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BetaDoggo_

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  • Vision Pro EyeSight feature doesn't really work, argues Macworld

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  • This is an article about another article, some top tier journalism. They're right about the external display though. I've yet to see a positive comment about it, seems like just a weird gimmick that drains the already short battery life.

  • Because AI and Crypto use so much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy?

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  • There is no such thing as "green" energy, all energy has an environmental extraction/capture cost. Crypto has insane per user power usage, AI isn't quite as bad but it's still much higher than normal websearch. Both should be used sparingly in cases where they actually make sense.

  • OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion

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  • Just a few more parameters, then the text prediction model will become sentient.

  • MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

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  • The fact that you can't buy the cable needed to unbrick a Chromebook, and have to solder it together yourself from Google's schematics is ridiculous.

  • Fossify Messenger vs. QKSMS

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  • QKSMS has less active development but I don't think that's an issue as it works well as is. I haven't dug too deeply into the more advanced stuff but I've yet to have any issues with it.

  • Weaver: New Specialised Writing LLMs Outperform GPT-4

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  • Seems kind of like phi but for writing, the smaller ones are trained with 50B tokens and the largest is only trained with 18B.

  • Oh great – now Facebook and Instagram want your private data to train Meta's latest AI pipe dream

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  • It's not private data if you publish it online.

    They already had this data, I'm not sure why anyone cares about what they're doing with it now. It's not any worse than selling it outright.

  • Use work laptop as personal device by dual booting on a separate internal drive?

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  • The drive is visible to the OS so if they have any kind of management software in place which looks for hardware changes it will be noticed.

  • The Cult of AI. How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future

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  • Anywhere speculative investment is involved there are cult like patterns. If your investors don't believe that your product is going to revolutionize its field you're not going to get the kind of funding these startups want.

  • Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can't Reverse It

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  • So the solution is to just not do that.

  • New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text

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  • A language model can't determine good from bad because it's only trained to predict the next token based on what it has seen.

  • New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text

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  • The definition of understanding they use is very shallow compared to how most would define it. Failure to complete a task consistently when numbers are changed, even when they don't effect the answer shows a lack of real understanding to most. Asking a model the sheet drying question for example will give different results depending on what numbers you use. Better models are better at generalizing but are still far from demonstrating what most consider to be real understanding.

  • A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine

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  • The article says "already" like this is the result of something new and not the machine translation we've had for well over a decade.

  • Big tech firms recklessly pursuing profits from AI, says UN head

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  • Tech companies say they are putting in place systems to prevent AI being used for criminal or other malign purposes, and insist the new technology will create more jobs than it destroys

    Automation doesn't create more jobs than it replaces, if it did there would be no point. In some cases it removes bottlenecks which allows for greater scale which in turn creates jobs, but these new jobs often require different skillsets from the ones displaced.

    You're not really allowed to criticize them for this when your economic system encourages this exact behavior.

  • A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine

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  • This isn't shocking at all. The markets for obscure language content are incredibly small so there's no incentive for most to spend resources on it. I'd argue mediocre machine translation is better than nothing at all in many cases, but for unsupervised training it does pose a challenge.

  • Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell? | CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we one day going to wo...

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  • 600 also scales to PAL standards

  • Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell? | CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we one day going to wo...

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  • It won't matter until we hit 600. 600 integer scales to every common media framerate so frametimings are always perfect. Really they should be focusing on better and cheaper variable refresh rate but that's harder to market.

  • 13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives

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  • Very strange article. It lists several front ends, some of which are not open source, as well as some raw models without clearly distinguishing between them. RWKV was mentioned which is cool I guess.

    The first option listed should have been huggingchat, followed by the various local UIs, with a separate section discussing the models themselves.

  • Microsoft Overtakes Apple as World's Most Valuable Company

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  • Fragmenration is not preferred by most users and many of the services and systems these two run require large international teams. That's not to say that they don't need to be checked by antitrust.