wise_pancake
@wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
- Comment on OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses' 4 hours ago:
Okay but that’s not what easier means.
Easier would be to call the bakery or spending 10 minutes browsing their website, asking to cast, and checking out.
I don’t want to spend an hour on tasks that would normally take 10 minutes. My executive dysfunctions already make me good at doing that.
This might be a revolutionary idea, but what if they helped me do that take an hour in 10 minutes?
I’m just putting that idea out there totally for free in case any AI companies want to jump on that opportunity.
- Comment on Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again 4 hours ago:
I don’t mind paying for a solid rotation of content to watch, I don’t have to own everything. People were mostly happy with blockbuster’s business model.
The streaming industry is a heaping pile of shit right now though, and everyone is trying to dial us back to the worst of cable again.
- Comment on Every time 14 hours ago:
A stranger once offered my wife a bag of raw kangaroo meat as a thank you for helping them. We have no idea where they got kangaroo meat, as we live in Canada.
She accepted it, but by the time she got home it looked highly suspicious and we didn’t eat it :(
- Comment on Every time 14 hours ago:
I’ve recently come to realize if you eat everything in a sandwich individually on a board it’s 10x fancier.
100x if you add 3-4 grapes around the edges.
- Comment on What makes a fart dry vs wet? 15 hours ago:
TIL
- Comment on Are there any free services that actually let you use an LLM’s full large context window? 18 hours ago:
Fyi even a large context window might actually only be useful when it’s mostly empty.
- Comment on What makes a fart dry vs wet? 18 hours ago:
Diet plays a role
Most people don’t get enough fiber, I put ground flax seed in yogurt and try to up my fruit intake.
- Comment on What makes a fart dry vs wet? 18 hours ago:
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 18 hours ago:
Play Store is truly vile to use. It just feels gross and scammy and like a mine field of low quality slop and scam apps.
iOS isn’t great either but it at least feels a whole lot better. The iOS store needs the ability to report fraid which it doesn’t sort until you install an app.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 1 day ago:
Collider? I barely know her!
- Comment on how did he do that? 2 days ago:
This perfectly describes the inside of my head today
- Comment on If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank 2 days ago:
Stock market numbers go higher
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 3 days ago:
It will take about 36 hours to fill this drive at 270mb/s
That’s a long time to backup your giraffe porn collection.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 3 days ago:
Do you need it? Probably not. Do you want it? Oh, yeah.
I feel seen
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 3 days ago:
Haber most people reconsidered what they consider fun though?
They’re missing out!
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 3 days ago:
FOV: 0.1 Render Distance: 13b light years
CPU: 😵💫
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 4 days ago:
If friends asked I would flash their pixel with Graphene, then set it up basically as they would use it for them.
Getting started was complex, your average user won’t have a good experience getting their apps added without a power user helping.
- Comment on Didn't ask. 4 days ago:
Trapped, or imprisoned?
- Comment on High Fashion 4 days ago:
That last spider image is strong evidence that mimes are a natural phenomenon
- Comment on ⚡️👇👇👇⚡️ 4 days ago:
This is why stegosaurus should have waited for backup from the council before trying to arrest T. Rex.
- Comment on xkcd #3114: Building a Fire 6 days ago:
I for one liked the fourth panel
- Comment on He is cooked 6 days ago:
Okay grandpa, now tell us about your magic “t9” and not even looking at your phone while we put you to bed.
(Jk I too am old and I miss physical buttons and when autocomplete didn’t stop you from swearing or rewrite your text 3 words later so it looks like you’re having a stroke)
- Comment on Trump delays tariffs as the rest of the world plays hardball 1 week ago:
I would probably misunderstand companies buying raw materials for cheap and turning them into high priced commodities as a weakness.
- Comment on Trump delays tariffs as the rest of the world plays hardball 1 week ago:
You know if they had just focused on problem countries with unfair labour laws I bet they could have achieved something
But when they go after everyone at the same time it becomes obvious that all you have to do is say no and wait for the American corporate machine to eat this administration alive.
- Comment on WhisperX — Automated Transcripts w/ Timestamps and Speaker Tagging 1 week ago:
That is cool! I’ve been wanting I’ve wanted to use a model like this but haven’t really looked.
Are you self hosting the long context llm, of do what are you using?
Context lengths are what kill a lot of my local llm experiments.
- Comment on The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed) 1 week ago:
Had no idea they were doing that, but that’s plausible
And yes, it would shock me they can build this model this well and fuck this up.
I just hold little sympathy for the employees.
- Comment on The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed) 1 week ago:
XAI was founded in 2023, 6 months after Elon acquired Twitter and did his layoffs. 4 months after XAI was created, when it was publicly announced, Musk stated that a politically correct AI would be dangerous.
Anyone working at XAI already knew the game by then, they weren’t on visas who got legacied in.
- Comment on coping 1 week ago:
Lyra I think you’re confused, I’m asking about OP’s kid.
- Comment on Google, Microsoft and Amazon face pressure over data sovereignty - Rest of World 1 week ago:
In April, Nigeria asked Google, Microsoft, and Amazon to set concrete deadlines for opening data centers in the country. Nigeria has been making this demand for about four years, but the companies have so far failed to fulfill their promises. Now, Nigeria has set up a working group with the companies to ensure that data is stored within its shores.
Just onshoring the data center does not solve the problems.
You can’t be sure no data travels to the US servers, some data does need to travel to the US servers, and the entire DC is still subject to US software and certificate keychains. It’s better, but not good or safe.
I need to channel my inner Mike Ehrmantrout to the US tech companies and government: you had a good thing going you stupid son of a bitch. You had everything you needed and it all ran like clockwork. You could have shut your mouth, cooked, and made as much money as you needed, but you just had to blow it up, you and your pride and your ego.
Seriously, this is a massive own goal by the US government. This is a massive loss to US hegemony and influence around the world that’s never coming back.
It has never been easier to build sovereign clouds with off the shelf and open source tooling. The best practices are largely documented, software is commoditized, and there are plenty of qualified people out there these days and governments staring down the barrel of existential risk have finally got the incentive to fund these efforts.
- Comment on Musk's AI firm deletes posts after chatbot praises Hitler 1 week ago:
In February when Grok 3 was first on every chatbot arena metric – that was just a bit after deepseek r1, and o3, and the space has evolved a lot since then.
However, checking wikipedia it actually seems like they juiced the metrics by using unfair comparisons and letting Grok try the problems 64 times and returning the best answer in their comparisons.
