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Post by iamnotagenius »

dazzaji wrote: post #324
iamnotagenius wrote: post #311

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I liked Grok 3 fiction writing style; catches lots of physics of mundane situations such as ringing echo in a closed bathroom we all know well; the prose feels very lively as the result. Kinda like R1 makes situations sharp with details, Grok 3 makes the other way around - rounded by using details.

That sounds like very evocative prose. Would you be up for sharing some of that fiction? I haven’t tried Grok 3 for that purpose and now I’m curious.

Here is the sentence : (She screamed, which echoed off the tile walls. “This is my life now,” she said to her reflection, which looked back at her with a mix of disgust and pity.) Looks good to me. try it on Lmarena.ai.

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Post by tzury »

croes wrote: post #166
chrisco255 wrote: post #89

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Because he brought coders to a financial audit. Wrong tools.

“Figures don’t lie, but liars can figure”.

You can easily get drowned by a see of numbers and get confused and gaslighted, unless you don’t make sure all data is available and computable.

Not sure how this release, which impressive by all means transformed into an attack on DOGE which is the exact approach startups are taking to disrupt an industry.

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Post by lionkor »

DHolzer wrote: post #195
lionkor wrote: post #144

I don't understand how and why Grok would be related to "understanding the nature of the universe", as Musk puts it. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but they basically just burned more cash than any human should have to buy Nvidia GPUs and make them predict natural language, right? So, they are somewhat on-par with all the other companies that did the same. This is not innovation, this is baseless hype over a mediocr…

I work in AI and love the technology. But all the hype and grandiose claims make it awkward when people ask what I do, and it makes hiring harder when experienced developers hear 'AI development' and walk away - even though it's mostly just solid full-stack engineering work.

I am always looking for roles, and I have pretty good full stack experience (a few years of C++, C#, some JS, TS, backend and frontend web, C, Zig, Rust, built a few hobby compilers and other stuff).

I apply to pretty much every job that sounds reasonably good in terms of work-life balance, but I completely ignore anything that says AI. I really, really, really do not want to be part of a company that lies to itself, and so far all AI companies look like they are. It's not AGI. It's not gonna be AGI. Ride the hype train, cash out and lay off 80% of the workforce and jump on the next hype train, whatever. But don't hope that people who want a stable job want to hop on something that delivers such a shaky definition of value.

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Post by addandsubtract »

chrisco255 wrote: post #236
mnewme wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because running a company is different to running a state and we doubt his intentions, not his skills. Someone that is not elected gets 8mill/day from the government now overseas the government with some 20-year old fanatics that can’t even put up a secure website for DOGE?

Yeah, most of the government isn't elected, that's how it works. You only vote for 3 roles in the Federal government (I guess 4 if you count the veep). The rest of them are hired. For those downvoting, the roles are President, Vice President, Senator, and Representative. Outside of that, everyone is hired / appointed.

Being appointed is still different from being hired. It's a process that includes oversight and background checks.

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Post by kandesbunzler »

kubb wrote: post #180
lionkor wrote: post #144

I don't understand how and why Grok would be related to "understanding the nature of the universe", as Musk puts it. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but they basically just burned more cash than any human should have to buy Nvidia GPUs and make them predict natural language, right? So, they are somewhat on-par with all the other companies that did the same. This is not innovation, this is baseless hype over a mediocr…

You don’t understand the Musk business model. It has been the same for years. His wealth doesn’t come from his products, but from his fanbase buying his stock. The purpose of everything he does is to influence the public opinion to make him the tech genius of today in the collective psyche. Of course, he needs to do impressive things, stuff that a normal person wouldn’t have the resources to achieve. It’s similar to…

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Post by krige »

Nition wrote: post #281
phtrivier wrote: post #169

Off topic, but just in case: is there a good reference on how people actually use LLMs on a daily basis ? All my attempts so far have been pretty underwhelming: * when I use chatbots as search engines, I'm very quickly disappointed by obvious hallucinations * I ended up disabling github copilot because it was just "auto-complete on steroids" at best, and "auto-complete on mushrooms" at worst * I rarely have use cases…

I reckon the ideal use case for chat LLMs at the moment is as a bridge for questions that are hard to search but easy to verify. For example, you have a plant you can't identify. Hard to Google search with words. "Plant with small red berries and...". You could reverse image search your photo of it, probably won't help either. Show an LLM the photo (some accept images now). LLM tells you what it thinks. Now you Googl…

As a side note, there's an app for that! (tm). PlantNet does recognize plants based on photo provided and it is doing a pretty good job at it. It predates the LLM craze by a bit.

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Post by qgin »

crocowhile wrote: post #249
rendang wrote: post #10

Grok has gotten to the top of one benchmark: https://x.com/lmarena_ai/status/1891706264800936307 It's been said before but it is great news for consumers that there's so much competition in the LLM space. If it's hard for any one player to get daylight between them & the 2nd best alternative, hopefully that means one monopolistic firm isn't going to be sucking up all the value created by these things

It's not good news when this competition comes at cost of a gigantic over inflated bubble, in which all the big players keep on sucking billions from investors without even having a business model. This hype will burst sooner than later and will trigger yet another global recession. This is untenable.

The premise is that this ultimately replaces all intellectual and physical labor for the rest of time. It’s possible it becomes commoditized as soon as it exists, but in terms of investment dollars it’s either worth as much as you can spend or nothing at all.
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