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The article touches on something that I've been thinking about with regards to Google's AI strategy; the automatically-generated AI search summaries are not great. They very freque…

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2501/

LLMs have solved writing in the same way image generators have solved stock photos - if you need an image that doesn't need to convey any information other than "I have added a som…

Also, the dark pattern where it shows the interface and lets you enter a prompt/set settings, but then pops up the 'create account' dialog when you press submit is pretty annoying.…

There's a blurb in the article: >"Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, has noted that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and receives identifiers b…

Paywall-free link: https://archive.is/Ipm3J

For many years, the title of the leadership role over the various precise time products at the USNO was "Director of the Directorate of Time"

The article is not about "should people be allowed to buy this product because it's potentially dangerous/addictive/etc" but "Should the company be allowed to sell this product bec…

This is the Platonic ideal of an LLM-generated blog post; it's pages long, it uses a lot of flowery language, and communicates almost zero actual information. I can't disagree with…

I agree; the situation "young people know all about computers" was maybe a twenty-five year phenomenon; before that, there weren't enough computers for it to be generally true, and…

The issue with this is that we don't know how it works. Generally speaking, we know how the level of abstraction that we were born with works. We might have some understanding of o…

I've experienced the same thing except sed 's/HEB/Publix/g' This is probably just a 'Kroger vs nice supermarket' thing.

You're right for the link as provided, but the (apparently) correct link provided upthread is https://wizardzines.com/comics/no-feigning-surprise/ , which is pretty similar to the …

Isn't most of our economic growth based off inputs of energy (in the form of labor, electricity, etc) that ultimately derive from the sun, though, rather than primarily non-renewab…

This has always been a thing with IT advice, though - the more complex a system and the outcome, the harder it is to clearly define "better" or "worse". Add in the fact that LLMs a…

Right, but that's still external to the LLM, it's just a KV cache that's stored on the provider side for performance reasons, so that the client doesn't have to re-send the whole c…

The fact that a LLM is essentially immutable would be my biggest argument against consciousness or self-awareness. It's a big file with a bunch of coordinates describing spatial re…

This article suffers from two things: First and most importantly, it's not really about LLMs, it's about AGI, and the second does not necessarily follow from the first; LLMs in the…

I've found that the AI overview is usually right but confidently wrong enough of the time that I don't trust it. The interface that you get with the 'AI Mode' button (which I assum…

I think this touches on the core difference between good and bad use of AI; using AI as part of the process vs cutting and pasting LLM output. Use AI as part of the research proces…

Was it the actual raw chain-of-thought? I know GPT-5 will emit thinking tokens, and while they're an interesting insight into the 'reasoning' process, they're apparently pretty hea…

>lot of issues The detailed stats page notes that the Grok station has played Sandstorm by Darude 228 times in the last 14 days. https://andonlabs.com/radio