HuggingFace's BERT finally has a successor –
ModernBERT. It's better than DeBERTaV3, which the Kagglers have been using. BERT is just too big and too slow to use without having to resort to Colab.
Despite this, the
GPT-5 project has nothing they're ready to be the GPT-5 LLM. Sounds like a big disappointment. But a "six-month training run can cost around half a billion dollars in
computing costs alone, based on public and private estimates of various
aspects of the training." Is this sustainable?
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The hidden toll of AI –
the damage being done to human labelers. Someone has to watch all the crap that people produce, and label them as harmful. It's always the people in third world countries that bear the brunt of this, and it borders on the unethical.
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No more James Bond for a while. It's a standoff between the Broccoli estate and Amazon. It's just as well. The Broccoli/Wilson faction is open to a female, gay, or whatever Bond.
Gregg Wilson has appeared to be more sympathetic to calls for an update
to Bond, a role that’s so far been filled by white male actors. Some
say a person of color in Bond’s tuxedo would better reflect the U.K.’s
changing demography, and even nod to its ugly history of colonization.
Take it a step further, others say, and cast a woman or a gay man.
Broccoli
has told friends that she doesn’t have any qualms with casting a
nonwhite or gay actor, but does believe Bond should always be played by a
man, and should always be played by a Brit.
If we wanted someone other than what Ian Fleming envisioned, we would have watched that instead. If you want to feature someone else besides a white male Brit, start your own franchise, I say.
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