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dmd commented on How can AI ID a cat? quantamagazine.org/how-ca... · Posted by u/sonabinu

jpc0 · 19 hours ago

I raise you the photo of a photo edge case.

Metadata is 2015, photo is 1960

dmd · 19 hours ago

But you shouldn't optimize for the edge case! (All of my 20k+ photos, dating back to 1905, have correct metadata + GPS).

dmd commented on How can AI ID a cat? quantamagazine.org/how-ca... · Posted by u/sonabinu

dhosek · 2 days ago

What I found impressive was that Apple Photos, given pictures of my cousins when they were 50 or more years old, was able to identify pictures of them as kids. On the other hand, it could never consistently distinguish between my two older brothers (although to be fair, they were identical twins). It also insists that a beagle I once owned was a cat. I mean, sure, he sometimes slept on his back with his paws in the air like a cat, but he was all dog.

dmd · a day ago

On the other hand, it has no understanding of time. I have thousands of photos of me from the 1970s up through today, and Apple Photos is remarkably good at identifying me in all of them. And yet when my daughter was born it started identifying her, as a baby, as me. You'd think you could build a model to grasp the idea that a photo of a baby taken in 2015 is probably not of me.

dmd commented on Sprinkling self-doubt on ChatGPT justin.searls.co/posts/sp... · Posted by u/ingve

dmd · 3 days ago

Hmm. It's not happening to me any more - I just checked. And it definitely was before.

dmd · 2 days ago

Oh, interesting - when you do voice chat now it appears to be using 4o.

dmd commented on Southwest Is Changing Its Rules for Plus-Size Passengers nytimes.com/2025/08/22/tr... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

dmd · 3 days ago

Step two: make the seats smaller and smaller and smaller until MOST people have to buy multiple seats. Over 150 lbs / 70 kg? Two seats, sorry, nothing we can do, that’s the rule.

dmd commented on Sprinkling self-doubt on ChatGPT justin.searls.co/posts/sp... · Posted by u/ingve

iammjm · 3 days ago

No it wasn’t, it’s very much still there when using voice mode

dmd · 3 days ago

Hmm. It's not happening to me any more - I just checked. And it definitely was before.

dmd commented on Sprinkling self-doubt on ChatGPT justin.searls.co/posts/sp... · Posted by u/ingve

qwertox · 3 days ago

I had things like

* Do not use emotional reinforcement, not even robotic one (e.g., "Excellent," "Perfect," "Unfortunately", "Acknowledged").

* Do not use metaphors or hyperbole (e.g., "smoking gun," "major turning point").

in it. When they upgraded to GPT 5, Advanced Voice embedded into every answer things like:

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Me: "I want to make a pizza tonight. What's the best way to start?"

It: "Sure, I'll stick to your guidelines and leave out the emotional reinforcements. If you want to make a pizza tonight, I'd first briefly explain how to go about it and why."

Me: "What should I drink with it?"

It: "To put it simply: Just drink whatever you like with it. Water, juice, or maybe a simple soft drink are classic options. It's really up to you, and I'll stick to your guidelines of saying it simply and without any frills. If you need anything else, just let me know.

Understood, I've noted that. I'll just stick to that and give you the information directly and without frills in the future. If you need anything else, just ask.

"

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Absolutely useless. The next day my subscription expired, and when I talked with it again, it behaved like it used to prior to GPT 5: good.

I'm now big into Claude.

Also, before you ask: The chat about the pizza was just to test if it would behave that same way in every conversation.

dmd · 3 days ago

Just FYI, that specific bug (repeating your custom stuff back to you in voice mode) was fixed a few days later.

dmd commented on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City cnbc.com/2025/08/22/waymo... · Posted by u/achristmascarl

stuxnet79 · 3 days ago

This already exists outside of America and is abundant and cheap. It's called public transit.

dmd · 3 days ago

that was the joke, yes

dmd commented on VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video] youtube.com/watch?v=HFYWH... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

jorl17 · 3 days ago

Alec is probably my favorite YouTuber. I remember catching his videos before he really blew up and they ticked all my nerd boxes! Unlike other youtubers I enjoy, I never seem to get tired of his content — keep going!

dmd · 3 days ago

I find his content wildly good but his voice to be so grating I can barely stand it.

dmd commented on Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021) begaydocrime.com/... · Posted by u/mystraline

thaumasiotes · 3 days ago

In the United States, carts are free. There is a stereotype that homeless people have shopping carts in which they keep their things.

There's no particular need to change this, because one person can only use so many shopping carts. If you maintain the price at "free", demand saturates and people stop stealing carts.

It's common for people to return carts to a designated area, and it's also not rare for people to just leave the carts somewhere convenient for them. Store employees periodically go around and move the carts back to the place where you expect to pick them up.

Costco is an interesting hybrid case. They make it easy to return the carts "correctly" by providing little depots scattered throughout their enormous parking lot. Realistically, the parking lot is so large that very few people would be willing to return a cart to the front of the store, where you get the cart from if you're going shopping.

However, people also aren't going to pick up carts from those depots deep within the parking lot and wheel them over to the store. So Costco employees still have to make rounds of the parking lot and move carts that have been left there to their correct location at the front of the store. But for Costco, you're supposed to leave the cart in the parking lot, but only in certain locations.

dmd · 3 days ago

You say this like it’s only Costco that has return bays. I’ve rarely encountered ANY store that has shopping carts but doesn’t have return bays throughout the parking lot.

dmd commented on How does the US use water? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/juliangamble

recallingmemory · 4 days ago

Absolutely, not to mention the difficulty people have in grasping the difference between a billion and a trillion.

dmd · 4 days ago

"You have a million dollars? Damn man you a regular Elon Musk or something"