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Mistral 7B and deepseek-ai are two open-weight models that surpass 3.5, though not 4, on several measures.

Strange that they don't just use an open weights model; there are several now that surpass ChatGPT 3.5, which is probably good enough for what they need.

Jailed for life? Guess they are getting soft.

If the company was run by a hallucinating AI it couldn't be any flakier.

By the time it appears, it will have been "on" for some nonzero duration before you switch it off, so I guess they could already have irreversibly vacuumed up your existing data...

More to the point, it's good that there exists an alternative to the ARM+Qualcomm platform, for commerical as well as technological competition. Natsec-based sledgehammer measures probably aren't an efficient way to achieve this, but oh well.

The Federation's ban on AI and GE also has tinges of authoritarianism that run counter to the liberal ideal it's supposed to represent. Say some planet in the Federation takes a different view of these issues, and wants to create a race of super-Datas and give them equal rights, are we expected to believe that the rest of the Federation will show up to bust down their doors, like some kind of space-DEA?

These are sham elections where every candidate even mildly critical of the government has been disqualified. Your criticism is groundless and uninformed.

Not zero. Trump could after all drop dead of a heart attack, you never know.