Yeah, it’s like complaining that a hammer isn’t good at turning a screw. There’s a whole trend of Chess content creators featuring games against ChatGPT where it forgets the position or plays illegal moves, and it just doesn’t mean anything. ChatGPT was never designed or intended to be able to evaluate a chess position, and incidentally, we do have computer programs that do exactly that and have been better than any human player since the 1990s. So what is even the point?
Integers are days in Excel, no? So I think 2+2= 12:00 AM Jan 5, 1900.
How long will it take them to realize they’d be so much happier with something more down-to-earth? A real bot-next-door. Local, if you will.
I assume the top-level takeaway is that we’re all getting pushed to Linux, but just on slightly varying timelines. :)
Particularly apt given that many of the biggest problems with social media are problems of capitalism. Social media platforms have found it most profitable to monetize conflict and division, the low self-esteem of teenagers, lies and misinformation, envy over the curated simulacrum of a life presented by a parasocial figure.
These things drive engagement. Engagement drives clicks. Clicks drive ad revenue. Revenue pleases shareholders. And all that feeds back into a system that trades negativity in the real world for positivity on a balance sheet.
It’s the last version of Windows I’ll ever install, so the statement was accurate but incomplete.
The moon landing was pretty cool. But it also happened right in the middle of the Vietnam War, so yeah, your point stands.
“Holocaust” has existed in the English language for a thousand years and derives from its Latin counterpart that dates to ancient Rome.
It means complete destruction, and I use it here intentionally, and accurately.
Yes, I was glad to see it, but it does seem like very little and very late.
It seems to me like a lot of countries, including Germany, talk out of both sides of their mouth on Palestine. The UK has been doing the same thing - demanding a ceasefire while at the same time arguing in court that there’s “no evidence of genocide in Gaza,” - a clear lie - while also criminalizing and arresting even peaceful protesters who speak up about the Holocaust being perpetrated against the Palestinian people.
I’m thankful for small shifts in a moral direction, but I don’t think this will change the fundamental reality on the ground. Likud’s stated goal in their founding platform is to deny any Palestinian sovereignty and conquer the entire region. It will take a lot more than a temporary, partial delay of shipments from one nation to prevent the genocide of Palestine.
But maybe it will hallucinate ads for non-existent products, like Dr. Zhivago’s Peanut Butter Enema Cannon, which could be fun.
Germany and the UK are two of the worst offenders outside the U.S. I certainly don’t expect either of them to take a stand for Palestinians’ rights to peace, land, and sovereignty.
Maybe Jim was just in a really good mood after all his hair spontaneously grew back. /s
It’s going to help you reflect on that situation!
Completely agree. The whole tone and setting changed. SC:BW went for gritty realism. Obviously, there’s a suspension of disbelief when you’ve got psionic aliens, but it felt like three scrappy factions barely surviving in the endless dark of space.
SC2 went full Warcraft. Ancient gods, portals to other worlds, all the same kitschy fantasy elements that are fine in the campy context of WC but really clashed with the established character of the SC universe. I get that they wanted to raise the stakes in the sequel, but I really disagreed with how they went about it.
And Kerrigan should have stayed evil. That’s my “Han shot first” of the franchise.
Possibly, yes. There are models that will run on consumer-grade GPUs that you might already have or might have purchased anyway, where you might say there’s no incremental cost. But the issue is that the performance will be limited. The models are forgetful and prone to getting stuck in loops of repeated phrases.
So if instead you custom-build a workstation with two 5090s or a Pro 6000 or something that pushes you up to the 100 GB VRAM tier, then absolutely, just as you said, you’ll be spending thousands of dollars that probably won’t pay back relative to renting cloud GPU time.
Yes, Ollama or a range of other backends (Ooba, Kobold, etc.) can run LLMs locally. Huggingface has a huge number of models suited to different tasks like coding, storywriting, general purpose, and so on. If you run both the backend and frontend locally, then no one monetizes your data.
The part I’d argue that the previous poster is glazing over a little bit is performance. Unless you have an enterprise-grade GPU cluster sitting in your basement, you’re going to make compromises on speed and/or quality relative to the giant models that run on commercial services.
Lydia does seem the type to crash out hard. Excited to see just how big a fire and/or shitstorm she causes.
Sure as hell is a litmus test for me. One of my two senators backed Bernie’s bill to block weapons sales to Israel, the other did not. Only one of the two will ever get my vote again.
I’m also not casting a vote for governor because the candidate I’d otherwise support has taken $100ks in AIPAC money.
I will not vote for anyone who enables and sustains the holocaust of the indigenous people of Palestine.
And various species of pangolin being endangered or critically endangered.
Arrr, ye be underestimatin’ the power o’ ten pieces o’ eight an’, uh, an’ two secretaries!