Ed Zitron:

Sam Altman is talking about bringing online “tens of thousands” and then “Hundreds of thousands” of GPUs. 10,000 GPUs costs them $113 million a year, 100k $1.13bn, so this is Sam Altman committing to billions of dollars of compute for an expensive model that lacks any real new use cases. Suicide.

Also, $1.30 per hour per GPU is the Microsoft discount rate for OpenAI. Safe to assume there are other costs but raw compute for GPT 4.5 is massive and committing such resources at this time is truly fatalistic, and suggests Altman has no other cards to play

Whilst flipping through LessWrong for things to point and laugh at, I discovered that Sabine Hossenfelder is apparently talking about “AI” now.

Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist and science communicator who provides analysis and commentary on a variety of science and technology topics.

She also provides transphobia using false balance rhetoric.

x.AI released its most recent model, Grok 3, a week ago. Grok 3 outperformed on most benchmarks

And truly, no fucks were given.

Grok 3 still features the same problems of previous LLM models, including hallucinations

The fundamental problem remains fundamental? You don’t say.

Be sure to pick up your copy of The War on Science, edited by … Lawrence Krauss, featuring … Richard Dawkins and … Jordan Peterson.

Buchman on Bluesky wonders,

How did they not get a weinstein?

Tim Burners-Lee

(snerk)

From elsewhere in that thread:

The physics of the 1800s had a lot of low hanging fruit. Most undergrads in physics can show you a derivation of Maxwell’s equations from first principles, and I think a fair few of them could have come up with it themselves if they were in Maxwell’s shoes.

Lol no

Declaring that an AI is malevolent because you asked it for a string of numbers and it returned 420