What are the terms? It is not at all clear from the announcement. "part of this three-year licensing agreement", it _could_ mean the license cost is $1 billion, which Disney in turn invests in OpenAI in return for equity, and they're calling it "investment" (that's what's hypothesized above, but I don't think we know). Disney surely gets something for the license other than the privilege of buying $1 billion in OpenAI stock at their most recent valuation price.
Disney gets the opportunity to tell the board and investors that they are now partnered with a leading AI company. In effect, Disney is now an AI company as well. They haven't really done anything, but if anyone asks they can just say "of course we're at the forefront of the entertainment industry. We're already leveraging AI in our partnerships"
On paper, H1B is a temporary worker program that requires non-immigrant intent. In practice, there is a legal fiction called “dual intent” that allows H1Bs to apply for a green card without violating the requirement of non-immigrant intent. Once a permanent resident, they can sponsor spouses and adult children for permanent residency. Once a citizen, they can sponsor parents and siblings.
The U.S. gave my dad an H1 visa, which resulted in 8 other Bangladeshis moving to the U.S. If my mom wasn’t antisocial, she could’ve sponsored her dozen siblings, who could’ve then sponsored their children. That’s how you end up with ethnic enclaves like Little Bangladesh.
Let's be a bit clear on the timelines though. Right now if you get an H1B to the US (good luck), it's 10+ years before you could get citizenship, and that's assuming your employer sponsors you and you get an EB- green card. You could then bring your parents within a few years, but it would be like another 15+ year wait to get your siblings in on an F-4 visa.
So it's not like folks are getting an H1B and then shipping over their entire families on the next boat, it's decades depending on their relationship to you.
10-15 years isn’t a long time on a social timescale. It’s actually very quick. That means a small number of H1B immigrants can give rise to a large immigrant community within a few decades, as has happened with Bangladeshi enclaves around the country.
Worked well for the postwar periods and the 60s, but not so much today when US economic output (outside tech and white collar services) has been middling at best.
It becomes a problem when the population of the developing nations outnumber the developed 100 to one. And im not talking about those inside the USA, im talking about worldwide. Id love to let them all in. Ive been to third world countries and I can't fault any individual for doing what they can to leave. But the current system can't support a borderless world.
So you want talented individuals to come in to prop up the economy for decades with their output, but forbid them trying to establish a normal family life in the country?
Just see the language they use, "third world" countries. .. As if the lead pipe laden cities of USA, the Fentanyl Zombie camps, the disfunctional and predatory healthcare system, the incessant and consistent child deaths to guns in schools isn't somehow "third world".
Notice that your comment doesn't deal at all with the topic at hand or anything I said. Like, what's your point? The USA isn't any better to live in than a country like Nepal? Cause that is just...so ignorant and insulting to people that can't get out of those countries...its really hard to describe how insensitive you are being by saying something like that.
Im fully aware of the 3rd world conditions in the USA. Its why I choose to remain in Canada (which has its own 3rd world conditions if you look for them), and have voted for the far left party each election ive been able to vote in!
There are talented individuals here that can't establish a normal family life IN THE COUNTRY THEY WERE BORN IN because the government keeps driving down wages by importing third world desperation.
Lol no. How do you get that from my comment. There's a huge difference between 0 immigration and uncontrolled immigration and you guys aren't helping anyone by jumping to these ridiculous conclusions.
Yeah, wake me up when they have a robot that can wash, peel, cut fruit and vegetables; unwrap, cut, cook meat; measure salt and spices; whip cream; knead and shape dough; and clean up the resulting mess from all of these. Then they will have "solved" part of robotics.
>> Yeah, wake me up when they have a robot that can wash, peel, cut fruit and vegetables; unwrap, cut, cook meat; measure salt and spices; whip cream; knead and shape dough; and clean up the resulting mess from all of these.
Stupid article. Bottom line is I’ll pay a premium not because of shame but because I don’t want to schedule and drive to a physical location for a Drs appointment
I use the two together with no issues. Micromamba works great for conda dependencies that’s not on PyPi (for many reasons), and everything else I go for uv.
I use LLMs daily for coding. They are great. They are not a replacement for reading a book like the one linked here, or understanding image formation, lenses etc. Many people seem to imagine that all this stuff is now obsolete and all you need to do is wire up some standard APIs, ask an LLM to glue the json and that's all there is to being a computer vision engineer nowadays. Maybe even pros will self denigradinglybsay say say that but after a bit of chatting it will be obvious they have plenty of background knowledge beyond prompting vision language models.
So it's not disdain, I'm simply trying to broaden the horizon for those who only know about computer vision from OpenAI announcement and tech news and FOMO social media influencers.
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