Tag archives for Mistral
Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?
I’m not a huge fan of Kagi's products and services. Their web search is not free. Kagi Translate seems to be temporarily free, and it usually performs great translations, except…
The golden age of free LLM chatbots might soon end + BONUS
I'm trying to collect my thoughts on the current situation regarding the public availability of LLMs. This post comes as a quick follow-up to “Free AI coding agents are becoming…
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: 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…