Artificial Intelligence

It’s also starting to publicly test an “agentic” coding tool called Claude Code.

Collective behavior leads to both collective intelligence and collective stupidity. This also applies to artificial intelligence (artificial neurons) and biological neurons (in my opinion).
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26059204

An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle.

Not the author, but I'm interested in discussion about how you're using AI.

I'm not as stuck on Claude as a model as much as the author. I find their limits on rates really too low to use as an effective coding partner, I spend more time waiting for it to time back in than actually doing something useful, GPT4 does better with less hanging. O1 is better, and I haven't figured out how to use Deepseek on Cline yet. I'm not going to use a different editor than VSCode to code in, so Cursor isn't really interesting.

I don't use AI for much other than that, as I find the search results on things like Perplexity kinda worthless compared to what I can come up with without trying very hard. And chatting with an AI isn't something I've found useful either.

Good quote at the end IMO:

The greatest inventions have no owners. Ben Franklin’s heirs do not own electricity. Turing’s estate does not own all computers. AI is undoubtedly one of humanity’s greatest inventions; we believe its future will be — and should be — multi-model

The author argues that "by encouraging the use of GenAI, we are directly undermining the principles we have been trying to instill in our students."

OpenAl saved its biggest announcement for the last day of its 12-day "shipmas" event. On Friday, the company unveiled o3, the successor to the o1 "reasoning" model it released earlier in the year. o3 is a model family, to be more precise as was the case with o1. There's o3 and o3-mini, a smaller, distilled model fine-tuned for particular tasks. OpenAl makes the remarkable claim that o3, at least in certain conditions, approaches AGI - with significant caveats. More on that below.

It seems that when you train an AI on a historical summary of human behavior, it's going to pick up some human-like traits. I wonder if this means we should be training a "good guy" AI with only ethical, virtuous material?

Hello, I have some letters handwritten by my great-grandfather from the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1943/1944. Few of them have been transcribed by hand. They are quite a lot and really not easy to read (you can understand the situation) also if the pen trace is good and well preserved.

I am wondering if some of these new AI tools can help me transcribe them. I don't expect an automatic transcription, but any help would be welcome 😊

The economics of how tech jobs get created and how layoffs happen is worth understanding if you're not sure how AI might fit into it.

00:00 Previously on ‪@InternetOfBugs‬ vs AI 01:50 Caveats: US Only, not Gaming 02:33 Building vs Maintaining 03:46 How Projects get funded 05:08 Hiring process 07:42 How the last decade or so has been unusual 10:26 How AI might change that 11:19 Enter the Stock Market 12:47 How Layoffs get decided on 15:58 How to ride out the apparent downturn 21:37 Bad advice from people who have never experienced a downturn 24:38 Resources on How to look for a job

#internetOfBugs

Media Bias/ Fact Check.

Executive Summary:

• Researchers in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have optimized Meta’s Llama model for specialized military and security purposes.
• ChatBIT, an adapted Llama model, appears to be successful in demonstrations in which it was used in military contexts such as intelligence, situational analysis, and mission support, outperforming other comparable models.
• Open-source models like Llama are valuable for innovation, but their deployment to enhance the capabilities of foreign militaries raises concerns about dual-use applications. The customization of Llama by defense researchers in the PRC highlights gaps in enforcement for open-source usage restrictions, underscoring the need for stronger oversight to prevent strategic misuse.