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Comment Has this ever worked?? (Score 3, Interesting) 13

Google+ and Yahoo 360 tried to "respond" to Facebook. Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts tried to "respond" to TikTok.

In every single case, the "response" does nothing but damage the responder's brand.

It seems like tech giants never learn their lesson when it comes to trying to steal the lunch of some service that has already achieved critical mass...

Submission + - JPEG XL won the image format wars. It's time to embrace it.

ergo98 writes: Now that Apple has thrown-in behind JPEG XL, with the format supported on their upcoming software releases — both in the Safari browser and in the various OSs, immediately providing support in app media components — in the next few months the deployed base of compatible devices will explode exponentially.

By year end over a billion devices will support JPEG XL. We can finally take advantage of much better visual fidelity, alpha channels for photographic images, HDR, and numerous other advances.

The time to leave JPEG behind, or at least relegate it to a compatibility shim, has arrived.

Comment Seems absolutely impossible to prove damages. (Score 3, Interesting) 107

There's some theory here that he suffered financially quantifiable damage as a result of reading an inaccurate sentence about himself in the privacy of his own home? Come on, now.

When I asked GPT-4 about my band, it claimed I wasn't even in the band and that the songs were written by someone else. You don't see me leaping on the phone to complain to a lawyer. All that would get me is laughed at.

GPT hallucinates. Everyone knows that. It has about a million disclaimers to that effect.

Comment 88 percent accuracy... (Score 4, Insightful) 111

>Carbon Health claims 88 percent of the verbiage can be accepted without edits

Yeah, I buy that. Then again, this is perhaps the situation where I *least* want to encounter the 12% of the verbiage where it hallucinates wildly.

I sometimes use GPT-4 to summarize corporate meetings, and yeah, 88% accuracy feels about right. It once hallucinated that our CEO opened the meeting by discussing the sacred indiginous land upon which our campus was situated, though. Which is inaccurate in about four different ways.

"She's allergic to sulfa drugs," "She's not allergic to sulfa drugs..." hey, they're both valid sentences that can be produced by language. That's the goal of contemporary LLMs, after all.

Comment Full Faith and Credit Clause (Score 3, Interesting) 64

>But the carmakers say that only the federal government has the authority to enact such a law.

I wonder if they might not have a point, here. Certainly Massachussetts can ban the *sale* of closed-source cars. But if the automakers simply shrug and stop selling cars in Massachussetts, can the state government legally prevent Bostonians from driving an hour to Providence, buying a car there, and driving it back home? And does anybody *want* such a situation?

Submission + - SPAM: Understanding Floating Point numbers

ergo98 writes: While we've all spent years using single- and double- precision floating point numbers, machine learning has led to some intense optimizations and specializations, yielding loads of new FP types including some so extreme that they fit in 4-bits and host zero mantissa bits (e.g. E3M0).

It can be unintuitive to grep, but this page gives some interactive examples that make it easier to understand. Even if you never need to directly flip or interpret the bits of an FP number, it's important to know the real strengths and weaknesses.

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Comment So a brain implant can communicate wirelessly... (Score 0) 41

Having it communicate with a spine implant is the obvious first step, that everyone will agree is ethical. Having it communicate with a robotic helper monkey, so the elderly can live independently, is probably the next step. The third step... ehhh... quite possibly involves military robots...

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