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Re:Claude Opus 5
on Friday July 24, 2026 @08:00PM (#49043066)
Significantly worse than it predecessors it will now just refuse to acknowledge when it is wrong (which would be less of an issue if it wasn’t getting basic things wrong) also the “personality” when pushed back on obvious mistakes is unbearable.
Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:02PM (#47018818)
What you are calling productivity is an illusion caused by shifting work from the creator to the reviewer or generating generational code debt.
Still waiting for anyone to solve actual real world problems with their AI “productivity”.
Re:Launch HN: Airhart Aeronautics (YC S22) – A modern personal airplane
on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @01:31AM (#41168066)
Indeed, trains for passengers can only work for tiny low-population countries like China and Japan.
Re:Google Gemini tried to kill me
on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:18AM (#40725094)
Even the `stochastics' aside there is obviously a lot of A/B testing going on with all these models.
Re:Google Gemini tried to kill me
on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:16AM (#40725086)
People already generate books with `AI' so the odds of there already being a `cookbook' on Amazon that contains such a recipe is not 0. Good luck explaining to someone why the recipe they saw in a physical book they bought from a reputable retailer ended up killing their family.
Re:Google Gemini tried to kill me
on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @01:10AM (#40725061)
Truly asinine take. Blaming the individual instead of the trillion-dollar scam industry.
Re:Microsoft's $1M Vote of Confidence in Rust's Future
on Friday May 10, 2024 @02:32AM (#40315972)
Not like they are being sued for stealing code at this very moment. They are just so good to developers/s.
Re:
on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @12:07PM (#40212602)
I always wondered how the following setup does not prove that NP != P so please chime in.
Finding the correct N-bit long (binary) number (that someone is thinking of, they only reply yes or no to a guess). Verifying if the number is correct can be done in Polynomial time yet finding the correct number can only be achieved by trying (brute force) all the 2^N possibilities?
Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock for ByteDanc...
on Thursday April 25, 2024 @02:51AM (#40154289)
I think you are conflating "incomebase" and userbase. There are no "hard facts" on this but everyone seems to agree that the US is not even remotely close to 50% userbase for TikTok which makes sense (inverse Pigeonhole principle) if TikTok really has 1b+ active users. However, the US might be a bigger share of the "incomebase" because ads for US users are more valuable.
Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock for ByteDanc...
on Thursday April 25, 2024 @02:33AM (#40154168)
Unlike Facebook which would never collect any data?
Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock for ByteDanc...
on Thursday April 25, 2024 @02:26AM (#40154128)
Interesting that you think breaking the laws is justification for banning a Platform. I wonder how the US would feel about the EU banning every last US tech company for the plethora of violations.
Re:Good AI Should Be Invisible
on Monday April 08, 2024 @01:13PM (#39971760)
A great example of invisible “AI” IMO is Apples image search it is a feature that works like magic, being able to find photos by searching for text or objects still amazes me every time I use it.
Re:Copilot generates Jewish stereotypes, anti-Semitic tropes
on Monday April 08, 2024 @11:59AM (#39970999)
*AI generates stereotypes when given generic prompt. Here fixed the title for you.
Re:Groq CEO: 'We No Longer Sell Hardware'
on Monday April 08, 2024 @03:47AM (#39967244)
Because they rather operate at a loss with high revenue rather than have 0 revenue and loss?
Re:Best engineering interview question I've gotten
on Monday March 25, 2024 @04:34AM (#39813881)
This can be optimised why only use problems that the team already solved? Just give the candidate access to the current JIRA tickets and let them choose one to tackle. Think about all the value that you could be extracting /s
Re:Best engineering interview question I've gotten
on Monday March 25, 2024 @04:28AM (#39813858)
Do you have any statistics on "there are tons of candidates willing to go through the process for free"?
Re:People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities–Until They Live in One
on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @08:45AM (#39765668)
I don't know where this sentiment comes from, you think NA cities didn't exist before the Ford Model-T? Many of these cities existed and worked even without everyone having a private horse/carriage they just had trolleys.
Re:John Barnett before death "if anything happens, it's not suicide", ...
on Friday March 15, 2024 @04:11AM (#39713207)
I don't think people are misaligned on the P(suicide) it is just due to the recent behaviour of Boing that P(murder|Boing) is elevated.
Re:
on Thursday March 07, 2024 @04:02AM (#39626792)
Wow, that is a mighty slippery slope you are on. You do realise that with the same rationale, all Western media outlets are propagandists in the eyes of nations like Russia, Iran & China? Do we really want the precedent to be that it is okay to kill journalists as long as they disagree with you?
Re:OpenAI and Elon Musk
on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @03:07AM (#39613505)
Last time I checked, the decision to admit a new member state requires the unanimous approval of the EU's current member states. As such unless OpenAI can literally influence world politics the claim is 100% bogus. All it takes is one rogue member and Albania will never join the EU.
Re:Musk sues Altman seeking a return to open source and non-profit for...
on Saturday March 02, 2024 @09:29AM (#39572767)
You must be using a different GPT-4 than me. I recently tried to get it to reason about probability distributions arising from combining multiple probability distributions and it immediately started hallucinating.