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jamesrcole commented on Death by AI   davebarry.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/ano-ther
cosmical65 · a month ago
> I'd say this isn't just an AI overview thing. It's a Google thing. Google will sometimes show inaccurate information and there is usually no way to correct it.

Well, in this case the inaccurate information is shown because the AI overview is combining information about two different people, rather than the sources being wrong. With traditional search, any webpages would be talking about one of the two people and contain only information about them. Thus, I'd say that this problem is specific to the AI overview.

jamesrcole · a month ago
The science fiction author Greg Egan has been "battling" with Google for many years because, even though there are zero photos of him on the internet, Google insists that certain photos are of him. This was all well before Google started using AI. He's written about it here: https://gregegan.net/ESSAYS/GOOGLE/Google.html
jamesrcole commented on Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025   machinelearning.apple.com... · Posted by u/2bit
al_borland · a month ago
You asked 2 questions in a system made for 1 question at a time. Split these up and Siri answers them fine. You’re holding it wrong.
jamesrcole · a month ago
A tool that can handle more than one question at a time is useful. Modern LLMs handle that with ease. So it's completely reasonable to be critical of that limitation.
jamesrcole commented on Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me   blog.miguelgrinberg.com/p... · Posted by u/nomdep
jazzyjackson · 2 months ago
Human knowledge != Reddit/Twitter/Wikipedia
jamesrcole · 2 months ago
Who said it was? I’m pretty sure they’re trained on a lot more than just those.
jamesrcole commented on Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me   blog.miguelgrinberg.com/p... · Posted by u/nomdep
rainonmoon · 2 months ago
> the corpus of human knowledge.

Goodness this is a dim view on the breadth of human knowledge.

jamesrcole · 2 months ago
what do you object to about it? I don't see an issue with referring to "the corpus of human knowledge". "Corpus" pretty much just means the "collection of".
jamesrcole commented on Good Writing   paulgraham.com/goodwritin... · Posted by u/oli5679
f30e3dfed1c9 · 3 months ago
Gonna leave that as an exercise to the reader. (You could run it through a spell checker, too.)
jamesrcole · 3 months ago
There aren't any spelling errors. If you want to claim otherwise it would be easy for you to show examples.
jamesrcole commented on Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp   lisp-journey.gitlab.io/bl... · Posted by u/Tomte
0xDEAFBEAD · 3 months ago
I'm a little too young to remember Slashdot. It would be interesting to see an informal ethnography of those older discussion sites/Usenet/etc. from people who remember that stuff. Online communities deserve more study.
jamesrcole · 3 months ago
You talk about it as if doesn't exist anymore. If you're not aware, it still exists.
jamesrcole commented on Good Writing   paulgraham.com/goodwritin... · Posted by u/oli5679
f30e3dfed1c9 · 3 months ago
I'm solidly in the camp that believes that if Graham wasn't rich no one would read this stuff or claim to admire it. He also should have run this through a spell checker.
jamesrcole · 3 months ago
> He also should have run this through a spell checker.

What's an example of a spelling mistake in it? I read it carefully and didn't notice any.

jamesrcole commented on AI helps unravel a cause of Alzheimer’s and identify a therapeutic candidate   today.ucsd.edu/story/ai-h... · Posted by u/pedalpete
avogt27 · 4 months ago
It's really a bummer to see this marketed as 'AI Discovers Something New'. The authors in the actual paper carried out an enormous amount of work, the vast majority of which is relatively standard biochemistry and cell biology - nothing to do with computational techniques. The AlphaFold3 analysis (the AI contribution) literally accounts for a few panels in a supplementary figure - it didn't even help guide their choice of small molecule inhibitors since those were already known. AlphaFold (among other related tools) is absolutely a game changer in structural biology and biophysics, but this is a pretty severe case of AI hype overshadowing the real value of the work.
jamesrcole · 4 months ago
[EDIT: people downvoting this, how about you explain what you object to in it]

> It's really a bummer to see this marketed as 'AI Discovers Something New'.

The headline doesn't suggest that. It's "AI Helps Unravel", and that seems a fair and accurate claim.

And that's true for the body of the article, too.

jamesrcole commented on DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model   deepmind.google/discover/... · Posted by u/velcrobeg
eucryphia · 4 months ago
You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-Al is? Wrong direction.

I want Al to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for Al to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

- Joanna Maciejewska

You could add music

jamesrcole · 4 months ago
> You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-Al is? Wrong direction.

> I want Al to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for Al to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

This implies a zero-sum where resources put into LLMs are resources taken away from robotics, and having to choose between one or the other.

The reality is that we can have both, and people are working on both. And I'd bet that advancing LLMs will help to advance useful robotics.

So I really dislike that sentiment.

jamesrcole commented on How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers   spectrum.ieee.org/lely-da... · Posted by u/DonHopkins
DonHopkins · 4 months ago
These videos of robotic cow milking machines, feed mixers and distributers and pushers, and manure roombas are amazing!

Cows like to push and play with their food to get to the yummy grain bits, so the feed robot pushes the food back so they can eat it all.

And the Poopoombas had to learn to be more aggressive about pushing cows out of the way and not stopping every time they bumped or got kicked, because otherwise the cows would assign them the lowest status in the pecking order, and they could only cower in the corner.

Here are the videos from the article and some more:

The milking process of the Lely Astronaut A5 - EN:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-zYshsAg1E

Takes Dairy Farm Tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZY8TbBoDd0

Zeta - how it works - EN - NL subtitles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17TA-lI_oqQ

Zeta - Vision film - EN - NL subtitles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nRaj16tPLc

Their web site has a pretty cool "page not found" error page too:

https://www.lely.com/moo

Now dairy farms can use two different kinds of AI together! ;) They could develop an insemination module to go with their calving module.

https://www.lely.com/solutions/latest-innovations/zeta/ai-ca...

I wonder if you can rent swarms of these and dispatch them to anywhere you need them:

https://www.lely.com/solutions/manure/discovery-collector/

Or if you can use them in reverse, loading them up them dumping shit wherever you wanted to, like a giant Logo Turdle, in the name of art and science.

jamesrcole · 4 months ago
> These videos of robotic cow milking machines, feed mixers and distributers and pushers, and manure roombas are amazing!

These robots need to be named "moombas"

u/jamesrcole

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