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einarfd commented on AI is different   antirez.com/news/155... · Posted by u/grep_it
chrisco255 · 16 days ago
> but which can be trained to the new job opportunities more easily than humans can

What makes you think that? Self driving cars have had untold billions of dollars in reaearch and decades in applied testing, iteration, active monitoring, etc and it still has a very long tail of unaddressed issues. They've been known to ignore police traffic redirections, they've run right through construction barriers, and recently they were burnt to a crisp in the LA riots, completely ignorant of the turmoil that was going on. A human driver is still far more adaptive and requires a lot less training than AI, and humans are ready to handle the infinitely long tail of exceptions to the otherwise algorithmic task of driving, which follows strict rules.

And when you talk about applying this same tech, so confidently, to domains far more nuanced and complex than driving, with even less training data than to go off, I find myself firmly in the skeptics camp, that holds you will struggle even harder to apply humanoid robotics in uncontrolled environments across a diverse range of tasks without human intervention or piloting or maintenence or management.

Unemployment is still near all time lows, this will persist for sometime as we have a structural demographic problem with massive amounts of retirees and less children to support the population "pyramid" (which is looking more like a tapering rectangle these days).

einarfd · 15 days ago
Driverless taxis is IMO the wrong tech to compare to. It’s a high consequence, low acceptance of error, real time task. Where it’s really hard to undo errors.

There is a big category of tasks that isn’t that. But that are economically significant. Those are a lot better fit for AI.

einarfd commented on Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations   anthropic.com/research/en... · Posted by u/virgildotcodes
einarfd · 16 days ago
This seems fine to me.

Having these models terminating chats where the user persist in trying to get sexual content with minors, or help with information on doing large scale violence. Won't be a problem for me, and it's also something I'm fine with no one getting help with.

Some might be worried, that they will refuse less problematic request, and that might happen. But so far my personal experience is that I hardly ever get refusals. Maybe that's justs me being boring, but that does make me not worried for refusals.

The model welfare I'm more sceptical to. I don't think we are the point when the "distress" the model show, is something to take seriously. But on the other hand, I could be wrong, and allowing the model to stop the chat, after saying no a few times. What's the problem with that? If nothing else it saves some wasted compute.

einarfd commented on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York   reuters.com/investigates/... · Posted by u/edent
einarfd · 17 days ago
When reading the article I was reminded of reading Sarah Wynn-Williams book Careless People. The carelessness and disregard for obvious and real ramifications, of the policy choices of management, seems to not have changed from her time at Facebook.

If they didn't see this type of problem coming from mile away, they just didn't bother to look. Which tbh. seems fairly on brand for Meta.

einarfd commented on Fight Chat Control   fightchatcontrol.eu/... · Posted by u/tokai
101008 · 21 days ago
I was very pissed at this, and when I read this part I couldn't continue, it boiled my blood.

> *EU politicians exempt themselves from this surveillance under "professional secrecy" rules. They get privacy. You and your family do not. Demand fairness.

einarfd · 21 days ago
That they exempt politicians is basically admitting that the security problems that detractors bring up is true, and is something that should be used against them.

After all exempting some police, that work on investigating child molesting, from the scanning, that is understandable.

Exempting prime minster Mette Frederiksen, on the other hand. Means either that they understand that it undermines security, or that she or some other top politicians are child molester. So which is it?

einarfd commented on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers   simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/tosh
AlecSchueler · 23 days ago
Generally it's poor business to give a big chunk of your users am incredibly visceral and negative emotional reaction to your product update.
einarfd · 23 days ago
Depends on what business OpenAI wants to be in. If they want to be in the business of selling AI to companies. Then "firing" the consumer customers that want someone to talk to, and double down models that are useful for work. Can be a wise choice.
einarfd commented on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers   simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/tosh
eurekin · 23 days ago
I couldn't be more confused by this launch...

I had gpt-5 only on my account for the most of today, but now I'm back at previous choices (including my preferred o3).

Had gpt-5 been pulled? Or, was it only a preview?

einarfd · 23 days ago
I have gpt-5 on my iPhone, but not on my iPad. Both runs the newest chatgpt app.

Maybe they do device based rollout? But imo. that's a weird thing to do.

einarfd commented on GPT-5   openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd
punee94 · 24 days ago
I ran the below prompt to both Kimi2 and GPT5.

how many rs in cranberry?

-- GPT5's response: The word cranberry has two “r”s. One in cran and one in berry.

Kimi2's response: There are three letter rs in the word "cranberry".

einarfd · 24 days ago
I got the same when trying it with standard gpt5. But when I used the thinking mode I got:

3 — cranberry.

Tried with Claude sonnet 4 as well:

There are 3 r’s in the word “cranberry”:

c-*r*-a-n-b-e-*rr*-y

The r’s appear in positions 2, 7, and 8.

I would expect standard gpt5 to get it right tbh.

einarfd commented on Genie 3: A new frontier for world models   deepmind.google/discover/... · Posted by u/bradleyg223
pixelesque · a month ago
What's interesting to me along these lines is I assume most of the companies funding the research are targeting the "creative" media in terms of image generation, music generation, avatars, speach, etc.

I can understand it's very interesting from a researcher's point-of-view (I'm a software dev who's worked adjacent to some ML researchers doing pipeline stuff to integrate models into software), but at the same time: Where are the robots to do menial work like clean toilets, kitchens, homes, etc?

I assume the funding isn't there? Or maybe it's much less exciting to research diffusion networks for image generation that working out algorithms for the best way to clean toilets :)

einarfd · a month ago
There are companies out there working on those problems as well. How the funding climate for them are. I don't know. But the market for smart robots, should be gigantic. So there must be some. Keep in mind that what is easy, and hard for a human, which is the result of billions of years of evolution. Isn't necessary the same things that are hard or easy for our technologies.
einarfd commented on Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash   electrek.co/2025/08/04/te... · Posted by u/Hamuko
jeffbee · a month ago
There aren't enough details in the somewhat hyperbolic narrative format to really say, but if I were going to create a temporary archive of files on an embedded system for diagnostic upload, I would also delete it, because that's the nature of temporary files and nobody likes ENOSPACE. If their system had deleted the inputs of the archive that would seem nefarious, but this doesn't, at first scan.
einarfd · a month ago
And deleting the file would have been perfectly fine, if Tesla had given out the file when asked for it. Instead of what they did.
einarfd commented on Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash   electrek.co/2025/08/04/te... · Posted by u/Hamuko
abrouwers · a month ago
I might challenge with "autopilot is cruise control." To me, Tesla is marketing the feature much differently. Either way, looking up the definitions of each:

"Auto Pilot: a device for keeping an aircraft or other vehicle on a set course without the intervention of the pilot."

"Cruise Control: an electronic device in a motor vehicle that can be switched on to maintain a selected constant speed without the use of the accelerator."

einarfd · a month ago
You are right, but unfortunately you are the least useful right, which is technical right.

That is definitely what auto pilot means in the aeronautical and maritime sphere.

But a lot of the general public has a murky understanding of how an auto pilot on a ship or a plane works. So for a lot, probably the majority of them. They will look at the meaning of those two words and land on that auto pilot, means automatic pilot. Which basically ends up beeing self driving.

Sure in a perfect world, they would look up what the term means in the sphere they do not know, and use it correctly, but that is not the world we live in. We do not get the general public, we want, but we have to live with the one we got.

u/einarfd

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