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- Comment on AI-powered bookmark wants to revolutionize the way you read — $129 Mark 1 offers AI-generated summaries 6 days ago:
It will almost definitely have a list of “supported books”. That’s the only way they could be generating summaries unless they’re having the user take pictures of each page.
- Comment on GPT-4.5 1 week ago:
In their human choice benchmarks it was only chosen 59% of the time compared to 4o. That’s a 15-20x cost increase for 9% difference.
- Comment on Why the 2020 video game Immortals: Fenyx Rising doesn't infringe on the trademark of the 2011 film Immortals? 4 weeks ago:
Immortals is far too generic to be a problem, there are plenty of other works that also use that name. The name changed from gods and monsters because they didn’t want to fight monster energy and potentially delay the game.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 1 month ago:
They get to maintain their influence (however small) over the government for another 9 months. Trudeau stepping down is an easy out for the NDP to claim they got what they wanted.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 1 month ago:
Inflation is high, quality of life is slipping, etc. Everyone thinks he should be doing more and the Liberals don’t like his odds if an election is called.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 1 month ago:
Inflation(read: gouging) is a massive problem which isn’t being tackled, housing is unaffordable, and the medical systems are underfunded (due in part to the exploitative US system). There’s also some conflict in our relations with Mexico which I’m personally pissed about but I don’t most are concerned with.
The opposition party is headed by a far right “populist” who claims the current status quo is “authoritarian socialism” and is supported by Jordan Peterson and Elon Musk.
Liberals are upset with Trudeau for failing to fix the issues listed above and offering no counter to some of the legitimate populist policies Pierre champions.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 1 month ago:
The NDP isn’t dumb enough to support a no confidence vote. They threatened to do so to get Trudeau out but there’s no way they’d go through with it. The projected conservative majority would kill the influence they currently have.
- Comment on Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why? 2 months ago:
The reason plane accidents are less common is because the worst licensed pilot is more competent than the average licensed driver by a wide margin
- Comment on Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why? 2 months ago:
Airplanes will never be pilotless, there will always be a human in the loop for redundancy. A failure in a self driving car could kill a few people at most, a failure in a pilotless plane could kill thousands.
- Comment on Google pulls bad McDonald’s reviews after Luigi Mangione’s arrest 2 months ago:
Rats in the kitchen
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 3 months ago:
If they sell the browser how will the buyer afford to continue development? We either get more intrusive ads, tracking, or both.
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 4 months ago:
Anthropic released an api for the same thing last week.
- Comment on Sample Text 5 months ago:
We’re Costco guys
- Comment on Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code 5 months ago:
It’s cool but it’s more or less just a party trick.
- Comment on When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself | As A.I.-generated data becomes harder to detect, it’s increasingly likely to be ingested by future A.I., leading to worse results. 6 months ago:
How many times is this same article going to be written? Model collapse from synthetic data is not a concern at any scale when human data is in the mix. We have entire series of models now trained with mostly synthetic data: huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/…/phi3. When using entirely unassisted outputs error accumulates with each generation but this isn’t a concern in any real scenarios.
- Comment on OpenAI has built a text watermarking method to detect chatgpt written content 6 months ago:
About a dozen methods they could use arxiv.org/pdf/2312.07913v2
- Comment on Scientists illuminate a path to quantum AGI with new light-based chips 6 months ago:
New record for most buzz words in a headline.
- Comment on Minecraft. Family guy, even. 6 months ago:
Most of this seems true (or was at the time) but this is outdated now. Mr. Beast is no longer managed by Night Media.
- Comment on I too love watching CP 😍 7 months ago:
The animation is flashy but the plot and storytelling can’t even compare to the game.
- Comment on Critics question tech-heavy lineup of new Homeland Security AI safety board 10 months ago:
The names missing from the list say more about the board’s purpose than the names on it.
- Comment on Steam will stop issuing refunds if you play two hours of a game before launch day 10 months ago:
I assumed this was always the case
- Comment on Generating (often non-con) porn is the new crypto mining 10 months ago:
The main issue here is user knowledge and consent. Otherwise this isn’t a whole lot different from services like vast.ai offering on demand GPU rentals or the KoboldAI Horde. Based on the incentives offered it’s clear that they’re targeting younger or less savvy users which is a problem.
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 10 months ago:
The “why would they make this” people don’t understand how important this type of research is. It’s important to show what’s possible so that we can be ready for it. There are many bad actors already pursuing similar tools if they don’t have them already. The worst case is being blindsided by something not seen before.
- Comment on Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama 3 is really good but no chatbot is sophisticated enough to be an 'existential' threat — yet 10 months ago:
The 8B is incredible for it’s size and they’ve managed to do sane refusal training this time for the official instruct.
- Comment on Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors 10 months ago:
They’re already lying to get passed the 13 year requirement so I doubt it would make any difference.
- Comment on ‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets 11 months ago:
I’m sure the machine running it was quite warm actually.
- Comment on Grok-1 chatbot code released – open source or open Pandora's box? 11 months ago:
It’s size makes it basically useless. It underperforms models even in it’s active weight class. It’s nice that it’s available but Grok-0 would have been far more interesting.
- Comment on The FTC is probing Reddit’s AI licensing deals 11 months ago:
I feel like the whole Reddit AI deal is a trap. If any real judgment comes down about data use Reddit is an easy scapegoat. There’s basically nothing stopping them from scraping the site for free.
- Comment on To buy no longer means anything :( 11 months ago:
I got locked out of my now 8+ year old account because I had set it up with an old ISP provided email which has since been deactivated. I can’t migrate because I have to verify with the email and I can’t change the email without setting up security questions, which also requires the email. Support can do nothing.
- Comment on Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft, Bans Its Employees 11 months ago:
I don’t think they care about the images being used, just the disruption of service. It’s pretty clear that this wasn’t a coordinated thing from Stability and was at most a lone individual acting in bad faith.
It’s pretty ironic though that the company that practices mass scraping has no rate limits to prevent outages due to mass scraping.