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aabhay commented on The air is hissing out of the overinflated AI balloon theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/rntn

jqpabc123 · 2 days ago

One of the lowest level jobs in the market is taking orders at a fast food drive thru.

If AI can't do this job, it probably can't do yours either.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c722gne7qngo

Bottom line: AI has very poor grasp of reality --- because (surprise, surprise) it has zero real world experience.

aabhay · 2 days ago

Many fast food places now have tablet based ordering, so turns out AI wasn’t needed for software to take away jobs.

That said, AI could do that job perfectly well. The reason we still have human to human interaction when you order is that it creates a more interesting environment for employees, who crave at least some kind of human contact. And customers will pay marginally more for the food if they get some human contact as well.

aabhay commented on Claim: GPT-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics twitter.com/SebastienBube... · Posted by u/marcuschong

aabhay · 2 days ago

I don’t get why so many people are resistant to the concept that AI can prove new mathematical theorems.

The entire field of math is fractal-like. There are many, many low hanging fruits everywhere. Much of it is rote and not life changing. A big part of doing “interesting” math is picking what to work on.

A more important test is to give an AI access to the entire history of math and have it _decide_ what to work on, and then judge it for both picking an interesting problem and finding a novel solution.

aabhay commented on Determinants and causal effects of admission to selective private colleges [pdf] (2023) nber.org/system/files/wor... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

darth_avocado · 3 days ago

How are you judging “students who excel in leadership positions” at 18 year old while dismissing SAT scores as an admission criteria? Most of the “captains” in my high school have grown up to have mediocre careers (including me) and at some point were in leadership positions mostly because they “looked cute”.

aabhay · 3 days ago

SAT scores are taken into account by many schools for that very reason that it can change how you read the application of a candidate.

SAT is almost always read in terms of the deviation from the school or community average. So its not the case that having a decent score from a shit school is worse than a slight-better-than-decent score from an elite school

aabhay commented on Determinants and causal effects of admission to selective private colleges [pdf] (2023) nber.org/system/files/wor... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

lolwow1234 · 3 days ago

This is naive. The job of admissions is to make money for the institution. Academics, being "well rounded", being a "leader" is all kayfabe.

aabhay · 3 days ago

Colleges are a “marketplace” as much as any other marketplace. Just how Stanford disrupted the traditional Ivy League monopoly, other schools can disrupt the status quo by consistent churning out leaders, great thinkers, entrepreneurs, and the like.

What sells the colleges the most is the sense that successful people tend to be there. So while admissions profit can be a very short term goal, any admit counselor knows that the long term goal is to create admirable leaders and change makers.

This is not impossible for publicly funded schools. Berkeley has put out consistently top AI researchers and engineers, more so than Stanford in my opinion.

aabhay commented on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys

giobox · 4 days ago

A deal for 15 percent of revenues of specific AMD and NVidia part sales in China != 15 percent of all their revenues, not even close.

aabhay · 4 days ago

Demanding 15% of H20, causing China to retaliate and ban it, causing Nvidia to halt production.

In terms of net effect, it’s atrocious regardless.

aabhay commented on LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises danfabulich.medium.com/ll... · Posted by u/dfabulich

dvh · 10 days ago

I tried using the article suggested randomness and inevitability to come up with completely new joke, this is what I came up with, tell me how'd I do (no llm involved):

- I asked Jimmy to tell me a random number

- Yeah? And what did he tell you?

- He told me one

aabhay · 10 days ago

He told me 2 (fuck off)

aabhay commented on Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwe... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

Uehreka · 22 days ago

I’m interested to see what this model can do, but also kinda annoyed at the use of a Studio Ghibli style image as one of the first examples. Miyazaki has said over and over that he hates AI image generation. Is it really so much to ask that people not deliberately train LoRAs and finetunes specifically on his work and use them in official documentation?

It reminds me of how CivitAI is full of “sexy Emma Watson” LoRAs, presumably because she very notably has said she doesn’t want to be portrayed in ways that objectify her body. There’s a really rotten vein of “anti-consent” pulsing through this community, where people deliberately seek out people who have asked to be left out of this and go “Oh yeah? Well there’s nothing you can do to stop us, here’s several terabytes of exactly what you didn’t want to happen”.

aabhay · 22 days ago

Seems a bit drastic to compare Ghibli style transfer to revenge porn, but you do you I guess.

aabhay commented on Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models anthropic.com/research/pe... · Posted by u/itchyjunk

aabhay · 23 days ago

I’m skeptical of the method but excited for the direction. Giving models different personalities is adjacent to giving models different values / morals. Having a diversity of model personalities is a step in the right direction.

Unfortunately, this research seems to use a very coarse method (giving the model instructions to be evil and then measuring its activation changes against a “non evil” model). However, this is not a self supervised approach — it requires you input your own heavy handed concept of persona into the system. Obviously a more complex and complete personality is more than the sum of your yes/no answers to personality test questions.

However, it’s very possible with low rank methods to soon perhaps be able to give models long lived, user-specific personalities that emerge across thousands of conversations. That’s what I would happily call a persona vector.

aabhay commented on Deep Agents blog.langchain.com/deep-a... · Posted by u/saikatsg

kobstrtr · 25 days ago

if it was a noop, I feel like there wouldn‘t be a need to have TodoRead as a tool, since TodoWrite exists. Would love to get more info on whether this is really a noop

aabhay · 25 days ago

My guess is the todo list is carried across “compress” points where the agent summarizes and restarts with fresh context + the summary

aabhay commented on Study mode openai.com/index/chatgpt-... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

aabhay · a month ago

Isn’t this what “GPTs” was supposed to be? Why not just use that if this is essentially just a system prompt?

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