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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Românii habar n-au cum vine gazul pe fir
Dacă prețul carburantului (benzină sau motorină) în România este printre cele mai mari din Europa (depășind prețurile din Austria și Suedia), vina aparține în exclusivitate politicilor premierului Bolojan, în speță…
Quick reads—7 links exactly
To supplement my previous set of links on Linux and AI, here's a cursory selection from what I read this morning via my RSS subscriptions in Capy Reader. Plus a…
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…
Am încercat să înțeleg acordul UE-MERCOSUR folosind boți
Prima întrebare pe care am pus-o boților: Presa românească nu pare capabilă să prezinte o analiză clară a avantajelor și dezavantajelor tratatului UE-MERCOSUR. Unul din vicepreședinții PE, Victor Negrescu, are…
We shouldn’t have forgotten Guantánamo
The BBC posted this, 20 hours ago: Guantánamo detainee paid 'substantial' compensation by UK to settle torture complicity case. Even if the case reached a financial settlement, he is “unable…
Stephan Pastis on a difference between AmE and BrE
I was puzzled by Pearls Before Swine's strip for Jan. 9, 2026: So I asked Claude: Me: What is this Pearls Before Swine strip supposed to play on? Is the…
More AI hysteria (and some tips)
When I wrote three days ago that I am literally sick of so much AI, the nullification of my Facebook account was still fresh. I didn’t pay much time to visit X, which…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…