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Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:01AM (#50314868)
Conspiracy drivel.
We are routinely doing that btw. Look up medical triage.
Re:JetBrains Thinkrail on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:13PM (#50235595)
I refuse to take a repo with an AI-generated readme seriously. If you haven't bothered to write a readme, what else have you not bothered to do?

(100% AI according to Pangram btw)

Good. Finland has dozens of billions of trees. Having AI data centers on European soil is more important.
But can it follow a simple customer support script?
Re:Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:36PM (#49758385)
I don't understand how these benchmarks get things so wrong. Nova-3 is by far the best model on the market in WER. Azure's STT is atrocious. And yet every benchmark rates Azure's STT higher than Nova-3's.
Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:43PM (#49615880)
I'd give a lot to see the WA group chat between the Instinct founder and their VCs.
Re:The Water Footprint of AI on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:16AM (#49255835)
Water consumption of AI is a non-issue. Why even spend research and policymaking resources on this?
As someone who's been doing AI call centres for a while, I'm not surprised. It's really, really hard to build voice AI that works. There are no open source solutions that work out of the box.

But the biggest problem is ASR. WER is still atrocious even with SOTA models. When you add drug names and regional accents, it's a recipe for disaster.

Re:AI 2040: Plan A on Saturday July 11, 2026 @12:11PM (#48873285)
> For AI2027 to be real, the money has to come from somewhere to carry on building the economy. If >10% of the workers suddenly become unemployed, and the rest taking paycuts, then money supply dries up. (unless central banks do something, but then that can be highly inflationary)

Why would it be inflationary?

Re:Why current LLM costs are not sustainable on Friday June 26, 2026 @04:45AM (#48684076)
> We are seeing improvements with each model release these days but it’s clear that the improvements are getting smaller and smaller.

This is obviously untrue, both with GPT-5.4, and Claude Fable as examples in the last 6 months.

Re:Promptfoo Is Joining OpenAI on Monday March 09, 2026 @02:41PM (#47313441)
You guys absolutely rock. You've built an industry standard with Promptfoo. Keeping it open source was the right choice.
The "Less Growth for Europe" party strikes again.
Re:AI Is Killing B2B SaaS on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @06:33PM (#46893472)
The reason for divergence is actually much simpler. NASDAQ 100 includes data center builders, Morgan Stanley software index doesn't. Stock market is going down across the board if you exclude data center construction.
Re:I don't care how well your "AI" works on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @12:16PM (#46059814)
Marc Maron has coined the perfect description for sanctimonious posts like these: "annoying Americans into fascism".
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025) on Monday November 03, 2025 @05:38PM (#45805321)
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Re:Google paid a $250K reward for a bug on Monday August 11, 2025 @06:14AM (#44862612)
Is their CEO comp not in line with the market?
Re:The Untold Impact of Cancellation on Friday August 01, 2025 @09:01AM (#44756154)
If the accusers had evidence, they would have surely provided it to the defendants in the defamation case.
Re:MUMPS on Friday June 13, 2025 @05:06PM (#44272266)
> OPERATORS: No precedence, executed left to right, parenthesize as desired. 2+3*10 yields 50.

How do you even come up with this?

Re:Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @03:51PM (#44184781)
One of my favorite things about Curtis Yarvin is that one of his main ideas is laughably easy to prove wrong. He says that whenever we go into the past, the previous generation seems to be more "right-wing" than the current one. Which is almost comically wrong. For example, you get Victorian Era being much more conservative than its predecessor, Georgian Era. Same goes for Christian Roman Empire vs Pagan Roman Empire, Nazi Germany vs Weimar Germany, etc etc. There are literally dozens of examples. It seems that Yarvin genuinely doesn't know any of these high school-level facts.
Re:GPT-4.1 in the API on Monday April 14, 2025 @01:27PM (#43683793)
> chatgpt-4o-latest, but it's bad because they continuously update it

Version explicitly marked as "latest" being continuously updated it? Crazy.

Re:GPT-4.1 in the API on Monday April 14, 2025 @01:05PM (#43683459)
For conversational AI, the most significant part is GPT-4.1 mini being 2x faster than GPT-4o at basically the same reasoning capabilities.

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