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rooftopzen··on New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors
^ this. If Microsoft says it, it's true. Who posts this stuff? Real issues in diagnosis after the first follow up question (microsoft doesn't talk about that).
rooftopzen··on US banks are blocking third-party AI agents access to customer accounts
duplicate post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50199840
rooftopzen··on US Banks Blocking AI Agents in Accounts
Inevitably where the "AI buying things for you" marketing pitch was headed - anyone have dibs on the next marketing trend from hedge funds (so they can keep shell game going..)
rooftopzen··on How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
Anyone accountable for AI being deterministic (this is most of the bay) - am curious how they incorporated the movie into the BS they shill (if they do).
rooftopzen··on OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
The bar @ OAI is surprisingly low (watch a few minutes of their video presentations) - I've concluded it has something to do w how their recruiters define 'AI Native' (who assign their own meaning to meaninglessness of it), resulting in higher aggregate brain atrophy (hard to ignore once you notice it)
rooftopzen··on What's Dragging Down AI Efficiency? The 'Verification Tax.'
No “human bottleneck”. A probabilistic technology was never able to automate (this has been a marketing lie for a few years now, old news)
rooftopzen··on Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack
Curious where it’s being documented - this is a fascinating study (who knows how long time period to measure its impact will last) - do you have links?
rooftopzen··on Four AI lab breaches were caused by a single underlying issue, Irregular says
"Irregular says"? That same company is misreporting all these alarmist headlines while withholding evidence, funded by Ethical Altruism - see below (footnotes)

https://www.effort.news/irregular

rooftopzen··on Advertise in ChatGPT
This comment is an ad itself, has been posted every few days, I would guess by OpenAI (shows they have no product)

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ads.openai.com

rooftopzen··on Apollo economist says a 'painful repricing' of AI markets is possible
The same company that applied absurd valuations to AI infra (see below) - I agree with the 'repricing' assessment to a severe degree, but what is one of the main investor's intention here?

https://peinsights.substack.com/p/apollo-and-blackstone-clos...

rooftopzen··on Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs
Cliche topic - from a few years ago (the "RAG is dead" vs "All You Need Is Advanced RAG" BS - it came in waves and cycles, spread by bots on social media networks).

"Pruning RAG Context" is trying to recycle the old stuff (again), presuming the reader is naive (implies kapa.ai is not going anywhere). The current cycles were "openclaw" (I think that died), now we are on "harnesses" - when that dies the paid social media bots will give you something else. Shell game.

Just declare / define dictionary as a variable in your prompt to carry forward (when you decide to continue using LLMs for certain things). Also either summarize or truncate history. 3-4 year old concept. Not a big thing.

rooftopzen··on AI: The ROI Runway Could Be Long Outside the Tech Sector
Article is authored by a private credit firm who assigned absurd valuations to AI infra (see below as an even super recent example) - what is their intention by writing this (is it due to the AI fear narratives around software investments they also hold that drive ppl to withdraw their holdings in Apollo?)

From last month: https://peinsights.substack.com/p/apollo-and-blackstone-clos...

rooftopzen··on Inside FAISS: Billion-Scale Similarity Search
Great viz; the original paper wasn't peer reviewed; it might be great but I've learned its a waste of time to read those in current times (sorry and take this as one data point that suggests they should have done that).

That said, I've found FAISS great for certain use cases; wanted to say thx for surfacing - its not updated to work with most packages these days outside of faiss-cpu - curious why Meta dropped its maintenance; was it due to its slower speed or otherwise priorities?

rooftopzen··on Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone
Smart guy phoning it in now - realized a few weeks ago that he “notices” something interesting to share, but is really paraphrasing a recently released paper that found it - without giving paper credit.
rooftopzen··on Iran's IRGC Publishes Satellite Imagery of OpenAI's $30B Stargate Datacenter
Being the datacenter is apparently mostly a scam, curious on who concocted an attack as an exit?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openais-massive-stargate-data...

rooftopzen··on Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Help Him Be CEO
Hypothesis is he will blame his recent poor decisions on the probabilistic AI agent he was using (or psychosis).
rooftopzen··on Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
Considering how YC companies are customers of other YC companies (presumably to lift ARR), how many YC companies have Delve compliance?

Should we worry about AI startup customer data…

rooftopzen··on Ezra Klein: The Future We Feared Is Here
Ezra Klein - any premise he has had in past 1-2 years is built on a maligned belief in AGI that is unscientific. Have heard he recently pivoted eg “moved goal posts” for his AGI timeline but the guy appears to be wasting time following delusional trends, this piece included.
rooftopzen··on Chamath Palihapitiya Says AI Costs at Startup 8090 Could Hit $10M
This guy generalizes lots with “could” and “might” like a politician, why waste energy responding to it?
rooftopzen··on Yann LeCun: Current AI Is Dead End
Everything I’ve been saying for 2 years, curious what’s taken him so long for him to finally speak reality the last few weeks of interviews
rooftopzen··on OpenAI will devour as much power as NYC and San Diego combined
Written by an intern

https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-roytburg-5b971590

rooftopzen··on That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
I've spent about an hour a week on this since Jan. Traced a large % of bogus news stories this year back to Reuters (fwiw) before they are picked up by other outlets and spread.

I've found legitimate stories also sourced from Reuters, but haven't found illegitimate stories NOT sourced from Reuters (in other words, they seem to originate from the same source, not sure why)

rooftopzen··on Abundant Intelligence
Sorry but your concept of AI is marketing driven. It's probabilistic, understanding is past your pay grade.
rooftopzen··on Abundant Intelligence
Exactly - AI allows for intersections in concepts from training data; up to the user to make sense of it. Thanks for stating this (I end up repeating same thing in every conversation, but is common sense).
rooftopzen··on Abundant Intelligence
Sam Altman has been a joke for awhile now, heard only his investors defend him for their next round increase - is that who you are?
rooftopzen··on Launch HN: Strata (YC X25) – One MCP server for AI to handle thousands of tools
Dove deep into this - 25+ security issues; no thx
rooftopzen··on Hire People Who Care (2020)
I agree w post, and relevancy from its original date in 2020, but curious on what original intention was to repost from such a long time ago, see link belwo

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=alexw.substack.com

rooftopzen··on We Replaced ETL with MCP
You naively replaced deterministic process w probabilistic process - following a trend that is uneducated.

I am taking screenshots of blogposts like this for a museum exhibit opening next year - lmk if you’re willing.

rooftopzen··on AI safety index on model scoring released today [pdf]
Caveats: 1. It's 101 pages (do # of pages correlate with aggressive effort to be authoritative, e.g. 'state of the world' pdfs. 2. This appears to come from the AGI existential threat doomer camp - does it even have any validity? At first glance, it appears both absurd in terms of presumptive risks, and also AI generated (this is biased to the pages I'd read) 3. MLCommons has a more scholastic approach to ranking models on potential harms, curious on reception to all approaches (pros vs cons of each)
rooftopzen··on Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" likely created with AI – what does this imply?
Lol

Yh I get your point - post is not necessarily designed to prove AI use (it's already highly probable, and not necessarily bad by itself in theory) it's the implications of it that are more interesting than deterministic evidence of it, but by showing evidence of it being likely - updated the post to reflect a better baseline.

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