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pigeons commented on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters bbc.com/news/articles/ckg... · Posted by u/speckx

bogdanstanciu · 2 days ago

I was at a Hilton recently and ordered room service - tortilla soup. When it came up, there was no spoon, so I called the front desk. Of course it was an AI, so I said “I just ordered a soup and got no spoon. Can you send me a spoon?”

It goes “got it - we’ll send a spoon up”.

It seems absurdly simple but was pretty impressed at a real implementation of AI that just worked (in what I’d consider an edge case).

pigeons · 2 days ago

Did you end up with a spoon?

pigeons commented on If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLa... · Posted by u/diggan

pigeons · 2 days ago

But they didn't only train on information the creators made freely available. They trained on copyrighted materials obtained illicitly.

pigeons · 2 days ago

I know we're not supposed to comment about downvotes, but the original comment was talking about "these companies", and none of the information indicating that they, or at the very least Meta, trained on terabytes of books downloaded from zlib and libgen and other torrent sites, is in dispute. So even if you believe that copyright should not exist, I don't see why this is not a valid dispute of the parents argument that they only trained on information creators made freely available.

pigeons commented on If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLa... · Posted by u/diggan

marssaxman · 2 days ago

Okay, but "stealing" is also an oversimplification, to the point of absurdity.

It makes no sense to put stuff up on the internet where it can freely be downloaded by anyone at any time, by people who are then free to do whatever they like with it on their own hardware, then complain that people have downloaded that stuff and done what they liked with it on their own hardware.

"Having machines consume large volumes of data posted on the Internet for the purpose of generating value for them without compensating the creators" is equally a description of Google.

pigeons · 2 days ago

But they didn't only train on information the creators made freely available. They trained on copyrighted materials obtained illicitly.

pigeons commented on The Future of Software Is Small aparker.io/post/3lvjepuyf... · Posted by u/jshchnz

ktallett · 9 days ago

The issues here are there is an assumption AI will improve so far whereby it has the capabilities to write flawless code for pieces of software that would be many separate files and many thousands of lines of code. There is very little about LLMs that suggest there is any focus on accuracy to this level or that it would be possible within any foreseeable future as we are currently are nowhere near this at all.

Secondly, we use software and AI as a human race that others have created as many are not quite aware of what they need and don't have the capabilities of designing software to solve all of the issues they have. That won't suddenly be a skillset many pick up.

pigeons · 6 days ago

My experiences point me to oscillating between agreeing with you and disagreeing with you almost every day.

pigeons commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS

MattPalmer1086 · 10 days ago

Hmmm... It's the other way around for me. I find it hard to memorise things I don't actually understand.

I remember being given a proof of why RSA encryption is secure. All the other students just regurgitated it. It made superficial sense I guess.

However, I could not understand the proof and felt quite stupid. Eventually I went to my professor for help. He admitted the proof he had given was incomplete (and showed me why it still worked). He also said he hadn't expected anyone to notice it wasn't a complete proof.

pigeons · 9 days ago

> I remember being given a proof of why RSA encryption is secure

With what assumptions?

pigeons commented on Is air travel getting worse? maximum-progress.com/p/is... · Posted by u/mhb

MaKey · 16 days ago

Sometimes there isn’t even enough space in the cabin for all carry-ons, so you have to leave yours with a baggage handler in front of the plane.

pigeons · 16 days ago

Very often.

pigeons commented on A month using XMPP (using Snikket) for every call and chat (2023) neilzone.co.uk/2023/08/a-... · Posted by u/ColinWright

mycall · a month ago

Matrix Bridges do something similar.

pigeons · a month ago

Those services, and more like facebook messenger used the XMPP protocol on both ends. Matrix bridges clumsily translate some of the feature of one protocol and display the chat on the other end.

pigeons commented on The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable? nngroup.com/articles/hamb... · Posted by u/thm

DidYaWipe · 2 months ago

I recently had to resume using Windows extensively after a long hiatus, and the regressions I had already noticed in occasional use remain an infuriating PITA every damned day. It's not a matter of adjustment to something different. It's a matter of incompetent UI.

The elimination of the standard menu bar in one application after another is a huge one. Look at Edge: I wanted to save a PDF I was viewing. Fat chance.

There's no menu. In the toolbar past the URL box there's a jagged Pac-Man that I guess is supposed to be yet another "gear" icon. Then there's a star with lines in it for "favorites" and then your own avatar and then three dots with a tiny upward pink arrow overlapping part of one of them.

In the upper-left corner of the window there are more boxy icons... let's see what those are... "Workspaces" and "Tab actions menu."

So is "save file" under Gear-Man, the three dots, or somewhere else?

And BTW, WHAT APPLICATION IS THIS? You have no idea which window belongs to which one, because the title bars are missing.

What a truly incredible, pathetic mess. The Mac's single menu bar is a UI blunder, but NO menu bar is monumentally stupid.

pigeons · 2 months ago

Somewhere along the way I have lost title bars to know the title of each tab in my browser, whether firefox or brave. I don't know if I need to set it in the browser, or kde, or kwin, i also tried microsoft windows and the same behavior.

pigeons commented on LLMs are cheap snellman.net/blog/archive... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

handfuloflight · 3 months ago

If the advertising is contextually relevant, how is it working against you?

pigeons · 3 months ago

Just being contextually relevant doesn't mean its in your interests as opposed to in the interests of the advertised or that the levers are transparent.