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staticman2··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
That might depend on whether you are translating fiction or nonfiction.

Anecdotally I'd rate Gemini behind Claude and OpenAI models at fiction and I can't find any benchmarks showing Gemini is the clear winner at this task.

staticman2··on Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
If the news reporter said "Someone at a park played this 4 minute copyrighted song, and today's top story is just us showing you the recording" I'd bet that would be illegal where you live.
staticman2··on Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
This reminds me of a stand up comedy routine about people being bad at hiding their porn collections because their brain doesn't work right when they are horny.
staticman2··on GPT-6 Astra
> If it could make 5 different versions of chapter 2, all with different directions for the story, and all with novel and interesting developments, wouldn’t that be a better definition of creativity than “can it read chapter 1 and be able to copy style and deduce/predict what the author is going to do in chapter 2”?

If I like the novel, an alternative version where things happen differently would be fine.

The problem isn't that it's different. The problem is quality.

A lot of Isekai stories are crap but you can still rank them in terms of the author's ability or inability to have a creative POV that elevates the material.

staticman2··on GPT-6 Astra
I don't necessarily just feed it chapter 1. (And chapter length varies between novels).

And no I don't think asking the A.I. to write the next 2000 words would require it to have the entire novel planned out. Not all writers even outline in advance.

staticman2··on GPT-6 Astra
For me a basic test of A.I. creativity is give the A.I. chapter 1 of a novel it has not seen and ask it to write chapter 2, then compare the quality to the original author's chapter 2. The A.I. is always terrible at this in terms of matching the author's level of quality.
staticman2··on GPT-6 Astra
Is anyone from 2016 still alive today?

If so I'm hoping we can track them down and have them tell us if they think this is AGI.

staticman2··on Starbase, LA
You are worried about bias but judge an author on whether they use X or Bluesky?
staticman2··on Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike
The U.S. government wouldn't need to use bombs they could just send in the police.
staticman2··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
From what I recall Zune had a much bigger screen for videos so I bought one for that reason you can see the side by side here:

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/zune-ipod.htm

staticman2··on FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease
> Their doctor should be qualified to make that judgment without a government bureaucracy

This is like saying AI developers should be qualified to evaluate the effacy of a model without testing the model.

staticman2··on OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
This is funny because the stock Market has been ahistorically high. My portfolio went up over 20 percent in the last 12 months.

A major correction would be a bummer but we were never entitled to these abnormal gains in the first place.

staticman2··on I'm becoming AI-blind
This comment thread was started with discussions of AI doing a bad job at a task (communication).

Doesn't the Chinese Room posit an AI good at the task of communication?

staticman2··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
> The only difference is AI isn’t regulated

You seem to believe that regulation is "ethics backed by law".

As this is not true, your counter example is not even on point.

staticman2··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
> Like, for every 10th token, instead of outputting the most probable, it outputs the 17th most probable, or something.

Wouldn't you need the prompt to know the probability of the next token?

staticman2··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
I think Matrix 3 would have been better if it was more about humans taking control of the Matrix and trying to figure out what a virtual utopia looks like.
staticman2··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
What does this have to do with Muse Glimmer 30B?
staticman2··on U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal
If the market expected a worse job loss than 23,000 that would make sense.

I'm not actually suggesting there's a good reason for market swings, just that bad news shouldn't necessarily cause the market to go down.

staticman2··on Waymo in Dallas
I'm pretty sure you are confusing your state's zoning laws with federal environmental regulations.
staticman2··on Fed's Kashkari says 'now is the time to start slowly moving' rates up
You write as if nobody has ever raised interest rates before and this is some unprecedented event that no bank could be prepared for.
staticman2··on When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
Does OpenAI give Artificial Analysis early access to test models? If so it's definitely not "some random account".
staticman2··on AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
Yes it tends to be correct because the other option, invent a trading scheme, tends to work out worse for investors who attempt it.
staticman2··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
Is "You wouldn't distill..." the hot new Twitter meme or something?
staticman2··on AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
3 to 5 years of cash or a bond ladder won't help in a 1970s stagflation scenario.
staticman2··on Gemini 3.6 Flash
I don't agree with you on what the term SOTA means. Gemini Pro 3.1 was the only frontier model that had native video input at launch. It was certainly SOTA at some tasks.
staticman2··on Gemini 3.6 Flash
It may be a dud. The blog post assures us they are now pretraining Gemini 4.
staticman2··on Gemini 3.6 Flash
You are exaggerating. 3.1 Pro came out in February of this year.
staticman2··on The Kimi K3 Moment
> the idea that self-identifying as Claude is affirmative evidence that it's not distilled

I wasn't arguing that. I was arguing that even if it was distilled from Claude, the distillation isn't why it identifies as Claude. Therefore identifying as Claude isn't evidence of distillation.

Claude has been caught identifing itself as Deepseek:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145081

I don't take that to mean it's necessarily been distilled on Deepseek.

Gemini was supposedly caught identifying as Claude:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1gslm0t/gemini_mod...

I don't take that to mean it was distilled on Claude.

Claude was caught identifying as ChatGPT:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1e34tkr/why_is_clau...

I don't take that to necessarily mean it was distilled on ChatGPT.

staticman2··on The Kimi K3 Moment
For context you just asked me to read a document that starts with:

"Caveat: fully AI-generated research."

And that you quoted or paraphrased directly.

staticman2··on The Kimi K3 Moment
> This behavior is exactly what you'd expect from a model distilled from Claude.

This is not at all what I would expect because it's trivial to change the training data to replace Claude with Kimi. In fact I'd argue it's almost certainly not saying that due to distillation.

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