vintageballs

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs of their biggest characters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it comes down to whether it’s legal to train image generation models on copyrighted material. Midjourney etc can’t produce a very accurate image of copyrighted characters if those characters aren’t in the training set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord CTO says he’s “constantly bringing up enshittification” during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With discord already being pretty shitty, I am interested in what ideas they are coming up with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Kernel Chaos Caused By A Broken Script⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ublock and Sponsorblock make YouTube bearable.

  If you’re on mobile, use tubular - it has AdBlock as well as Sponsorblock integrated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're here to stay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in this field. In my company, we use smaller, specialized models all the time. Ignore the VC hype bubble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're here to stay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough, this is also my field, though I am not at uni anymore since I now work in this area. I agree that current literature rightfully makes no claims of AGI.

  Calling transformer models (also definitely not the only type of LLM that is feasible - mamba, Llada, … exist!) “fancy autocomplete” is very disingenuous in my view. Also, the current boom of AI includes way more than the flashy language models that the general population directly interacts with, as you surely know. And whether a model is able to “generalize” depends on whether you mean within its objective boundaries or outside of them, I would say.

  I agree that a training objective of predicting the next token in a sequence probably won’t be enough to achieve generalized intelligence. However, modelling language is the first and most important step on that path since us humans use language to abstract and represent problems.

  Looking at the current pace of development, I wouldn’t be so pessimistic, though I won’t make claims as to when we will reach AGI. While there may not be a complete theoretical framework for AGI, I believe it will be achieved in a similar way as current systems are, being developed first and explained after.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're here to stay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the case of reasoning models, definitely. Reasoning datasets weren’t even a thing a year ago and from what we know about how the larger models are trained, most task-specific training data is artificial (oftentimes a small amount is human-generated and then synthetically augmented).

  However, I think it’s safe to assume that this has been the case for regular chat models as well - the self-instruct and ORCA papers are quite old already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're here to stay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The goalpost has shifted a lot in the past few years, but in the broader and even narrower definition, current language models are precisely what was meant by AI and generally fall into that category of computer program. They aren’t broad / general AI, but definitely narrow / weak AI systems.

  I get that it’s trendy to shit on LLMs, often for good reason, but that should not mean we just redefine terms because some system doesn’t fit our idealized under-informed definition of a technical term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're here to stay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes Mr. Professor, mind telling us how you came to this conclusion?

  To me you come off like an early 1900s fear monger a la “There will never be a flying machine, humans aren’t meant to be in the sky and it’s physically impossible”.

  If you literally meant that there is no such thing yet, then sure, we haven’t reached AGI yet. But the rest of your sentence is very disingenuous toward the thousands of scientists and developers working on precisely these issues and also extremely ignorant of current developments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Orders In The US Amidst New Trump Tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There seems to be a kinda active ryujinx fork, but I admit that the switch emulation scene got decimated by Nintendo’s abhorrent legal practices.

  Still, I’m sure it won’t take long after the switch 2 comes out for a working emulator to appear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Orders In The US Amidst New Trump Tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get me wrong, trump sucks, his tariffs are completely stupid, the US is probably fucked on so many levels.

  But.

  Don’t buy the switch 2. It’s an overpriced piece of shit with even more overpriced games. Honestly just buy a steam deck and run yuzu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek-V3 now runs at 20 tokens per second on Mac Studio, and that’s a nightmare for OpenAI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably confused the R1 Qwen distill with something else. Afaik there is no 32b model from DeepSeek directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-experimentation: How TikTok radicalizes Austrian teenagers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you really this braindead or are you just on Xi’s or Putin’s payroll?