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Re:Words that make language models perceive on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:45AM (#46194485)
A simple cue like asking the model to 'see' or 'hear' can push a purely text-trained language model towards the representations of purely image-trained or purely-audio trained encoders.
"they write for someone who’s not going to read it" is a great way to phrase it.
Has anyone found these deep research tools useful? In my experience, they generate really bland reports don't go much further than summarization of what a search engine would return.
Re:OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation on Saturday August 02, 2025 @02:02PM (#44769808)
Do you really think there's competition?

I don't see anyone on the even in the 30 on this list: https://apps.apple.com/us/charts/iphone/top-free-apps/36

Re:OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation on Friday August 01, 2025 @11:10AM (#44757983)
23X revenue multiple is not an expensive valuation for something growing well over 100% YoY, even by public market standards let alone venture capital valuation.
Re:MIT evolves virtual eye from scratch on Friday February 14, 2025 @09:13AM (#43048466)
What's the goal here? What do you plan on doing with this?
Re:Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era on Thursday December 12, 2024 @09:33AM (#42399428)
This is news to me. Any good examples of this outside of the above?
Re:Tesla Robotaxi on Friday October 11, 2024 @12:45AM (#41806240)
And Elon is a guy that knows how to tend to flocks of sheep(le)
...or maybe the education of what we deem as useful work needs to change.

Imagine if digital cameras were watermarking their photos because art classes refused to consider photography as a form of art.

Re:Mistral AI raises $640M at $6B valuation on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @05:03PM (#40651451)
> catastrophically losing money on every call

You're going to have to bring some actual numbers on that speculation.

Re:Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @11:49AM (#39384986)
How do you know it isn't RAG?
Re:US home sales see worst year since 1995 on Sunday January 21, 2024 @10:42PM (#39085927)
The financing for home builders would also be a bit lower if housing were easier therefore less risky to build.

But agree that higher interest rates hurt builders too.

Re:US home sales see worst year since 1995 on Sunday January 21, 2024 @10:10PM (#39085735)
Housing prices remaining high because people can't move and people can't buy because of interest rates just shows how stupidly hard it is to build new housing in the US.
Re:Word2Vec Received 'Strong Reject' Four Times at ICLR2013 on Monday December 18, 2023 @12:20PM (#38685375)
Will keep happening because peer review itself, ironically, has no real feedback mechanism.
Re:Do large language models need all those layers? on Friday December 15, 2023 @04:34PM (#38659111)
Accidentally read this as "Do large companies need all those lawyers?"
It's dolomite, baby!
Re:ROCm Is AMD's #1 Priority, Executive Says on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:17PM (#37664455)
I would really hope you could get decent utilization on ops as fundamental as GEMM/memcpy on a single device. Translating that to MFU is a completely different story.
If that is the only efficient method for lithium extraction, is it fair to say that accessible lithium is not as abundant as people typically say?
Re:The Eleuther AI Mafia on Sunday September 03, 2023 @10:42AM (#37370821)
Which one of those donors are on their board?

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