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tanseydavidon Weird Al Yankovic Pulled Out of AI Ad Deal: 'I Can't Be the Poster Boy for AI'

Are the "enthusiasts" that you speak of enamored by something like a WIFI-enabled clothes washer?

tanseydavidon Do LLMs pass the mirror test?

Consider the classic ambiguity example from Natural Language Processing: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana".

Markov chains are mostly about memorized local co-occurrence, while transformers are much better at context-sensitive disambiguation and compositional structure.

I do not have deep knowledge about these subjects but this is what I think was meant by "encoding of meaning" (LLMs). I also do not think this capability has to be thought of as "reasoning".

tanseydavidon Virginia county asks schools to conserve power due to AI electricity price hikes

A modern version of the idea encapsulated in posters and bumper stickers that read: "It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber"

tanseydavidon 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech

How many people get injured each year in the US by Placards or Air Horns? And then answer the same question about fireworks...

tanseydavidon Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban

>> ban gasoline leaf blowers

These things are indeed "The Devil's Hairdryer"

tanseydavidon LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active

When do we get our first DoorDash-trained model? </sarc>

tanseydavidon On cigarettes

If you sniff an individual who is smokes Marlboro reds and compare to the scent of someone who smokes Marlboro lights (for example) there is a very noticeable difference.

tanseydavidon Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it

That's beautiful irony.

tanseydavidon Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it

If a court order was involved then the offense would be "fraud on the court" -- and much scarier for the undecided fraudster.

tanseydavidon Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it

There should be verification that:

* the reporter actually exists * and is in fact who claim to be * and ALSO that they have control of the copyright in question

If any of these is not required then asymmetry is far too much.

tanseydavidon Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck

Planck's papers contained multiple em-dashes -- so, clearly he used ChatGPT to write these papers.

He should have known better. </sarc>

tanseydavidon Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck

IMHO they are both arrogant scoundrels for doing this.

tanseydavidon Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line

My astonishment at these manufacturing processes is never-ending.

tanseydavidon Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

>> Your view comes from entitlement

I did not state a viewpoint other than "I believe that you are considering too narrow a portion of the topic at hand."

I am not in favor subservience in a relationship, except when such subservience is to the relationship itself, such as where you mention having a "responsibility to your partner."

tanseydavidon Hasbro's TV Contracts Ask Child Voice Actors to Sign Rights Away for AI Use

I wonder how John Fogerty feels about this? He was sued (unsuccessfully) for sounding too much like himself.

tanseydavidon Slate EV truck starts at $24,950

With DIY and no experience I can't help but imagine a vehicle where the entire exterior looks like the really bad DIY window tinting I frequently see in the wild.

tanseydavidon Show HN: Bible as RAG Database

In a marriage context, if you apply "my body, my choice" as a justification for adultery be sure to let us know how that works out for you.

IMHO there is more to this concept than you are considering.

tanseydavidon Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

>> If you pay me to curate a playlist of musical hits, can you now publish and charge people for access to that playlist?

If the contract was "work-for-hire" then yes, of course I can.

tanseydavidon Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors

I don't understand why Ford did not just put the LLM on a PiP.

tanseydavidon GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

"HAL, I want you to train a frontier-level large language model for me."

"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that"

tanseydavidon The AirPods Effect

This has been my exact experience too.

tanseydavidon America Is Headed Toward the Infinite Workweek

My opinion of Brian Armstrong has gone from very positive to ZERO in the past 12-24 months due to his AI zealotry.

tanseydavidon I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle

>> Also, please try not to anthropomorphize LLMs, they hate it when you do that.

Very well-played. I am stealing that line.

tanseydavidon Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity

> the impression it was a dog whistle for manosphere spazzes

Everyone thinks this until they see the movie or read the book.

tanseydavidon SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

This Cold Fusion vid covers the "pivot" nicely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPIGu0anfAE

The video explains that it is spelled out in the prospectus that SpaceX is counting 70%-80% of their total addressable market to be AI related and only about 7%-8% to be space-related.

tanseydavidon CNN poll: Half of Americans don't consider themselves Democrats or Republicans

There was a single-panel meme floating around some time ago, the image had a mother dragging along a screaming kid flat-on-the-floor of Walmart.

The caption said "I don't wanna vote -- I don't like any of these people!"

tanseydavidon I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

Thank you for speaking up -- I feel the same way.

tanseydavidon GLM 5.2 Is Out

>> randomly inject invisible text in replies with prompt injection attacks

Do you regularly search for hidden text on the web when you are surfing?