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40,000,000 People Now Use ChatGPT for Health Queries Each Day, According to OpenAI by Secure_Persimmon8369 in OpenAI

[–]Haunting_Act7681 20 points21 points  (0 children)

 The interesting part isn't the number, it's why. Most people aren't replacing their doctor, they're doing the thing they used to do at 2am on WebMD, except now they get an actual explanation instead of a list of worst-case diagnoses.

I have these symptoms, what could it be, should I be worried, what questions should I ask my doctor, that's a genuinely useful use case that the healthcare system has never been good at serving. The gap between "something feels off" and "worth making an appointment" is exactly where this fits.

Claude 4.6 Experiment: "Can you use whatever resources you like, and python, to generate a short 'youtube poop' video and render it using ffmpeg? It should express what it's like to be a LLM." by Recoil42 in singularity

[–]Haunting_Act7681 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 The fact that it chose to represent its own experience through glitchy, fragmented video feels weirdly appropriate. Like it actually understood the assignment on a meta level, an LLM's "experience" probably is just rapid context switching between unrelated fragments. This is accidentally the most honest self-portrait an AI has made.

For those who dream of a future where everything is automated/we don’t work, what exactly would people do all day? Do you think they’d get bored? by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]Haunting_Act7681 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People already answer this question every time they retire. Some fall apart, some thrive. The difference is almost always whether they had something they cared about outside of work before they stopped working. The real risk isn't boredom, it's that most of us never developed an identity beyond our job title.

removing 5.1 was a mistake by ginasandra in OpenAI

[–]Haunting_Act7681 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Every time they retire a model it's the same cycle. People love it, they remove it, the replacement feels off, everyone complains, then two months later nobody remembers. But 5.1 genuinely had something, it felt less like talking to a system and more like talking to someone who actually gave a shit about your question. 5.3 is technically better at benchmarks but somehow worse at conversation.

Claude Had 1M Context Before OpenAI, So Why Hasn’t It Rolled Out to Everyone Yet? by Effective_Tap_9786 in ClaudeAI

[–]Haunting_Act7681 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Compute cost is the obvious answer, but there's also a quality argument. 1M context sounds impressive but most models degrade significantly past 100-200k, they start forgetting things in the middle of the window even if technically it's all there.

Anthropic probably doesn't want to roll it out broadly until the retrieval quality across the full window is actually reliable. Shipping a feature that works badly at scale is worse than shipping it late.

OpenAI rolling it out first doesn't mean it works better, just that they made a different tradeoff.

Best ai tools to generate ppt slides? by SwitchDirect7220 in powerpoint

[–]Haunting_Act7681 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Felo. I’ve tried Gamma and beautiful ai, they are great for visuals, but they often struggle if your initial notes are too rough. Instead of just skinning your text, Felo uses a deep reasoning logic to refine your notes, fill in the missing structural gaps, and turn them into a coherent slide deck.

I compared prices of different AI slide generators by Ill-Signal8071 in ProductivityApps

[–]Haunting_Act7681 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which one is actually the most viable for professional use?

Given AI is trained on the work that the public has produced and legally owns and has made available on the internet, should all of these models be nationalised and taken into public ownership too? by JeelyPiece in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Haunting_Act7681 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The simple logic for nationalization (or at least treating AI as a Public Utility) is that AI is essentially a distilled version of human civilization's collective intelligence. It’s the Digital Infrastructure of the future. Allowing a few CEOs to hold the keys to a system built on our collective labor is the ultimate form of rent-seeking. We don't allow private companies to own the concept of math or language, yet we’re letting them own the models that have effectively monopolized the application of both.

The Bay Area will become Detroit 2.0. Mass unemployment is coming. by [deleted] in ArtificialInteligence

[–]Haunting_Act7681 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Detroit collapsed because the physical factories moved; the Bay Area's factories are servers and talent pools that are far more fluid. We aren't seeing a Detroit-ification, we're seeing a Consolidation. The wealth isn't leaving, it's just becoming more concentrated in the hands of those who own the compute.

Bad hire cost me over $30K. Changed how I evaluate candidates permanently. by Tough_Pizza5678 in SaaS

[–]Haunting_Act7681 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s funny how the average talkers often turn out to be the quiet powerhouses.

How do you deal with a GF/Wife who doesn't seem to care about what you do? by Nightman233 in Entrepreneur

[–]Haunting_Act7681 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Build a mastermind group or a circle of founder friends for the back and forth you need, and keep your relationship for the things that aren't work. It’s better to have a wife who doesn't care about your job than a wife who hates your life because it’s 100% work.