Memory bandwidth should not keep a model from running, though it would likely run slower.
Posts by pip25
312 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jun 2010
Sorry, Siri: Apple may be eyeing Google Gemini for future iPhones
A rotten Apple
It seems as if the company had retained most of its negative practices, but has slowly abandoned its former privileged position of being an innovator and a trend-setter. Turning to Google on the AI front would be especially embarrassing when you consider the models that are openly available today. You'd think Apple would at least build something on them.
Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble
We asked Intel to define 'AI PC'. Its reply: 'Anything with our latest CPUs'
Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower
AI is a mirror
I am getting increasingly convinced that current AI implementations merely make us come face-to-face with all our hypocrisies and perversions... and we're obviously not prepared to witness it. So the model is given an impossible task: be as human as possible without being as biased and fallible as humans generally are. Obviously, that is not going to work.
Toyota, Samsung accelerate toward better EV batteries
Dell exec reveals Nvidia has a 1,000-watt GPU in the works
Bitcoin mining 2.0?
I can't help but be reminded of how the power consumption really got out of hand on the mining front - only this time, it's Nvidia itself that is apparently fuelling the flames. Energy efficiency might not be what people are looking for in these accelerators, but this still sounds rather extreme.
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be coders, Jensen Huang warns
Intel urges businesses to undergo AI PC facelift with vPro update
China breakthrough promises optical discs that store hundreds of terabytes
Missing important use cases
Audio made the CD ubiquitous. Video helped the DVD spread. And Blu-ray failed to make the same splash exactly because at that point, many people had an Internet connection that was good enough to just stream whatever they were interested in.
So, what would they be selling on these disks with petabit capacity? Because I doubt archival in itself will let it get off the ground.
SAP hits brakes on Tesla company car deal
Two of India's most prominent startup tech giants are in deep trouble
HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten
"Everything else in computing has gotten cheaper and easier to make over time, but printers really haven't at all."
How mysterious. The printer hardware must be cursed. Or maybe, just maybe, they weren't trying that hard to reduce costs to begin with. If they get their money from the fools, er, I mean, their customers either way, why bother?
Welcome to 2024: Volkswagen really is putting ChatGPT into cars as a gabby copilot
Microsoft nixed Mixed Reality: This Windows VR didn't even make it to the ER
Amazon's game-streamer Twitch to quit South Korea, citing savage network costs
Re: is this better for SK Broadband?
Considering Koreans will still be able to access Twitch via a VPN, its bandwidth costs will not simply disappear. Not all users are savvy enough to do so, but those that really want to will still watch the streams, except the telco will no longer be able to bill Twitch for it.
Microsoft issues deadline for end of Windows 10 support – it's pay to play for security
Control Altman delete: OpenAI fires CEO, chairman quits
Want a well-paid job in tech? You just need to become a cloud-native god
Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile
Does Windows have a very weak password lurking in its crypto libraries?
CEO Satya Nadella thinks Microsoft hung up on Windows Phone too soon
Word turns 40: From 'new kid on the block' to 'I can't believe it's not bloatware'
I would not want to be on the Word dev team today
The software has all the features 99% of its users could possibly imagine, not to mention need, since over a decade (at the very least). Yet, of course, Microsoft still wants to sell new versions, so it WILL get new features, regardless of whether they are useful or not. Not the most motivating situation to be in as a developer, I imagine.
AI safety guardrails easily thwarted, security study finds
Google promises eternity of updates for Chromebooks – that's a decade for everyone else
The world seems so loopy. But at least someone's written a memory-safe sudo in Rust
Inclusive Naming Initiative limps towards release of dangerous digital dictionary
CockroachDB hits Azure at last after five-year mission
Red Hat promises AI trained on 'curated' and 'domain-specific' data
Mozilla so sorry for intrusive Firefox VPN popup ad
Microsoft can't stop injecting Copilot AI into every corner of its app empire
Meanwhile
I'm using a completely free and open-source code assistant, StarCoder via Huggingface's VSCode extension. I don't have to pay a penny, though I am seriously considering it just to support the project. It came out recently, but it's already pretty useful. Microsoft, you can go ahead and stick your proprietary crap everywhere, you won't get any money from me!
Orqa drone goggles bricked: Time-bomb ransomware or unpaid firmware license?
Time-limited license... in firmware
The contractor's greed is undeniable, but I have little sympathy for Orqa. Even if they extend their license now, they're not going to extend it forever - in other words, these devices will have an expiry date. They should have never signed such a license agreement. Ever.
Linux kernel logic allowed Spectre attack on 'major cloud provider'
Re: Did any such attack take place? Ever?
My problem is that these preventive measures cost a lot, not just in terms of time and money to implement, but also in terms of performance. Slowdowns of up to 70% percent and other horrifying numbers are thrown around - if that is the price we have to pay to be protected from a certain threat, it'd be nice if it were a threat that is provably dangerous and exploitable, and by "provably" I mean outside of academic papers.
Did any such attack take place? Ever?
I hear a lot about speculative execution vulnerabilities, how hard they are to mitigate, and how they can potentially be exploited to nefarious ends, but much less about actual attacks against "major cloud providers" or other infrastructure using these vulnerabilities. Either I'm being terribly ignorant, or it feels as if we're chasing an actual spectre, not a practical issue with real-life repercussions.
Why a top US cyber spy urges: Get religious about backups
Re: Free secure data backups! Now!
It's scary, but I can actually see a market for this.
"If you lost some precious company or personal data, give us a call. There's a possibility that we may have ACCIDENTALLY backup up your stuff in the recent past, and are willing to return in to you for a small fee."
OpenAI claims GPT-4 will beat 90% of you in an exam
Microsoft begs you not to ditch Edge on Google's own Chrome download page
Accidental WhatsApp account takeovers? It's a thing
Been there, done that
I got a phone from my employer for work-related purposes years ago. Soon enough, I started getting calls, from banks to complete strangers, all looking for the same lady who obviously wasn't me. At first, it felt hilarious. After the 10th call it felt annoying. I may have managed to track down the lady via social media, but my polite letter to resolve this situation went unanswered, so I guess I'll never know for sure. Thankfully the calls petered out over the years, so now only the moral remains: these days your phone number is part of your identity. Be careful with it.
Microsoft switches Edge’s PDF reader to pay-to-play Adobe Acrobat
Thank you for quelling my doubts, Microsoft
I was starting to get weird, bizarre thoughts about trying out Edge, but this decision has brought me back to my senses. Thanks for that.
No, seriously, why anyone at Microsoft would think that integrating what is widely considered horrific bloatware into their browser is beyond me.
VMware turns 25 today: Is it a mature professional or headed back to Mom's house?
That brings back memories
I first encountered VMware in a magazine article around 2000, when such computer magazines were still a thing. It heralded virtualization as something new and groundbreaking (I'm not sure the author was aware of the prior non-x86 virtualization efforts El Reg refers to), but I remember myself blinking in confusion. Why would you use a computer... to simulate another computer, especially one with the exact same architecture? Of course, I was only 16 at the time and not at all aware of what the stuff meant for the industry.
It's good to see that VMware is still around. I tend to use desktop virtualization and Virtualbox most of the time, but if there is one thing I've learned since reading that article back in the day, it is that our line of work desperately needs alternatives. Preferably more than one. So here's to another 25 fruitful years, VMware. :)
Zoom and gloom: Vid-chat biz sheds 15 percent of staff – by email
Zoom really needs a wake-up call
We actually WANTED to make it the official video conference tool in the company, but its stupid pricing model left us stuck with only a handful of rooms, which wasn't really usable. Now we are transitioning to Teams, which is an inferior product in every way, except one: it is basically free, since we have an O365 subscription anyway. It's a damn shame.
Dell planning job cuts as PC demand jumps off a cliff
It's your human hubris holding back AI acceptance
Skepticism is pretty much required
Given the current accuracy of AI systems (or, well, the lack thereof), blindly accepting what it recommends is plain foolishness. These systems, in their present state, are more usable for work that is easier to check for accuracy than it is to do by hand (boilerplate code, for example). Hubris has nothing to do with it.
(ChatGPT chose "B", by the way. When asked why, it gave a reasoning that was self-contradictory, though the second part of it would have made sense on its own.)
Lockheed Martin demos 50kW anti-aircraft frickin' laser beam
City council cans ERP project, keeps details of replacement supplier secret
ERPs are horrible
There is definitely a demand for centralized solutions that can do most things or at least are customizable enough to be adapted to an organization's needs, but what is currently on the market seems to range from bad to worse. The "least bad" one my company bought is the bane of my existence. ;_;