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New comment by Zr01 in "Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models"

Zr01 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:35:23 +0000

That's what they said about cars at first. Or credit cards. The question to ask is: will the world we make in the wake of this invention afford us to live without it? And if the answer is no, then it's all the more important to have access to truly free and uncensored AIs. How did we learn things before AI? We googled them. How's that working out in the age of AI? AI both poisons our search results and gets integrated with them. There's large interests in making sure everything we see hear and think is prevetted by some approved AI. That's not a future I want to live in, but the signs are there.

New comment by Zr01 in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

Zr01 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:41:28 +0000

I've often found it helpful in search. Specifically, when the topic is well-documented, you can provide a clear description, but you're lacking the right words or terminology. Then it can help in finding the right question to ask, if not answering it. Recall when we used to laugh at people typing in literal questions into the Google search bar? Those are the exact types of queries that the LLM is equipped to answer. As for the "improvements" in GPT 5.1, seems to me like another case of pushing Clippy on people who want Anton. https://www.latent.space/p/clippy-v-anton

New comment by Zr01 in "ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others"

Zr01 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:27:08 +0000

I appreciate how the newer versions provide more links and references. It makes the task of verifying it (or at least where it got its results from) that much easier. What you're describing seems more like a advertisement problem, not a product problem. No matter how many locks and restrictions they put on it, someone, somwhere, will still find a way to get hurt from its advice. A hammer that's hard enough to beat nails is hard enough to bruise your fingers.

New comment by Zr01 in "ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others"

Zr01 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:06:37 +0000

The cynic in me thinks this is just a means to eventually make more money by offering paid unrestricted versions to medical and legal professionals. I'm well-aware that it's not a truth machine, and any output it provides should be verified, checked for references, and treated with due diligence. Yet the same goes for just about any internet search. I don't think some people not knowing how to use it warrants restricting its functionality for the rest of us.

New comment by Zr01 in "Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Causing SSD Failures"

Zr01 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:57:09 +0000

That's why I don't install updates, unless and until they've been proven not to break things. I miss the old days when software was expected to work out of the box and updates, on the rare occasions when they appeared, were actually useful.

New comment by Zr01 in "AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms"

Zr01 — Thu, 15 May 2025 07:42:46 +0000

A complex multiplication is "worth" at least 3 real multiplications.

New comment by Zr01 in "Terence Tao started a YouTube channel"

Zr01 — Tue, 13 May 2025 10:22:15 +0000

Some would argue more for Wiles or Perelman on account of solving long-standing conjectures.

New comment by Zr01 in "AI as Normal Technology"

Zr01 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:03:05 +0000

*software as a service

New comment by Zr01 in "No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation"

Zr01 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:17:16 +0000

I'm more interested in the technical details than the publicity. Pretty much anyone these days can learn what a diffusion model is, how they're implemented, what the control flow is. What about this new multimodal LLM? They have no problems with text, they generate images using tokens, but how exactly? There's no open-source implementations that I know of, and I'm struggling to find details.

New comment by Zr01 in "Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty"

Zr01 — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 13:11:25 +0000

EU has almost no AI, yet is the world leader in AI .... regulation. No upstart social network would have the funds to ensure GDPR compliance and all the other rules that get added along the way. If someone has a business idea for one, they move to the US cause it's easier to start. Mistral AI is expanding to California. The solution would be less bureaucracy and regulation.

New comment by Zr01 in "AI founders will learn the bitter lesson"

Zr01 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:10:22 +0000

A human is not a blank slate. There's millennia of evolutionary history that goes into making a brain adapted and capable of learning from its environment.

New comment by Zr01 in "Computing Inside an AI"

Zr01 — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:28:19 +0000

Databases don't hallucinate.

New comment by Zr01 in "Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now"

Zr01 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 09:06:46 +0000

Manga Library Z, a manga archiving site that distributed old and out-of-print manga for free has been forced to close down due to all major credit card companies refusing to provide payment services. If some hypothetical widespread decentralized payment system can prevent scenarios like this one from happening, then it would be worth the "enormous waste of resources". These days, you're essentially relegated to a non-person if card companies stop allowing you to use their services.

New comment by Zr01 in "OpenAI o1 Results on ARC-AGI-Pub"

Zr01 — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 07:03:22 +0000

The pages fail to load on old web browsers.

New comment by Zr01 in "Is Steve Ballmer the Most Underrated CEO of the 21st Century?"

Zr01 — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 12:27:21 +0000

He was there when 7 happened as well.

New comment by Zr01 in "First Bioprocessor Powered by Human Brain Organoids"

Zr01 — Thu, 30 May 2024 11:04:22 +0000

Since we've yet to figure out a way to "measure" consciousness, it depends on what "theory" of consciousness you subscribe too. I believe something must make use of quantum effects such as entanglement in order to have qualia (eg. Penrose models). So, ChatGPT running on deterministic hardware is just a bigger mechanical clock, but the organoinds have qualia. At least insofar as a worm or chicken have qualia. Add enough of them of and you might get consciousness. I don't consider this line of research ethical, but philosophical objections won't provide much of a disincentive.

New comment by Zr01 in "Every model learned by gradient descent is approximately a kernel machine (2020)"

Zr01 — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 21:26:26 +0000

Sounds like an interesting read. Do you have a link?