Tag archives for Grok
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 guilty one if 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…
SSDs are not magic—but YT shorts are somewhat dumb, too
Me: This YT short claims that a SSD might lose information over time if unplugged. It's not like it's RAM, but still electrons move around. However, even if plugged in,…
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 paper about the Boltzmann brain paradox, vulgarized by AI
In a very small nutshell, and quoting from Wikipedia, “The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it is probably more likely for a brain to spontaneously form, complete with a…
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…
Grok: Kidnapping by a state is lawful everywhere
Here’s the talk I just had with Grok: Me: In the US, like in most countries, courts consider the legality of the evidence submitted, and if such evidence was warrantless…
Patrick André de Hillerin vs Kimi și multe alte distracții cu AI
Niciodată nu mi-a plăcut Patrick André de Hillerin, însă am remarcat pe DCNews un articol care descrie argumentația lui PAH cum că am avea de-a face cu un abuz: Dublă…
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…
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),…
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…
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…
Žižek, l’inutile, contre l’IA, l’inutile
Il y a des crétins, et puis il y a des très gros couillons. Prenez ce que j'ai eu l'occasion de vivre aujourd'hui. En réplique à ça… 💬"Présentons la puissance…
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…
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…
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…
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…