Tag archives for AI
Claude Desktop for Linux: I didn’t even know it existed!
Correction: I didn’t even know about Claude Desktop for Windows and macOS! Or, if I knew, I guess I might have believed it was only available for paying customers. While…
A blast from the past: how AI failed me
Here’s the comic strip Blondie, by Dean Young & John Marshall, for the day of December 5, 2025: Doesn’t it remind you of anything? You must be too young then.…
One more retarded Swiss chatbot: Euria
That is, even more retarded than Proton’s Lumo, which is opaque as to which LLMs are used, and unbelievably dumb. But the Swiss persevere: Euria: the free, sovereign AI assistant…
Șase scurte note despre AI
Firește, nu este doar impresia mea că LLM-urile astea de uz general devin tot mai stupide. Probabil că sunt mai mulți factori care contribuie la acest fenomen, de la „AI…
Cum „vorbesc” boții prostănaci limba română + English update
Pentru că am postat pe FB un link la o discuție cu Copilot, iar acea discuție începea cu „Mi se pare mie, sau serialul The Knick a fost uitat destul…
On the AI Apocalypse: ARTE documentaries & NYT interviews
“Big Tech is bad. Big AI will be worse.” It already is! Obviously, it's all about controlling us. When this is not enough, AI will replace (some of) us. “Democratic…
One more interview with Geoffrey Hinton
I’m bored to death by such pieces of crap: 98 minutes of chit-chatting. As if life weren’t already too short! AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The…
The next level of AI crap: lab robots
You wouldn't believe for what reason such a thing happened: Top A.I. Researchers Leave OpenAI, Google and Meta for New Start-Up. Here's the thing: Dr. Agarwal is among more than…
Lumo is beyond stupid. Don’t use it!
I never liked Lumo, but out of curiosity (or because of the cat mascot), I happen to ask it something or other once in a while. Recently, it gave me…
Minor updates in Copilot and Grok
I just noticed two updates in two of the 12 chatbots I'm using. Copilot now has 5 choices in a browser (Quick response, Think Deeper, Study and Learn, Smart (GPT-5),…
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is here!
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is now available to anyone! Read the official announcement: Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5. Have some nice marketing images, too: From what I could see as a free…
Kimi’s useless “OK Computer” agent
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 is now enriched with an agent mode called “OK Computer”: Say hi to OK Computer, Kimi's agent mode 🤖🎸Your AI product & engineering team, all in…
A practical everyday puzzle: will AI solve it?
Here's a genuine problem, as per the drawing: A person who shopped at a supermarket is at point A. They could go take the bus either from the bus stop…
My chatbot use in the last week
In the last seven days, I needed to use several chatbots for personal reasons (no coding or anything) slightly more intensively than usual, and I was curious with regard to…
Some new AI shit: bric-à-brac
Nothing spectacular, and I wanted to report about all this stuff about a week ago, but personal issues prevented me from doing that. So here it is (better later than…
Claude’s new policies: a tempest in a teapot
Or is it a storm in a teacup? Either way, some people are hysteric for no good reason. Just as it has been reported by The Register, Anthropic is changing…
Google’s “nano-banana” & some Nvidia shit
I wasn't aware of Gemini's upgraded image editing capabilities based on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (aka nano-banana), “our state-of-the-art image generation and editing model.” It was announced on their blog,…
A chat about stablecoins, and pessimism regarding AI
I still don't believe in stablecoins! For the first topic, a bit of context. CNBC, on August 20: Crypto firms urge UK to form national stablecoin strategy to avoid falling…
Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI
Proton launches privacy-respecting encrypted AI assistant Lumo Proton has launched a new tool called Lumo, offering a privacy-first AI assistant that does not log user conversations and doesn't use their…
Kimi and Z.AI: The more Chinese, the merrier!
The Gold Rush on AI is so unbelievable, that I missed the fact that Moonshot AI is backed by Alibaba through a $1 billion funding, literally playing on two fronts.…