As AI becomes more capable, it seems like a company can be a founding charter and a pool of cash to be spent on tokens to achieve the aims of that charter.

How do you feel about these AI only companies, and how do you think they could affect the wider market?

ref: https://www.ft.com/content/b8cc4bf4-6d3c-4974-8428-9a091983c...

I expect many of these so-called AI-only companies will actually involve quite a few humans. I think the general idea that AI could be really useful at helping an organization stay true to the mission or purpose in its charter is quite right. Although I still think, at the end of the day, humans should be in the loop and not just as an accountability sink, but really truly providing the creativity, the vision, and the direction of the whole organization.

Is there a technical term for this phenomenon? Ladder pulling?

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-secu...

I believe the term is "hypocrisy."

'pulling the ladder' is an action to sever the opportunity for others to climb after you.

they are merely engaged in self-serving rhetoric. can't even call this specifically hypocrisy because they aren't telling you not to train on on pirated content. just not their content.

Anti-competitive behaviour.

There are several domain-general four-letter terms.

Parasitic behaviour. Extractivism.

Closing the door behind you

Corporate espionage?

Machiavellianism

NIMBYism

"Venture Capital"

I've spent the last 3 months making it super fast to set up new OpenClaw agents in the cloud

https://operator.io - multiple isolated agents in Telegram with their own memory and tasks has been great for automating reminders, keeping tabs on things, and acting as a personal exocortex

If you burn a model to a chip what happens if there's a better model?

You have a slightly less great model. Depending on your thesis on how fast AI will advance, that might be minimal, or it might be huge. However, "AI is advancing too fast for people to make obvious efficiency improvements economically worth doing" is rather hard to square with "AI is a lie and will never generate profits."

They will come with corrective SSD and Ram that will enable stale models to get some amount of self correction. Then after that it will be a typical upgrade path. Actually a nice business model with upgrades built in.

Same thing we do now given chips that do not have an OS and apps built in... write them to storage and load them into volatile memory at runtime.

I had the same question.

I wondered if it'd be possible to use a rewritable chip or a socketed chip...

Not sure about sockets but I've seen a company with a wafer sized TPU thing or whatever. They claim to have an approach to route around the defects and I had to scroll past some press release I didn't read about the stock market, so someone believes in them I guess. They sell a mini-fridge that can handle a model with trillions of parameters with a contact sales button. Cerberas is their name. I actually ended up misremembering the name name of Taalas as Cerberas and discovered them when I was researching the above comment. Taalas burns models to chips. Cerberas makes pizza sized chips.

that's a great looking pelican

Perhaps Golden Ages are the rare and illusive times when a third way is possible.

This is the singularity we were promised

A bit off topic, but I think Google's A2A protocol could be a sleeper hit vs. the MCP protocol.

Not because it's better, but with one switch a significant portion of web traffic can be directed to A2A servers through Google's new search box.

which itself seems to have been just a ruse:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QTcL6Xc_eMM

Incredible how often perverse incentives are implemented, it's like there's no foresight or understanding of behavior at all.