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- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 6 days ago:
Production engineers and battery scientists do. In their normal work, they only get to see like 0.1% improvements, so anything above 1% is like magic to them.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 6 days ago:
Yes. That’s true, but the major headlines don’t tell you about any of the 1-5% improvements that undoubtedly are happening all the time. The headlines focus on stuff that is either highly theoretical or still in the lab for the next few decades. If you want to read about what’s actually realistic and about to be implemented in production, those articles are probably in some battery engineering journals.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 6 days ago:
Ooh, so that’s CEO speak for: “we’re broke, please give us more money”.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 6 days ago:
As long as it runs, it’s hackable. If it fails to compile, or crashes on start, nobody can hack it.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 6 days ago:
Oh, and the weekly battery articles too. “This new battery will charge in 10 minutes and last 2 weeks.”
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 6 days ago:
And these people get paid absurd amounts of money too.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 6 days ago:
See also: COOL:gen
The whole concept of generating code is basically ancient by now. I heard about this stuff in the 90s, but now I found it that this thing has been around since 1985.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 6 days ago:
When the CEO of a tech company says that in x months this and that will happen, you know it’s just musk talk.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah that pretty much sums it up. Sadly, it didn’t tell me how much coal was burned and how many starving orphan puppies it had to stomp on to produce the result.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
In Copilot terminology, this is a “quick response” instead of the “think deeper” option. The latter actually stops to verify the initial answer before spitting it out.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
Can you share the prompt you used for making this happen? I think I could use it for a bunch of different things.
- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 1 week ago:
Cyberspace, dot com, Web 2.0, cloud computing, SAAS, mobile, big data, blockchain, IoT, VR and so many more. Sure, they can be used for some things, but doing that takes time, effort and money. On top of that, you need to know exactly when to use these things and when to choose something completely different.
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 1 week ago:
That’s true. The general sentiment of AI will influence investor behavior and the availability of money. If LLMs fail spectacularly, it could make it harder to find investors open to the idea of using AI for various other things too. The past 10 years has seen a massive rise in new AI companies, so they will be able keep on selling tried and tested AI even when investor money dries up.
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 1 week ago:
I wasn’t talking about delusional LLMs and creepy image generators.
AI as a whole encompasses so much more. Like, image resolution up scaling, cleaning a noisy audio signal, generating new frames to make choppy stop motion animation smoother, finding optimal paths for logistics chains, designing a smart way to pack a pallet full of random boxes just to name a few. All of that stuff is already happening and is here to stay.
Cramming silly LLMs into every application might take a hit though. They could still be a solution to something, but we just haven’t quite figured it out yet.
- Comment on Is AI Facing a Trough of Disillusionment? 1 week ago:
Can’t close the Pandora’s box. AI is already out there and it’s being used in a variety of places. Some of those things are good, bad, ugly, useless, stupid or even terrifying. Once AI reaches the plateau of productivity, all the useless and stupid applications are gone, but the other ones will stay.
- Comment on Ooni Volt 2 - they put "AI" in a pizza oven 2 weeks ago:
Optical Character Recognition used to be cutting edge AI buzz in the 70s and 80s. Eventually, it got applied to all sorts of places, so OCR kinda lost some of the magic and sparkle. After that, people stopped thinking of it as AI, even though it relies on neural network.
- Comment on Can you trust your VPN? How Facebook turned a VPN into a surveillance engine 4 weeks ago:
The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Its free if you can find a mouse willing to take one for the team.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 4 weeks ago:
After grilling their silly LLM for a while, I was able to squeeze out what that company really is all about. They don’t really make anything. They just buy miscellaneous software companies, and turn those apps into subscriptions based cloud cancer. Enterprise software meets maximum enshittification, yeah baby!
- Comment on Change your profile to Clippy (call to action) 4 weeks ago:
He also posts on Odysee. Here’s the same video.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 5 weeks ago:
That’s true as far as the social media landscape is concerned. I was talking about the internet as a whole.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 5 weeks ago:
Amazon, Google and Microsoft would still be there, so the Internet seems to be suffering from metastatic cancer at this point. Cutting off two revolting lumps helps, but the prognosis doesn’t look that great.
- Comment on China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age 5 weeks ago:
Oh, but Germans can just buy their electricity from French nuclear plants.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 5 weeks ago:
An offline solution exists too, but then you would need to sync a few gigabytes of mp3 files on your phone. Not quite as convenient, but at least it wouldn’t use any mobile data. Actually, it’s still a whole lot nicer than dragging a CD player and a few discs with you. If you’re into retro, you totally can get CDs too…
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 5 weeks ago:
I don’t like to bring my personal stuff on my work computer, but I can use my phone for all that stuff instead. You could use a BT speaker to blast pirate metal in the office.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 5 weeks ago:
I guess some people are, as long as it’s a good balance of convenience and price. Ages ago, Napster, Kazaa and DC++ were considered more convenient than buying music. I guess torrents are used for that these days.
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 5 weeks ago:
That would be glorious. If the future of your company depends on the LLM keeping track of hundreds of details and drawing the right conclusions, it’s game over during the first day.
- Comment on How Wikipedia is fighting AI slop content 5 weeks ago:
A little while ago there was a similar article about the same thing. The answer was: deleting stuff.
If an article matches certain criteria, it just gets deleted without any discussion. Normally, there would be a lengthy discussion phase, which works reasonably well as long as actual humans are the ones writing the articles. Now that LLMs are generating trash, you need to lower the threshold for deletion in order to keep up with the rapid pace.
- Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 5 weeks ago:
Oh no! Building a product with stolen data was a rotten idea after all. Well, at least the AI companies can use their fabulously genius PhD level LLMs to weasel their way out of all these lawsuits. Right?
- Comment on Trump admin to reinstall Confederate statue toppled by protesters 1 month ago:
Statues can be surprisingly important. For example the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn sparked a lot of controversy in 2006-2007. Estonians saw it as a sign of soviet oppression and wanted to get rid of it. Russians obviously wanted to defend the statue, so all of this resulted several riots and cyber-attacks.
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 1 month ago:
Thanks, now I’m going down in a rabbit hole of pebbles and rebbles…