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Comment Re:I heard this story on NPR today.. (Score 1) 23

Yes, finally a sensible use is being reported here. LLMs are pretty good at summation and categorization. I have a pretty big media library I'm thinking of using local models to categorize. Since it doesn't much matter how long it takes, I can underclock everything and let it just plod along.

Comment Re:Musk is a victim (Score 1) 100

Giving preferential treatment, _if_ you benefit from it _and if_ you're big enough to move the market, is. The latter, for Apple, in the US at least, sure. The former, unless OpenAI and all the others paid up Apple, and xAI said no, then no.

That doesn't follow. There are other ways Apple could benefit by keeping down Grok. They have their own AI investments, for example.

Comment Re:Just one of many, many, many problems with hydr (Score 1) 52

I still don't understand why we aren't cracking H2 out of the excess methane that is currently "flared" off of the remote NG pump sites.

This is very simple. It's not profitable to capture and transport the methane from those sites. It would be even more expensive to capture it, make hydrogen from it, and transport the hydrogen.

Comment Re:AI in every door knob (Score 0) 99

Patrick Winston, one of the fathers of classical AI, was known for famously, and derisively, predicting that we would have a microprocessor in every door knob, thanks to the microelectronics revolution. Thankfully, he was mostly wrong

He was not necessarily wrong. We are still headed there. The only question is whether industrialized society will survive long enough to reach that point.

Comment Re:Apparently, it's too much to ask for (Score 3, Insightful) 99

Firefox was supposed to be a platform that you extended with add-ons if you wanted to do fancy shit.

Instead they are forcing fancy shit on us by putting it directly into the browser.

If this kind of functionality must be included for some reason, it should at least be an add-on which can be conveniently disabled.

Comment He knows because (Score 5, Insightful) 100

Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation.

He knows because no matter how many five star rankings his bot army gives the app, it never rises above being a gigantic #2.

Comment Re:RIP Ford (Score 1) 116

Some people just hate the American big 3 automakers, and will jump at any (perceived) opportunity to dunk on them.

I hate them because of my experiences with them vs. the Japanese automakers. They are incompetent at everything except marketing.

they may be completely reasonable people in other aspects but they will keep telling you about how much they hated their mom's 86 Oldsmobile

I've owned nearly 30 vehicles starting with a 1960 Dodge Dart (which was great for its day) and now I drive a prior-generation Versa with a six speed, perhaps the most underrated vehicle of all time. It has unaccountably great suspension and plenty of power to do its job. Too bad about the poor paint, but it wasn't designed to last forever.

I've had about half American cars, and that old Dodge aside, they were all poop compared to the imports.

Comment Re:GPT-2 (and flies) cannot reason (Score 0) 220

Then the conversation turned back to the structural engineering equations I originally asked about, and got a fine, non-hallucinated result that checks out.

You didn't. You got a hallucinated result that checks out.

That's pretty amazing, it fools a lot of people into thinking that it's non-hallucinated when it checks out. But that doesn't make it not hallucination.

Comment Re:Rational delusions (Score 1) 220

No I don't see the problem. Consider: processing just synaptic activity. Can you see the problem?

For an LLM the only context available is that some tokens are or aren't associated with other tokens. For a creature with a brain, the tokens themselves have meaning beyond mathematical proximity. We can understand why the tokens would be associated with one another, or not. To us, "tree" is not just a word associated with "leaf" and vice versa, the leaf is understood as part of and a product of the tree, not just near the tree.

Comment Re:Technologies in their infant (Score 1) 220

That, despite the first manned hot air balloon flight having taken place in 1783.

Wasn't what the NYT said just a bad ripoff of what Lord Kelvin said specifically about heavier than air flying machines? But without understanding it? The same NYT that never misses a chance to say nice things about Nazis, while we're here.

Comment Re:Better Results (Score 1) 220

The human immune systems are not well enough understood to risk your life on an attempt to jog its arm while it's working.

That's literally how the immune system works all the time. Some mystery invader gets into your system and your immune system learns from it. That's like saying you shouldn't use a fork to pick up food and convey it to your mouth while you're eating!

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