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- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 5 days ago:
Remember when they told you a google query uses the power of a light bulb burning for an hour? We’ve come to a full circle guys.
- Comment on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England 1 week ago:
- Comment on Can LLMs Do Accounting? Evaluating LLMs on Real Long-Horizon Business Tasks 4 weeks ago:
You absolutely want your accounting software to be entirely deterministic.
This always bugs me with all the use cases LLMs get shoehorned into. Letting these do anything unsupervised is literally begging for chaos to happen.
- Comment on Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band 1 month ago:
Human music, I like it!
- Comment on HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam 2 months ago:
“The ultimate goal of Google Beam — and it’s manifested on HP Dimension — is to feel like you’re there,” Andrew Nartker, general manager of Google Beam, said during the briefing. “You feel just like you’re there at the table working together … It’s all meant to bring us together and ultimately feel like we’re completely physically present.”
OK but why? There are not a lot scenarios where I would need or even want to spawn a hologram of a single coworker. Looks a little gimmicky to me.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I realized I was always hearing the same 100 songs in a loop while I had saved over 6000. It was nice to experience “true shuffle” again.
- Comment on Localthunk quells AI art civil war started by Balatro erotica subreddit mod 5 months ago:
“news that will get you banished from society if you try to explain it to anyone who doesn’t live on the internet”
- Comment on Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? 5 months ago:
chuckles I’m in danger
- Comment on Why some book fans are leaving Amazon-owned Goodreads in wake of the U.S. election 8 months ago:
If you are using android you could try Openreads. The UI is really clean and everything is stored on the device (can be exported / imported). No social media bullshit, just tracking your reading progress and seeing some stats about it.
