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Master AI (Artificial Intelligence) Discussion/News Thread

xanalog said:
Current AI is but a bus-stop for human yearning for discovery, while we continue trudging through much hallucinations and bullshit.
But we would not have survived this long if we did not long for the next discovery bus-stop.

I am wishing in our next step into the future, AxiomMath AI leads our way.

Math whiz Carina Hong, a 24 year-old Stanford Ph.D dropout (but degrees from MIT/Oxford) is the founder of this new SF startup (valuation ~$300M).
AxiomMath has poached Meta FAIR lab of talent, along with bringing onboard renowned mathematician Prof. Ken Ono.
Yay!
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Anything to avoid math ngl
 
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Merriam-Webster has named 'slop' as their word of 2025.

In 2025, 'slop' can mean "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence."

apnews.com

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is 'slop'

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more generally to mean something of little value.
apnews.com apnews.com
 
AI reads a small copy and paste from a PDF (the PDF had readable text, I don't know why it pasted this mess) and gives a layman's explanation of the Dorctorese in the Analzing Doctors's analysis sent to my Examining Doctor of a recent PET scan:

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RayDunzl said:
AI reads a small copy and paste from a PDF (the PDF had readable text, I don't know why it pasted this mess) and gives a layman's explanation of the Dorctorese in the Analzing Doctors's analysis sent to my Examining Doctor of a recent PET scan:

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That text looks like some readable text if a PW was available (some simple things like Vigenere or different stuff) :cool:
 
Until now, I have not dipped into AI at all, never interacted with an LLM. I was planning to learn about them in a few months or so, and hopefully learn some GPU programming and advance my outdated knowledge of scientific computing (I haven't really programmed anything for about 25 years, and have always bought pre-built PCs). My home computer is dinky, a panic purchase from a local Best Buy when my previous computer died during the Covid-19 lockdown. I have been planning to get a new computer with lots of memory (64 or 128 GB) and a beefy CPU and GPU. I was not in any hurry, being preoccupied with a bunch of other things, until this past weekend.

Over the past weekend, I watched a bunch of YouTube videos about a big shift in computer memory and storage hardware availability, due to large demand for HBM2 for AI clouds. Also, prices for DDR5 have about tripled in the past month, while DDR4 prices have doubled. Prices for SSDs and GPUs have also jumped upward. Anyone expert who is tracking the supply chain situation, and have any understanding of what is likely to happen? Are the prices just due to panic buying and will return to semi-normal in a few months, or is this the end of chonky home computers as some YouTube video creators are predicting? (They claim we will all have to subscribe to AI and other cloud services in the future, while I would much prefer "Local AI" for privacy reasons).
 
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JustAnandaDourEyedDude said:
Anyone expert who is tracking the supply chain situation, and have any understanding of what is likely to happen? Are the prices just due to panic buying and will return to semi-normal in a few months, or is this the end of chonky home computers as some YouTube video creators are predicting? (They claim we will all have to subscribe to AI and other cloud services in the future, while I would much prefer "Local AI" for privacy reasons).
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It all depends on when/whether the AI bubble bursts. Hardware manufacturers are rejigging to follow the money, and that's in AI data centres now, not in consumer products. Expect anything containing silicon to get more expensive until the demand shifts again. Electricity prices are also rising in places with a data centre concentration.
 
A survey of 2000 UK residents indicated that lots of them had used AI for companionship, emotional support, and social interaction.

www.theguardian.com

Third of UK citizens have used AI for emotional support, research reveals

AI Security Institute report finds most common type of AI tech used was general purpose assistants such as ChatGPT and Amazon Alexa
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

This is the bar chart from the original source (https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/5-key-findings-from-our-first-frontier-ai-trends-report)
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Can't say that I've ever thought to ask Alexa to cheer me up. :) Bad news if you are training as a psychologist.
 
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diablo said:
Bad news if you are training as a psychologist.
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I wouldn't be so sure - that sort of self-medication seems to be making things worse for a number of those using it, validating delusions and encouraging more extreme behaviour. The worst cases have progressed to suicide or murder. We've yet to find out whether the overall effect is better or worse, but in the meantime there's plenty of opportunity for research.
 
somebodyelse said:
I wouldn't be so sure - that sort of self-medication seems to be making things worse for a number of those using it, validating delusions and encouraging more extreme behaviour. The worst cases have progressed to suicide or murder. We've yet to find out whether the overall effect is better or worse, but in the meantime there's plenty of opportunity for research.
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As Deep Thought might say, plenty of career opportunities for pundits and professional thinkers.
 
JustAnandaDourEyedDude said:
Until now, I have not dipped into AI at all, never interacted with an LLM. I was planning to learn about them in a few months or so, and hopefully learn some GPU programming and advance my outdated knowledge of scientific computing (I haven't really programmed anything for about 25 years, and have always bought pre-built PCs). My home computer is dinky, a panic purchase from a local Best Buy when my previous computer died during the Covid-19 lockdown. I have been planning to get a new computer with lots of memory (64 or 128 GB) and a beefy CPU and GPU. I was not in any hurry, being preoccupied with a bunch of other things, until this past weekend.

Over the past weekend, I watched a bunch of YouTube videos about a big shift in computer memory and storage hardware availability, due to large demand for HBM2 for AI clouds. Also, prices for DDR5 have about tripled in the past month, while DDR4 prices have doubled. Prices for SSDs and GPUs have also jumped upward. Anyone expert who is tracking the supply chain situation, and have any understanding of what is likely to happen? Are the prices just due to panic buying and will return to semi-normal in a few months, or is this the end of chonky home computers as some YouTube video creators are predicting? (They claim we will all have to subscribe to AI and other cloud services in the future, while I would much prefer "Local AI" for privacy reasons).
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At some point, people are going to realize just how much personal information they’re feeding into cloud-based AI chatbots. These systems already know more about you than you might be comfortable with, and once that really sinks in, the trend will shift toward running AI locally on your own computer. And as much as I hate to admit it because I’ve never been a Mac guy and still find basic things like window resizing annoying, Macs actually have a big advantage here. It’s not because they’re faster, but because of how they handle memory. Even a top of the line NVIDIA 5090 GPU has a small limit on how much data it can hold at once (32GB). Apple’s unified memory architecture lets the CPU and GPU share a single pool of memory 64 GB, 96 GB, or even 128 GB at high bandwidth. A large language model can sit entirely in that shared memory space, with no expensive copying between system RAM and VRAM. So while highend PCs still win on raw power, Macs quietly excel at running truly capable AI models locally and if privacy becomes the priority, that advantage is going to matter a lot more than people expect IMO.
 
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xanalog said:
There has been a few very good youtube tutorial links provided by members in this thread:
If I may suggest, please don't delay your start for interacting with LLM, any longer.;)
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I have been interacting heavily with all the best AI out there since almost day 1 and I can comfortably say I am already too late for what is inevitably coming ;)
 
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