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Like an idiot, I once wrote a simple, internal, in memory chat room via web page at work. Because it let you pick a nickname, co-workers immediately gave themselves names of other …

You’re right. Modern frontier models are now multimodal. I used often as weak a hedge, because I know at least his gpt3.5 turbo and llama3.1 generated pelicans were from text only …

At that rate you could use an image model, which was designed for the task. Thats the absurdity of this test. It’s often a text only generation model that has never seen a pelican,…

I think the evil part is the [at any cost] part, the incentives are irrelevant. An AI that only wants to make paperclips isn't evil because of the paperclips.

But, they were wrong ... in assuming what they were saying was at all relevant. And they were so sure they knew what they were talking about and that it applied that they dismissed…

Wait, so it would have, ironically, been safer to allow microsoft telemetry to bypass the VPN entirely and remain associated only with their home network, because it's the phone ho…

Oh, good. Maybe I can stop myself from mindlessly upgrading yearly which being on the original iPhone upgrade program makes too tempting and easy. I should be keeping phones two ye…

It’s not clear if you’re commiserating with the comment you’re replying to, or lambasting its author.

https://archive.ph/UTcTa

Unrelated to Google Workspace and Firefox, but I just noticed today that Google’s YouTube now says my iPhone’s Safari browser is incapable of playing full screen videos, which it’s…

I think their intent is actually safety. They employ two touch interaction models: Flexible while not moving and simplified while driving. For instance, keyboard input becomes unav…

People confabulate. The setup further invites it. We mindlessly fill voids and call it opinion, and occassionally even believe ourselves. "Plausibility" is a really low bar. Rigor …

I'm not sure what's going on, but in Chrome my median point is heavily on the blue side but in Safari it's on the Green side. Also, at least in Safari, reset leads to a series of p…

Not paywalled for me: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/apple-store...

Paraphrasing F. Scott Fitzgerald? "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to func…

I always sort of speculated that sports existed to channel what would otherwise be human tendencies toward violence; an outlet enablining more stable civilization. Even though I la…

What I find most interesting is that HN posters seem to overwhelmingly skew liberal, but HN flaggers lean extremist “conservative”. They rarely post, but completely control the dis…

Out of curiosity, if you asked for the same text extraction multiple times, each inside fresh contexts, is it likely to fabricate unique quotes each time? And if so, a) might that …

Edit: Oop, I misread! Right, yes, the change up was arguably not entirely boring. Some people were excited at least. Originally: To be the annoying pedant, version numbers did stil…

The rationale for rejecting the syndrome was the reported scientific consensus of the impossibility of such a device being smaller than a large truck. The revelation that such a de…

Probably your DNS -- the archive.today guy is a stickler that dns must pass client subnet to partially deanonymize visitors, and for instance, cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 server doesn't p…

I’ve had tinnitus since I was maybe 5 years old, maybe from my frequent ear infections at the time? I remember discovering it during nap time and noting that silence had a high-pit…

Is it “plagiarism” to misattribute hallucinated quotes? Not that a whole lot of sloppy, unprofessional shortcuts weren’t taken, but plagiarism doesn’t seem like the right word, as …

I don’t believe that’s true. Private Cloud Compute is restricted to newer phones that already support on device Apple Intelligence. It’s just that the on device model is basically …