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Janicc··on Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
Yeah, seriously. AI has been the single biggest technological improvement to my life in the last 20 years. If I could choose between smartphones and AI, I'll take AI any time of the day. Smartphones (in combination with social media) had a worse impact on society than AI has had and are not worth their advantages to me.
Janicc··on German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad
As far as I know as long as the change was made outside of an ongoing conflict and it's reasonable to assume it wasn't done to evade a potential one, it would actually protect you from being sent to your death
Janicc··on CERN uses tiny AI models burned into silicon for real-time LHC data filtering
I think chips having a single LLM directly on them will be very common once LLMs have matured/reached a ceiling.
Janicc··on Waymo blocking ambulance during deadly Austin shooting
This comment section surely would look the same if it had been a Tesla, right?
Janicc··on We're learning more about what Vitamin D does
Supplementing any "large" amount of either Vitamin D or Bs really messes with my sleep. It makes it harder to fall asleep and I get crazy dreams (and sometimes hallucinations in bed too)
Janicc··on New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely
Not even that. I guarantee you that once really good brain computer interfaces are a thing, investments into "brain in a vat" companies are going to start being a thing. Because keeping just the brain young and then alive is almost certainly very possible if that's the whole focus.
Janicc··on Rendering a game in real time with AI
You really need to update your language model because self driving cars have been driving around on their own for at least a year now
Janicc··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
How would you feel if Microsoft applied the same logic to windows? Suddenly only apps from the microsoft store are allowed.

Why do smartphone makers get all these special privileges while Microsoft got the law handed down on them for daring to bundle a damn web browser with their OS?

Janicc··on Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
I believe it's going to replace smartphones like smartphones replaced computers or more specifically laptops.
Janicc··on If you believe in "Artificial Intelligence", take five minutes to ask it
I used o3mini reasoning on that very question 2 times and it used a similar way of reasoning as him to answer it correctly both times. I agree with his premise but calling it a pump and dump with no possible future developments is so ridiculous.
Janicc··on Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update
Public companies are slaves to the shareholders
Janicc··on AI PCs Aren't Good at AI: The CPU Beats the NPU
Please remind me again how Recall sends data to Microsoft. I must've missed that part. Or are you against the print screen button too? I heard that takes images too. Very scary.
Janicc··on Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub
It's always morally correct to pirate Nintendo Games.
Janicc··on Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub
Good. If there's one company that deserves to have their stuff pirated, it's Nintendo.
Janicc··on I Am Tired of AI
Without any sort of AI we'd probably be left with the most exciting yearly releases being 3-5% performance increases in hardware (while being 20% more expensive of course), the 100000th javascript framework and occasionally a new windows which everybody hates. People talk about how population collapse is going to mess up society, but I think complete stagnation in terms of new consumer goods/technology are just as likely to do the deed. Maybe AI will fail to improve from this point, but that's a dark future to imagine. Especially if it's for the next 50 years.
Janicc··on I Am Tired of AI
These amazing machines weren't consistently able to tell if an image had a bird in it or not up until like 8 years ago. If you use AI as a calculator where you need it to be precise, that's on you.
Janicc··on OpenAI in throes of executive exodus as three walk at once
What's with his obsession with GPT-5? Altman has conistently been saying that there will be no GPT-5 this year almost since the years beginning. He's acting like OpenAI promised GPT-5 and are unable to release it or something.
Janicc··on Exploding Head Syndrome: What We Know About This Mysterious Disorder
It used to happen like every night in my teens. Now it's only like once a month. No real idea why. Maybe less stress
Janicc··on Living in a Lucid Dream
I had a dream like that a few months ago. Woke up around 5 times in my supposed bed. Each wakeup became more and more realistic but there was always something out of place like my lamp suddenly not being there or my door being open which then would make me "wake up" again. I was pretty damn conscious/lucid by the last wakeup but I didn't realize I was dreaming until I turned on the light, turned on the TV, switched to YouTube, selected a video, watched some of it and saw the video controls being wrong. Being aware of me having woken up so many times already at this point and this also being fake gave me the biggest sense of dread I've felt in a long long time. Luckily then I actually woke up for real.
Janicc··on GPT-4o
I guess I'm the weirdo who actually always considered the unconditional love of a dog to be vastly inferior to the earned love of a cat for example.
Janicc··on A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
Most likely you'll be playing alongside or against AIs without ever knowing. Either AIs from the game developers to make their online game seem more popular or people who want their stats leveled up without any effort on their part.
Janicc··on Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu
The funny thing is that I really would've liked to own a switch but my absolute hatred of Nintendo has kept me from doing it
Janicc··on Sora: Creating video from text
A few months ago ai generated videos of people getting arrested for wearing big boots went viral on TikTok. I think this sort of silly "interdimensional cable" stuff will be really big on these short form video type sites once this level of quality becomes available to everyone.
Janicc··on Sora: Creating video from text
I honestly expected video generation to get stuck at barely consistent 5 second clips without much movement for the next few years. This is the type of stuff I expected to maybe be possible towards the end of the decade. Maybe we really are still at the bottom of the S curve which is scary to think about.
Janicc··on The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s
As if the average zoomer has any more technical knowledge beyond using their smartphone to scroll through social media than the average boomer.
Janicc··on Show HN: Hacky Meta Glasses GPT4 Vision Integration
I think the pushback will be pretty insignificant simply based on the fact that compared to Google Glass, they really don't stand out as much.
Janicc··on New CRISPR systems hold promise for genome editing
Or how many of them don't function as well as they think they do and would really benefit from a healthier lifestyle.
Janicc··on Swedish unions strike: Blocks mail and package deliveries for Tesla
I hope they do leave and take their oh so horrible jobs with them. Never bow down to intimidation from crooks.
Janicc··on How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret
Call me evil however you want. But they could kill 1000x the amount of monkeys if the outcome is severly disabled humans regaining their life in some capacity. Worse is being done to animals for less useful things.
Janicc··on PoW gets his life back after 55 years (2000)
They must've done that intentionally. You can't tell me he wouldn't have been able to communicate through drawing, writing or some sort of made up sign language that he's hungarian or that he's mentally well.
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