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Comment Re:The. Tech. Isn't. Ready. Yet (Score 1) 35

Tech doesn't work. All it can do is create competent looking demos.

Waymo has just taken that demo to the nth degree.

The technology isn't there. The people who say are lying because of they have some vested interest or they are people just parroting what they are hearing and have no clue.

Comment Bing chat is great but google is still default (Score 0) 31

Bing chat is great. I even installed edge on linux to be able to use it. But now they don't require edge.

But I find that for search I just the default google. For work, bing is default with edge and I also get co-pilot with it. But chrome and firefox just come with google as default.

Though I am very wary. Since google is scraping the bottom of the barrel for money (in Google's scale), how long before they start monetizing things that they didn't before. Like your e-mail and directly the contents of your search. I would love to see what kind of searches engineers at my competition was doing and I'm sure they would love to see ours.

Comment Ebay are evil terrorists. They won't change. (Score 1) 43

ensure that eBay's senior leadership sets a tone that makes compliance with the law paramount, implements safeguards to prevent future criminal activity, and makes clear to every eBay employee that the idea of terrorizing innocent people and obstructing investigations will not be tolerated,

More like senior leadership sets a deaf air to criminal behavior, implements no safeguards for future criminal activity and continue doing criminal activity as the cost of doing business, and makes it clear to every eBay employee that the idea of terrorizing innocent people and obstructing investigations is perfectly fine and shall result in such at most a small fine.

Comment Perplexity is fast but very shallow (Score 1) 28

I know they are doing their funding (huge ad in their search bar for paid customers) and this is probably a hype piece sponsored by them. Anyways, I've been using them for a bit.

Perplexity is improved web-search but compared to ChatGPT and Claude it is quite lacking in depth.

It can't do as good an answer as ChatGPT and it can't do as good a retrieval as Claude. Yet, they claim to use ChatGPT and Claude in the backend.

I believe to save API costs and token costs, they are using tricks to summarize and make the queries small to the actual APIs.

Good for asking short questions but for digging into details it is pretty bad. It just spits out summary back at you or acts like a bad retrieval system and gets a tiny portion back and slightly rewords a sentence back to you.

Also it is very prone to giving you the wrong answers depending on the first web search results it gets.

All it seems to me is that this is a very shiny coat of javascript paint on top of web search results API being passed to AI API. So, they've gotten the web search results from someone, then do summarization with probably open source models and then pass it on to a cloud LLM API.

It is a decent web search tool but a bad AI LLM tool. Much better than bing search results from ChatGPT (esp after the nerf).

If advertising and manipulation hits this, I don't know what kinds of shadow prompts will be added to your search results. Just small changes seem to really sway results quite a bit.

Comment Does the simulation have ad-block (Score 2) 26

Does the simulation have ad-block?

To come up with the revenue figure, the researchers estimated the number of users under 18 on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter) and YouTube in 2022 based on population data from the U.S. Census and survey data from Common Sense Media and Pew Research. They then used data from research firm eMarketer ... to estimate each platform's U.S. ad revenue in 2022 and the time children spent per day on each platform. After that, the researchers said they built a simulation model using the data to estimate how much ad revenue the platforms earned from minors in the U.S.

Comment Re:What About? (Score 1) 129

or a college student pay tuition

What?

Might as well say those jobs to help someone
- buy their 3 bedroom house
- buy a new electric truck or SUV
- retire in 10 years.

Seriously though, at the cost of college, it makes zero sense to work McDob when you're paying that much to attend college.

Comment Why doesn't NSF or the university pay then? (Score 3, Insightful) 19

Why do professors have to even ask industry for money? Why doesn't NSF or the university themselves support the research? The question is sort of rhetorical but you know the answers.

While the summary implies they are buying influence (I can't read the paywalled article), I think that money actually buys graduate students (mostly foreign). It is cheap way to get research done (graduate student stipends are pittance compared to silicon valley salaries) and also creates a good pool to hire from after they graduate when they have already worked on topics that the industry is interested in. The professor also benefits since they have a larger army of graduate students and more graduate students means more papers and more influence.

Comment Re:I guess Nvidia is lucky these days... (Score 1) 30

More people look at video created by Intel graphics chip than probably any other chip.

I don't understand how they can't figure out to make a GPUs in the world where there is massive massive demand for it. They have the foundries, have the gobbled up so many AI chip companies, they have access so much talent, money and so much but can't seem to execute!

Comment Re:NVIDIA failed (Score 1) 50

They failed badly in autonomous driving. They are at least 10 years behind Tesla, which is really bad because Tesla's autonomous driving capability isn't even 10 years old.

They didn't fail at autonomous driving.

Autonomous driving itself failed.

If autonomous driving was successful, nVidia would be there with all the tools and products.

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