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reminds me of a certain orange dude.
seems like they're following after the president!
Re:The real price of things on Thursday December 07, 2023 @06:30AM (#38555271)
yeah but, we play games for entertainment and enjoyment.

like the time you spend with your kids, say you spend 3 hours average per day on your kid for 20 years, 21900 * 50 is $1,095,000, are you going to start calculating the ROI on spending time with your kids?

and if you rather play that video game then spending time with your kid, is it better worth the $50/hour?

Re:How does Lex Fridman pull such important guests? on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:10PM (#38537638)
atticora has a good answer.

In addition, he created his podcast in 2018, and a youtube channel in 2006.

"Fridman began his podcast in 2018. It was originally titled The Artificial Intelligence Podcast"

It just goes to show that with a little credentials, a little intelligence and consistent effort, after 17 years, goes a long way.

Tell me a case where someone who has all 3, after 17 years didn't have something to show for it.

Re:Talking to Chatbots Is Now a $200K Job. So I Applied on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @12:06PM (#38462010)
FYI this is a terrible article.

Is essentially rambling from a random who just discovered prompt engineering and that there are Coursera courses about it and suckers buy it. Then rambles stuff about AI that everyone already has read. That AI will replace some jobs, but not all jobs, and human input is still needed.

Does not tell you anything useful, unless you were not familiar those two things existed.

Is there anyone on hacker news that doesn't already know this?

Hopefully saved you 5-10 minutes of reading.

Re:Ask HN: Why is GPT-4 or Claude-2 so bad at tic-tac-toe? on Friday November 03, 2023 @11:12AM (#38129989)
I agree with jqpabc123 except for one point: that it cannot 'reason' and it is not smart. I disagree with this.

The reason it cannot play well is because it has very little 'experience' (training data) with it. It's been trained on 'what the game is', it has not been trained how to win.

You can think of it a bit like driving. You can know what driving is, but it doesn't make you a driver if you've never driven before.

You can ask a genius who's never played before to play tic tac toe with you, tell it the rules, they will likely not win on the first attempt or play optimally. This doesn't mean that person isn't a genius.

You said humans are able to 'learn' to play it rapidly. So is GPT, in training mode, it can process a million games in seconds, where a human can't.

The problem here, is it simply has no experience.

If I told you every time you played tic tac toe against me, you would forget all your experience the next time we played, would you play optimally?

Re:Think Twice Before You Use Discord for Your Community on Friday August 04, 2023 @09:16PM (#37007953)
I had the same issue with Telegram. Used telegram for 7 years, no issues. One day my account is mistakenly banned, and they now ignore me.
I wouldn't say missed the opportunity, they definitely tried to, but they botched the opportunity.

Many people have switched off using Bing, not just alternative users. But..

I'm sorry but I prefer not to continue this conversation. I’m still learning so I appreciate your understanding and patience.

Re:Why Windows is still better than Linux (2021) on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:42AM (#36782207)
Such a poor article. While I agree, Windows is often better than Linux for the majority of users..

2. Software Updates: Really? The majority of software used by the majority of users, that is available on Linux tends to update basically the same schedule as the Windows versions. Please cite actual comparisons. Otherwise why should I even bother to read the article?

4. Bugs "The silent majority don't experience any problems."

Ask any random Windows user if they experience problems. It's such a huge problem that it's a huge selling point for alternative OSes, for Macs.

The rest of the points I mostly agree with. But those 2 points in the first 4 points, simply aren't true.

wait, which study is flawed?
Agreed, I think so too. Bing is a shitty search engine and them forcing it to use bing's results to answer questions, makes it a really bad gpt.

But for the record, I think Bing has a much better personality than GPT. If only it wasn't limited to it's own horrible search engine. If it could use Google for example, or a better data source, it would be perfect.

I'll give you one simple reason why slowing down AI dev is not wise.

You'll slow down. America will slow down. The rest of the world won't.

You think North Korea, or China, or Russia, is going to be like "oh yeah, USA has regulations, so I'm not spend millions or billions to develop my own custom AI for my own needs." because that kid in his basement with a good idea, is not going to do the development?

Re:How to get around merchant fees? on Thursday March 30, 2023 @07:55PM (#35380515)
because they can. because of a monopoly.

you can accept alternative payments like cryptocurrency or venmo or something, but let's face it, most customers prefer to pay with a credit card. that's how monopolies work.

create honeypots :D