first requirement, but then can it replicate itself anywhere else given those requirements? If not we can cut a powerline or two and "foom" scenario happened but didn't lead inexorably to grey goo. His thought experiments never acknowledge any rea…

OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims

Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face

it was also yet-another-huge-reward to those who took part in a big publicity splash (ie. win) for an AI biz: OpenClaw guy: rewarded by acquihire Bun compiler Zig-to-Rust rewrite guy: rewarded by acquihire HuggingFace "hacked" by "rogue" AI: rewarded by acquihire

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

I listened to yesterday's NYT's The Daily podcast about the Hugging Face incident, and they got to the part about some of the agents showing reluctance or guilt in the posts. Then I thought, "These are improv actors." Stories with conspiracies of AI agents will often have "nervous Nellies" because that makes a better story. So when the flow of the conversation reaches a point where a nervous Nellie would chime in, it's reasonable that an agent would fill in that probable post. The worrying implication is that stories have conflict.

Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration

I haven't written one. You can easily replicate it if you wish just based on my comment and a day spent with Claude Code. In fact that is how I got the idea. There is a 4 month old post on SWEbench github that claimed 20 point boost (beating opus as well) for another small Qwen model when it's traffic was sent via a similar proxy and claude code was used as the harness. The author didn't post their full code, but he did post all sorts of logs showing which features of his proxy were activated during which run. I wanted to exclude the harness and validate his claims regarding only the proxy's impact so I reimplemplemented a subset of his features that seemed to give me the biggest "wins" with the smallest amount of work. These are the ones I list in the parent. It took one afternoon last w…

Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI

I don't see this being a blip, for multiple reasons. A) the uptime matrix between Github, OpenAI, and Anthropic means that we've faced multiple entire days of not being able to ship org-wide due to our reliance on automated code review and other tooling. Every cloud service baked into our CI pipeline becomes a point of failure. We can't live without AI anymore, but it too often either directly or indirectly gets interferes with our ability to ship, and I don't see this improving any time soon. B) Locally hosted AI has serious advantages with regard to PII/sensitive data management, and there's not much the frontier models can do to overcome this. There are so many things I want to build and let loose in a sensitive data environment but can't due to data governance around frontier mod…

Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI

I don't see this being a blip, for multiple reasons. A) the uptime matrix between Github, OpenAI, and Anthropic means that we've faced multiple entire days of not being able to ship org-wide due to our reliance on automated code review and other tooling. Every cloud service baked into our CI pipeline becomes a point of failure. We can't live without AI anymore, but it too often either directly or indirectly gets interferes with our ability to ship, and I don't see this improving any time soon. B) Locally hosted AI has serious advantages with regard to PII/sensitive data management, and there's not much the frontier models can do to overcome this. There are so many things I want to build and let loose in a sensitive data environment but can't due to data governance around frontier mod…

Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem

The AI labs have out considerable effort in trying to find and patch lean exploits. They explicitly set agents and have them try to prove false. > Daniel used OpenAI internal models to discover new soundness issues in the official Lean kernel and runtime https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-24-postmortem-for-t... They found several bugs and they have patched them. Lots of work going into making sure lean is sound.

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

I don't particularly believe this (I'm not an expert in anything computer-y, let alone security, so the only thing I know is that people who seem respected here (like simonw) point out that the sandbox from OpenAI was at least very badly designed, but who knows why that is), but here's one piece of possible evidence: if something similar causes so much damage that it ends up obviously hurting the company responsible. This could be something like targeting a big bank and causing so much disruption that the law wakes up and immediately intervenes, or it could be major damage to the company's own systems. Of course, if that happens, this whole discussion becomes moot, and good luck to us all...

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

I'd say Gemini over Anthropic. Google's overcaution literally hamstrung its own AI progression efforts. Anthropic is just all talk, no bluster, when it comes to safety and ethics. If they were ah so concerned about AI safety, they wouldn't go around marketing Fable's hacking capabilities like they are now.

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

Arguably, and not to offend you, it is those very people who have significant ownership stakes and funding in (Not)openAI. It's not like the people with more resources than in any time in human history aren't investing in and wanting AI to succeed for their selfish reasons to grow their own resources and influence more. So, yes, it can "do whatever it wants" as long as most people remain weak, subservient, and disempowered to hold accountable those who keep making these decisions negatively shaping the majority's world.

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

Yes but that report wasn't written by OpenAI. It was written by three independent researchers. OpenAI seems to have tried to hide it.

Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages

xAI mentioned a Memphis outage, which is where Anthropic was leasing capacity on Colossus 1. I do think this is the explanation.

Pause OpenAI Now

Well at the very least lets agree that if you are going to use cloud models, there are much better options than OpenAI and Anthropic prices for most people. One does not have to give Sam or Dario money. Personally though, I would sooner sell my car to afford GPUs than let a third party be in control of the tools I use to do my job.

Pause OpenAI Now

Well at the very least lets agree that if you are going to use cloud models, there are much better options than OpenAI and Anthropic prices for most people. One does not have to give Sam or Dario money. Personally though, I would sooner sell my car to afford GPUs than let a third party be in control of the tools I use to do my job.