Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck 694 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Dec 2024
So it puked out garbage code in a few days that will take years for the humans to polish and fix.
Big whoop.
Just because you barfed out thousands of files in a semi-coordinated fashion doesn't mean they're structured or used in any sort of sane or valid design methodology, which is why it takes so long to turn AI slop into functional code, ending up taking 20-50% longer than it would have for an intermediate or senior developer to code by hand.
I'm glad I bought my Sony balanced headphones a couple years ago before they dropped the midrange model and only sold the $1000+ top tier model. Although I'm part of a very small market, there are still some of us who insist we can hear the difference between analogue and digital, and that digital tends to suck rather heinously unless it's a minimum of 192/24 sampling.
Sony used to be my go-to for monitors, but Samsung took over that role for a lot of years once Sony decided to try to "leverage" their reputation to jack up their prices and "improve profitability" despite the fact that for the past decade plus, you really haven't been able to tell much difference between top-tier monitors from any of the major display panel manufacturers - production quality is just that good nowadays, so Sony and Samsung don't really have much benefit to their particular branding any more like they did in the past, especially back in the analogue monitor days.
Nowadays I am running an ASUS monitor. Technically the blacks were darker on my previous Samsung monitor, but it isn't enough of a difference to have justified the 45% price increase the Samsung would have cost...
"Emotions" and "feelings" from statistics?!?!? Just exactly what are these delusional whack jobs smoking to make them think such absurdity? They're projecting their own emotions onto statistical text outputs, the same as people who interpret animal and pet behavior as human emotions.
While such thinking may be relatively common, it certainly isn't valid thinking about the activity they're observing. At least in the case of an animal there is some thinking and feeling an animal does that I certainly wouldn't ascribe to a statistical text generator!
So now the scam has mutated to claim unmeasurable "soft" benefits.
I pity the employees of the companies who believe in this bullshit - they're going to lose their jobs when the bankruptcies start. No sympathy for the greedy investors and boards behind those bad decisions, though. They deserve to end up bankrupt and homeless.
Any nation that wants encryption back doors needs to be isolated like North Korea to protect the data and privacy of people who don't live there. If they want to put my their own population at risk, that is their foolish problem but they can't be allowed to make it a risk for others..
The fact your politicians are morons is YOUR problem and yours alone.
This. This is a truth that Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada recently acknowledged by signing a deal with China and President Xi.
No nation has the right to dictate law and legal system internal to themselves, but it behooves us to encourage the best possible behaviour from our partners, and to ensure that any specific partnerships between businesses comply with the legal requirements of both nations. That's what deal making is - compromise for the purpose of achieving mutually beneficial goals.
Check out the CBC News website article on Mark Carney's speech at Davros today.
It was an eye opener as to just how wise an election choice my fellow Canadians made... Mark Carney for First Prime Minister of a United Earth. :)
Canada plans on building a whole plethora of mutually beneficial deals with partner nations as the years pass, while apparently the US chooses to shoot themselves in the foot. And mouth. And brain. And ass. And the other foot...
Selling H200s and the like to China is giving their researchers the respect they deserve for their work. I'm not talking about those who pilfer and emulate results scraped from OpenAI or other LLM query sites, but the ones who are doing the real research into reasoning models, persistent memory, and a host of other bits and pieces that would be needed for LLMs to even begin to approach true intelligence.
If you can't build up memory over months of use, you can not track and model computer or other complex systems. And like researchers the world over, the Chinese know that and are trying to contribute to the human knowledge pool.
The problem is jerkoffs like Trump and his GOP cronies who keep looking for an "enemy" they can enrage the populace against, ala 1984. The US can't exist without a war to divert the people from the serious criminality of the administration. The administration's only hope for avoiding incarceration at this point is to complete his attempt at a Hitler-scripted rise to power - this time, he hopes, successfully.
May the Universe have mercy on us all if someone doesn't arrest that psychopath before shots are fired between NATO allies.
Oh lovely - the Reg is being spammed with what are obviously AI SLOP stories. This is almost word for word what Gartner claimed two weeks ago.
Go ahead. Belive in the Magic Silver Bullet like every SUCKER has every second decade for the past 80+ years of the computing industry. What is it about the 20 year cycle? The new generation being too damned stupid to learn from their parents?
I smell class action lawsuits for failure to deliver and for putting businesses at risk with their AI slop code in Windows 11 growing day by day. And make no mistake. Artificial Ignorance produces SLOP no matter how good a prompt you feed it, because it doesn't understand you at all! It's just text statistics! Much less understand an entire real application in the business world. I'm talking about those enterprise applications with hundreds of tables and thousands of users and many terabytes of data, all squirreled away in an SQL repository somewhere on the internal network behind the web application servers.
No matter how it has been architected, those systems are complex and have hundreds of thousands of dependencies and side-effects that are counted on to make the whole thing function. And AI slop screws that up every single time I have let it loose on more than a trivial application of a few dozen files.
Yet Microsquishy is bragging about how much AI slop there is in Windows 11.
I say again: class action.
I don't understand why everyone is so afraid of Der Pumpkin Fuhrer. Kick him in the nads, knee him in the face, and kick him until he's unconscious when he falls down, apply handcuffs, and cart him off on charges of Treason to the US Constitution.
Simple.
And it's better treatment than his ICE agents give people of colour... regardless of whether they're citizens or immigrants.
My forecast is for mass bankruptcy, thousands of lawsuits against OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic for failing to deliver the promised ROI benefits, and pleading to "bail us out - we're too big to fail!"
And I expect it to begin before the end of 2026. It's time to prove that it's a net positive investment or the bubble bursts within six months.
Apparently they didn't pay much attention to the hundreds of thousands in total who were laid off this year because management bought the pigskin promise of a silk purse and did the layoffs before the benefits were proven to exist.
The fact that many of those companies are trying to bring back the laid off at lower salaries tells me that the whole exercise was a scam to slash payroll expenses for people they know they still need even with their Artificial Ignorance investments.
I have an issue with your conclusion that selecting a brand name has to "inform the user" what your product is. I think you've got it backwards - building the brand's reputation is what associates it with a product or service.
If that weren't the case, Apple would have near zero market share because the brand name has absolutely nothing to do with computers in and of itself.
Apple's iTunes recognizes the CDs because iTunes still has digital copies of those albums to serve up, so it has the information. Microsoft never ran a streaming service, so they have no use for the data except to feed their player. Hence no profit motive, much less a staggeringly high one like Apple has.
I have one issue with your comment: LLM's don't decipher the meaning of a prompt at all. They don't have the concept of "meaning" in the first place; they just do statistical analysis of the prompt compared to a bazillion other prompts and questions that have been asked, and produce a statistically likely response to that. It never understands the question at all.
It strikes me that the EU and the rest of the world that "requires" Microsoft as an OS could well decide "enough is enough" and stick a foot in the ground with the Proton 10 API set for Wine and tell Microsoft to take a huge flipping hike with their AI-infested, insecure-by-design-and-being-made-worse-by-AI-authored-"code"-injections core Windows 11 OS...
Well, I'd say that it's about time for a "AntiSquishyOS" to be released by someone somewhere... though it's worth noting that the whole Proton architecture identifies itself as "Windows 10" which is why Microsoft is really forcing everyone onto Windows 11 - they can no longer guarantee their partners that their products won't be running on a system without Microsoft DRM installed and enabled, and Thou Shalt Not Run Without Thine American DRM!!!
This above all else: Thou Art Interfering In Our Grotesquely One-Sided Profiteering Model!!!!
Steam in the meantime will work on a Windows 11 identifying version of Proton, and Microsoft will disable that when it gets too good and too capable and mandate Windows 12.
Lather rinse repeat ad nauseum...
? I don't understand the big deal. I don't use the GMail web interface for anything; I have email clients on different platforms that fetch the email from my gmail account as well as other accounts.
Why would I want to give a web service access to all my data, especially an American Data Hoovering Conglomerate like a Microsoft, Google, or Amazon hosted service?
Reminding people every two hours that they aren't dealing with a "human being" is a joke. It only takes 10-15 minutes for some of these scam artists to fleece their victims with "companion AI fees." It's like the old pay-per-minute phone sex lines. Get them on and bill the crap out of them, then pursue them without mercy to pay what is legally a legitimate bill. They "used" your service... they probably didn't expect the hundreds of dollars in fees, though.
In essence, LLM systems are only guessing a plausible text response for your query. There is no intelligence, no understanding of your question, no actual thinking going on. So of course the results are pseudo random - they're values generated within the domain of the response to intentionally vary the response.
If you want predetermined and reliable results you're better off with a proper expert system for the domain.
The American investor community is notorious for obsessing over bubbles. It has happened time and time again in my 6+ decades on the planet, and it is happening now. And when the bubble bursts, the bankruptcies are rampant and huge. You can count on a significant chunk of corporate America to come to the federal government, cap in hand, pleading "You have to bail us out - we're too big to fail!"
Let me know when you have hi-res media instead of MP3 "quality" garbage.
Still, I know there will be tens of thousands if not more who will download this piracy archive.
Man, if they ever catch whoever uploaded that, they're toast! The media moguls will go all out to see them drawn and quartered!
Sounds like it is leaving all the "heavy lifting" to KDE, which is a shame, because KDE and Gnome with their Wayland-only future focus are show stoppers for me.
I need X-11 protocols for a number of reason, not the least of which is being able to run a remote session on the internet. It's not like anyone provisions home office servers in their living room nowadays - you lease space somewhere, or a machine somewhere, or a VM somewhere. Regardless of how you're hosting, you need remote access.
I don't know what kind of crack or meth the Wayland team has been smoking, but their game performance is half that of the X-11 stack and all but unplayable for half my games, doesn't support DLSS at all, rendering the benefits of my video card moot, and with NVidia repeatedly downplaying the importance of Wayland drivers in their eyes, I don't see that changing any time soon. Like "never."
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