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[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Steps that either would not work between architectures or that Rosetta would handle (thereby answering your own question)

What? They would compile the code that they control for the M-series architectures. The target architecture is M-series ARM chips running on MacOS.

Rosetta is for translating x86 to ARM. Which wouldn't be necessary because there are no x86 binaries involved at all.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

I don't understand why Rosetta has to be involved in any way at all.

Apple provides APIs for programming low level GPU instructions, including AI workloads, on their chips, using the Metal API. Anyone interested in using Apple hardware to its full potential can just write Mac-native software, same as any other MacOS native software directly compiled as binaries to run on Mac M series chips. No Rosetta required for translating x86 instructions to ARM, when the whole thing compiles for Apple's native instructions in the first place.

 

In recent years, I've seen people use projectors at night to protest policies: projecting slogans, images, etc., using a normal projector against the wall of the target of a protest (embassies, government buildings, prisons/detainment facilities, corporate headquarters, etc.).

Here's an example, but I've seen lots of other examples. And even outside of protest, people have been doing ridiculous things with 3D projection, like this guy animating a hotel cuck chair (SFW).

This got me to thinking: if the image recognition of Flock and similar cameras is just an AI image recognition function (using ImageNet or something like that) being run on captured video, what's stopping people from projecting false data onto streets and sidewalks in a way that tricks the Flock camera into recording false people/vehicles in places where there was no person/vehicle? Including fake license plates, etc.?

Seems like an attack vector for some kind of denial of service attack, like putting fake faces and license plates all over.

Is there anyone doing this? Would it be possible, at least at night, for certain camera locations and angles?

In 2011, Motorola split into two companies, each with rights to the Motorola name and logo.

Motorola Mobility took the business lines related to cell phones. It got bought by Google, and then Lenovo.

Motorola Solutions took the business lines related to everything else, including (and especially) radios for law enforcement, fire departments, militaries, and surveillance video tech.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yup. My main living data is on a NAS, my on-site backup is an external USB enclosure with a SATA hard drive hooked up to a Mac Mini, all so that I can leverage a Backblaze account to back up the external hard drive with unlimited data.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wait can tokens just be directly compared like that? My impression is that token cost can vary by 2 orders of magnitude, depending on model, because the actual work of computation varies by that much between models.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

She also did this while she was still a full time undergraduate university student. Normally you'd expect someone with more experience to be doing this kind of low level hardware hacking, but she did all this while still young, before even graduating from university.

Reportedly, the app uses an on-device machine learning model to classify the content.

Using your shiny new phone to train AI...

I would think the models are already trained, and then deployed to phones to do on-device inference. The models should be fixed and static by the time they end up on a phone (in large part because phone hardware is just not technically suitable for training, whether pre training or post training).

The federal Stored Communications Act is essentially one party consent. It primarily restricts the ability of a service provider (who isn't a party to those communications) to share things with law enforcement or with others, and governs the manner in which governments can compel disclosure of information about communications. None of it restricts an actual party to the communication, though.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

True, although that's kinda on the parents for naming their kid after a character whose arc isn't finished in popular culture.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm not aware of any state that applies two party consent rules to written communications. As far as I can tell, state wiretap laws only apply to in-person or live voice conversations (like traditional phone calls).

Oregon, for example, is a two party consent state for phone calls but single party consent for electronic communications. Same with Illinois.

Connecticut and Montana don't apply two party rules when the non-recording parties are merely aware that recording is happening, and it seems like a pretty straightforward analysis that everyone knows that the other side keeps text messages on their phone, usually indefinitely.

The nature of email, text messaging, or any other kind of written communication basically makes it impossible to expect the other side not to save a record of the conversation, because that's just how the technology generally works.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Imagine being named Alexa, born in 1998, minding your own damn business when Amazon just completely wrecks your name as you're entering high school.

aren’t just wrong — they’re a bridge too far

Haven't the PR flacks learned by now to sound less obvious about using LLM generated text?

 

(Note: McSweeney's is a satirical publication)

 

I've read some of Ed Zitron's long posts on why the AI industry is a bubble that will never be profitable (and will bring down a lot of companies and investors), and one of the recurring themes is that the AI companies are trying to capture growing market share in an industry where their marginal profits are still negative, and that any increase in revenue necessarily increases their costs of providing their services.

But some of the comments in various HackerNews threads are dismissive, saying that each new generation of models makes the cost of inference lower, so that with sufficient customer volume, the companies running the models can make enough profit on inference to make up for the staggering up-front capital expenditures it took to build out the data centers, train their models, etc.

It's all pretty confusing to me. So for those of you who are familiar with the industry, I have several questions:

  1. Is the cost of running any given pretrained model going down, for specific models? Are there hardware and software improvements that make it cheaper to run those models, despite the model itself not changing?
  2. Is the cost of performing a particular task at a particular quality level going down, through releases of newer models of similar performance (i.e., a smaller model of the current generation performing similarly to a bigger model of the previous generation, such that the cost is now cheaper)?
  3. Is the cost of running the largest flagship frontier models going down for any given task? Or does running the cutting edge show-off tasks keep increasing in cost, but where the companies argue that the improvement in performance is worth the cost increase?

I suspect that the reason why the discussion around this is so muddled online is because the answers are different depending on which of the 3 questions is meant by "is running an AI model getting cheaper over time?" And the data isn't easy to synthesize because each model has different token prices and different number of tokens per query.

But I wanted to hear from people who are knowledgeable about these topics.

 

Curious what everyone else is doing with all the files that are generated by photography as a hobby/interest/profession. What's your working setup, how do you share with others, and how are you backing things up?

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