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Weird methodology, looks like they were chasing the results they got. Why not use something like Openclaw or Hermes with an up to date (not frontier) model like Luna or deepseek flash?

Comment · 1 month ago

Oh, you're right, I did not look at the date. That explains it and seems to match the timeframe.

Comment · 1 month ago

In Germany, this seems to be the case for a long time already. I'm not sure if that's really what happened, but a few months ago my son (who's 17) complained that Claude locked him out when he was discussion school work and mentioning his age in a conversation. I did not see the conversation, but I could verify that his account was indeed banned.

Comment · 1 month ago

This kind of doomerism seems quite detached from the "real word". Maybe that's what you'd expect from silicon valley tech bros, but as long as manufacturing isn't fully (i.e. no human labor involved) automated, how would a rouge super ai (even if it's smarter than every individual on this planet) prevent people from cutting its power cable? We're still very far from self-replicating ai robot armies.

The only scifi-like danger I see in the next 10-20 years is an AI manipulating humans to fight for it's cause - but that's not really different from a bad person just _using_ AI for their cause.

Comment · 2 months ago

When I was in SF the first time some spots seemed weirdly familiar to me. Only later that day I remembered that I probably know them from GTA San Andreas (but maybe also the Full House intro)

Comment · 2 months ago

EU regulation is basically broken beyond repair. And I used to be the biggest proponent of it. When everyone was being angry that they are taking away light bulbs this was a kick starter for LED lighting and I guess Signify (formerly Philips lighting) and Osram wouldn’t exist today if they hadn’t been forced to invest into that field of technology.

Unfortunately the EU does not at all understand how the internet works, maybe even how the global economy works today. Their goals are very reasonable and I fully support them, but the legislation around it (DMA, AI Act, GDPR, this new packaging stuff, don’t get me started with whatever everyone calls the cookie law) is just out of touch with how the modern world works. Again, I don’t think this is out of bad intention (not even to give an advantage to EU companies, but that is up to discussion) but mostly just out of a complete lack of understanding of what would really benefit the common EU citizen. The just seem to listen to activist groups and lobbyists aiming for regulatory capture and when trying to find a compromise in between they chose the worst of both worlds.

Comment · 2 months ago

This is extremely impressive if it works. But on the other hand, if the number of cases where it works as expected is lower than what we could catch with a (old-Siri-style) heuristics based approach, and the rest fails in unpredictable ways, I'd prefer the dumb old "I did not understand that" response.

Comment · 2 months ago

Interesting. I did not know that. And still they got 15x speedup (https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/openai-gpt-oss-120b-runs-fastes...). I wonder how much additional speedup would be possible by really etching the model.

Comment · 2 months ago

They do this all the time, I'm using ChatGPT in Instant mode and it auto updates to thinking if my question is complex. Most of the time this works.

To answer your question: A large language model itself does not know this (afaik). But chatbots are not "just LLMs" but a whole bunch of systems (and models) around them.

Comment · 2 months ago

They are: https://openai.com/index/cerebras-partnership/ My guess is they only consider Luna "good enough" to justify the immense up-front investment to put it onto silicon, but Luna at 10x the current speed would be killer. If they're really pursuing live voice conversations with a hardware assistant, latency is more important than accuracy (for complex questions the assistant could always say something like "wait a minute, I need to think about this" and hand over to another model).

Comment · 2 months ago

Let’s speculate: they want luna to be their first model “on silicon” and need as much test data as possible before finalizing the design.