I agree 100%.

In the last "Grok" example, it makes sense that statistics would tell it that when someone 'inputs a ticket' or 'sends a memo' that it receives a confirmation, and it would be able to generate a something similar. So they say 'send a message' and it comes back with 'okay, here's the receipt.'

That makes perfect statistical sense to me. It's completely worthless, but it makes sense.

What I don't understand is the very last part. What amount of statistics would make it 'realize' (or appear to realize) that it had been lying? It should never understand that it hadn't actually be doing those things. Where did that confession come from?

Sadly while your logic sounds spot on, the reality is, that TV still does ACR (basically hashing each screen sometimes multiple times a second) and builds one hell of an accurate profile of everything you watch. Even if the source is HDMI. And it's still sold.

Food for thought, that HDMI cable to your dedicated device, it likely supports networking, so the TV has a path to the internet even if you don't connect an ethernet cable directly to it, or add in your wifi creds.

f the child mentioned didn't give you consent to share details about them, don't.

I thought it was generally accepted that children under the age of 18yrs could not give legal "consent" to anything....?

Until the age of 18, for the most part legally, can't parents speak for and act for their children....?

What are the use cases for local AI models that actually require running on macOS? Surely a commodity x86 system is more appropriate?

Is there even the software support for LLMs on macOS?

Actually yes there is...

I'm still learning about this myself, but, from what I understand the M series of chips that Apple has come out with, with it having a CPU, GPU, and shared unified memory....it makes them uniquely capable of running local models on them...decently large models depending on how much you fork over for RAM. These M chips also have a special end unit for "intelligence processing" I think they call it.

The M5 chips just coming out look to be very good at this and it is speculated the M5 Ultra will be a high performance work horse.

Apple may have missed the mark for running AI, but the appear to have hit a home run on the hardware aspect of it.

I've seen demos on YouTube of someone hooking up like 4-5 Mac Studios that were maxed out M3 ultras I think and they were running extremely LARGE LLMs locally and getting cloud level numbers on them.

Of course these were like $10K each boxes.....but the level of model they were running would have cost my MANY more times trying to match them with NVIDIA GPU cards.....

i believe there are OSX friendly tools like ollama that make downloading, and running LLMs quite easy....and of course there's the latest sensation...OpenClaw, that folks are buying up Mac Minis for....to have multiple agents running using models of your. Choice (commercial clound or local) of models and giving them persistent memory, and ability to do a lot of things for you...depending on how comfortable you are with giving said agents long leashes and capabilities....

Do look a bit on YouTube on these topics....it's actually quite interesting.

These M chips are already giving the home user the capability to use models almost as large and on the cutting edge as the big companies.....more than enough for most users.

Right now, there's nothing x86 that can really match them...at least not for the money.

Look for a gaming monitor with no WiFi option

Do they make these in 65" or larger?

If not, that's not really useful....no one wants to have everyone in the family and/or guests huddled around a 25" monitor in the corner of the living room you know....

;)

Reddit only posted a profit when they started to sell all of their users comments to AI companies. Those companies don't want to pay to recycle their own AI comments back into their AI, so Reddit needs help to make sure as much of the comments aren't bots.

t depends on if they send you a tax notice or not. There was an outfit in Ohio that I used to purchase a lot of electronics from. One year I got a note from them listing my purchases, and that I would have to pay taxes on. That was a pain in the ass.

I think they got "caught", or had new accountants or something. But yes - if you can avoid the sales tax, it's a significant discount.

Interesting, I've never received any such notices....but most of my stuff is one off buys...not repeated purchases from a single site...

Believe it or not, I STILL find it pays to compare Amazon to maybe smaller retailers....for shipping vs tax!!!

I find a lot of sellers out there that still do not charge sales tax and some times...that makes it cheaper than Amazon...

Prime has LONG been a good deal for me.....but here recently with them adding commercials to Prime videos/movies....I'm starting to step back and re-evaluate....

Hmm....why in my head am I picturing the dancing Syringes of Mordor.....??

I think this should be one of the RARE times the US takes full advantage of of China's market and economical manufacturing capabitlies.....

We should buy a TON of these things....and set them all up aimed at China.

And if China gets out of line....we find out what their "return policy" is....

;)

That's what you do when you want change.

What if I don't want "change"....?

I mean I do vote for people who want what I want....but the govt isn't there to think for me...they are there to obey the will of their constituents ....

They seem to forget this...

Yes you prefer to use touch screens I guess to distract you and kill people rather than using a simple voice instruction?

No...I prefer physical buttons, dials, switches...that I can operate 99% of the time via muscle memory without having to take my eyes off the road....

Like the OP, I can't stand talking to a fucking machine.

It means when you do a Google search for a restaurant

People do that...?

I mean, by the time I get in my car, I already know what restaurant I'm going to....my research is done LONG before I think of how I'll get there either via my car or an uber, etc....

You talk to your phone / car on a regular basis ?

Ok...sounds weird....

I can't stand talking to machines...especially the auto answer phones businesses have....I just start repeatedly hitting 0 and saying "Agent"....etc.

Yep and the same idiots in the USA drive SUVs and trucks just to get groceries.

Geez, why get your panties in a wad because of what Americans choose to spend their dollars on?

It's really none of your fucking business.....free people are free to buy what they want to own and drive.....nothing wrong with that.