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New comment by ricardobayes in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

ricardobayes — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:47:03 +0000

I think there is some nuance between an individual downloading something (and in many countries it is outright legal or at least, alegal) and building billion-dollar companies on it.

New comment by ricardobayes in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

ricardobayes — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:41:31 +0000

Well Europe is famously a laggard when it comes to new tech - in parts of Switzerland, two horses were required be mounted in front to carry cars up until 1925. UK required a person to walk in front of a car and wave a red flag.

New comment by ricardobayes in "Running local models is good now"

ricardobayes — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:29:35 +0000

They are good, and yesterday's release GLM 5.2 even benchmarks really close to Opus.

New comment by ricardobayes in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

ricardobayes — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:06:04 +0000

I'm with you. I think we will need less "frontier" models in the future, but we'll reach for more specialized ones. A small, focused model trained to e.g. coding is within the realm of useful reality. JetBrains is making some moves in the field, and laudably, some of their work is open-weight.

New comment by ricardobayes in "Ask HN: Did we witness the "Trinity moment" for AI?"

ricardobayes — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:00:55 +0000

Reversing that, what "meaningful" thing came of late, from lower regulated places? Germany specifically is hard at work on photon computing, just to bring an example. Switzerland is the global HQ for CRISPR.

New comment by ricardobayes in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"

ricardobayes — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:36:39 +0000

All in all what a century to be alive in, 100 years ago many people were living in mud huts globally (even in rural Europe) and now we have CRISPR, self-driving and hopefully UBI in a few years/decades. So much to look forward to.

New comment by ricardobayes in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

ricardobayes — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:35:12 +0000

Getting major deja vu from like 10 years back when people were arguing 3D printers would 3D print other 3D printers.

New comment by ricardobayes in "Siri AI"

ricardobayes — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:45:56 +0000

And we all wear polo shirts

New comment by ricardobayes in "DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision"

ricardobayes — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:53:04 +0000

Why would it be a "waste of time"?

We are just getting into the nitty-gritty of LLM benchmarking - to be fair they still need to go a long way still IMO. But it's incredibly exciting that a local run LLM is capable of producing similar results as a SOTA model.

New comment by ricardobayes in "India's surprise baby bust"

ricardobayes — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:28:05 +0000

In my opinion, it's not even about having a dignified middle-class life, more about being optimistic about the future.

New comment by ricardobayes in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

ricardobayes — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:28:49 +0000

You can run it, however those low quantized models (iQ2, iQ4, Q2) will very likely underperform the 9B versions at Q6/Q8.

New comment by ricardobayes in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

ricardobayes — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:23:06 +0000

Qwen 3.5 9B is great for coding, but somehow, based on a few hours of subjetive tests, the Gemma 4 12B seems even better.

New comment by ricardobayes in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

ricardobayes — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:33:51 +0000

This tracks, I have read that this generation is the first one since the 1800s that performs worse academically than the previous ones. Experts blamed screens and anything digital in the classroom.

New comment by ricardobayes in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

ricardobayes — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:35:29 +0000

In hcol locations yes, but in south of spain you can get full time talent for that figure. It's also an entry-level salary in eastern europe, with ukraine and turkey even being somewhat cheaper.

New comment by ricardobayes in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

ricardobayes — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:30:59 +0000

128GB machines can't run anything locally that is even nearly as capable as a frontier model like Claude. We can get an idea from deepseek v4 pro being 1.6T model, requiring approx. 860GB VRAM to run.

New comment by ricardobayes in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

ricardobayes — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:27:27 +0000

Telcos wanting to improve their networks is news to me. I always thought providing the bare minimum is basically their business model.

New comment by ricardobayes in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

ricardobayes — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:50:44 +0000

Of course, but the comment is not aimed at you, I'm even a little surprised you read it that way. What I tried to point out, is billionaires and CEOs, are still people, and mindset change regarding universal basic income is likely not going to be top-down. I see people (hoping?) that wealthy people eventually start disbursing money out of the blue, but is that really going to happen realistically?

Perhaps in some societies, like France, where profit sharing is more culturally common.

New comment by ricardobayes in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

ricardobayes — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:20:12 +0000

Has it ever occured to you, presumably, a white collar worker, to "give back" to others less fortunate than you? With your presumably, well-above earnings, does it ever cross your mind to give a recurring stipend to some other people, even though it could make a real difference to someone?

Not really? I guess you got your answer.

New comment by ricardobayes in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

ricardobayes — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:51:16 +0000

There is no panic, it's misreporting and bad journalism. 2025 AI budgets were based on 2025 AI capabilities, and let's face it, LLMs only got acceptable in around November 2025. So it's natural usage went up and budgets didn't account for that.

New comment by ricardobayes in "The Permanent Upper Crow"

ricardobayes — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:07:55 +0000

That's easier to do in a video game, but I guess the real life analogy would be to sell it all and move off-grid to Alaska?