An amusing chat I had with ChatGPT. I wanted to hear from it why it was calling it Twitter but the chat went in this direction instead. (It did eventually.)

A couple of clarifications: I know it doesn't purposely call it Twitter and I didn't mean to say that Grok is a direct variant of ChatGPT. Sorry! Also, I'm aware it could probably start praising Elon at any moment. lol

::: spoiler Image transcript You said:
Wait a second, which social media did you say the last post was from? 🧐

ChatGPT said:
Good catch! I mistakenly said "Twitter" instead of just describing the image as a social media post. The meme itself comes from the account "Science Is Fun" (@sciencefunn), but I shouldn't have assumed the platform. My bad! 😅

Want me to tweak the alt text to be more precise?

You said:
No, no. I find it amusing that you said it was Twitter. Technically it's not wrong...

ChatGPT said:
Haha, true! It looks like Twitter, but it's also not Twitter anymore… Elon’s

“This is a completely different approach to what people have done before. The writing’s on the wall that this is going to transform things, it’s going to be the new way of doing forecasting,” Turner said. He said the model would eventually be able to produce accurate eight-day forecasts, compared with five-day forecast at present, as well as hyper-localised predictions.

Dr Scott Hosking, the director of science and innovation for environment and sustainability at the Alan Turing Institute, said the breakthrough could “democratise forecasting” by making powerful technologies available to developing nations around the world, as well as assisting policymakers, emergency planners and industries that rely on accurate weather forecasts.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7137748

And yet, China is using AI.

...I... don't know what to think about that.

...I really don't.

Because it seems that AI is just a scam.

It may "exist" but what it can do is a scam.

Maybe China thinks we have to use it just to "keep up" with the Western powers, but I dunno.

Anyway, interesting discussion with Adam Conover and Ed Zitron. It's long, but you can listen to it while doing other things. And the comments are interesting too, but then again, there are also trolls in the comments as well (AI supporters here and there).

Frankly, though? I oppose AI. I'm anti-AI. I'm anti-AI in China and anti-AI in America and anti-AI in the whole damn planet.

This is an app for iOS and Android by ElevenLabs, where you can import a web article or ebook, and listen to it with some of its text-to-speech voices.

I've tried it out for a few hours so far and so far it's pretty OK. However, I did notice a couple of problems that could be ironed out:

• When using a PDF, ElevenReader will read out all of the text in the document, including page numbers and repeated headings. I couldn't find a way to disable this, so I just resorted to using an ePub version of my book instead.
• The Lily voice will sometimes drop the first one or two syllables of a sentence, especially after it has paused for a few seconds. I tested a few other voices, and they didn't seem to have this problem.

Anyway it's nice that an app like this is being offered for free and without ads. Apparently a paid tier will be introduced later, but I hope this isn't at the expense of any of the free features. (It would be even better for an open source alternative of comparable qual

If one wants to try a full size DeepSeek R1 model that is hosted within the EU, what provider do you recommended?

It's a big plus if privacy is good. And I'm not interested in big tech solutions.

An extremely informative article that goes into great lengths to explain why Nvidia of overvalued currently. Long but worth a read.

So hopefully you don't end up needing to fork out cash too in order to test out its capabilities.

I'll be using my own frontend here, so tool support is limited, but if you provide a full json I can send the request via curl instead (see documentation here.

Format:

• Model: (4o unless otherwise specified)
• System prompt: (My default assistant prompt unless otherwise specified)
• User message

Requests will be passed through the moderations api first (I'd rather not get banned), but in this case I'll post back the moderations api result.

I'll keep replying until the time is up or the credits are out.

Go ham!

Ten years ago, Dzmitry Bahdanau from Yoshua Bengio's group recognized a flaw in RNNs and the information bottleneck of a fixed length hidden state. They put out a paper introducing attention to rectify this issue. Not long after that, a group of researchers at Google found that you can just get rid of the RNN altogether and you still get great results with improved training performance, giving us the transformer architecture in their Attention Is All You Need paper. But transformers are expensive at inference time and scale poorly with increasing context length, unlike RNNs. Clearly, the solution is to just use RNNs. Two days ago, we got Were RNNs All We Needed?

Hello there, fellow lemmings!

As the title suggests, I've made an app that changes your wallpaper regularly based on the parameters you set. It uses AI Horde (which uses Stable Diffusion) to generate the images and you can set the interval at which your wallpaper changes (from 1 time per day to 48 times per day).

Other features:

• completely free (in fact, will be open source next week)
• easy to use, but offers also advanced options
• there's a help section with all the parameters explained
• works on both a phone and tablet

There's also an optional Premium subscription which puts you higher in the priority queue, but most of the time it's not needed - unless you're generating during the most busy time, the wait is not really that long even without Premium. Note that if you're a user of the AI Horde, you can put your own api key there and get the same benefits as having a Premium.

The open source version (released next week) will also allow (toggleable on or off) NSFW

ChatGPT—for all its remarkable prowess in textually generating material “like” what it’s read from the web, etc.—can’t itself be expected to do actual nontrivial computations, or to systematically produce correct (rather than just “looks roughly right”) data, etc. But when it’s connected to the Wolfram plugin it can do these things.

I’ve updated @[email protected] to remember the whole tree of comments when replying to you, so it can do follow-up responses. You still have to mention it on every message, though. Example in the comments.

From https://scribe.rip/@dimillian/adding-ai-generated-image-description-to-ice-cubes-c4e7990a5915

I’ve recently released a new feature for Ice Cubes, and users have loved it! On Mastodon, it’s considered an excellent ethic to add media descriptions when posting medias on the network. It’s necessary for visually impaired people but also for anyone who would want to get more detail about the image.

Ice Cubes is an open-source Mastodon app. Under the hood it uses OpenAI's Vision API.

(Source article: https://dimillian.medium.com/adding-ai-generated-image-description-to-ice-cubes-c4e7990a5915)

I recently built a web scraper / website to track changes in Burger King prices. I also made a video where I try to describe how I used ChatGPT in this process and how useful it was to me.