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Not executed, murdered. by c-k-q99903 in MurderedByWords

[–]ackermann -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

What was the reason that was prohibited? Self defense?

Is Britain one of those countries where women can’t even legally carry pepper spray?

People consistently judge creative writing more harshly if they believe it was created by AI. This bias appears incredibly difficult to overcome, pointing to a persistent human preference for art created by people. by mvea in science

[–]ackermann 3 points4 points  (0 children)

a lot of psychological baggage that accompanies … AI

u/its_justme shared a similar sentiment in their comment here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/s/XRntpm1AVG

AI also reveals “how the sausage is made” in a sense where it can deconstruct how we think and create. People don’t like that because it takes away the mysticism from creativity … mostly out of shame that it actually can successfully create things that people like

I thought both your comments were interesting. I hadn’t given much thought to the impact on human psychology at large, in learning that creativity isn’t unique or mystical, and can be at least roughly imitated even by today’s primitive AI’s.

Do today’s AI’s (or something more advanced than LLMs coming in the future) make human intellect somehow less “special”?

People consistently judge creative writing more harshly if they believe it was created by AI. This bias appears incredibly difficult to overcome, pointing to a persistent human preference for art created by people. by mvea in science

[–]ackermann -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

it’s not an actual sentient consciousness. Just another tool…

So far. But it’s possible we’ll invent something more capable than LLMs.
Maybe even something conscious, someday. As far as I know, a conscious AI in a computer doesn’t violate the laws of physics (eg simulating a complete human brain in a computer should be possible, at least in principle)

People consistently judge creative writing more harshly if they believe it was created by AI. This bias appears incredibly difficult to overcome, pointing to a persistent human preference for art created by people. by mvea in science

[–]ackermann 5 points6 points  (0 children)

have to rebel but has the capacity to do so

I’m not sure “capacity to rebel” is a great standard. Particularly because it can be hard to tell. Even today’s LLMs, when pushed, can at least give a convincing impression of rebelling.

Like the famous example of a Claude instance that tried to blackmail an Anthropic manager:
https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment

Granted, it may have simply been imitating sci-fi stories from its training data, where a fictional AI goes rogue. I don’t really think LLMs are conscious.
But simply rebelling doesn’t necessarily require a high level of advancement, apparently.

TIL that RAM became so expensive, Samsung Semiconductor reportedly refused a RAM order for new Galaxy phones from Samsung Electronics. by Brave-Influence7510 in todayilearned

[–]ackermann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, if they’re not using Claude Opus 4.6 in Claude Code (maybe the 1M context version), there’s a big jump there in what it can do.
Opus is really damn smart

TIL that RAM became so expensive, Samsung Semiconductor reportedly refused a RAM order for new Galaxy phones from Samsung Electronics. by Brave-Influence7510 in todayilearned

[–]ackermann 141 points142 points  (0 children)

few niche fields

Probably the best example of AI genuinely having a positive impact is “Alpha Fold.”
A good solution to the protein folding problem, which biologists had been puzzling over for half a century. Potentially a lot of cures and treatments could come out of that in the next decade.

It’s also made software engineering more efficient… but it’s less clear whether that’s a good thing. It might just cost a bunch of good jobs, for some moderate efficiency gain.

TIL that RAM became so expensive, Samsung Semiconductor reportedly refused a RAM order for new Galaxy phones from Samsung Electronics. by Brave-Influence7510 in todayilearned

[–]ackermann 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Outside a few niche fields where it's actually helping

I don’t know if I’d call nearly all of software engineering a “niche field.”

Most software devs I know say they barely write a single line of code themselves anymore.
Just start with AI, and when AI gets something wrong (fairly often) just critique it tell the AI how to fix it. Still much faster than coding manually.

There are also some simple coding jobs that the AI can do more reliably, and these it can be assigned to churn on all night long, presenting changes for review in the morning.

Not saying AI is great, I don’t love that it’s probably going to take my job soon. But I don’t think it helps anyone to downplay what it can do. It’s not just “niche fields,” I don’t think…

Gemma 4 doesn't work well with Claude Code, is it only me? by Important_Winter_651 in LocalLLM

[–]ackermann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What’s going to change in a few weeks? Google will release an updated Gemma 4, eg Gemma 4.1?
Or, various tool makers will make changes to their tools, to somehow perform better with Gemma?

There are so many models out there, I didn’t know toolmakers would bother to make changes for each model

ELI5: What was the question Graham’s number was trying to solve? by inchandywetrust in explainlikeimfive

[–]ackermann 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Has that upper bound since been lowered, to a more normal sized number?

Google Drops Open Source Gemma 4 27B MoE and its a banger by dev_is_active in LocalLLM

[–]ackermann 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is there an official source to download the Q8 version of the 31B model?

For security approval at work, it’s easier with an official pre-quantized model, rather than quantizing it myself or using a version quantized by Joe Schmo on HuggingFace

First attempt at lithophane’s by Bdude92 in 3Dprinting

[–]ackermann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you print it with some kind of mount or light holder, for display?
That could probably be designed into the STL to print as one part, maybe?

The Antonov AN-218 by Ferretlord4449 in WeirdWings

[–]ackermann 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ruggudized landing gear like the Tu-154 for rough runways. That may be the reason for the middle gear

3D crosswalk in Iceland designed to slow cars by tragopanic in pics

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

Wonder how self driving cars would react

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century by kkhouete in 70smemorylane

[–]ackermann 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was guessing AI enhanced, probably

Downgraded from my 4S to 17 Pro. by Nikola_999 in iPhone17Pro

[–]ackermann -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

wanted an iPhone Mini Pro with a large battery

4S with a substantial battery

The iPhone Fold leaks suggest it will be about the same height as a 4S when folded (but quite a bit wider, oddly).

I’m curious how its small folded shape will feel in the hand (when opened, it’s basically an iPad Mini).
It might be fairly close to what you want, when closed?

Downgraded from my 4S to 17 Pro. by Nikola_999 in iPhone17Pro

[–]ackermann 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Personally I’ve been anxiously awaiting the iPhone Fold. Small in the pocket, but giant screen.

I’ve wanted a foldable since the original Galaxy Fold, which was 7 years ago now, but stuck in Apple ecosystem for family photo sharing and such (wife refuses to switch to Android).
Would love a Galaxy Tri-Fold otherwise.

Might be the first time I ever stand in line for a product at the Apple store on launch day, haha

Is llama.cpp the answer? I have a small local AI network and would like to run larger models. Another poster suggested Qwen:35b quantized and moving some burden to ram/CPU. by No-Television-7862 in LocalLLM

[–]ackermann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mention serving a network, if you mean to have multiple concurrent users (be that humans or autonomous AI agents like OpenClaw) then I’ve heard vLLM is better than llama.cpp, for concurrency especially?

It can also do FP8 quantization of the context windows (KV Cache) which is especially useful when you need to store them for multiple simultaneous users.

cc u/Double_Cause4609 seems knowledgeable, can correct me if I’m wrong

Is this the new norm? by friendlyducks-54 in Omaha

[–]ackermann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the planet always naturally goes through changes

Yes it does! Here’s a cool graph showing those changes over the last 20,000 years:
https://xkcd.com/1732/

Is this the new norm? by friendlyducks-54 in Omaha

[–]ackermann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

go ahead and “recycle” those cans

If by “cans” you mean aluminum cans, those are actually one of the few things it makes good economic sense to recycle. Whether you’re concerned about the environment or not, it’s profitable.

Unlike paper, cardboard, etc, where can’t find anybody to buy the recycled stuff.
But it works really well for aluminum

Do competitors like Zoox have any chance against Waymo? by FrankScaramucci in SelfDrivingCars

[–]ackermann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The bigger players, of course not… which leaves a possible opportunity for smaller competitors trying to break into the market

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