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Comment Re:Vibe Coding is not the same as coding with AI (Score 0) 79

Don't forget technical debt. Those excel spreadsheets and what not work fine for a while. When a version of excel makes some change, or deprecates part of the code used, or someone wants to put it in a proper system where the data isn't siloed, all hell breaks loose. And seeing as there are lots of these things around in an average enterprise, it can get to be a real headache.

Submission + - 'About as close to aliens as we'll ever get.' Can AI crack animal language? (science.org)

sciencehabit writes: Can a robot arm wave hello to a cuttlefish—and get a hello back? Could a dolphin’s whistle actually mean “Where are you?” And are monkeys quietly naming each other while we fail to notice?

These are just a few of the questions tackled by the finalists for this year’s Dolittle prize, a $100,000 award recognizing early breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI)-powered interspecies communication. The winning project—announced today—explores how dolphins use shared, learned whistles that may carry specific meanings—possibly even warning each other about danger, or just expressing confusion. The other contending teams—working with marmosets, cuttlefish, and nightingales—are also pushing the boundaries of what human-animal communication might look like.

The prize marks an important milestone in the Coller Dolittle Challenge, a 5-year competition offering up to $10 million to the first team that can achieve genuine two-way communication with animals. “Part of how this initiative was born came from my skepticism,” says Yossi Yovel, a neuroecologist at Tel Aviv University and one of the prize’s organizers. “But we really have much better tools now. So this is the time to revisit a lot of our previous assumptions about two-way communication within the animal’s own world.”

Science caught up with the four finalists to hear how close we really are to cracking the animal code. One amusing exerpt:

"Male [dolphins] form pairs and call each other’s [signature] whistles if they get separated. But once, we were just testing our equipment and played one of those whistles while the pair was still together. They responded with a totally different whistle—one we hadn’t documented before. We’ve since heard it in other confusing situations. We call it the 'WTF whistle,' because it really did seem like that’s what they were asking."

Comment Re:Features also not possible with tomorrows tech (Score 2, Insightful) 40

You have to be stupid to think you have "freedom of speech" on anybody's private network or subreddit. It's the height of narcissism to think that's some "right" you have.

Reddit is run by individual armies of people who carefully cultivate specific communities. They have every right to restrict the content in their communities, and you have every right to create your own community if you don't like it. Complaining that you're upset because you broke somebody else's rules is childish.

Comment Re: Short term gains for long term pain (Score 1) 148

Actually, after the war, most were happy to stay at home with the family. This lasted from 1945 to about mid 1980s. A lot of that was the perceived better lifestyle that could be obtained in the '80s by having two partners working. The benefits lasted until possibly the early 2000s, when the market stabilised, and house prices adjusted for having two partners working, and increased drastically to soak the extra available capital.

Submission + - SPAM: Kaido Orav and Byron Knoll's fx2-cmix Wins 7950€ Hutter Prize Award!

Baldrson writes: Kaido Orav and Byron Knoll just beat the Nuclear Code Golf Course Record!

What's Nuclear Code Golf?

Some of you may have heard that "next token prediction" is the basis of large language models generalizing. Well there is just one contest that pays cash prizes in proportion to how much you beat the best prior benchmark for the most rigorous measure of next token prediction: Lossless compression length including decompressor length. The catch is, in order to make it relevant regardless of The Hardware Lottery's hysterics*, you are restricted to a single general purpose CPU. This contest is not for the faint of heart. Think of it as Nuclear Code Golf.

Kaido Orav and Byron Knoll are the team to beat now.

*The global economy is starting to look like a GPU-maximizer AGI.

Comment Re:Is Wired posting girl math now? (Score 1) 28

This "iNfLaTiOn" argument is so lame.

Nobody sits on a pile of cash for 10 years. If that's your idea of investing, you're an idiot.

And these people should be lucky. Chances are they'd have lost 100% of their principal if they had control of it. It was just luck they managed to get anything back.

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