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Womble
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- on OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026
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on AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026
They are not only using human written data any more. Reinforcement learning through human feedback (RLHF) is a big part of it now, that’s the AI running through a problem multiple times with a human picking the best attempt and then using that best attempt as training data going forwards. The model collapse stuff from a few years ago was from an AI repeatedly ingesting its own input with no guidance over many training iterations.
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on Programming languages are unconvincing (atleast C++, Java and its ilk, Smalltalk, Lisp) in c/programming@beehaw.org · 13 Sep 2026
Neither python or JS are “rigidly” OOP, they have support for them but you can very easily do functional or imperative programming in either. out of those I believe Java is the only one that “rigid OOP” is a fair descriptor for, and I could be wrong on that as its not a language I’ve used (c# which I have and started as essentially microsoft Java has moved away from that style by incorporating numerous functional features from f#)
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on Chinese labs DeepSeek and Moonshot were quietly relaying customer prompts to Claude through fraudulent accounts. Users thought they were using Chinese AI, but were actually getting answers from Claude in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
You almost certainly weren’t using a Deepseek model offline (unless you have 100s of GB of RAM/VRAM). You might have been using a small model distilled on Deepseek responses, but the smallest model made by Deepseek is about a 300B param model.
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on The ChatGPT desktop app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
I’ve done this for a game I play. I’ve no interest in learning unity, but had a bunch of mods I’d like to make that are more than config edits. I was able to vibe code about 5 of them in an evening or two that do exactly what I want. They’re probably terrible code, but nothing else is built on top of them, I’m not distributing them and if they break they break no big deal. So pretty happy with it.
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on There's no such thing as "Just a Tool" in c/technology@piefed.social · 30 Aug 2026
I think the element this post is missing is the “Its just a tool” argument is in reaction to the SV cult idea that they are building a machine god that will fundamentally remake the world in its image. Compared to that, “its just a tool” is a completely rational response, yes tools are important and not completely neutral objects, but they are things that modify and shape what people do not fundamental inflection points in the history of the world as the AI boosters (and doomers for that matter) would have you believe.
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on Sony, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging "blatant theft" of intellectual property in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
That’s not how this works though, hoping the law to just punishes people you don’t like without regard for what they are being punished for is madness.
If Anthropic lose this they’ll shrug pay a fee to licence things out of the untold billions they have available to them from credulous investors, and everyone else will have lost the right to do whatever they want with a copyrighted work without the publisher’s permission. That people who consider themselves progressive think that’s a win boggles my mind.
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on Relationship in c/humor@beehaw.org · 26 Aug 2026
Its a very funny juxtaposition, the fact that it’s not what it looks like is even funnier.
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on Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
No the point is that a Japanese focused company can optimise for a design that works best in Japan without having to consider how other people would interact with it.
A multinational like Amazon has to balance what works best in a particular market with retaining a consistent identity across markets and having shared functionality between different locations.
- on France’s nuclear fleet gives it one of the world’s lowest-carbon electricity grids in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
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on France’s nuclear fleet gives it one of the world’s lowest-carbon electricity grids in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
And yet, despite that, France still has some of the cleanest electricity in the world with prices in line with the rest of Europe and exported about 10TWhrs of electricity during July.
I agree that downtime is bad, but I don’t think abandoning nuclear to go all in on solar which has a minimum downtime of 50% or wind which has extended periods of <10% is a solution to that. Given that we need electrification to replace fossil fuels in transport and heating over the next few decades to prevent catastrophic climate change, the only reasonable course IMO is to build out as much as possible of nuclear and renewables.
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on France’s nuclear fleet gives it one of the world’s lowest-carbon electricity grids in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
Turns out, even when you have to throttle them down slightly due to drought, having a large amount of available nuclear power, like France and Sweden do, means you emit an awful lot less carbon.
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on AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
Was supposed to say illegal, the argument didnt work with saying legal.
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on AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
The difference is that a hand grenade is illegal to own. A series of matrix multiplications is not.
A better comparison is a knife. If you throw that in the air and it lands on someone you are responsible, the person who sold you a potentially dangerous but legal tool is not.
Edit illegal, not legal. silly mistake
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on Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026
I know you think you’re being witty, but autonomous robotic surgery is a hot tech that is starting to push into active use.
The “original sense” of AI is that it was the term used by computer scientists as an umbrella term for efforts into machine decision making. It didn’t turn into HAL from 2001 or EDI from mass effect for decades after that.