Its also interesting that this is the most conservative, pro “its not just memorizing” estimation possible : they multiplied the probabilities of consequent tokens. Basically it means if it starts shitting out a quote it will not be able to stop quoting until their anti copy the whole book finetuning kicks in after 50 words or so.
It can probably output far more under a realistic test (always picking the top token, temperature =0)
If it was a basement dweller with a chatbot that could be mistaken for a criminal co-conspirator, he would've gotten arrested and his computer seized as evidence, and then it would be a crapshoot if he would even be able to convince a jury that it was an accident. Especially if he was getting paid for his chatbot. Now, I'm not saying that this is right, just stating how it is for normal human beings.
It may not be explicitly illegal for a computer to do something, but you are liable for what your shit does. You can't just make a robot lawnmower and run over a neighbor's kid. If you are using random numbers to steer your lawnmower... yeah.
But because it's OpenAI with 300 billion dollar "valuation", absolutely nothing can happen whatsoever.
In theory, at least, criminal justice's purpose is prevention of crimes. And if it would serve that purpose to arrest a person, it would serve that same purpose to court-order a shutdown of a chatbot.
There's no 1st amendment right to enter into criminal conspiracies to kill people. Not even if "people" is Sam Altman.
It's curious how if ChatGPT was a person - saying exactly the same words - he would've gotten charged with a criminal conspiracy, or even shot, as its human co-conspirator in Florida did.
And had it been a foreign human in the middle east, radicalizing random people, he would've gotten a drone strike.
"AI" - and the companies building them - enjoy the kind of universal legal immunity that is never granted to humans. That needs to end.
I appreciate the sentiment but I also hate the whole "AI is a power loom for coding".
The power loom for coding is called "git clone".
What "AI" (LLM) tools provide is just English as a programming language with plagiarized sum total of all open source as the standard library. English is a shit programming language. LLMs are shit at compiling it. Open source is awesome. Plagiarized open source is "meh" - you can not apply upstream patches.
So, the judge says:
In cases involving uses like Meta’s, it seems like the plaintiffs will often win, at least where those cases have better-developed records on the market effects of the defendant’s use.
And what is that supposed to ever look like? Do authors need a better developed record of effects of movies on book sales, to get paid for movie adaptations, too?
It's called sarcasm.
One thing that I couldn't easily figure out is what is the constant factor. If the constant factor is significantly worse than for Strassen, then it would be much slower than Strassen except for very large matrices.
Let's say the constant factor is k.
N should be large enough that N^((log(49)-log(48))/log(4)) > k where k is the constant factor. Let's say the difference in exponents is x, then
N^x > k
log(N)*x > log(k)
N > exp(log(k)/x)
N > k^(1/x)
So lets say x is 0.01487367169 , then we're talking [constant factor]^67 for how big the matrix has to be?
So, 2^67 sized matrix (2^134 entries in it) if Google's is 2x greater constant than Strassen.
That don't even sound right, but I double checked, (k^67) ^ 0.01487367169 is approximately k.
edit: I'm not sure what the cross over points would be if you use Google's then Strassen's then O( n^3 )
Also, Strassen’s algorithm works on reals (and of course, on complex numbers), while the new "improvement" reduces by 1 the number of real multiplications required for a product of two 4x4 complex-valued matrices.
Old McDonald had a startup, iyo io o[4-mini].
It's funny how just today in a completely unrelated context a generative ai enthusiast used an example of OpenAI getting sued by NYT as a reason why they wouldn't commit some other malfeasance because they'd get caught if they did.
Its not about moats, it's about open source community (whose code had been trained on) coming out with pitchforks. It has nothing to do with moats.
You are way overselling coding agents.
Re-creating some open source project with a similar function is literally the only way a coding agent can pretend to be a programmer.
I tried latest models for code and they are in fact capable of shitting out a thousand lines of working code at a time, which obviously can only be obtained via plagiarism since they are also incapable of writing the most trivial code for a novel situation. And the neat thing about plagiarism is that once you start you can keep going since there's more of compatible code where it came from.
Yeah I'm thinking this one may be special cased, perhaps they wrote a generator of river crossing puzzles with corresponding conversion to "is_valid_state" or some such. I should see if I can get it to write something really ridiculous into "is_valid_state".
Other thing is that in real life its like "I need to move 12 golf carts, one has low battery, I probably can't tow more than 3 uphill, I can ask Bob to help but he will be grumpy...", just a tremendous amount of information (most of it irrelevant) with tremendous^tremendous^ possible moves (most of them possible to eliminate by actual thinking).
Indistinguishable from a business idiot.