tl;dr It didn't work out because the job needs to be done by someone who thinks and is accountable, which leaves AI out by definition in practice and in theory.
Readit News_wire_ commented on Why Radiology AI Didn't Work and What Comes Next outofpocket.health/p/why-... · Posted by u/nradov
How does my PC handle millions if not billions of bytes everyday?!
_wire_ commented on Why does my regular expression work in X but not in Y? unix.stackexchange.com/qu... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
This post, like too many posts here, is silly ephemera devoid of any context.
How about a link to a torrent of old 2600 magazines?
BTW--No one ever needs to post another link to the Mother of All Demos ever again!
If a nerd here needs a site project, why not make an AI powered XYZ of the Day that lets you choose a context, XYZ, and it aggregates lore about it and spits it up at regular intervals. Then future generations can set XYZ = history of user interfaces and be arbitrarily refreshed with Engelbart references without pretending it's news.
It's kind of sad to realize that over a year 100,000 posts will be made here and 5–10 of them will regurgitate Engelbart or Alan Kay, but none of them will introduce a new paradigm for human computer interaction.
Honestly, could the epic advance of transformer AI be any duller than its current form of reprising the chat game Adventure?
You're in a twisty maze of passages all alike. You find a slime mold. (burp) You find a blob of React code! (hic) There are 3 b's in blueberry. (barf) Here's a picture of a cat with a body that looks like a furry Taylor Swift.
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♪ You're the generation that bought more shoes and you got what you deserved... ♪
_wire_ commented on "Bullshit Index" Tracks AI Misinformation spectrum.ieee.org/ai-misi... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
//A language model hallucinating corresponds to situations in which the model loses track of reality so it’s not able to produce accurate outputs.//
"track of reality"?
The article traffics in the same bullshit as it is calling out.
The conclusion somehow walks by the idea of truth with barely a flinch about the enormity of the term, where in principle the entire scope of the project is meaningless without some stipulations about truth; stipulations which if made would tend to obviate the details of model internal implementation and put focus on the place the models currently store truth: the training data.
So what about the significance of RLHF?! Why does anyone expect truth can be properly arbitrated by human feedback any more so than it was in the OG training sets?
If we switch our concern from language synthesis to images created by diffusion, which according to the underlying machine have the same principles of operation, is anyone asking how "true" AI generated images are? Of course not because the point is meaningless. Images are accepted because they are believable and language is accepted by the same criteria.
If we generalize the idea of human feedback to the operation and profit expectations of the social media industry, a starkly obvious factor for performance sparkles brightly before us: the industry will relentlessly track towards whatever garners attention and truth can go to hell.
_wire_ commented on Microsoft Warns Windows Users to Stop Using Google Chrome forbes.com/sites/zakdoffm... · Posted by u/josephcsible
"Chrome is spyware, use Edge! Our spyware Edge, is 100% compatible with Windows, Chrome is not"
If you by now still use Windows (hope not) but if you still use it, give a Linux distro a chance and you will be amazed.
So what can you do? You can choose between many desktop environments, like Gnome or Plasma.
Distros list is below, sorry for the long post, but you can save the ISO, boot from USB and be the real boss of your computer.
1. Ubuntu
Most popular general-purpose Linux
Excellent documentation and community support
Great for beginners and professionals alike
Regular releases with long-term support versions
Cutting-edge features and latest software
Strong focus on free and open-source software
Good for developers and tech enthusiasts
Sponsored by Red Hat
Stable, reliable foundation for many other distros
Extremely well-maintained package system
Large software repository
Known for its stability and security
Enterprise-grade stability and reliability
Popular in server environments
Good for business and production use
CentOS replaced by Rocky Linux/AlmaLinux (community-driven)
Excellent for both desktop and server use
Strong package management with YaST
Good balance of stability and new features
Popular in enterprise and development environments
User-friendly Arch-based distribution
Great for users wanting Arch's cutting-edge software
Pre-configured with useful tools and drivers
Good balance of simplicity and customization
Based on Ubuntu, very beginner-friendly
Familiar interface similar to Windows
Excellent out-of-the-box experience
Great for users transitioning from Windows
Rolling release model with latest software
Highly customizable and lightweight
Strong documentation and community
Best for advanced users who want full control
Enterprise-focused distribution
Long-term support and stability
Widely used in business environments
Commercial support available
Beautiful, polished desktop experience
User-friendly interface with macOS-like aesthetics
Great for casual users and designers
Strong focus on usability and design principlesList of distinctions without differences and vagaries.
Key Linux takeaways based on list:
Unstable, user-unfriendly.
Package mgmt and drivers are a nightmare.
Vague distinctions between personal and enterprise usage, individuals will be maddened by complexity and enterprises will be end-run by simplicity.
Cutting edge is bleeding edge.
Every release walks the edge of a pit of despair.
If you need support, you pay for it, just like the rest of industry.
But hey, everything is great for everybody, pick your poison!
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PC tech is maddening, but if your concerns are at the level of questions like which browser you will be allowed to use, Apple offers by far the most comprehensive, comprehensible, sustainable and cost effective experience.
//User-friendly interface with macOS-like aesthetics//
What's good about Mac is far beyond aesthetics. Want a Mac-like experience, cheapest best way to get there is a Mac.
_wire_ commented on Fading Audio is ROUGH on CPUs [video] youtube.com/watch?v=y-NOz... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Wouldn't you like to believe "she" understood anything she was reciting? Wouldn't it be even more amazing if it was an actual person?
Oh, wait... Who cares?!
PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE: Don't abuse your CPU by turning the volume down. It slaves over a hot transistor all day and its got enough work to do.
OMG! What did I just say... slave?!
PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE 2: Never submit your subnormals to a master/slave paradigm. It's so uncool!
Oh no...!
PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE 3: It's really inappropriate to refer to "subnormals". Who's to say what's normal? And whatever else you do, never sanity check. So rude.
Jesus H. Fucking Christ!
_wire_ commented on Generative AI is a lawsuit waiting to happen to your business theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/geekinchief
Vibe code copyright will also be fascinating and confusing, especially as these machines are used to generate themselves.
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