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Venice, Wyoming—home of the AI
There was a talk about Venice AI in a couple of comments, exactly five months ago. For a reason I can’t even explain to myself, I revisited this useless AI…
So-called neuroscientist: we don’t have visual memories but reconstruct them à la ChatGPT
This is the teaser that got me into this: Cognitive scientist Elan Barenholtz says memory isn't retrieval. It's you remember something, you're not accessing a stored file. You're prompting your…
The Great AI Leap Forward: To panic or not to panic?
I’m not sure that I should be doing this, but I collected some recent news on AI, on which I’d like to add some minimal comments. I’ll start with quick…
🤖 Gemini CLI is a hit-and-miss
The other day, I stumbled over this news: Google releases Gemini CLI with free Gemini Pro. Now, of course, the real information is that I should head to and see…
Copilot, Mistral, Gpt4All: more AI letdowns. Back to Claude?
I hesitated about writing this post, as I tend to pay too much attention to those bloody chatbots. But even so, there are many “improvements” in them that I miss,…
I asked AI how to fix America’s “undocumented” millions
Triggered by the current events in LA, but not mentioning anything about Trump’s deployment of the National Guard, I asked a couple of chatbots if they see a logical solution…
The zombified Claude Explains, and more Anthropic shit
When Claude Explains, then it doesn't anymore! I’m not sure when was it that Anthropic launched its Claude Explains sort of blog, but between June 3 and 5 every single…
Trying to understand the stupid Chinese AI censorship
Western-made AI agents generally censor stuff based on a set of rules regarding “public safety” (violence, drugs, pornography, terrorism, nuclear weapons, etc.) or copyright (ChatGPT refused to draw Winnie-the-Pooh for…
Cât de inutil poate fi AI
Sorry for posting this in Romanian, but it should be machine-translatable quite well. OK, să zicem că aud o melodie la radio, iar Shazam o identifică astfel (SoundHound nu găsește…
Meet the retarded prophet of the AI Apocalypse
I’ve been made aware of AI 2027, a completely useless intellectual masturbation by Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, and Romeo Dean. Unfortunately, such a huge pile of…
Claude’s dirty secrets and… Grok would kill for money!
A couple of days ago, in Ars Technica: Hidden AI instructions reveal how Anthropic controls Claude 4. This is about the independent AI researcher Simon Willison having published a detailed…
🤩 Claude can now search the Web for everybody!
This is an unannounced feature. I just discovered by accident that “Web search” can now be enabled in both the browser and the app, and it works! When Claude 4…
The questionable industry of online AI training gig jobs
Let me start by abruptly inserting the text that I fed some chatbots with. It goes as follows: Years ago, various online jobs that didn't require much expertise bar a…
Vibe coding just got cheaper
I hate vibe coding, but how I feel is irrelevant. The world is a broken hamster wheel, and it spins faster and faster. After OpenAI's Codex, there’s a new “bug…
Claude 4 is here!
All of a sudden, Claude 4 has been released to everyone. Read the official announcement: Introducing Claude 4. As expected, it's all bells and whistles. More accurate and better than…
I quickly tested Manus AI: I guess it has potential
When I mentioned Manus AI almost four weeks ago (at number 8), I wasn't thrilled by the business model because it lacked a free tier. Now it sort of almost…
Codex, OpenAI’s new bug factory
There was a lot of talk about this shit, and now it went live: Introducing Codex: “A cloud-based software engineering agent that can work on many tasks in parallel, powered…
AI is already vibe enslaving us
Time and again, we're told that AI hallucinates, that it's unreliable, that it can't write reliable code, nor could it replace meaningful jobs. And yet… Satya Nadella, on April 29,…
China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…
There are only a few thoughts that I wanted to express since some time already. Nothing too fancy, just some basic ideas. My recent “love for China” started before the…
Those analysts still don’t get it
I just happened to read this opinion by Quinn Slobodian in The Guardian: “MAGA’s sinister obsession with IQ is leading us towards an inhuman future.” Yes, it does. Of course…