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Waymo recalls 4k robotaxis to stop them driving into construction zones(techcrunch.com)
5 points by boh 3mo ago|1 comments
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Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses(wired.com)
4 points by boh 3mo ago|0 comments
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by boh 4mo ago
AI is just code for the actual economic reasons that companies are struggling with but it sounds better if you blame innovation instead ( Think AI = Actually Inflation, Actually Interest Rates, Actually Iran as the causes). The premise of t
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Model Provenance Kit: Know Where Your AI Models Come From(blogs.cisco.com)
3 points by boh 4mo ago|0 comments
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by boh 4mo ago
New model releases are now like new iPhones--mostly imperceivable improvements with a higher price tag. That's one of the major benefits to open source: you can "freeze" what model you're using. Often it's the model
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by boh 4mo ago
This take is always bizarre to me. You're not talking about the internet, you're talking about the websites you choose to use. There are alternatives for every single website/service that you don't like. They're oft
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by boh 5mo ago
All those other markets are vastly bigger in scale and trade in trillions on a daily basis so it's an irrelevant comparison. Also the expectation is that the majority of that 25% are insiders. So you're comparing catching fish in
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by boh 5mo ago
The reason is because one scenario just requires your imagination to facilitate a reality that currently doesn't exist (Doctor AI) vs actual experience which is messier and has more details than a story about the future.
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by boh 5mo ago
People are starting to catch on to the AI scare mongering, let the quantum computer scare mongering begin. We should probably start giving these companies lots of money lest other countries beat us to it.
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by boh 5mo ago
In any case if anybody has gotten this far in the thread just refute the charge. It's totally fine and Anthropic won't break your legs.
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by boh 5mo ago
I'm sorry that happened to you, but that's a <1% event. I don't know why I'm getting push back for suggesting a simple credit card refute request. It's almost as if the people responding are suggesting not doing
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by boh 5mo ago
No that's not how that works. This stuff is a non-event. You refute the balance, they have a period where they can defend their claim (8/10 times they don't), you get your money. This is a very basic transaction that happens
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by boh 5mo ago
I don't think you even need to go that far. Just refute the charges with your credit card. Very high likelihood of a successful refund since they already acknowledged their error in writing.
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by boh 5mo ago
You're using it and if someone else was using it the output would be different. The point is really that simple.
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by boh 5mo ago
Yeah just like huge numbers of users that have switched from Meta, Google, Verizon, Apple, Amazon...you get the gist.
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by boh 5mo ago
I think the big secret is that AI is just software. In the same way that a financial firm doesn't all of sudden make a bunch of money because Microsoft shipped an update to Excel, AI is inert without intention. If there's any majo
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by boh 5mo ago
Yes I guess there's also no such thing as stealing in torrents since the computer "learns" the data and returns it in a transcoded fashion so it's technically not a reproduction. Yes LLMs can reproduce passages from copy
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The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)(economist.com)
2 points by boh 5mo ago|1 comments
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by boh 5mo ago
AI is destroying the economic premise that has drawn so much investment into Silicon Valley. It's going from a capital light business model with network driven moats that allow market domination, to a capital heavy, high burn-rate mode
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by boh 5mo ago
This is some aggressive consultant fluff. Few companies have such distinctive "profit" measures. If "the financial logic is rarely examined carefully" than maybe there's a reason, since analysis like this is mostly
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by boh 5mo ago
When you use your highly restricted/infosec encrusted enterprise Windows laptop and still see the Xbox App, you know Microsoft have lost all respect for their customers. Consumer laptops are just a pure sales distribution channel on to
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NYC families need over $125k in income to live in any borough(bloomberg.com)
38 points by boh 5mo ago|50 comments
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The AI Spending Flip(axios.com)
1 points by boh 6mo ago|0 comments
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by boh 7mo ago
Pretty much any claim by any company that they've somehow "figured out AI" and that's why they're cutting jobs has been proven as unsubstantiated by various financial firms. Most of these companies can no longer gr
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by boh 7mo ago
I think people overestimate the general population's ability and interest in vibe coding. Open source tools are still a small niche. Vibe code customized apps are an even bigger niche.
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by boh 7mo ago
He has control over city agencies, budgets, personnel. Has little or no power as it relates to laws or infrastructure (like the MTA)--that's all state level.
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Why AI won't wipe out white-collar jobs(economist.com)
3 points by boh 8mo ago|0 comments
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by boh 8mo ago
So if they were 100% self-sufficient and understood everything they'd be smart enough to interpret a child being hit at 6 mph as progress? Fun how "general public" is always a "they" vs "you".
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by boh 8mo ago
So the TechCrunch headline should be "Waymo hits child better than a human driver would"? Not sure if the details reflect how the general public actually interprets this story (see the actual TC headline for exhibit A).
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by boh 8mo ago
I think this is part of their circular financing "magic". The "customers" are likely OpenAI and Anthropic, who Microsoft is paying to use their infrastructure (so the "customer" who is paying for the AI capacit

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