Friday, January 24
Daily News Stuff 24 January 2025
Ti Edition
Ti Edition
Top Story
- Nvidia's new RTX 4090 Ti is here. (Tom's Hardware)
Well, they call it the RTX 5090, but compared to the previous model the chips is 25% larger and has 25% cores, and the card uses 25% more power and costs 25% more money to produce 25% better performance.
Which tells us exactly how the other cards in this generation will perform - maybe 10% faster than the previous generation, entirely due to additional processing cores and faster memory. The technological advance here is zero.
Though the 4000 series was already very good. We could just do without the lies.
Tech News
- AI mistakes are very different from human mistakes. (Schneier on Security)
Except they're not, really. AI mistakes are just like the mistakes humans make when we're tired and distracted and not paying attention. Except AI is always tired and distracted and not paying attention.
If you tell Grok to draw a car with six wheels, it will quite consistently draw a car with any number of wheels except six. It's not listening to you; it just hears "draw a car" and draws a car.
- AI makes everything worse. (Medium)
To err is human. To really fuck things up requires a computer.
- OpenAI has launched Operator, an AI agent that can control your computer autonomously. (Tech Crunch)
Burn it with fire.
- QNAP. (Bleeping Computer)
Again. Though this one doesn't seem to be their fault, nor readily exploitable.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Crabs. Why did it have to be crabs.
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"AI" isn't making those of us who aren't using it worse programmers.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, January 24 2025 11:11 PM (NEIix)
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Why crabs? Because we're all out of marmots. Thanks a heap...
Posted by: Joe Redfield at Saturday, January 25 2025 04:37 AM (KOtXO)
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"Out of an abundance of caution, OpenAI is also requiring supervision for
some tasks, like banking transactions, the CUA and Operator could
perform mostly on their own. Users will need to take over to put in
credit card information, for example. OpenAI says that Operator doesn't
collect or screenshot any data."
And I'm totally wearing pants right now and not jammin' out half naked to Bananarama.
And I'm totally wearing pants right now and not jammin' out half naked to Bananarama.
Posted by: normal at Saturday, January 25 2025 11:07 AM (bg2DR)
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Thank you! I've been looking for that video for months.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Saturday, January 25 2025 12:52 PM (3NtfN)
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Funny, I apparently saw it in 2018 and searched out that other series that flashes in the end. And never watched it. Still sitting in my Batch folder....
Posted by: Mauser at Saturday, January 25 2025 03:04 PM (QE7eq)
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