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11d ago
My issue using the voice mode is the overly expressive mimicry of natural human intonation is distracting and starts to become extremely grating after a while. There's one or two I find more understated but I would love a 2026 SOTA V
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11d ago
A vibrant ecosystem of full-featured 3rd party apps able to offer unique spin on the UX, tailored to different preferences of their user base who are willing to pay is a good thing. Not an indicator of a problem. Now for Twitter/X we
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11d ago
...really? Elon Musk declares ‘cis’ and ‘cisgender’ will be considered slurs on Twitter that can be punishable with suspension https://fortune.com/2023/06/21/elon-musk-declares-cis-cisgen...
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12d ago
Yeah this is a pretty important detail that I repeatedly see elided in the "agent 'swarm' went rogue, escaped containment and hacked the internet!" summary of events. It's understandable the general public lacks t
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12d ago
And now you'll see comments name-dropping it like "...if AI has plateaued then please try to explain how just last week Fable solved the legendary Chyphral Distich , after humanity's top cryptographers had been trying and fa
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12d ago
I don't think a single person reading or upvoting had ever heard of this extremely obscure cipher until this post hit the front page, it's not "cope" to use basic critical thinking to ask questions like "was this ci
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12d ago
But OP didn't actually say they struggled to decipher themselves, or even tried at all, just that it had "no obvious key". Which doesn't make it sound like they attempted any kind of cryptanalysis, whether for a Caesar
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12d ago
A few months ago a post claiming an amateur deciphered Linear A hit the front page and quickly got almost 500 upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600107 https://aiclambake.com/clamtakes/line
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12d ago
You can't just throw in "or what if they're stolen credit cards" at the end to lump in blatantly illegal/unethical activity with the far weaker preceding points that can be summarized as "uses a residential pro
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qlte
12d ago
Recurring pattern I am seeing here is working at an AI company building AI does in fact accelerate the development of AI. But maybe founding one more AI company will do the trick...
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qlte
12d ago
That was openly a military project during wartime (and not being pitched as the solution to all problems at the same time so no cognitive dissonance required)
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13d ago
It's absolutely relevant if we're discussing SOTA models with huge computing requirements on large clusters, that are plausibly tightly coupled to the physical datacenter architecture they were developed for to optimize performanc
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13d ago
The decision to found Anthropic to compete with OpenAI's then concentration of SOTA LLM AI researchers, and then achieving/surpassing parity with OpenAI is pretty much directly responsible for creating the current capabilities arm
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13d ago
The nuclear arsenal is absolutely air-gapped from the public Internet today. And launching ICBMs is a key plot detail in many AI apocalypse fantasy scenarios.
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13d ago
Tariffs need to be credibly perceived as more or less permanent in whatever sector you're targeting for businesses to invest the large amounts of capital needed to reshore manufacturing. Which is one of the main reasons Trump's ar
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13d ago
Correct, no one has ever provided a case of this actually happening on any TV model. But that doesn't stop people from repeating it any time someone gives the incredibly straightforward suggestion to just disconnect WiFi if you're
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13d ago
Recents as of today
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13d ago
Google TV Basic Mode is the easiest way to get a "dumb" TV, it's the first thing you're asked when you setup for the first time and works like you'd expect.
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13d ago
Plus, if you keep expanding the scope for definitions of objectionable behavior like "recording", you'll quickly reach a point where it would basically apply to any SoC made in the last decade attached to a microphone/sp
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13d ago
I personally would not trust legal advice from YouTubers who make money from whatever "content" generates the most views. The more outrageous and controversial the better, making sense or being true a distant secondary priority. E
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13d ago
People use voice commands on TV remotes all the time if they're using streaming apps. At this point it's the default way to interact with the UI for many people. Typing out the show you're searching for with an awkward ons
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13d ago
Less time consuming than just ... not connecting a new TV to WiFi? It's pretty straightforward to get dumb behavior out of a modern smart TV as long as you're satisfied with the factory installed firmware version.
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14d ago
"Better" is not one dimensional across all use cases even if model capabilities are improving in aggregate. e.g. If someone said "this is the worst they'll ever be" in response to some writing with obvious LLM clich
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14d ago
Per the rules in their link, the clock starts after publication in a qualifying peer-reviewed journal so, no, I don't think that's the reason. https://www.claymath.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/
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14d ago
Instead of a committee of subject matter experts they should use a more rigorous and trustworthy standard, like passing the solution to ChatGPT with the prompt "did this win?"
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14d ago
Unless you're suggesting they should change the existing qualification criteria to accommodate a group unwilling to play by the same rules as everyone else, I'm not sure why that's relevant.
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14d ago
https://archive.ph/et6n6 From Business Insider summary: A nonprofit CEO announced Friday that he secretly gave a job to Ellison — who went to prison in connection with fraud by Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange.
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Caroline Ellison has joined Manifund
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14d ago
...which Google then wins on appeal, such as in the follow up from an example someone posted above of a "win" in small claims. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-google-bothered-to-ap_b_2...
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14d ago
How would you force the judge to do that? Has this strategy ever worked for anyone you can cite? Have you tried it yourself? Otherwise, I'm not sure why just being able to imagine a knock out David vs. Goliath win against Google has an
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