great talk by ilya sutskever on how this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKMuA_TVz3A&t=2121s

i do agree with that point of view. I often referred to models as 'modern mp3s' storing a lossfull but lookalike version of information in order to counter that 'AI is totally new and not violating copyright by storing information in a magic fashion' argument.

I tried asking a zip file to write a program for me but it did nothing.

I’m starting to think that compression is not, in fact, prediction.

Author's bio:

> Annie Sexton is a Developer Educator at ngrok with a passion for nerd-sniping developers.

So a company with an wildly superior compression algorithm stumbling into a society-breaking AI isn't so far-fetched. Jesus...Silicon Valley really was ahead of its time.

I mean, save for the part where the founders recognised the threat it posed to society and acted responsibly rather than unleashing it on the public and sucking down billions in VC money.

did the SSL cert expire? i'm getting a big scary warning about this blog

Reminds me of this...

In Silicon Valley, Richard Hendricks creates a revolutionary lossless data compression algorithm for his startup, Pied Piper.

I was rushing to post this and then found out somebody had already