PSA: LLM's are not trained on a knowledge base, they are trained on a text corpus - a collection of strings. What you get out is another collection of strings, generated using a a prompt, another text string. The output only contains "knowledge" to the extent that a human edits and curates it
The US understands the threat of foreign tech companies/apps gathering data on US citizens and manipulating their behaviour and is looking to ban TikTok.
Dear @EU_Commission, here’s an incomplete list of foreign tech companies/apps gathering data on EU citizens and manipulating their behaviour:
- Meta Platforms, Inc. (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.) - Alphabet, Inc. (Google, YouTube, etc.) - Twitter, Inc. - Microsoft (Windows, etc.) - Snap, Inc.
@technomancy Yeah, that link is vague as ever about what their actual complaints and values are! Unfortunately I can't expect anything else from the Mozilla blog...
@lightweight@airshipper@cjnielsen My mind also jumps to our government's strategy of bribing Hollywood to make movies here (and undermine our own labour laws for them), then fail to grow our own industry as other countries bribe them more heavily.
It does not feel like a win to brag about making the effects for, say, X-Men First Class's climax... Compared to bragging about LotR being filmed here...
@lightweight@airshipper@cjnielsen My mind goes back to the pointless busywork of their "Action Plan for the Digital Strategy of Aotearoa" they mailed me after completely missing my recommendations.
The iwi on the otherhand seem very appreciative of data sovereignty when I offer it via Catalyst...
@airshipper you'll notice how all AWS 'deals' involve them 'generously' providing 'training'. What you don't see is that the training only for AWS' proprietary APIs & processes, and it's largely non-transferrable. It's designed to create consutants who *only* know how to provision AWS services, thereby effectively locking them (and their customers) into the AWS monoculture. MSFT is desperately trying to copy that approach with Azure. @cjnielsen
@technomancy I'm a little perplexed that GitHub has stopped working in WebKitGTK... And I'm on the latest release of my OS now with the default browser!
A browser developer posting mostly about how free software projects work, and occasionally about climate change.Though I do enjoy german board games given an opponent.Pronouns: he/him#noindex