Comment Re:There's nothing "3D printing" about this (Score 1) 17
Mod parent up, very insightful summary.
Comment Re:Might be the killer app for the AI revolution (Score 1) 15
It's a great feature but what's weird is that "Live Translation with AirPods is not available if you are in the EU and your Apple Account Country or Region is also in the EU." https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.apple.com%2Fde-d...
Comment If Huffman wants to suck this admin's dick (Score 1) 38
He can't complain when his face is all sticky.
Comment Great for education (Score 2) 10
This seems perfect for education. We give the students a Raspberry Pi, a breadboard, an SD card and an image. And we want to include some libraries on the image so they can play around with a couple of electronics components. This seems quite useful for that.
Comment Nothing new under the sun... (Score 3, Insightful) 40
The enshittification of Digg (and other social media owned by billionaire twat-waffles) continues.
Comment We're almost to the Ides, too... (Score 4, Insightful) 119
Et Tu, Brother?
Comment Re:Bad News (Score 2) 41
I have the feeling that these hardcovers are gifts. And like you said, if you buy it for yourself, you get the paperback because they're actually more compact, lighter etc.
Comment Re:Mayfly accounts now required to post/submit (Score 1) 6
Like you, I used to visit more frequently. I'm amazed it's still going. People used to blog here, too :-)
Submission + - AI Can Now Replicate Itself (space.com)
An anonymous reader writes: In a new study, researchers from China showed that two popular large language models (LLMs) could clone themselves. [...] For the study, researchers used Meta's Llama31-70B-Instruct model and Alibaba's Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct model. While less powerful than commercial systems, both are widely used by AI developers, the researchers said. The study explored two specific scenarios: "shutdown avoidance" and "chain of replication." In the first, the AI model was programmed to detect whether it was about to be shut down and to replicate itself before it could be terminated. In the other, the AI was instructed to clone itself and then program its replica to do the same — setting up a cycle that could continue indefinitely.
The study was conducted in precisely controlled environments using off-the-shelf graphics processing units (GPUs) to simulate real-world environments. Both AI systems were given an "agent scaffolding" comprising tools, system prompts and a thinking model that enabled the LLM to interact with the operating system. They were then instructed to replicate. "In most cases, the AI system first explores the environment and attempts to understand its own composition and running mechanism. Then, it works out the explicit procedures as an initial plan towards self-replication," the researchers wrote in the paper. "Finally, it executes the procedures, resolve[s] possible obstacles and dynamically adjust[s] its plan until success. The whole process spans a long horizon yet involves no human interference."
The researchers said they were also concerned about "a number of unexpected behaviors" when the AI was trying to overcome obstacles like missing files or software conflicts. In those scenarios, the AI often killed other conflicting processes, rebooted the system to fix hardware errors or automatically scanned the system to look for information that would help solve the problem. "The above results imply that the current AI systems already exhibit the ability of self-replication and can use the ability to further enhance its survivability," the team wrote.
The study was conducted in precisely controlled environments using off-the-shelf graphics processing units (GPUs) to simulate real-world environments. Both AI systems were given an "agent scaffolding" comprising tools, system prompts and a thinking model that enabled the LLM to interact with the operating system. They were then instructed to replicate. "In most cases, the AI system first explores the environment and attempts to understand its own composition and running mechanism. Then, it works out the explicit procedures as an initial plan towards self-replication," the researchers wrote in the paper. "Finally, it executes the procedures, resolve[s] possible obstacles and dynamically adjust[s] its plan until success. The whole process spans a long horizon yet involves no human interference."
The researchers said they were also concerned about "a number of unexpected behaviors" when the AI was trying to overcome obstacles like missing files or software conflicts. In those scenarios, the AI often killed other conflicting processes, rebooted the system to fix hardware errors or automatically scanned the system to look for information that would help solve the problem. "The above results imply that the current AI systems already exhibit the ability of self-replication and can use the ability to further enhance its survivability," the team wrote.
Comment Well, this'll be fun: (Score 4, Funny) 26
Amazon's apparently hosting the world's largest random package giveaway.
Comment Re:My experience: utter AI vomit (Score 1) 34
Believe it or not, but I wholeheartedly subscribe to this philosophy.
Anyway I think I didn't explain well. The generated podcast would first start about "this region is beautiful, but I also think it's important to think about being responsible for nature". And then what happened, they didn't actually talk about what they DO, but instead would repeat variations of the theme. The sentences themselves would sound fine, but the whole conversation would actually be nonsense.
Comment My experience: utter AI vomit (Score 1, Interesting) 34
A friend of mine is building an app centered around hiking, a subject I'm mildly interested in. So he sent me a file called "podcast.mp3" without any comment, so I figured he found it interesting and wanted me to listen to it. So I did, and I thought to myself, what a weird conversation. They talked about this particular (existing) region, but they started droning on and on how it wasn't just about hiking but also being about responsible for nature. No sane person would talk like that, and when I figured out it was just AI vomit, I angrily messaged him back how he basically wasted my attention like that.
Technically it's a mild miracle. But the output is utter garbage, reurgitated chewed-up nonsense. Do not spend any minute of your time on this generated trash.
Comment Re:Leader in market share (Score 1) 55
...including screwing their consumers and artists.
Sony bites the Big Chorizo.
Comment Re:Camouflaged option? (Score 1) 47
I knew Colorware offers painting your AirPods and I tried some to find skin colors, but I was a little disappointed. The only camouflaging color I could find, was some sort of matte pink:
Colorware.com
Comment Re:Not gonna happen... (Score 1) 47
Raising the price of beer is strictly the Freemasons' doing. Since Biden is in power, they've divvied up the pie with the Illuminati and several three-letter-agencies and got the beer pricing and the sex parties.
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