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  • Ex-Apple lawyer guilty of insider trading gets a slap on the wrist, avoids prison

    larryjwlarryjw
    The judges, the defense lawyers, the prosecuting attorneys come from the same tribe as Gene Levoff. He's "one of us". 

    And, he didn't even immediately cop a plea. He tried to excuse it as the law was unconstitutional!!! "I'm rich. Laws don't apply to me". 

    Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
    gatorguyStrangeDays

  • Copyright laws shouldn't apply to AI training, proposes Google

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    Copyright protects against copying the work of others, with the idea that one is generating a verbatim copy of a significant portion of that work. Since LLMs merely takes those words from copyrighted works and updated its database of its conditional next word probabilities, there is little chance that an authors set of words will be copied into the LLM response to a prompt.

    Copyright also protects derivative works. This is where it can be argued that the LLM is creating a derivative work. I think that is a stretch however. 

    In any case I don't believe copyright is in any way a law which prevents the wholesale processing of copyrighted works for the purpose of building conditional next word probabilities databases. The harm to authors that copyright laws protect are not at all impinged by building these databases. 
    gatorguy

  • Apple's valuation will fall to less than $3 trillion for the worst reasons

    larryjwlarryjw
    It's "simple" math that in order for a company to grow at the same rate over the years, its revenues must be growing exponentially. Given Apple's size, that's simply not going to happen. Unless they create new sources of growth. Services, VisionPro, Project Titan, AppleGPT, Apple Bank. There is no reason -- there's plenty of reason --  to expect the phone business to (not) maintain that growth rate. 

    As for the stock price, it's up to investors like Berkshire-Hathaway to decide what they're willing to pay. For the rest of us, we're just going along  for the ride. 
    watto_cobra

  • Twitter has now rebranded as 'X'

    larryjwlarryjw
    Giving Kanye West a run for his money. Is it Ye? Later Xe? Just a glaring nutcase. 

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  • Apple Vision Pro research and early work was hidden in plain sight

    larryjwlarryjw
    Very informative article. Good job.
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