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> If you try really hard you can claim that Apple is an Irish company or Chinese company

Whatever makes you feel better, I guess?

> Chinese are on par or even better in AI

https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models

Our Blessed Homeland / Their Barbarous Wastes
Ethnicity or citizenship?
Re:Mistral OCR 4.1 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @02:12PM (#49289870)
The only prize is control of the light cone.
Re:DeepSeek API Pricing Update on Thursday August 13, 2026 @01:09PM (#49288937)
Luna is multimodal.
Pragmatism is as American as it gets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatism
Re:Who's Afraid of Chinese Models? on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @10:11AM (#48992615)
> 3,000 year-old cultures

Like Western culture?

Apples to oranges. The AWS premium buys you a much broader platform with autoscaling, dozens of instance families, managed databases, serverless products, IAM, global regions, etc.
Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @03:48PM (#48939364)
Now it seems the best way to tell if a frontier model is benchmaxxed is to check if it can autonomously solve a major open mathematical problem.
Dario is an American patriot who wants the US to win. Don't see this happening.
Re:AI Doesn't Have ROI on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @10:53AM (#48371079)
Demand is high and will remain so. Supply just needs to catch up.
Re:Pfeilstorch on Saturday August 16, 2025 @12:12PM (#44924689)
Reminds me of the theory that insects like flies spontaneously emerge from decaying matter and dung. I wonder what magical thoughts we're taking for granted today.
Progress on the 2nm facility (P3) in Arizona is apparently ahead of schedule, slated to be operational in 2027
Re:OpenAI claims Gold-medal performance at IMO 2025 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @09:22AM (#44615275)
riding coattails
> that they're simply compositions of things already in the training set

Yes, knowledge is compositional. This is just as true for humans as it is for machines.

something can only be "slow" relative to something else. it's not an intrinsic property.
Re:Eleven v3 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @07:16PM (#44196517)
FYI, Frasier's not "faking a British accent". It's a Boston Brahmin/transatlantic accent.
There's much to be said!
Re:TSMC Expected to Announce $100B Investment in U.S. on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @12:16PM (#43257474)
Then ASML gets Nord Stream'd.
Re:Denmark Offers to Buy USA (2019) on Friday December 27, 2024 @09:10AM (#42522156)
But can they afford it?
Convincing liquid physics (e.g. surf interacting with a beach, rocks, the player character) might be a good candidate.
Re:LLMs don't do formal reasoning on Friday October 11, 2024 @03:48PM (#41812958)
ChatGPT o1-preview was not flummoxed by the small kiwis, and even called out the extraneous detail:

```

To determine the total number of kiwis Oliver has, we’ll sum up the kiwis he picked on each day:

1. Friday: Oliver picks 44 kiwis.

2. Saturday: He picks 58 kiwis.

3. Sunday: He picks double the number he did on Friday, so 2 × 44 = 88 kiwis.

Adding them up:

44 (Friday) + 58 (Saturday) + 88 (Sunday) = 190 kiwis

The mention of five smaller-than-average kiwis on Sunday doesn’t affect the total count unless specified otherwise.

Answer: 190

```

Re:Microsoft Working on 'Far Larger' In-House AI Model on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @09:29AM (#40285209)
What misery? The hyperbole here is astounding.
Re:Microsoft Working on 'Far Larger' In-House AI Model on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @09:26AM (#40285169)
Intelligence is next-token prediction.

See: active inference, predictive processing.

Re:Microsoft Working on 'Far Larger' In-House AI Model on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @09:22AM (#40285140)
Is your contention that AI can't be implemented on a Turing machine?
Re:Los Alamos Chess on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @06:50PM (#39911709)
I'd love to play against the original algorithm.
It is. That's why I do all of my banking on iOS.
This seems obvious to me, as there'd be ten times more computational resources.
It's illegal because it threatens the viability and health of native populations of animals.

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