Gotham chess has a video of making chatgpt play chess against stockfish. Spoiler: chatgpt does not do well. It plays okay for a few moves but then the moment it gets in trouble it straight up cheats. Telling it to follow the rules of chess doesn’t help.

This sort of gets to the heart of LLM-based “AI”. That one example to me really shows that there’s no actual reasoning happening inside. It’s producing answers that statistically look like answers that might be given based on that input.

For some things it even works. But calling this intelligence is dubious at best.

Congrats guys you found a way to make a dating app with an even more skewed sex ratio.

If you do nothing but click the link and then close the resulting website without clicking anything else, all that will happen is that they’ll know you’re someone who clicks such links and you’re likely to get more of them.

Cringe af

One day your Internet search history is going to traumatize a police officer.

Say that again but this time put some stank on it.

I hope they own Jones’ likeness to the point where they can give DJs the rights to remix his shouts into something of value.

Reminds me of this ropeway thing that Tom Scott covered that doesn’t require power input either, for similar reasons:

https://youtu.be/6RiYXI1Tfu4

Niche application but still cool.

The distinction between that and a malicious hack consists entirely of intent .

The fact that they can fuck up this bad and only lose 20 percent is kind of hilarious. Major infrastructure across the world is on its knees because of their fuck up. If that’s not enough to kill them then nothing is.

Edit - when I checked they were rebounding, only down 11.3 percent today now. I guess the stockmarket has determined that this fuckup isn’t so bad.

Agreed on both counts. This happened because Microsoft made adoption easy. And this will be fixed within a day. None of the fundamentals have shifted. Even though it’s stupid, this isn’t going to fundamentally shake anything up.

Similarly: if you write a program to randomly run through all the combinations of pixels on a decently large screen (say, 1080p) you will eventually see every important question and answer that can be expressed on a screen.

It’s an argument for decentralization. An argument that won’t be heeded.

Ticketmaster is worse than scalpers.

I just looked it up and…

SF6 has 23,500 times greater global warming potential (GWP) than CO2 as a greenhouse gas (over a 100-year time-frame) but exists in relatively minor concentrations in the atmosphere. Its concentration in Earth’s troposphere reached 11.50 parts per trillion (ppt) in October 2023, rising at 0.37 ppt/year.[8] The increase since 1980 is driven in large part by the expanding electric power sector, including fugitive emissions from banks of SF6 gas contained in its medium- and high-voltage switchgear. Uses in magnesium, aluminium, and electronics manufacturing also hastened atmospheric growth.[9] The 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which came into force in 2005, is supposed to limit emissions of this gas. In a somewhat nebulous way it has been included as part of the carbon emission trading scheme. In some countries this has led to the defunction of entire industries.[10]

Umm wtf? Why are we selling this stuff in compressed air cans ? Even methane is “only” 30x more potent than CO2 .

Because that’s the cooling system required to run the thing. It requires more toxic coolant, that will eventually end up in the ocean, than several hundred supercomputer megaclusters and sucks more power than a thousand suburbs.

Congrats on getting upvotes for this utter bullshit, none of which is substantiated in the article you linked.

Edit- this was at +15 when I first saw it.

This shit belongs in your diary dude.

Again please explain how they are over rated.

If I say “x is overrated” it’s a statement of my opinion relative to the average rating of x. That’s literally what the sentence means. Stating the average rating of x doesn’t disprove anything. You’re not even engaging with the idea lol. And there’s little reason to since it’s literally just someone’s opinion relative to the mainstream.

You’re confusing over/under rated with popularity.

Western countries employing Indian coders are generally looking for the cheapest coders they can find who speak passable English. All of that sounds like you got what you paid for.