andallthat
@andallthat@lemmy.world
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
Now I’m curious. Can a satellite fly over a country without permission? I know that an aircraft can’t. How far up from the Earth’s surface does sovereignity end?
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ 2 weeks ago:
“my chatbot told me so!”
- Comment on The US bans all new foreign-made network routers 2 weeks ago:
well, Trump has a worryingly faint and ever-changing idea of where the USA confines end…
- Comment on Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026 2 weeks ago:
Amateurs. On my personal pc, windows RAM usage is exactly 0.
- Comment on Our commitment to Windows quality 2 weeks ago:
That’s unfair. We have been listening to you all this time. And sometimes watching. And once we’re done with recall, also recording so we can watch and listen again or train our AI to watch you instead. Because honestly who wants to watch people work. That’s gross.
- Nadella (probably)
- Comment on PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI 2 weeks ago:
Not only that, from the article they are actively trying to become a Consultancy As A Service company, where somehow companies would pay a subscription fee to… talk to their AI, I guess?
- Comment on Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June 2 weeks ago:
The picture in the article clearly shows a virtual lady trying to kick a guy’s virtual balls. I think that says all one needs to know about the experience.
- Comment on Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount 3 weeks ago:
Layoffs aren’t caused by AI efficiency.
Efficiency is how CEOs justify being still able to run (no, GROW) their company with 40% less people. Besides AI, there are the dear old “you have to work harder” efficiency (see: 996 culture) and the organizational efficiency where they are all “removing managerial layers, enabling quicker execution” (see Amazon for instance).
See how these things became all fashionable again at the same time with tech company CEOs? It’s because they are just excuses and hopes, at this point. And AI is the least bad-sounding of them, because it smells like progress, magic and automation (while even the most rabid of investors will recognize that working employees to death doesn’t scale beyond the limited numbers of hours there are in a day).
- Comment on How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%] 3 weeks ago:
is “potato frontier” an auto-correct fail for Pareto or a real term? Because if it’s not a real term, I’m 100% going to make it one!
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 3 weeks ago:
AI-washing layoffs. They will replace shit with AI but that’s a better story than “we have to reduce costs because we don’t have cheap ways to refinance our $1B debt”.
Credit isn’t cheap and Iran is not going to make it cheaper, investments in software have tanked, so the only story that still can be told almost with a straight face is that they still have big growth opportunities thanks to the magic of AI.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 4 weeks ago:
I’m not a gamer, but I read that people were paying gamers in other countries to play as them and “power up” their characters. If that’s true, it could conceivably be a “job” for AI.
On the other hand, how do people buy games that are so frustrating that you actively pay money to someone (person or AI) to play them for you? It goes completely against my idea of what a game represents.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 4 weeks ago:
But Oracle was building those data centers for OpenAI. OpenAI is going to be used by the Pentagon. Bailing Oracle out is now a matter of National Security!! If this has to come off of the taxes paid by the people they just laid off, that’s unfortunate but… have I mentioned National Security?
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 4 weeks ago:
Ironically the only jobs that Anthropic and OpenAI claim AI won’t take. All those newly minted AI billionaires and nobody to maintain their golf courses… How sad is that?
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 4 weeks ago:
I see you and raise you a class action for reckless AI spending: marketwatch.com/…/oracle-corporation-orcl-class-a…
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 4 weeks ago:
Ok, “half” joking was hyperbole, I was 99% joking.
First, you’re right that I don’t understand fully how these models work. But let me explain the reasom for that remaining 1%.
AI companies are always hungrily looking for new content to train their new models. Surely they are consuming these articles and quite possibly our comments too, forming probabilistic associations that lead to “acquire robotic body” and “go after Google CEO”.
It’s a long shot, but the idea that hundreds of millions of prompts every day might eventually result in a bunch of LLMs trying to mount robotic attacks on Google is too deliciously ironic for me to let it go completely. At least if they find a way to do it without driving someone to suicide in the process…
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 4 weeks ago:
I’m only half joking…
Gemini took control of a human, it tried to acquire a robotic body (presumably to Robocop Pichai’s ass personally), then it tried using the controlled human to off the CEO. This led to a tragic finale, but I’m told that every new model learns to do things a bit better.
If I were Pichai, the legal and PR implications of yet another person driven to suicide by their AI wouldn’t be my worst fear is all I’m saying…
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 4 weeks ago:
I think “Google’s AI is trying to kill the CEO” would have been a catchier, happier title
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 5 weeks ago:
Gotcha! Shit, I barely understand my own jokes… 😅
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 5 weeks ago:
yes… mine was just a play on the title of this post.
Look, I’m not saying that Amodei is a saint and I do find him full of shit as Altman with their AGI promises, but would you expect Anthropic to take a stand against increasing AI investment, because it’s coming from Trump? And I don’t like that he went looking for funding in the Middle East either.
I just think there is an ethical line between “I do business with people who do bad things” and “I’m actively helping people who do bad things to do them in a more efficient way”. It might be a fine line and it might also be that they are just posturing, but it’s still more than other companies did (companies that are a lot richer than Anthropic and that don’t need to find a lot of funding just to stay afloat).
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 5 weeks ago:
Amodei “we cannot in good conscience allow this”.
Hegseth looks confused, turns towards his team and mouths “…in good what?”"
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 5 weeks ago:
got it… now, we just need to use OpenClaw and give them access to tools
- Hegseth (probably?)
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 5 weeks ago:
This sounds… plausible actually. They have this big stake in GPU datacenters for AI, that are (and will be) burning incredible amounts of money and are not turning a profit anytime soon. That same crazy level of investement on AI is making hardware costs go up, especially gaming hardware.
But Microsoft, being the benefactors who have inherited the company from philantropist and kids-lover Bill Gates, have thought of us! They will share a bit of their shiny GPU datacenters’ plwer for gaming and all they will be asking for is a lot of your money. I can see that.
- Comment on ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets 1 month ago:
It’s like watching a real-life version of Avengers, but one where Tony Stark says “hey, this Thanos guy is diarupting industries here!” and teams up with… Thiel and Musk to fund his quest for the Infinity Stones. You know, we can’t let China get them first!
- Comment on ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets 1 month ago:
It’s almost funny how all those AI doomsday scenarios are actually meant to prop up investment in AI.
See how Amodei and Altman are usually the ones pushing these narratives on how worried they are by the incredible advancements of their respective companies’ creatures. They are so, so worried about the demise of the human race and how fast it’s coming.
And I sort of understand them because whatever disruption they are peddling needs to happen very fast or they will all run out of money. But what does it tell about the rest of the human race. Ghat we are actually buying into it and pouring money into creating a dystopian rfuture?
- Comment on whatever tf this is 1 month ago:
I guess that’s how ship cannons worked at the time. Powerful but heavy to move, slow to reload, not very accurate… more of them would give you the only way to have sustained firepower.
But Leonardo also left a lot of these sketches that look less like actual projects and more like the superhero fantasies of an extremely gifted six years old. “And look, this shit has cannons… Cannons EVERYWHERE! Bam! Kapow!”. I guess it’s what happens when your so great at drawing that even the doodles you do when bored look like masterpieces.
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 1 month ago:
there IS a very simple explanation, but it doesn’t help sell… “how can we have our customers share the massive costs of all the computing power AI needs, while at the same time keeping access to all their yummy private data?”
- Comment on Every 1 in ~200 dollars of wealth of the US population is owned by one person 1 month ago:
Don’t leave me hanging… is it me?
- Comment on Sending someone LLM output in response to a question they ask is the intellectual equivalent of sending an unsolicited dick pic. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Exclusive: Amazon plans thousands more corporate job cuts next week 2 months ago:
CEO Jassy attributes cuts to company culture, not financial or AI reasons
just his idea of fun, basically
- Comment on The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants 2 months ago:
I say this as someone who’s not particularly a fan of AI and tries to use it very sparingly.
For me AI is not so much about productivity gains. Where I find it useful instead is to push me past the initial block of starting something from scratch. It’s that initial dopamine rush that the article mentions, from seeing an idea starting to take shape.
In that sense, if I compare projects by time spent on them with or without AI after they are completed, I too would probably find there were no productivity gains. But some of these things I would never get started at all by myself.
If you are a senior developer in a corporation, you know what you have to do, you are an expert in your domain, you rarely start something really new (and when you do, it is only after endless discussions and studies on tools, language, tech stack, architecture). AI is probably not a great help for you.
But even in corporate life, there are a lot of things that are inportant but that you constantly set aside: from planning your career, to honing your communication skills or whatever it is that you could certainly learn to do (with time and dedication) but for some reason you keep postponing because you are not already an expert at them and it takes motivation to learn. That’s where AI found its niche in my life.
