Wednesday, September 18
Daily News Stuff 18 September 2024
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- Well, that happened.
- OpenAI's new AI called o1 is the same garbage but more expensive. (The Verge)
It still makes shit up, because it's a language model (a bad one) and not a fact model. It is somewhat improved in making excuses for its lies, but that's about it."What worries me more is that in the future, when we ask AI to solve complex problems, like curing cancer or improving solar batteries, it might internalize these goals so strongly that it becomes willing to break its guardrails to achieve them," Hobbhahn told me.
No, really?
Tech News
- The 2019 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine has now had thirteen papers retracted after duplicated or manipulated images were found. (Retraction Watch)
Repeat from yesterday for absolutely no reason and totally unconnected to the above story.
- It you recently plonked down $4000 for one of the two laptops available with Thunderbolt 5, you can now get a Thunderbolt 5 docking station for $400. (Liliputing)
It also works with Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, and USB4 ports, so if you just want to future-proof yourself it's fine for that.
- AMD has fixed the cross-chip latency regression in Zen 5. (Tom's Hardware)
That is unlikely to correct the weird benchmark results we've seen, because those also show up on Zen 5 chips with a single CPU chip.
- TCL has been accused of selling quantum dot TVs without any quantum dots. (Ars Technica)
TCL says the quantum dots are only there when you're not looking for them.
- VirtualBox, Parallels, and VMWare Fusion (for Mac) and Workstation (for Windows) have all received upgrades. (The Register)
VirtualBox is free, and Fusion and Workstation are also free for personal use. VMWare basically doesn't care about you if you're not one of their top 600 customers, so much that they don't even bother to charge you for their low-end products.
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TCL is Cheap Chinese Commie Crap, so what was anyone expecting?
As a sidenote, I started to have Yakety Sax playing behind Megumi from KonoSuba yelling 'Explosion' every time I hear an update on the exploding connected devices happening to certain bad people in Lebanon right now.
As a sidenote, I started to have Yakety Sax playing behind Megumi from KonoSuba yelling 'Explosion' every time I hear an update on the exploding connected devices happening to certain bad people in Lebanon right now.
Posted by: cxt217 at Thursday, September 19 2024 08:31 AM (ZLF73)
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"TCL says the quantum dots are only there when you're not looking for them."
Well, go ahead and prove them wrong.
Well, go ahead and prove them wrong.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, September 19 2024 01:31 PM (pnaK4)
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" Some propose that testing final products would be a better way to determine quantum dot quantities."
Well, now, let's not get hasty. Just becuase it's not in the actual final product shouldn't mean it's not there. Just that it's not there when you look for it in the final product. This is, of course, a distinction that is often lost on people who use a product, rather than those who contemplate potential items.
Well, now, let's not get hasty. Just becuase it's not in the actual final product shouldn't mean it's not there. Just that it's not there when you look for it in the final product. This is, of course, a distinction that is often lost on people who use a product, rather than those who contemplate potential items.
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