Tag archives for Grok
AI despre aventura ANAF cu blockchain
Știre: Statul român pune bonurile fiscale pe blockchain, ca ANAF să poată verifica datele direct într-un registru digital validat criptografic: Ministerul Finanțelor și Serviciul de Telecomunicații Speciale s-au apucat să…
AI Quickie: How strict are Arab countries compared to Iran?
Since the Islamic Revolution, the regime in Iran has been seen as extremely strict and oppressive: Sharia, fewer rights for women, the Ayatollah as the supreme leader that overrides the…
AI Quickie: Kubuntu vs. Fedora KDE
I have an uncertainty relative to the opportunity of sticking to Fedora over using Ubuntu, and this goes beyond the obvious. The obvious is this: Should I want stability and…
AI Quickie: The drone question
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the war has evolved towards the massive use of two types of drones: The Shahed/Gheran type, which are rather “old school” and…
Grok m-a lămurit cum funcționează de fapt frigiderele
Există o mare diferență între gândirea unui inginer electronist și cea a unui inginer frigotehnist din secolul 21, iar următoarea discuție cu Grok mi-a permis în cele din urmă să…
Arguing with Grok 4.20 (Beta) about Fedora
Since Grok seems to be very generous with me on its free layer these days, I thought of chatting with it about some aspects I never quite understood or accepted…
SJVN and the fragile bazaar
In a recent opinion column in The Reg, SJVN describes a severe problem that open-source software is facing today, namely the burnout of the (unpaid) software developers: Feeling the burn:…
Să-l sărbătorim pe Grok 4.20, care se descurcă și la limbi!
În ultima vreme am testat Grok 4.20 (Beta), pe care l-am găsit destul de bun. Se pare că pornește 4 agenți, din care 3 desfășoară investigații paralele, iar al patrulea…
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 one at fault if…
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…