Comment Re:Not a surprise knowing someone does not know AI (Score 3, Funny) 23
What are you talking about? Of course image enhancement is possible using AI.
Comment Re:Does this mean it'll stop sucking? (Score 1) 23
I found GP2.5 to be great at academic-style research and writing; it was absolutely awful at writing code. So; I would tell it to plan some thing for me and write it in a way that could be used by another agent (Claude Code) to build the code to do the thing. In this way, it has been great! I haven't yet attempted it with 3.
That said, I found GP3.0's page to be hilarious:
It demonstrates PhD-level reasoning with top scores on Humanityâ(TM)s Last Exam (37.5% without the usage of any tools) and GPQA Diamond (91.9%). It also sets a new standard for frontier models in mathematics, achieving a new state-of-the-art of 23.4% on MathArena Apex.
It then proceeds to show, lower down on the page, an example of what it can do, by showing off 'Our Family Recipes". If there's anything that touts PhD-level reasoning and writing, it's a recipe book.
Submission + - The AI Bubble That Isn't There (forbes.com)
smooth wombat writes: Michael Burry recently said he believes the AI market is in a bubble. Why should anyone listen to him? He's the guy who famously predicted the subprime mortgage crisis and made $100 million for himself, and $725 million for his hedge fund investors, by shorting the mortgage bond market. Will he be right in his most recent prediction? Only time will tell, but according to Jason Alexander at Forbes, Burry, and many others, are looking at AI the wrong way. For him, there is no AI bubble. Instead, AI is following the pattern of the electrical grid, the phone system and yes, the internet, all of which looked irrational at the time. His belief is people are applying outdated models to the AI buildout which makes it seem an irrational bubble. His words:
The irony is that the “AI bubble” narrative is itself a bubble, inflated by people applying outdated analogies to a phenomenon that does not fit them. Critics point to OpenAI’s operating losses, its heavy compute requirements and the fact that its expenses dwarf its revenues.
Under classical software economics, these would indeed be warning signs. But AI is not following the cost structures of apps or social platforms. It is following the cost structures of infrastructure.
The early electrical grid looked irrational. The first telephone networks looked irrational. Railroads looked irrational. In every major infrastructural transition, society endured long periods of heavy spending, imbalance and apparent excess. These were not signs of bubbles. They were signs that the substrate of daily life was being rebuilt.
OpenAI’s spending is no more indicative of a bubble than Edison’s power stations or Bell’s early switchboards. The economics only appear flawed if one assumes the system they are building already exists.
What we are witnessing is not a speculative mania but a structural transformation driven by thermodynamics, power density and a global shift toward energy-based intelligence.
The bubble narrative persists because many observers are diagnosing this moment with the wrong conceptual tools. They are treating an energy-driven transformation as if it were a software upgrade.
The irony is that the “AI bubble” narrative is itself a bubble, inflated by people applying outdated analogies to a phenomenon that does not fit them. Critics point to OpenAI’s operating losses, its heavy compute requirements and the fact that its expenses dwarf its revenues.
Under classical software economics, these would indeed be warning signs. But AI is not following the cost structures of apps or social platforms. It is following the cost structures of infrastructure.
The early electrical grid looked irrational. The first telephone networks looked irrational. Railroads looked irrational. In every major infrastructural transition, society endured long periods of heavy spending, imbalance and apparent excess. These were not signs of bubbles. They were signs that the substrate of daily life was being rebuilt.
OpenAI’s spending is no more indicative of a bubble than Edison’s power stations or Bell’s early switchboards. The economics only appear flawed if one assumes the system they are building already exists.
What we are witnessing is not a speculative mania but a structural transformation driven by thermodynamics, power density and a global shift toward energy-based intelligence.
The bubble narrative persists because many observers are diagnosing this moment with the wrong conceptual tools. They are treating an energy-driven transformation as if it were a software upgrade.
Comment Re:Duh... (Score 4, Insightful) 16
They went from buying low to selling high and are now shorting the stocks.
They're winning either way.
Comment Re:way more than some irrationality (Score 1) 53
I think we are going to see a 'correction' we go down 10% or or less from recent highs and trade sideways for a while.
Most of the big guys in AI are already down more than 10% in the past week. Today isn't looking any better. Once Nvidia reports tomorrow after the bell will we see stabilization, assuming they have good news to report.
Comment That explains it (Score 2) 53
I was wondering why a site I was on this morning decided to stop loading. Since other sites were still working I thought it might be the site itself. The hamsters got too tired and took a nap.
Comment Re:Serious question (Score 1) 116
I looked into bringing a Mexican car (the Ford Ka) into the US. You will be forced to bring it up to US safety standards. Strengthen the B pillar, pad the dash more, etc. The extra weight will destroy the fuel economy and the performance, as well as cost thousands to do. Not worth it.
Comment Re:BNPL groceries = groceries on credit cards (Score 1) 91
The median income in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles is higher than $83K. At least I hope it is.
Comment Re: BNPL groceries = groceries on credit cards (Score 2) 91
>This is irritating AF even though I have the money in the bank because I get a percentage back.
The percentage you get back is a small part of what goes into the costs that the credit card industry charges consumers and merchants.
If no credit cards offered any kinds of rewards, the credit card companies could lower consumer and merchant fees and interest rates and still make the same amount of money.
Comment Re:BNPL groceries = groceries on credit cards (Score 1) 91
Pretty much yes.
Comment BNPL groceries = groceries on credit cards (Score 3, Insightful) 91
People buying essentials on credit has been around for a very long time.
It's never a place you want to be, but it beats starving or freezing to death.
Comment Re:Canada is Free? (Score 2, Insightful) 12
The most liberal, most feminist and atheistic people are *absolutely enamored* with this religion that seemingly is against all of what these individuals espouse.
Nice trolling. Why would an atheist be "enamored" with this religion? Or any religion? They're atheists.
As for the rest, considering Catholicism and Christianity are also religions which are seemingly against all of what "those people" espouse, is it any wonder they "hate" these religions as well.
Nice trolling. Why would an atheist be "enamored" with this religion? Or any religion? They're atheists.
As for the rest, considering Catholicism and Christianity are also religions which are seemingly against all of what "those people" espouse, is it any wonder they "hate" these religions as well.
Comment Re:Who elected Toru Iwatani to make Pac-Man? (Score 2) 71
Equating AI with Pac-Man isn't really the intellectual flex you probably think it is.
Comment Re:It a guidebook... (Score 1) 239
This seems relatively innocuous compared to other batshit crazy things.
Such as whining books by black authors contained hate messages or would indoctrinate kids, or removing books by Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, or Ernest Hemingway.
Such as whining books by black authors contained hate messages or would indoctrinate kids, or removing books by Stephen King, Kurt Vonnegut, or Ernest Hemingway.
Comment Re:A useful skill to have. (Score 0) 239
Cursive IS hand writing. I think you are confusing it with italic.
I think American schools should probably teach something. It seems fairly evident that they are not even doing that at present.
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