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New comment by robotpepi in "Bird brains (2023)"

robotpepi — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:18:33 +0000

did you teach him the words? Mine has learned some just by context (he's still quite young though, barely 2 years old).

New comment by robotpepi in "Bird brains (2023)"

robotpepi — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:24:41 +0000

> Animals' intelligence have evolved for survival and designing experiments to test those are quite hard.

My conure is extremely intelligent at times, learning a trick at the second try or doing what I ask him immediately. Most of the time, though, he understands but decides to just ignore me.

New comment by robotpepi in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

robotpepi — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:20:43 +0000

> If iPads couldn't do anything, why would people buy them consistently?

It seems you're way overestimating how logical people's choices are.

New comment by robotpepi in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

robotpepi — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:16:57 +0000

But it's such an overkill. In any case, the question was a bit rhetorical, and highly subjective.

New comment by robotpepi in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

robotpepi — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:47:31 +0000

I'd add the pattern matching syntax. it's so natural for a mathematician.

New comment by robotpepi in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

robotpepi — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:13:12 +0000

> If they are using a PhD but their competitors are using

god what are these assumptions

New comment by robotpepi in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

robotpepi — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:49:05 +0000

ok, but everything depends on your numbers being correct. 99% improved efficiency seems kind of a way too optimistic prediction.

New comment by robotpepi in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

robotpepi — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:43:01 +0000

I'm no asking how to change it. And I don't think anyone has suggested that the market is some mysterious unreachable force. To be honest, at this point it's clear that you're being condescending and assuming people believe something foolish instead of trying to understand what they're actually saying.

New comment by robotpepi in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

robotpepi — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:25:04 +0000

we had local, small and noche business before. and even today.

the point again is that nobody says that certain mechanism of the market can have positive effects. the point is that way overestimated. we have extremely complex procedures that cost insanely amounts of money for stuff like ads. we could have a fraction of that power and people would still know about the products they need, etc.

New comment by robotpepi in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

robotpepi — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:17:37 +0000

Yes, it was clear that you wanted to refocus this as a moral problem of people. But that's irrelevant. The point of the guy above is that there is a system (the market) that creates certain incentives, and as a result, we have what we have. That's why I ask: what's your point? We still have all these problems.

New comment by robotpepi in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

robotpepi — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:04:16 +0000

it seems to me that the problem is quite the opposite. people believe that the "importance of allocation of capital" (good euphemism by the way) is WAY more important that it really is. do we need extra personalized ads in each of our machines? do we need instant financial trades and people optimizing instant transactions? We don't need a sophisticated AI to "inform" the customers.

there is a ton of things that are there simply because at some point people made money out of it, and then lobbied politicians to death to avoid regulation.

New comment by robotpepi in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

robotpepi — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:33:27 +0000

what's your point?

New comment by robotpepi in "How will OpenAI compete?"

robotpepi — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:28:25 +0000

> No one uses "ChatGPT" as a verb.

In my experience, they do, a lot. "I asked ChatGPT" is something I hear a lot. And yes, this example is not using ChatGPT as a verb, but the idea of brand recognition is there; it's just a grammar thing.

New comment by robotpepi in "Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy"

robotpepi — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:06:42 +0000

for sure they can do whatever they want, but that doesn't make it "pro consumer" as said above

New comment by robotpepi in "Altman on AI energy: it also takes 20 years of eating food to train a human"

robotpepi — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:40:29 +0000

> Probably $500K worth.

What life standards do you have!?

New comment by robotpepi in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

robotpepi — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:57:04 +0000

they explain it in the article: this is the first iteration, so they wanted to start with something simple, ie, this is a tech demo.

New comment by robotpepi in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

robotpepi — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:45:44 +0000

it's incredible how many people are commenting here without having read the article. they completely lost the point.

New comment by robotpepi in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

robotpepi — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:42:11 +0000

Are they becoming better at the same rate as before though?

New comment by robotpepi in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

robotpepi — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:45:00 +0000

this reminds me of that joke of someone saying "it's crazy that we have ten different standards for doing this", and then there're 11 standards

New comment by robotpepi in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

robotpepi — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:13:52 +0000

what kind of question is that