moojacob

Consumers will avoid AI art like they avoid fossil fuels and sweatshop merchandise?

You learn something new every day! thanks

I haven't thought as deeply as you about the ethics of it all. I only meant with my comment if I see art I expect it to be human and thats why I value it. If you churn it out with AI I feel hoodwinked into valueing something worthless.

But I am learning towards a lot of your points about how another mind is being created. I still am very uncomfortable with the implications that something digital is Actually Learning. These deep learning networks seem to need 100,000x more examples than a human to learn but once they get to human level they can learn just like us. That a bunch of linear algebra can play chess or make art brings up many questions about what exactly human consciousness is. If consciousness isn't the ability to do any of those activities, then what is it for? I might have to become religious and believe in a soul because I'm not sure I can handle the idea that I'm just a clump of neurons. But then again you have to look at reality in the face.

Well the LLMs are much bigger than diffusion models so I think that's the bitter lesson. You could scale compute for diffusion models though.

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I'll have to try Gemini Flash for coding. The reason I haven't I used Gemini for coding is last time I tried it couldn't call tools very well.

I am a huge fan of Gemini Pro for chat... gemini somehow just knows the most obscure stuff. I'll double check something Gemini said and find the source is deep inside a hard to access scientific paper. Google just has the best index of the internet.

If they fix Claudish, they've earned me back as a max customer!

Fable 5.1 is not there quite there yet.

They need to get that Sonnet 3.5 magic back.

Apparently Grok 4.7 has 40% more weights than Grok 4.6, but the price ($6 output token, $2 input) is the same.

Given that the decrease in their margin and the fact they delayed the release of Grok 4.7 almost two weeks past the original date, XAI must not have been happy with the results for 4.7. And XAI also waited the day before Opus 5.5 is rumored to launch. I imagine Opus 5.5 will blow Grok 4.7 out of the water benchmark wise.

However, I have become skeptical of benchmarks. Grok 4.5 solved some issues setting up a buildroot system that Fable 5 couldn't do. I find the post cursor groks are phenomenal at frontend web development, though Claude is much better at backend ruby.

My favorite part of the new Groks has been how they speak in plain english. I simply cannot stand Claudish. Or even GPT, which doesn't have Claude's ticks but definitely likes to handwave explaining technical concepts. Still, nothing beats Claude 3.5 and 4 with explaining since it seems all models have regressed. I wonder if Grok 4.7 will also regress with English because of all the RL.

To be clear I do not endorse this opinion I am just answering the “what can be done” question.

Make it international law and bomb anyone who doesn’t comply

His tone is horrible. Because he implies untrue things while being 100% certain. He will paint entire communities as against omarchy when it’s just a couple left wing members with a stupid take. It doesn’t help the distribution is just … not that good.

Like what???? I don’t revolt at anything pre-installed on fedora.

And arch Linux specifically ships with nothing!

6GB is 3x larger than most other distros. It is kind of mental.

Have you… used any other Linux distributions at all? For longer than a month? Respectfully. The thing DHH killed was demoing Omarchy most stuff is in other distros out of the box. And like installing in a couple minutes is table stakes.