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Re:Evaluating the world model implicit in a generative model on Thursday November 07, 2024 @09:38AM (#42076985)
Really cool results. I'd love to see some human baselines for, say, NYC cabbies or regular Manhattanites, though. I'm sure my world model is "incoherent" vis-a-vis these metrics as well, but I'm not sure what degree of coherence I should be excited about.
Re:Generative AI's Act Two on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @03:41PM (#37589043)
>the compute horsepower to process exaflops of data

Lol. How many bytes in a flop again? Or maybe FLOP = FuckLoad Of Petabytes.

Few understand this.
Re:Airtable lays off over 250 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @03:10PM (#33912636)
FTX
>I have to wonder why they went with retinal scanning in this case.

They didn't. It's an iris scan. The article just used "retina" and "iris" interchangeably for some reason. https://worldcoin.org/how-it-works