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^ this. If Microsoft says it, it's true. Who posts this stuff? Real issues in diagnosis after the first follow up question (microsoft doesn't talk about that).
Inevitably where the "AI buying things for you" marketing pitch was headed - anyone have dibs on the next marketing trend from hedge funds (so they can keep shell game going..)
Posted by
rooftopzen on Thursday October 22, 2026 @03:22PM
from the the-decoder.com dept.
Anyone accountable for AI being deterministic (this is most of the bay) - am curious how they incorporated the movie into the BS they shill (if they do).
The bar @ OAI is surprisingly low (watch a few minutes of their video presentations) - I've concluded it has something to do w how their recruiters define 'AI Native' (who assign their own meaning to meaninglessness of it), resulting in higher aggregate brain atrophy (hard to ignore once you notice it)
No “human bottleneck”. A probabilistic technology was never able to automate (this has been a marketing lie for a few years now, old news)
Curious where it’s being documented - this is a fascinating study (who knows how long time period to measure its impact will last) - do you have links?
Posted by
rooftopzen on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:54AM
from the radar.cloudflare.com dept.
"Irregular says"? That same company is misreporting all these alarmist headlines while withholding evidence, funded by Ethical Altruism - see below (footnotes)
https://www.effort.news/irregular
Cliche topic - from a few years ago (the "RAG is dead" vs "All You Need Is Advanced RAG" BS - it came in waves and cycles, spread by bots on social media networks).
"Pruning RAG Context" is trying to recycle the old stuff (again), presuming the reader is naive (implies kapa.ai is not going anywhere). The current cycles were "openclaw" (I think that died), now we are on "harnesses" - when that dies the paid social media bots will give you something else. Shell game.
Just declare / define dictionary as a variable in your prompt to carry forward (when you decide to continue using LLMs for certain things). Also either summarize or truncate history. 3-4 year old concept. Not a big thing.
Article is authored by a private credit firm who assigned absurd valuations to AI infra (see below as an even super recent example) - what is their intention by writing this (is it due to the AI fear narratives around software investments they also hold that drive ppl to withdraw their holdings in Apollo?)
From last month:
https://peinsights.substack.com/p/apollo-and-blackstone-clos...
Great viz; the original paper wasn't peer reviewed; it might be great but I've learned its a waste of time to read those in current times (sorry and take this as one data point that suggests they should have done that).
That said, I've found FAISS great for certain use cases; wanted to say thx for surfacing - its not updated to work with most packages these days outside of faiss-cpu - curious why Meta dropped its maintenance; was it due to its slower speed or otherwise priorities?
Smart guy phoning it in now - realized a few weeks ago that he “notices” something interesting to share, but is really paraphrasing a recently released paper that found it - without giving paper credit.
Hypothesis is he will blame his recent poor decisions on the probabilistic AI agent he was using (or psychosis).
Considering how YC companies are customers of other YC companies (presumably to lift ARR), how many YC companies have Delve compliance?
Should we worry about AI startup customer data…
Posted by
rooftopzen on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @12:35AM
from the jonathanbennion.info dept.
Ezra Klein - any premise he has had in past 1-2 years is built on a maligned belief in AGI that is unscientific. Have heard he recently pivoted eg “moved goal posts” for his AGI timeline but the guy appears to be wasting time following delusional trends, this piece included.
This guy generalizes lots with “could” and “might” like a politician, why waste energy responding to it?
Posted by
rooftopzen on Monday January 26, 2026 @08:30PM
from the nytimes.com dept.
Everything I’ve been saying for 2 years, curious what’s taken him so long for him to finally speak reality the last few weeks of interviews
Posted by
rooftopzen on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @09:07PM
from the businesstimes.com.sg dept.
I've spent about an hour a week on this since Jan. Traced a large % of bogus news stories this year back to Reuters (fwiw) before they are picked up by other outlets and spread.
I've found legitimate stories also sourced from Reuters, but haven't found illegitimate stories NOT sourced from Reuters (in other words, they seem to originate from the same source, not sure why)
Sorry but your concept of AI is marketing driven. It's probabilistic, understanding is past your pay grade.
Exactly - AI allows for intersections in concepts from training data; up to the user to make sense of it. Thanks for stating this (I end up repeating same thing in every conversation, but is common sense).
Sam Altman has been a joke for awhile now, heard only his investors defend him for their next round increase - is that who you are?