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Post by mrtesthah »

londons_explore wrote: post #54
mrtesthah wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gemini 3.5 is imminent. https://www.voxelbench.ai/leaderboard

Getting a text based model to design voxel art really doesn't seem to be a good benchmark... Better leaderboard: https://arena.ai/leaderboard/text And the order of the top players is very different...

All the frontier LLMs are multi-modal.

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Post by mirsadm »

jerrygarcia wrote: post #40

Demo: avoid getting to know your neighbors by letting your AI agent plan the neighborhood lock party

It's gotta be booking a flight or restaurant or something. They demo this every year and it never works.

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Post by topaz0 »

meta_ai_x wrote: post #121
breezybottom wrote: post #115

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People thought Pets.com was here to stay as well

chewy.com is literally pets.com and it is thriving. Remember HN is mocking the capability/technology itself not the ability of specific firms to survive.

Chewy.com is not pets.com. They're in the same market, but it's not useful to say that a business built around limitless hypergrowth is the same as a business built around medium sized sustainability.

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Post by hadlock »

LocalPCGuy wrote: post #51
storus wrote: post #14

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Winning the AI race means obsoleting their current profitable business. They might win but at what cost?

If you don't think AI will include sponsors/ads/etc once someone comes out on top, well, I might have a bridge to sell you. Seriously though, I'm not sure why Google evolving in this manner precludes them from having a profitable business model. Right now we're subsidizing the costs (probably just a bit) and having ongoing subscription revenue they can increase as needed (particularly in the "google won the race" sce…

I think the difference this time is, anybody can curate a baseline set of training data, there is no need to constantly be scanning the open web and indexing it. Everyone already has "good enough" question-answering capability. There is no option to pay or an ad-free, trackerless search funciton on google, but I can do that with multiple non-google providers. Between LLM and kagi I've managed to largely cut google out of my life for $40/mo. Subsidized LLM will eventually disappear, but I think cost per token will reduce over time to meet the ~$20/mo ad-free tier.

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Post by gowld »

amaks wrote: post #46
LetsGetTechnicl wrote: post #16

Why would I want to vibe code a "fully functional operating system"?

It's an example of AI coding agents successfully completing complex coding tasks.

I don't want a toy copy of something that already exists. I want something new.

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Post by justinhj »

sunaookami wrote: post #101
paulddraper wrote: post #58

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Gemini CLI works. It's not the favorite, but it's definitely "working."

It's constantly overloaded and shits the bed. Gemini is so awful, it feels like a GPT-3.5 era model that fails to make basic tool calls.

Not my experience at all

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Post by TacticalCoder »

Analemma_ wrote: post #128
jdw64 wrote: post #113

They claim the AI itself built an OS and demoed Doom running on it. Personally, rather than Doom, I think I'll only truly appreciate the real value of this advancement when flawless real-time YouTube subtitle translation actually becomes a reality.

I don't think you can get much more real-time than what we already have? iOS and Android both do live translations through their respective earbuds at decent latency, you can't get much faster without running into fundamental linguistics limitations. For instance, you can't translate a Japanese sentence into English until you reach the verb at the end; no amount of latency improvement can overcome the fact that langu…

> I don't think you can get much more real-time than what we already have?

The YouTube real-time translation are utter garbage. And that may the less bad of the real-time translations out there. Still pure garbage.

If you watch anything specific to one sport/hobby, the number of words that are incorrectly translated is just wild.

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Post by itsafarqueue »

arionmiles wrote: post #100

Watching these bland presentations with choreographed delivery and reading off a prompt off-screen (I'm not completely sure they're doing this, but it looks like it) makes me appreciate Steve Jobs presentations from the past so much more. Steve really had product presentations down. I wish people at least tried to copy him.

This is AI-maxing bleeding into everything. “Make me a great conference presentation”, and this is roughly what you get. AI-nshittification writ large. It’s sad to watch.

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Post by rkagerer »

sidcool wrote: post #98

Google I/O has been my favorite tech event since 2009 when they launched Google Wave. I was hooked.

I remember that launch. Poor Lars dancing around onstage during the connection hiccups. Google glass skyding in a few years later. Fun times.

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Post by rcoveson »

Andrex wrote: post #44
ortusdux wrote: post #10

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It's the free square on the bingo card

The bingo card: https://i.imgur.com/kHPXHal.jpeg

I could see this image in my mind before I clicked on it, before even consciously considering what it might be. Is this how an LLM feels on the inside?
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