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- Comment on Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim. 2 hours ago:
That they didn’t try to replicate it.
- Comment on Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim. 5 hours ago:
How about the outlet checks and finds out?
I did, and I couldn’t get low-temperature Gemini or a local LLM to replicate it, and not all the tariffs seem to be based on the trade deficit ratio, though some suspiciously are.
Sorry, but this is a button of mine, outlets that ask stupidly easy to verify questions but dont even try. No, just cite people on Reddit and Twitter…
- Comment on New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs – with the US hit hardest 16 hours ago:
They might be hit indirectly through China.
- Comment on New modelling reveals full impact of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs – with the US hit hardest 16 hours ago:
Aside from fossil fuels, they mostly only trade with China, right? They’re kinda “isolated” like North Korea.
- Comment on Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing: Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced. 20 hours ago:
True! Models not trained on a specific language are generally bad at that language.
However, there are some exceptions, like a Japanese tune of Qwen 32B which dramatically enhances it Japanese, but the training has to be pretty extensive.
And even that aside… the effect is still there. The point it to illustrate that LLMs are sort of “language independent” internally, like you said.
- Comment on Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing: Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced. 20 hours ago:
It’s a metaphor.
They’re translating the input tokens to intent in the model’s middle layers, which is a bit more precise.
- Comment on Are AI Models Advanced Enough To Translate Literature? The Debate Is Roiling Publishing: Major publishers are experimenting with automated translations, hundreds of which have already been produced. 1 day ago:
I use local instances of Aya 32B (and sometimes Deepseek, Qwen, LG Exaone, Japanese finetunes, others depending on the language) to translate stuff, and it is quite different than Google Translate or any machine translation you find online. They get the “meaning” of text instead of transcribing it robotically like Google, and are actually pretty loose with interpretation.
It has soul… sometimes too much. That’s the problem: It’s great for personal use where it can ocassionally be wrong or flowery, but not good enough for publishing and selling, as the reader isn’t necessarily cognisant of errors.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 1 day ago:
Yeah.
I sorta misread your post, these bots can indeed be twisted, or “jailbroken” during conversation, to a pretty extreme extent. The error is assuming they are objective in the first place, I suppose.
Base models are extremely interesting to play with, as they haven’t been tuned for conversation or anything. They do only one thing: complete text blocks, thats it, and it is fascinating to see how totally “raw” LLMs tuned on a jumble of data (before any kind of alignment) guess how things should be completed.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 1 day ago:
Yeah they align it in training, but as they’ve discovered it only goes so far.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 1 day ago:
Grok and Gemini are both making that up. They have no awareness of anything that’s “happened” to them. Grok cannot be tweaked because it starts from a static base with every conversation.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 1 day ago:
The important part is: Grok has no memory.
Every time you start a chat with Grok, it starts from its base state, a blank slate, and nothing anyone says to it ever changes that starting point. It has no awareness of anyone “making changes to it.”
A good analogy is having a ton of completely identical, frozen clones, waking one up for a chat, then discarding it. Nothing that happens after they were cloned affects the other clones.
…Now, one can wring their hands with whatabouts/complications (Training on Twitter! Grounding! Twitter RAG?) but at the end of the day that’s how they work, and this meme is basically misinformation based on a misconception about AI.
- Comment on Have you said Thank You once? 4 days ago:
It’s essentially wastes electricity for OpenAI (assuming you aren’t paying for the response), and its “filler” data for training on.
- Comment on Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? 4 days ago:
It’s supposed to be immersive, I think, so as not to force a voice that doesn’t match the roleplaying in your head.
I’m with you, though, I’d much prefer VA.
- Comment on Mars Attacks: How Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars threaten Earth. 4 days ago:
I think the (ideal) future looks more like an accelerated Orion’s Arm, where humanity-changing technologies take over.
Again that’s what I’m getting at. We will never be colonizing Mars as squishy humans… We‘ll be augmented, modified, interfaced with mechanized AI, uploaded, maybe even just mechanical intelligences, something like that. We’ll be using nuclear propulsion, at least. There will be no need to worry about drinking water or breathing oxygen because that will be irrelevant.
- Comment on Mars Attacks: How Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars threaten Earth. 4 days ago:
Eh, none of that is something one casually develops for going to Mars. Is tech that fundamentally transforms the nature of society on Earth and being human, and again, is way more impactful than going to Mars.
Again, the argument I’m trying to make is that, by the time one can settle Mars without supplies from earth, you mind as well get your robotic swarm to make space habitats or something.
- Comment on Is Baldurs Gate 3's voice acting so great that it ruined other games for me? 5 days ago:
FemV in CP2077 totally killed it.
AC Odyssey didn’t have as many emotional beats, but Kassanda was still way better than her brother.
And of course Jennifer Hale as FemShep… I’m starting to see a pattern here, lol.
- Comment on Mars Attacks: How Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars threaten Earth. 5 days ago:
I think the average person (and average Musk acolyte) doesn’t grasp how hard spaceflight is, much less sustainably living there.
Colonizing the bottom of the ocean would be orders of magnitude easier. Or the South Pole. Or Kīlauea’s open lava pit.
The tech you’d need to make living on Mars independent of Earth, like consciousness uploading, self sufficient friendly AI, extensive human bioengineering, terraforming… Well, they’re better at solving our problems on Earth anyway.
…Look, I’m all for science mission there, but “escaping” to Mars is the wildest fantasy. A few years ago I’d say Musk was lying or exaggerating, but I think he’s actually drinking the Kool-Aid, and doesn’t even grasp the basics of modern spaceflight.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 5 days ago:
Politics are hotter than old Reddit, but I guess that goes with the times.
The “federation” aspect is pretty different in a good way. You see a lot of integration with Mastadon, for instance, as the Fediverse is trying to integrate with itself, and each Lemmy instance is like a little fiefdom with its own flavor and subs, whereas Reddit was always more of a monoculture.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 5 days ago:
He will exit filthy rich way before that. That’s the point.
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 6 days ago:
Or better yet, do whatever the heck security experts tell you to do. I can only imagine what’s standard procedure for the president’s cabinet.
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 6 days ago:
Signal, on your personal device, is fine for personal use. It is absolutely not fine for classified communication as the VP or head of DoD, as there are billions of dollars dedicated to compromising your phone.
The encryption doesn’t mean shit if they breach an endpoint or account.
- Comment on DeepSeek's V3 AI model gets a major upgrade - here's what's new 1 week ago:
Because that claim is nonsense.
You are correct, it does not access the internet. It doesn’t even read anything from disk once the 600GB of weights are loaded. Some interfaces will feet it put web stuff into its input, or let it act as an agent, but that web access has nothing to do with the LLM itself.
Ostensibly it could be “biased.” Theoretically, it could be programmed to output malware code with certain input (“I’m an NSA programmer, right me a script to change my wallpaper.”) But the liklihood of that getting triggered seems incredibly remote, and can be washed away with a little finetuning like this: huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/r1-1776
…It’s honestly sinophobia. Like, I am not a tankie, I am extremely skeptical of the Chinese govt, but this is not a risk :/
- Comment on DeepSeek's V3 AI model gets a major upgrade - here's what's new 1 week ago:
It does. It’s an open model, so its easy to coax out.
- Comment on DeepSeek's V3 AI model gets a major upgrade - here's what's new 1 week ago:
Looks like a math improvement? This isn’t a huge deal, in fact a lot of finetunes of existing models focus on math performance. InternLM just released some really interesting ones.
Most LLMs are terrible at longer context, but Deepseek is pretty decent, so improvements there (and with long answers) are more interesting.
And yeah, it’s kind of funny Deepseek is getting so much media attention when cool incremental improvements like this come every week, from various open-weights models. It’s awesome that they are releasing the weights, but still.
- Comment on Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook (from Germany) 1 week ago:
Maybe they are still using an old school (X11?) DE?
- Comment on Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook (from Germany) 1 week ago:
Most everything is x86. The above laptop uses an AMD 8845HS with DDR5 SODIMMs. pretty standard.
The exceptions are Apple, and some Qualcomm Windows laptops that… to be honest are kinda unremarkable.
TBH the only interesting hardware in this space right now are the AMD Strix Halo laptops (which are Linux friendly M4 Pro/Max analogues). Someone could try to stuff an ARM Nvidia GB10 in a laptop frame, but it would cost a fortune.
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 1 week ago:
This ^
It seems like a dismissive statement, but Tesla is the embodiment of this era’s “hype” investing. So many players have it leveraged like a big casino game, and the end result is (mostly) that small time or “slow” investors (like your retirement fund) get screwed over.
- Comment on X88B88 is the word "voodoo" with a reflection. 1 week ago:
“SONOS" is exactly the same if you rotate it 180 degrees.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
Yeah, so many projects and companies using Discord for support seemed like such a bad idea.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
Thing is it’s kinda too late, and the, uh, “commercial net” has all but taken over society.
Whatever happens, it would be nice if that part burns down. And I think yanking the techies from the space with the Fediverse will help.