Notably, Lilian did not explain diffusion models simply. This is a fantastic resource that details how they actually work, but your casual reader is unlikely to develop any sort of understanding from this.
Fair point. The context of that quote was that he was asked by a journalist for a quick explanation over the phone when the physics Nobel for 1965 was announced.
He did go on to write a very readable little book (from a lecture series) on the subject which has photons wearing little watches and waiting for the hands to line up. I'd say a keen eight-year-old could get something from that.
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It will be interesting to see how talent acquisition evolves. Many great engineers were put off by strong DEI-focused PR, and even more oppose the sudden opportunistic shift to the right. Will Muslims continue to want to work for Google? Will Europeans work for X? Some may have previously avoided close relations with China for ethical reasons—will the same soon apply to the US?
Thanks to a particular culture in the US, those companies have a very strong argument against morals: money. If you can make $440k per year as an engineer at xAi, do you really care what your boss says in public? How many people sit in jobs right now getting paid much less and still have to endure similar shit from their execs?
If you're an engineer capable of holding a $440k/year job then you should care where your talent goes and who benefits from it. There are plenty of places that will pay you a good salary where the boss isn't trying to badly play at world domination.
> There are plenty of places that will pay you a good salary where the boss isn't trying to badly play at world domination.
Ah, yes. Google? Meta? Amazon? Microsoft? Hahaha. You're right, they aren't doing it in the open, and some certainly aren't doing a bad job about it. But they are all playing at world domination.
This is also a rug pull for many international researchers working at google.
How should they feel helping to build weapon systems for a country that openly threatens their home countries or close allies?
If google didn't start with "don't be evil" and didn't continue to pledge not use use AI for weapons, this would be different.
This is as bad as having an "Open" for-profit company.
Let's see which of the big labs remain attractive non-US citizens.
The no weapons thing was fine for years but now you've got Putin sending thousands to troops Europwards there's an argument for using tech to stop that. Also detering the Chinese who will no doubt develop AI weapons themselves.
