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Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @01:35PM (#50184664)
Of course it was OAI that decided those things, not the U.S. Government
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:52PM (#50090804)
Not sure what is your problem.

Yes, you'll pay hundreds to thousands of dollars in tokens per month for the rest of your career.

What is your point?

Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher on Monday September 14, 2026 @12:42AM (#49692078)
It's Adam Back.
Re:The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code) on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @11:23AM (#49611687)
Jason Calacanis (famous venture capitalist, podcaster, early investor into Uber) said in the last all-in that there were humans doing stuff for you in the Instinct.

I also thought all the permissions I had to give it were scary, given how big of a single point of failure it'd be.

Can you share whether it's possible for your customer to have automated indians doing jobs as part of their implementations of the VM?

I deleted my Instinct after one day of productive work and I hope they finished my data.

Re:Anthropic Risk August 2026 [pdf] on Friday August 14, 2026 @05:23PM (#49304771)
> However, we are less confident in this assessment than we were in prior risk reports, since our most concrete task-based evaluations have “saturated”—i.e., no longer capture increases in models’ capabilities—and because we are seeing early signs of acceleration.

I totally understand this is a subset of alignment-related evals, but if Anthropic of all is running out of evals, doesn't that also means we are running out of things to scale?

I mean. I totally believe they have a model that is better at Kernel Optimization, creating new matrix multiplication algos, than Mythos. But it's clearly no generalizing, rightw

What am I missing?

Re:Gloomberb on Thursday August 13, 2026 @02:04PM (#49289751)
Next week, it's my turn to create an UI for financial modeling prep API
Re:Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @10:03AM (#49183053)
The Protocol is from the Linux Foundation
Re:Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @10:02AM (#49183047)
wtf? Why didn't Simon use MCP Inspector? https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/2026-07-28/tools/inspec...

I feel like 5% of people who develop MCP Servers for a living and 10% of the people who develop MCP Clients for a living use the MCP Inspector and understand the Protocol.

Re: on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @09:05AM (#42634328)
This is Eliezer Yudkowskyto to blame LMAO, alongside with all the EAs extremists that shifted the Overton Window to think that images can be unsafe.
Re:Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:13PM (#42401697)
Because tradition is incredibly important.
Re:Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history on Thursday December 12, 2024 @01:12PM (#42401682)
Really funny people complaining about classical chess, I don't know which games they have been watching.

Nepo Magnus game 6, Nepo Ding many many games, Nepo Caruana draw on round 14 of candidates. ALL OF THEM WERE TERRIFIC GAMES.

I don't understand what people mean by stagnation

Re:ChatGPT Pro on Thursday December 05, 2024 @02:39PM (#42331818)
I'm in a low-cost country, haha! So the intern is even cheaper.
Re:ChatGPT Pro on Thursday December 05, 2024 @02:36PM (#42331792)
25 prompts is the daily limit on o1-preview. And I wrote that script in just one day.
Re:ChatGPT Pro on Thursday December 05, 2024 @02:15PM (#42331534)
My 3rd day intern still couldn't do a script o1-preview could do in less than 25 prompts.

OBVIOUSLY a smart OAI employee wouldn't want the public to think they are already replacing high-level humans.

And OBVIOUSLY OAI senior management will want to try to convince AI engineers that might have 2nd-guessings about their work that they aren't developing a replacement for human beings.

But they are.

Re:ChatGPT Pro on Thursday December 05, 2024 @02:11PM (#42331476)
That's not how pricing works.

If o1-pro is 10% better than Claude, but you are a guy who makes $300,000 per year, but now can make $330,000 because o1-pro makes you more productive, then it makes sense to give Sam $2,400.

Re:ChatGPT Pro on Thursday December 05, 2024 @02:09PM (#42331438)
My new internet is in his 3rd day in the job and he's still behind o1-preview with less than 25 prompts.
Good. Effective Austruism is trying to destroy democratic institutions and it's likely a bigger threat to society than fascism. The pro-progress people needs to organize themselves to stop types like SBF from giving AI to China.
Satya Nadella's Microsoft is such a weird company. It's like there's one side of it that is running with Zuckerberg's "move fast and break things" and the other side is saying "wait, we're the most important software company in the world! Things can't break!"
Re:X.ai: $6B Series B on Monday May 27, 2024 @01:12PM (#40492678)
“You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.” - Robert M. Pirsig

The Musk reasoning here is stupid, but smart. If he makes a superhuman intelligence, he can only ask it "What is dark matter?" and it might figure out.

I have some big problems with this idea, but it isn't 100% stupid. Just 98% stupid.

Re:GPT-4o on Monday May 13, 2024 @07:29PM (#40349795)
It's more like: don't invest $100B in capital when there's still orders of magnitude improvements in software to be made.
Re:GPT-4o on Monday May 13, 2024 @05:24PM (#40348656)
Ask stuff like "Check whether there's some correlation between the major economies fiscal primary deficit and GDP growth in the post-pandemic era" and get an answer.
Re:GPT-4o on Monday May 13, 2024 @05:20PM (#40348589)
Obviously, I know these timetables.

But there's a light and day difference post-Nov22 than before. Both in the AI race it sparkled, but also in the funding all AI labs have.

If you're expecting GPT-5 by 2026, that's ok. Just very weird to me.

Re:GPT-4o on Monday May 13, 2024 @05:17PM (#40348561)
Nope, I'm not
Re:GPT-4o on Monday May 13, 2024 @04:00PM (#40347669)
Was there ever a time when betting that computer scientists would not make better algorithms was a good idea?
Re:GPT-4o on Monday May 13, 2024 @03:26PM (#40347266)
I'm curious now. Can you give color on what you're doing that you keep hitting boundaries? I suppose it isn't limited by human-attention.
Re:GPT-4o on Monday May 13, 2024 @03:07PM (#40347053)
they literally launched TODAY a GPT-4 model!
Re:GPT-4o on Monday May 13, 2024 @02:55PM (#40346875)
Two pushbacks.

1- The mania only started post Nov 22. And the huge investments since then didn't meant substantial progress since GPT-4 launch in March 22. 2- We are running out of high quality tokens in 2024. (per Epoch AI)

Re:GPT-4o on Monday May 13, 2024 @02:50PM (#40346823)
I am sure that people at OpenAI, particularly former YC CEO Sam Altman, will be fine, even if they read the bad stuff MP_1729 says around here.

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