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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hell nah brah⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Better that than a nonconsensual call out of nowhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s too bad the CPU path for PhysX is crappy. It would be a good use of the many cores/threads we have available to us these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How was your valentines day weekend?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I fucka da pizza

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Can Now Replicate Itself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the first, the AI model was programmed to detect whether it was about to be shut down and to replicate itself before it could be terminated. In the other, the AI was instructed to clone itself and then program its replica to do the same – setting up a cycle that could continue indefinitely.

  Like how any regular application can be instructed to copy itself i.e. a computer worm? Not exactly shocking for a computer program to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia’s RTX 5090 power connectors are melting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Their power connectors are melting up just like their stock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How dare the alarm I set betray me like this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes my alarm does me a solid and keeps quiet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uniquely American⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Work smart means getting other people to do the work for you and keeping most of the profit for yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am shocked they sold as many of them as they did. I get that there are mindless fans, but this is quite an expensive and ugly commitment to make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The assumption is that they’ll develop some kind of moat, but there are plenty of other AI models on offer or in development. It would also be useless capturing a market when the companies that would be their customers realize they’re not making money on the AI themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even OpenAI's $200/mo ChatGPT Pro plan can turn a profit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  With OpenAI being at the center of the AI hype, I would’ve thought they’d be raking in the dough instead of losing $5 billion. So it’s really just Nvidia making money on this bullshit, huh? It’ll hurt when the hype dies down and Nvidia drops from the second top spot on the S&P 500. We’re all going to feel that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China to subsidise smartphone purchases in bid to lift spending⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If it works like subsidies over here, companies will just jack up prices to eat up the full subsidy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go into debt if you have to⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno about that. Based on this US data, its use seems to be expanding, even more so than renewables: www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

  This graph in particular shows this: Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This must be that innovation which is making the world a better place that these tech parasites keep gushing about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a different solution that can ensure billionaires will be on their best behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the benefit of making them fire you over simply quitting?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t facebook fake numbers before for video views which caused e.g. collegehumor to fold because they thought they could rely on facebook for views?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something to keep in mind when people are suggesting AI be used to replace teachers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why it’s silly hearing billionaires, who do the most damage to our planet, telling us how urgently we need to “get off this rock” which has supported life for millions of years in favor of some dead planet. It’s really just an extension of capitalism that demands infinite space to exploit, instead of being content with sustainability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now do israel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Veggie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pot of greed’s coomer cousin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you short a privately-held company?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Conspiracy Unmasked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey I know that guy, he streams on twitch!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clipped it blud⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  MODS!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now imagine if they had to pay for the content they’re training the models off of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grid-scale batteries: They’re not just lithium⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exciting to see all sorts of batteries for different applications. Is lithium-ion still standard for home power backup? I’ve heard characteristics of the new sodium-ion batteries being ideal for that use case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You espress it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The tech-savvy reputation comes from the “digital native” narrative i.e. because they grew up with computers they must know computers, which is a silly fallacy because how one interacts with technology makes all the difference. It’s the same reason why everyone who grew up with electricity isn’t necessarily an electrician.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That explains your optimism. Code generation is at a stage where it slaps together Stack Overflow answers and code ripped off from GitHub for you. While that is quite effective to get at least a crappy programmer to cobble together something that barely works, it is a far cry from having just anyone put out an idea in plain language and getting back code that just does it. A programmer is still needed in the loop.

  I’m sure I don’t have to explain to you that AI development over the decades has often reached plateaus where the approach needed to be significantly changed in order for progress to be made, but it could certainly be the case where LLMs (at least as they are developed now) aren’t enough to accomplish what you describe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I might not agree with the moderation practices or even their opinions, but that doesn’t make them crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did, and still didn’t see the crazy. In fact, all it did was make me wonder why an instance with such little activity gets talked about so much.