@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-01-07 00:52:37
me: "Mommy and I don't really cook any more because you guys are so picky. It's pretty demoralizing to spend an hour or two cooking only to have you say 'I don't want that, I want instant mac & cheese'"
13yo: "Protip: don't have kids."
8yo: "Yeah, it's not our fault you had kids!"
#parenting
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-11-09 12:09:40
Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-06 04:15:35
AMD unveils two Ryzen AI Max chips, the 392 with 12 cores and the 388 with 8 cores, both offering 40 graphics compute units and 60 teraflops of performance (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/855463/amd-strix-halo-ai-max-plus-388-…
@pre@boing.world2025-11-22 14:34:40
Short panel on merchant adoption.
Hipster burgers here in Manchester takes bitcoin. The owner says people are generally more curious than dismissive.
Gresham's law implies that people spend their worst money first. They want rid of it. When you give merchants your bank money you give them the worst money. Be kinder to merchants!
Ben from lnbits, the first merchant point of sales lightning devices, says merchants are interested because they want to have a broad portfolio. Accepting bitcoin is the easiest way to get it, without "know your customers" banking rules.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@lysander07@sigmoid.social2025-11-26 08:12:40
Have you ever wondered to what extend LLMs are used to support writing of scientific publications? Here is a chart indicating the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in scientific publications over time.
c.f. Liang et al, Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers (2024)
https://arxiv.org/html/2404.01268v1
