Tag archives for Grok
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…
AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news
I'm not genuinely captivated by the AI; quite the opposite is closer to the truth. But given the hundreds of billions invested so far in AI and the hysteria that…
Le Chat Mistral: Se iau 2-3 mazări mari, se taie în felii subțiri…
Pentru că tocmai v-am îndemnat să instalați toți chatboții majori pe telefon, hai să vă dau și un exemplu de tâmpenie marca AI. Ce poate fi mai inocent decât o…
Computerul zice da. Oamenii zic nu.
De când am scris The suicide of the car industry nu am mai insistat pe tema monștrilor de pe șosele. YouTube se pare că mă cunoaște însă, așa că mi-a…
Învățăturile lui Nea Guță Basarab către părinții de adolescenți
Știu că visez frumos când spun că „soluția este educația, nu cenzura”, dar cred cu tărie că cenzura nu este o soluție pentru nici o problemă. Simțul critic sau spiritul…
Încă un mic eșec al agenților AI
E un test microscopic, nu oricât de relevant, dar care m-a agasat. Cum am mai spus-o în câteva rânduri, una din utilizările pe care le dau acestor chatbots de toată…
Saponins from Edible Legumes, Grok, and You
To prove that I am not 100% against Generative AI, I spent exactly 5 minutes to feed Grok a random study, ask it about the gist of it, then demand…
Varoufakis believes in the Tooth Fairy, and in Putin’s word
🗓️ Posted on March 12, 🎞️ Yanis Varoufakis on Why European Rearmament Will Weaken Europe. Transcript: Hello, this is the 10th of March 2025, and I'm Yanis Varoufakis with my…
The Suwałki Gap, aka the Suwałki corridor, is no corridor at all!
I tried to understand what's the deal with the Suwałki Gap, which sometimes is called a corridor, and the mainstream sources were of no help. The Wikipedia article about it…
Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs
I had a strange experience with Claude yesterday, and it made me reanalyze the reliability and the practical availability of the main AI chatbots freely available online. It’s by no…
The Orange Apocalypse and the EU + 5 Updates!
The abundance of analysts is beginning to tire me. For example, Ștefan Popescu from SNSPA: is this guy merely a realist, or is he also a defeatist and an ass-licker,…