I would say that's moot, because OpenClaw has already shown us how fast the dice-rolling super AI is going to be let out of the zoo. Dario and Sam will be arguing about the guardrails while their frontier models are running in parallel to create Moltinator T-500. The humans won't even know how many sides the dice have.
> Reducing the pollution costs a lot of money, and can make your product non-competitive.
Make it non-competitive with what?
With products made via "poison outsourcing" so other people can suffer what we refuse to suffer ourselves?
Seems like if an economy like the US or the EU actually wanted to, they could pretty easily say it's the clean way or no way at all, and voila, these things would magically be competitive again.
Yes, but still, targeting is done even in billboards based on the location's demographics based on census data. It's not random. Some countries in Asia (like Singapore, Malaysia) have digital bill boards to target certain demographics based on the time of the day or the estimated crowd demographic at a given bus stop. And a few of them even track eyeballs to count "views" of the ad.
I admit this is a factor I hadn't much considered. I'm sure at some point, if not already, the data collected by your phone will enable the equivalent of a tracking pixel on your physical location, so you can get personalized ads when you step into the subway car: the system will quickly evaluate which rider is most likely to spend money based on ads, and on what, and then an auction will be run in two nanoseconds and the winner will show their 10-second transit clip. Oof.
The saddest part is, the old kind of advertising worked just fine, before all the companies got addicted to AdCrack.
I’ve seen a lot of his work IRL, he was one of the artists at the now (sadly) defunct Aurum Gallery where I was a regular visitor.
For better or worse, he’s mostly know in the “street/urban art” world (which is much bigger than graffiti). And one of the features of a lot of the art in that scene is high technical mastery paired with “low” / populist motifs and composition.
Seen up close these works are really quite amazing, and I respect the artist choosing to make the things that can make him a living. Even Brice Marden, at some point, just kept making those trademark squiggles and cashing those checks.
For better or worse, he’s mostly know in the “street/urban art” world (which is much bigger than graffiti). And one of the features of a lot of the art in that scene is high technical mastery paired with “low” / populist motifs and composition.
That's an interesting distinction. I hadn't really noticed that but it makes a lot of sense.
I suppose Banksy would be close to the crossover point between those two worlds? The ideas and the chutzpah are the main attraction, but generally 'low' populist motifs, without high technical mastery. Someone you could either look up to or sneer down on from either side.
It's a good question whether Banksy really is a crossover, or only a crossover in market terms. I would definitely call him a high master of stencil technique though, some of that stuff is pretty hard to pull off.
As clever as his art is, I think he's still very much an outsider in the capital-W Art World, which for his part he's often trying to prank. (Which they richly deserve, see Exit Through the Gift Shop.)
Things like the self-destroying painting were high-concept but also completely staged. For another artist getting rich off his contempt for the Art Market, but solidly on the Art World side of the fence, see Maurizio Cattelan.
One person with a foot in both worlds is Alex Face but he's mostly known in South-East Asia. I have a feeling it'd be easier to find examples in Asia than in the West.
If you're running local models, Apple Silicon's shared memory architecture makes them much better at it than other similarly-specced platforms.
If you want your "skills" to include sending iMessage (quite important in the USA), then you need a Mac of some kind.
If you don't care about iMessage and you're just doing API calls for the inference, then it's good old Mass Abundance. Nice excuse to get that cool little Mini you've been wanting.
You don't give the agent the password, you send the password through a method that bypasses the agent.
I'm writing my own AI helper (like OpenClaw, but secure), and I've used these principles to lock things down. For example, when installing plugins, you can write the configuration yourself on a webpage that the AI agent can't access, so it never sees the secrets.
Of course, you can also just tell the LLM the secrets, and it will configure the plugin, but there's a way for security-conscious people to achieve the same thing. The agent can also not edit plugins, to avoid things like circumventing limits.
If anyone wants to try it out, I'd appreciate feedback:
> You don't give the agent the password, you send the password through a method that bypasses the agent.
The thing is, to work, you need to send the warning that indicates what the specific action is that is being requested to the authorizing user out of band (rather than to the agent so the agent can request user action); otherwise sending the password from the user to the system needing authorization out of band bypassing the agent doesn't help at all.
Or does the field become plateaued because engineers treat "writing code" as a "solved problem?"
We could argue that writing poetry is a solved problem in much the same way, and while I don't think we especially need 50,000 people writing poems at Google, we do still need poets.
> we especially need 50,000 people writing poems at Google, we do still need poets.
I'd assume that an implied concern of most engineers is how many software engineers the world will need in the future. If it's the situation like the world needing poets, then the field is only for the lucky few. Most people would be out of job.
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