Signed up. Concurrency has been a bit of a blindspot for me outside the basics. It'll be nice to be able to really evaluate approaches and understand the internals.
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Recently replaced my Eufy system with UI ones - I’m a big fan so far. Picked up a few new 4k ones for important areas and got the rest used on marketplace via a 4-pack of 2k ones for $150 from a hair salon that had changed systems.
>Anthropic spent "many millions of dollars" buying used print books, then stripped off the bindings, cut the pages, and scanned them into digital files.
The judge, Alsup J, ruled that this was lawful.
So they cared at least a bit, enough to spend a lot of money buying books. But they didn't care enough not to acquire online libraries held apparently without proper licensing.
>Alsup wrote that Anthropic preferred to "steal" books to "avoid 'legal/practice/business slog,' as cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei put it."
Aside: using the term steal for copyright infringement is a particularly egregious misuse for a judge who should know that stealing requires denying others of the use of the stolen articles; something which copyright infringement via an online text repository simple could not do.
Using torrented books in a way that possibly (well, almost certainly) violates copyright law is a world of difference from going after your own customers (and revenue) in a way that directly violates the contract that you wrote and had them agree to.
Insane to me there isn’t even an asterisk in the blog post about this. The data collection is so over the top I don’t think users suspect it because it’s just absurd. For instance Gemini Pro chats are trained on too.
The programming analogy is convenient but off. The joke has always been “the computer only does exactly what you tell it to do!” regarding logic bugs. Prompts and LLMs most certainly do not work like that.
I loved the parallels with modern LLMs and time sharing he presented though.
> Prompts and LLMs most certainly do not work like that.
It quite literally works like that. The computer is now OS + user-land + LLM runner + ML architecture + weights + system prompt + user prompt.
Taken together, and since you're adding in probabilities (by using ML/LLMs), you're quite literally getting "the computer only does exactly what you tell it to do!", it's just that we have added "but make slight variations to what tokens you select next" (temperature>0.0) sometimes, but it's still the same thing.
Just like when you tell the computer to create encrypted content by using some seed. You're getting exactly what you asked for.
