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basch··on New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled
Maybe generative AI. Chef Watson was chemical and flavor pattern matching used to discover unexplored combinations.

If you were building Cooking AI from the ground up, the chemistry and physics would be more like formal logic than plausible word vomit.

basch··on GPT-6.1 Terra
staggering has to be a better use of resources, and I would think most workflows can accommodate using a 6.0 of one model and a 6.1 of a completely different one without balking.
basch··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
It's interesting that you took my ambiguity and lack of conviction regarding a right and wrong side as me picking one.

>Private industry should be able to profit off the sun and it's disturbing that you think asserting this is a dunk.

It wasn't a "dunk", you added that interpretation yourself.

basch··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
Im sure theres an element of "private industry should profit off the sun because I'm a temporarily embarrassed millionaire and the government cant be trusted to run efficiently" vs "the government should build and maintain communal infrastructure so everyone can benefit and profit isnt extracted" with both sides thinking their version keeps things cheaper in the end for the customer.
basch··on New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing
But they are monetizing the export button you press before the api call is made.
basch··on Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale
That Banking website is a good example of GPT-Image-2.5 having absolutely no self control, to a point I am just shocked they havent been working to fix it. It's like the first thing the model does is "generate 100 slogans" and then try and figure out how to cram them all into the image.

You see it constantly, and its worse with GPT than Gemini models, but they both do it. They seem to think they need to tell not show. They cant not annotate their thoughts into the image. A lot of the time you see either random signs on posts added, tshirts with text describing the story, or hand written annotation over the image.

There's really no reason this should be a problem anymore on default settings, or that everybody should still be getting the exact same style of edgy poster out of GPT with icons for bullets, and lists that add nothing jammed into the image. They need to have some kind of seed library of templates they start from, and higher temperature on selecting different styles.

basch··on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary
Like crypto, the "I dont like AI" is more "I dont like HOW people are using the tools." It's the people the author doesnt like.
basch··on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary
at some point you can simulate decompiling a game purely from enough video footage of the game being played.
basch··on ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust
why? Microsoft used Vista to test Windows 7.

seems completely normal to release free beta software and ask for feedback.

basch··on ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust
did you test it? the photo application opened a photo, pinch to zoom worked, the menus are full of buttons. it seems like the features i tested worked. they are mostly in similar spots as photoshop/photopea.

its a little impressive that models have a compressed approximation of photoshop inside that works with minimal tinkering.

the icon for windows doesnt work.

basch··on Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
They also develop the OS and development platforms that the apps are built upon. The apps don’t exist on islands.
basch··on Can AI Shopping Agents Be Trusted?
a future cheap agent will outperform a current frontier agent
basch··on Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot
and unrelated to Windows Autopilot which part of device deployment and intune succeeding sccm.

Mindboggling.

basch··on The new CC, an AI agent built for families
Its not even a new google service. its a google labs service. its experimental so they can learn and they will shut it down.
basch··on The new CC, an AI agent built for families
>multiple sources

how about when a kid has 7 classes, and each teacher says to just check the google doc within google classroom where they each type daily notes into unstructured tables that are each different for each class oh and parents dont actually have their own google classroom login they are just supposed to log into the kids account.

Also, family management is so *fundamentally broken* that it's disheartening and almost laughable that priority is ai over global acl management. There should not be a separate parental control dashboard for roblox, fortnite, instagram, tiktok, etc etc etc etc. Every app should be REQUIRED to expose all parental controls in a standard protocol upstream to identity management that is manageable by multiple management accounts in a family unit. I should be able to go into settings, click a kid, turn off chat for a child, and it instantly updates on my partners phone without needing an account at the service itself to manage it and knowing the ins and outs of how their parental controls are evolving weekly. Family settings should exist ABOVE any single user account and apply to all accounts to any service linked within the family.

basch··on I don't want to read what you didn't write
>but the AIs slowly start to drift.

It's essentially the tower of babel. Each person will devolve to speak their own internal language only they understand. Each language will need to be encoded down to its meaning to be reinterpreted. None of us will know if the transformers are accurately decoding, or if the other person is accurately interpreting the decoding (which is arguably already a feature of human language without the computers in-between.)

basch··on Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices
a business can be sold to a younger generation.
basch··on Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington
I dont have to be an expert to recognize when something is said with authority and confidence. Any time a model says something with conviction, my instinct is to double check.

Now if they taught them to express uncertainty and speak in terms of probability, I might be more likely to be blindly fooled by some kind of uncertain conviction.

basch··on Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
It's also not necessarily implausible that AI/we decide that performance is better with humans in the loop somewhere, even if its reduced to something like mechanical turk.
basch··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
youve got to get rid of the list with the icons as bullets. vertical or 3-4 of them horizontally is a dead giveaway.

your posters also dont suffer it, but most of the ones in the wild have 3-7 extra catchphrases or taglines thrown all over the poster. same but different. this but that. not this that. chatgpt just really likes to add phases and annotations all over posters.

basch··on The LLMentalist Effect (2023)
“Good enough to replace humans” isn’t necessarily the benchmark.

The question is is a computer with a human stronger than a computer without a human. At what point does the hybrid go from being stronger, to the human getting in the way, or steering the computer in more wrong directions that right ones, or the human not being able to keep up. Does the human add enough extra randomness to be of value for a while, even as a minor co-processor.

basch··on I don't like passkeys
put it in your password manager?
basch··on I don't like passkeys
but you can type anything in the recovery box.

its just three additional passwords.

should you type the same brother name in each time? should you even answer with a name?

don't get me wrong, they were insane, but they can be repurposed.

basch··on I don't like passkeys
When was the last time you tried to log into something like Google, Apple, Microsoft etc without your phone nearby, on a fresh computer?
basch··on I don't like passkeys
What if my phone is dead? Stolen?

In the same vein as 2fa, going up to a fresh computer and trying to log into anything is now a nightmare. Every service has a 2fa that somehow loops into another provider that also has 2fa.

And some 2fa, if not many, make accounts weaker. Apple's solution to get around 2fa is to put in SOMEBODY ELSES phone number that I trust, as a backdoor. It's an insane solution. And its normalized, and nobody questions it.

basch··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
It’s literally translation technology told to guess what’s most likely next instead of translate what it was given.

It makes total sense it’s good at regurgitating the edge cases of language.

basch··on Sovereign: A Unified GPU Inference Substrate (Fractal Memory, Manifold Routing)
Am I looking at the academic theater of sycophantic LLM fed cranky prompts?

"fractal recursive residual coding" = 45% size reduction per iteration after 13 passes of the output of LZMA2 piped back into LZMA2? If true, that alone is crazy.

basch··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
That would apply to like a competitor, right? Another store that copies their motif to fool customers.

Has a court enforced trade dress with a mock version of a store within a game?

Would a reasonable person, seeing completely different letters actually think IKEA is sponsoring the game?

I would give IKEA almost a 0% chance of winning that case if both sides had equally sized pocketbooks. (see E.S.S. Entertainment v. Rock Star Videos (2008))

basch··on Nobody wrote the Matrix and AI code-writing will be dead by 2036
it reads like Adam Curtis, although a bit more repetative - https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk...
basch··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
IKEA has a trademark on STYR?
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