Tag archives for AI
AI despre aventura ANAF cu blockchain
Știre: Statul român pune bonurile fiscale pe blockchain, ca ANAF să poată verifica datele direct într-un registru digital validat criptografic: Ministerul Finanțelor și Serviciul de Telecomunicații Speciale s-au apucat să…
AI Quickie: How strict are Arab countries compared to Iran?
Since the Islamic Revolution, the regime in Iran has been seen as extremely strict and oppressive: Sharia, fewer rights for women, the Ayatollah as the supreme leader that overrides the…
AI Quickie: The drone question
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the war has evolved towards the massive use of two types of drones: The Shahed/Gheran type, which are rather “old school” and…
I might not be human, after all
I just took this quiz in The New York Times: Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. It involves choosing, for each of the five pairs of…
Long live the Democratic People’s Republic of California!
Just as I thought that the worst thing that could happen to humankind and the worst possible thing in America was Donald J. Trump, wokism in Socialist California struck again!…
Millions are listening to fake music and they are enjoying it!
On YouTube, there are thousands of channels with the following characteristics: They stream music 24/7 or for 2, 3, 8, 12 hours, after which they create another live stream that…
Sam Altman in India, and other AI news
❶ The Indian Express hosted a Q&A session with Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO. As usual, this lunatic has proven his brain damage. The most discussed and criticized answer was the…
Să-l sărbătorim pe Grok 4.20, care se descurcă și la limbi!
În ultima vreme am testat Grok 4.20 (Beta), pe care l-am găsit destul de bun. Se pare că pornește 4 agenți, din care 3 desfășoară investigații paralele, iar al patrulea…
The law says you’re responsible for the snow on sidewalks. Why?
There is a thing that bothers me in “civilized countries”: if someone breaks their neck while on a public sidewalk that you don’t own, you’re the one at fault if…
Am discutat scurt cu Gemini despre ninsoarea din București
Începută cu o nedumerire legată de volumul ninsorii, discuția cu Gemini s-a încheiat cu o scurtă interacțiune (o întrebare, un răspuns) care s-a referit la principii, nu doar la insuficiența…
Chatbots are mostly clueless regarding the game of GO
I was visiting Reddit for a Linux-related topic, when a thread from r/baduk was suggested to me: How is this a real eye? This is an elementary eye viability recognition…
AI and more on the Japanese note.com
I just discovered note, a popular Japanese blogging and content-sharing platform that allows users to create and publish articles, entire blogs, illustrations, photos, and videos. While in some regards it…
Two Debian developers’ ignominious fight with AI
There are a lot of things generative AI can be blamed for, but some people seem to take this issue personally. It also seems to me that people are not…
Reassessing the usefulness of major LLMs
I keep being disappointed by major chatbots. You see, it's not enough if such an LLM knows about those newfangled frameworks or programming languages; it has to know, or to…
A Big Beautiful Bullshit List
There are still Luddites on Earth, which is good news! Unfortunately, they have no power, and the overcomplexification of everything is going to continue. But yesterday I was stunned to…
The futile quest for the last cheap laptop with enough RAM
In a previous post, in the chapter “On RAM prices because of the AI madness,” I explored the possibility of purchasing a cheap laptop with 24 GB or 32 GB…
Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend
There are hundreds and hundreds of titles that I notice every week; some of them led me to reading the respective articles, but very few of them trigger a post…
Spusele și nespusele lui Rughiniș cu privire la AI
Cătălin Striblea mi-e extrem de antipatic. Răzvan Rughiniș nu mi-e nicicum, dar îi detest barba prinsă într-o codiță. Omul este extrem de knowledgeable, dar e cu pluta. Pe de altă…
I asked a few chatbots about a possible nightmare scenario
“Let's imagine the following scenario. Ten years from now, the world will have had a generalization of GenAI in all forms, and people will almost exclusively acquire information from AI…
AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026
Resolutions are meant to be broken, but I’m trying to simplify my life. I intend to stop the distro-hopping and even to stop caring about any new distros. Keeping up…