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New comment by gallerdude in "Muse Spark – Meta Superintelligence Labs"

gallerdude — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:48:49 +0000

But rolling your own can’t be that much cheaper than buying it from a leading lab. Especially when you consider the amount of spending on datacenters.

New comment by gallerdude in "Muse Spark – Meta Superintelligence Labs"

gallerdude — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:40:16 +0000

I’m sure there’s more to it than this, but it feels like Zuck has pet interests like VR and now AI.

New comment by gallerdude in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

gallerdude — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:39:12 +0000

I’m not sure. If it was open source, certainly. But 4th place doesn’t really matter if you have nothing different to add.

New comment by gallerdude in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

gallerdude — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:31:06 +0000

This would have been an amazing release 6 months ago. But the industry moves so fast, this is a trite release. Maybe it’s best for Meta to sell their superintelligence division. I don’t think Zuck’s vision is particularly compelling.

New comment by gallerdude in "GPT-5.4"

gallerdude — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:50:20 +0000

Tbf there was a 5.3 codex

New comment by gallerdude in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

gallerdude — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:55:04 +0000

My job may have become part of the training data with how much coverage there is around it. Perhaps another career would be a better test of LLM capabilities.

New comment by gallerdude in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

gallerdude — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:25:26 +0000

We used to get one annual release which was 2x as good, now we get quarterly releases which are 25% better. So annually, we’re now at 2.4x better.

New comment by gallerdude in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

gallerdude — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:34:56 +0000

The weirdest thing about this AI revolution is how smooth and continuous it is. If you look closely at differences between 4.6 and 4.5, it’s hard to see the subtle details.

A year ago today, Sonnet 3.5 (new), was the newest model. A week later, Sonnet 3.7 would be released.

Even 3.7 feels like ancient history! But in the gradient of 3.5 to 3.5 (new) to 3.7 to 4 to 4.1 to 4.5, I can’t think of one moment where I saw everything change. Even with all the noise in the headlines, it’s still been a silent revolution.

Am I just a believer in an emperor with no clothes? Or, somehow, against all probability and plausibility, are we all still early?

New comment by gallerdude in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

gallerdude — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:28:41 +0000

I always grew up hearing “competition is good for the consumer.” But I never really internalized how good fierce battles for market share are. The amount of competition in a space is directly proportional to how good the results are for consumers.

New comment by gallerdude in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

gallerdude — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:15:49 +0000

Both Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3 one shot a Gameboy emulator for me. Guess I need a better benchmark.

New comment by gallerdude in "Claude Opus 4.6"

gallerdude — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:15:42 +0000

Both Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3 one shot a Gameboy emulator for me. Guess I need a better benchmark.

New comment by gallerdude in ""time to GPT-2", down to 2.91 hours"

gallerdude — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:12:44 +0000

I'm not sure I agree. LLM's have the feel of an alien new technology, and especially did back then. In retrospect, it feels very obvious that small models don't pose much of a threat, but that's only in retrospect.

New comment by gallerdude in "Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well"

gallerdude — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:35:39 +0000

> the rich are now permitted to ignore copyrights, while the poor remain constrained by them, as before.

Claude Code is $20 a month, and I get a lot of usage out of it. I don't see how cutting edge AI tools are only for the rich. The name OpenAI is often mocked, but they did succeed at bringing the cutting edge of AI to everyone, time and time again.

New comment by gallerdude in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

gallerdude — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:44:19 +0000

I'm sure Apple is more than happy to pay the premium for cleanness.

New comment by gallerdude in "LLMs Are Not Fun"

gallerdude — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:21:47 +0000

Today I showed Claude Code how to control my lights, and I'm having a blast.

New comment by gallerdude in "Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3"

gallerdude — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:25:15 +0000

It is interesting that most of our modes of interaction with AI is still just textboxes. The only big UX change in that the last three years has been the introduction of the Claude Code / OpenAI Codex tools. They feel amazing to use, like you're working with another independent mind.

I am curious what the user interfaces of AI in the future will be, I think whoever can crack that will create immense value.

New comment by gallerdude in "GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades"

gallerdude — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:56:03 +0000

I wonder if they're using reasoning? It usually eliminates these types of errors

New comment by gallerdude in "Yet Another LLM Rant"

gallerdude — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 16:03:42 +0000

> OpenAI researcher Noam Brown on hallucination with the new IMO reasoning model:

> Mathematicians used to comb through model solutions because earlier systems would quietly flip an inequality or tuck in a wrong step, creating hallucinated answers.

> Brown says the updated IMO reasoning model now tends to say “I’m not sure” whenever it lacks a valid proof, which sharply cuts down on those hidden errors.

> TLDR, the model shows a clear shift away from hallucinations and toward reliable, self‑aware reasoning.

Source: https://x.com/chatgpt21/status/1950606890758476264

New comment by gallerdude in "OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025"

gallerdude — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 14:20:31 +0000

Local models you can get just the pretrained versions of, no RLHF. IIRC both Llama and Gemma make them available.

New comment by gallerdude in "Rolling the ladder up behind us"

gallerdude — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:33:53 +0000

I can see both sides of it. There’s a fancy bread bakery by where I live. I go infrequently, the bread is great. But it’s expensive, most of the I just want a cheap loaf from Target, as do most people.

Instead of broad employment of artisan breadsmiths, we have people doing email work, because it’s more economically valuable. If the government mandated a higher quality of bread, we’d be slightly richer and bread and slightly poorer in everything else.