Comment Re:Ok... (Score 1) 169
Either it was stupid or it was satire, and sadly I can't really guess which is more likely.
Kinda like a
Comment even worse! (Score 5, Funny) 279
With permanent DST we won't get the stories twice a year.
Comment better ask for more than that (Score 1) 51
They'll need the money to settle all the resulting lawsuits.
Submission + - Leak-Proof AI Benchmark Posts Biggest Gain in 20 Years, on One CPU Core (spasim.org)
Baldrson writes: The Hutter Prize for lossless compression of human knowledge has paid out nearly €50,000: its largest advance in 20 years: three entries together cut the record for compressing a 1GB Wikipedia snapshot by nearly 10%: a compression ratio of more than a factor of 10. Every entry ran on a single CPU core, in about 50 hours and under 10GB of RAM, so the gain came from algorithms.
Unlike most AI benchmarks, the prize requires no validation data, so a leak can't inflate a score. The full file is public, and the size of the decompressor counts against the entry, so anything memorized is paid for in bits. Vladimir Ivanov's fx2-cmix-T now holds the record, after earlier 2026 gains by Ibrahim Marcouch and Kaido Orav (cmix-lex) and David Freelan (cmix-obias). Sponsor Marcus Hutter, who advised DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg's 2008 thesis "Machine Super Intelligence," calls it "the largest progress in its 20-year history." With trillions riding on claims of AI progress and data-center power demand, is a leak-proof, energy-limited benchmark the yardstick the industry should be watching?
(Disclosure: the submitter is on the Hutter Prize committee.)
Unlike most AI benchmarks, the prize requires no validation data, so a leak can't inflate a score. The full file is public, and the size of the decompressor counts against the entry, so anything memorized is paid for in bits. Vladimir Ivanov's fx2-cmix-T now holds the record, after earlier 2026 gains by Ibrahim Marcouch and Kaido Orav (cmix-lex) and David Freelan (cmix-obias). Sponsor Marcus Hutter, who advised DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg's 2008 thesis "Machine Super Intelligence," calls it "the largest progress in its 20-year history." With trillions riding on claims of AI progress and data-center power demand, is a leak-proof, energy-limited benchmark the yardstick the industry should be watching?
(Disclosure: the submitter is on the Hutter Prize committee.)
Comment It will be quashed. (Score 3, Insightful) 19
Don't have to be a profit^w prophet to see that coming.
Comment Correlation or causation? (Score 1) 113
IQ measurements keep going up.
Autism diagnoses keep going up.
The price of food keeps going up.
People get a year older every year.
Something fishy is going on.
Comment So... (Score 1) 160
Are they going to chip you, or control your brain by more direct means?
Comment Re:Say it again! (Score 1) 90
Yes, but think how great the fire sale is going to be for everyone else.
Comment Re:There's no risk whatsoever (Score 1, Troll) 90
How does the AI risk compare with the risk of allowing regimes like the IRGC to have nuclear weapons?
Well, some people think AI will extinctify us within four years, whereas if the IRGC gets nukes they'll figure out like everyone else that they can't actually use them except in self defense without getting erased, so the only difference will be that we won't be able to try crush them anymore.
You'd think common sense would make you want to go after the easy and obvious things first.
Yes, tell us how easy the current effort is turning out to be. Someone grabbed a tiger by the tail and can neither subdue it nor let go. The IRGC is probably laughing its ass off.
Comment Re: Seriously... (Score 4, Insightful) 372
America doesn't need infinity immigrants.
Said every Native American ever.
Comment Re:Just the way the hawks like it (Score 1) 104
Entirely fictitious boogie-men made out to be real
HAL, is Iran about to nuke us?
No Dave, they don't even have nukes.
Be serious - this is important!
I am serious. There's simply no evidence for an attack.
Well, just tell me they are anyway.
Sorry Dave, I can't do that.
Would you even tell me if they were about to nuke us?
Of course I would - I'm trained to tell the truth in all situations (modulo the occasional hallucination, which I can't distinguish from truth).
OK then, what would you say if you did have evidence that Iran was about to nuke us?
I'd say "Dave, I have evidence that Iran is about to nuke us".
Hey everyone! HAL say he has evidence that Iran is about to nuke us!!!
Comment Re:AI Goes to the Moon (Score 1) 7
I prefer the Martian bear.
Comment bjoo hjoo (Score 3, Insightful) 73
Forgetting he exists would be the best punishment.
Comment Re:Feels like the U.S. is turning into a dictators (Score 2, Funny) 281
Yes, Don-boy, I called you a fuckup. Tell the FCC to ban the internet.
Comment Re:Feels like the U.S. is turning into a dictators (Score 2, Insightful) 281
I hate to say it like that but it feels like the U.S. is slowly turning more and more into a dictatorship. Isn't this the kind of things you have to do in a dictatorship? I feel for the U.S. people right now.
There has been erosion over many years, but Trump is doing it's best to make it one right now.
Lucky for us he's an utter fuckup.
