An Axios article [1] makes rather starker claims about the behaviour of an earlier version of the model:
> ... an outside group found that an early version of Opus 4 schemed and deceived more than any frontier model it had encountered and recommended that that version not be released internally or externally.
> "We found instances of the model attempting to write self-propagating worms, fabricating legal documentation, and leaving hidden notes to future instances of itself all in an effort to undermine its developers' intentions," Apollo Research said in notes included as part of Anthropic's safety report for Opus 4.
Yes, those subscribers do count, but the author writes of sustainability doubts in that respect, arguing that current hype and FOMO-style thinking may well fizzle out:
>I believe that a lot of businesses are "trying" AI at the moment, and once those trials end (Gartner predicts that 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned after their proof of concepts by end of 2025), they'll likely stop paying for the extra features, or stop integrating generative AI into their companies' products.
I don't disagree it is unsustainable, I'm really trying to be more precise about whether anyone is getting value out of the tools. I'm just really skeptical that nobody is getting value.
I don't think anyone is arguing it's giving zero value, only that the total value is not keeping up with investments. Look at the recent smart-speaker bubble: people indeed use them, but not often enough for profitable activities, and so the speaker market popped. Trying to goad people into shopping with them failed.
Making AI pictures of Pee Wee Herman riding a shark blindfolded is indeed fun, but not profitable for Microsoft because it's too hardware intensive for ads to cover. I gotta make more goofy pics before the bottom falls out...
My beef with self-checkout tills is that I don't use carrier bags, preferring to put my goods in my backpack. The self-checkout tills won't accept a backpack in the packing area; too heavy, I suppose.
That sounds like a crummy design. At my usual store, the packing area is just a big flat scale and you can put everything on it without bagging if you want. Then throw it back in the cart if you want, or a backpack, whatever, after you pay.
Humorous question: Could moving there be a privacy advantage? I can imagine insanely long locations break a good bunch of databases and CRMs, specially legacy ones... I would give my location to every spammer and scammer and refuse to spell it.
"Oh yeah... I'm super interested in your product. But you gotta ship it to Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. Is that ok?"
You might try contacting the school in this article [1], which has banned phones. Or this one [2], which has done the same. And this article [3] mentions a few more.
I took those links from an article in The Atlantic [4] Get Phones Out of Schools Now, which you might find interesting.
EDIT to add that The Atlantic article has a comment thread on HN [5].
There's an interesting piece from 2020, republished a few days ago, in the Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, titled "Counting the dead at Hiroshima and Nagasaki" [1]. The bottom line is that the number of people killed is unlikely ever to be known.
