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My friend found 2 chimney sweep businesses. One charges $569, the other charges $150. Plot twist: the same guy runs both. They do the same thing and the same crew shows up.

I had this happen once at a car wash. The first time I went I paid for a $25 premium package with all the bells and whistles. They seemed to do a good job. The next time I went for the basic $10 one. Exact same thing.

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#772

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I bet you never get tired of being told LLMs are just statistical computational curiosities.

There are people like that. We don't know what's up with them.

It's pretty easy to explain. You see, they're unable to produce a response that isn't in their training data. They're stochastic parrots.

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#773

I actually pay 166 Euros a month for Claude Teams. Five seats. And I only use one. For myself. Why do I pay so much? Because the normal paid version (20 USD a month) interrups the chats after a dozen questions and wants me to wait a few hours until I can use it again. But Teams plan gives me way more questions. But why do I pay that much? Because Claude in combination with the Projects feature, where I can upload two…

Do you not have any friends to share that with? Or share a family cell phone plan or Netflix with?

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#774

I lived on 200$ monthly salary for 1.6 years. I guess AI will be slowely priced out from 3rd world countries.

We've been conditioned to pay $10/mo for an endless stream of gloried CRUD apps, but it is very common for specialized software to cost orders of magnitude more. Think Bloomberg Terminal, Cadence, Maya, lots of CAD software (like SOLIDWORKS), higher tiers of Adobe etc. all running in the thousands of dollars per user. And companies happily pay for them because of the value they add. ChatGPT isn't any different.

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> the long em-dash (—) which isn't on most keyboards On Windows its Windows Key + . to get the emoji picker, its in the Symbols tab or find it in recents.

Well not for me it's not, that is a zoom function. En dash is Alt+0150 and Em dash is Alt+0151

How do you have that configured? The Windows+. shortcut was added in a later update to W10 and pops up a GUI for selecting emojis, symbols, or other non-typable characters.

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#776

I just bought a pro subscription. First impressions: The new o1-Pro model is an insanely good writer. Aside from favoring the long em-dash (—) which isn't on most keyboards, it has none of the quirks and tells of old GPT-4/4o/o1. It managed to totally fool every "AI writing detector" I ran it through. It can handle unusually long prompts. It appears to be very good at complex data analysis. I need to put it through i…

Does it still hallucinate? This for me is key, if it does it will be limited.

The current architect of LLMs will always "hallucinate".

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The new pricing tier suggests they're taking the Jobs approach - betting that their technology integration and reliability will justify premium positioning. But they face more intense commoditization pressure than either IBM or Apple did, given the rapid advancement of open-source models. The critical question is timing - if they wait too long to establish their enterprise position, they risk being overtaken by commo…

The Apple partnership and iOS integration seems pretty damn big for them - that really corners a huge portion of the consumer market. Agreed on enterprise - Microsoft would have to roll out policies and integration with their core products at a pace faster than they usually do (Azure AD for example still pales in comparison to legacy AD feature wise - I am continually amazed they do not priorities this more)

ChatGPT through Siri/Apple Intelligence is a joke compared to using ChatGPT's iPhone app. Siri is still a dumb one trick pony after 13 years of being on the market.

Supposedly Apple wont be able to offer a Siri LLM that acts like ChatGPT's iPhone app until 2026. That gives Apple's current and new competitors a head start. Maybe ChatGPT and Microsoft could release an AI Phone. I'd drop Apple quickly if that becomes a reality.

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#778

Why doesn't Pro include longer context windows? I'm a Plus member, and the biggest limitation I am running into by far is the maximum length of a context window. I'm having context fall out of scope throughout the conversion or not being able to give it a large document that I can then interrogate. So if I go from paying $20/month for 32,000 tokens, to $200/month for Pro, I expect something more akin to Enterprise's…

Google models have huge contexts, but are terrible...

Agreed. The new 1121 is better but still garbage relatively.

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#780

I actually pay 166 Euros a month for Claude Teams. Five seats. And I only use one. For myself. Why do I pay so much? Because the normal paid version (20 USD a month) interrups the chats after a dozen questions and wants me to wait a few hours until I can use it again. But Teams plan gives me way more questions. But why do I pay that much? Because Claude in combination with the Projects feature, where I can upload two…

Have you tried NotebookLM for something like this?

Isn’t that Google’s garbage models only?
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