1.225 M EUR is the maximum fine allowed by law for one of the charges. There was a 4,57 M EUR customs fine added on top of that for violating international sanctions. The fine is shared between the company AND the former executives involved.
If the law allowed it, the amount could have been higher. Fining the company AND former executives, as well as sending the former CEO to jail is a good way to hold people accountable.
Bruno Lafont, Lafarge’s former CEO, was arrested in the courthouse upon sentencing and immediately sent to prison.
Low to average reliability is fine if the service is cheap, and if that avoid the need for backup diesel generators in datacenters.
I doubt this applied to Github:
Microsoft to use diesel-fired generators as backup power for data centers
That’s a good way to represent LLMs. Very bad and very prolific consultants.
It shows LLMs can do significant harm without the capabilities of an AGI.
Overhyping LLMs and overinflating their capabilities makes things worse, as people are less skeptical of LLM output.
According to Clayton, the AI agent involved didn’t take any technical action itself, beyond posting inaccurate technical advice, something a human could have also done.
Producing innaccurate technical advice, with a confident tone, at scale.
If that LLM were an employee it would get a formal blame, and then demoted or fired as it continues.
There’s still someone at Microsoft with common sense. That’s probably too little too late.
Using an ultrasonic dog trainer in public may piss off dogs, and other domesticated or wild animals in the vicinity. I woudln’t recommend this, except maybe as a last resort on rare occasions.
Politely asking the person to use a headphone or earpiece may be more effective in many case.
tis but a scratch
The only justification you could possibly have would be that if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it. And we will be subject to their rule of law.…
Quick, undermine democratic values and rule of law before someone else does!
The Heritage Foundation and Epstein’s orange buddy’s goals include defunding science as part of Project 2025.
Don’t expect much science wherever those folks hold power.
The platform that works closest to this is https://www.liberapay.com/
It used to allow making 1 monthly payment and spreading it between projects. But they had to change to comply with banking/payment platform rules so each money transfer is directed to one beneficiary from the get go. Meaning you setup a recurring payment per project.
There’s also the nlnet foundation https://nlnet.nl/
It’s possible to give them 1 recurring payment to support OSS projects. But they manage how the money is split between projects and their own overhead. You don’t pick the projects.
Separating data structure from implementation has benefits.
In languages with classic OOP classes and objects, it’s often necessary to write wrappers or adapters to allow new operations on existing objects. This adds overhead and require more code.
We don’t need another centralized messaging service in the EU. We need a secure and decentralized one. Such protocol already exist such as XMPP, Matrix, Briar, Ricocher, RCS, …
Yes, this is fucked.
I doubt a sane society would aim to replace as many jobs as possible with automation, or necessarily be happy with it. Making this a goal mean trying to remove humans and unions out of the equations.
A sane society may seek to decrease workplace injuries and be more efficient, ie wasting less resources while producing stuff. That could involve better workplace conditions, better product design, and maybe automation. Automation may incidentally replace some tasks, even though it’s not the end goal.
That’s a hard pivot. And building more AI infrastructure is a bad idea. But they might make some short term money given the AI hype.