odd little souls

I hear that Gamestop (of meme stock fame) is keen to buy eBay. Suddenly eBay absolutely requires cookies to work. I really don't like sites using cookies to second guess me and furthermore, potentially using cookies to inflate prices. So I've switched to finding what interests me, strip the URL to the item to a bare minimum (everything after and including that first '?'), copy the URL to Notepad, and later, if I still want it, use the URL to navigate straight to the item (after I've erased my browsing history and restarted my browser).

Unlike where LLM's are used to generate texts, programs or images, where reams of slop output are at best a nuisance and at worst an impediment, when LLM's like Anthropic's Mythos model are asked to find flaws in cyber security, it only has to be right once in a while to churn out a lot of serious vulnerabilities.

That said, I'm hearing that LLM's are continuing to improve and that automated research is looking like a probable outcome, and not "research papers" of the fake variety that have no basis in reality. It would be nice to finally get a review of available data and compare the dentition of wild bears vs captive bears vs diet. My suspicion is that a diet high in cereal content rots the teeth in captive bears.



The outcome I'd like to see is to be able to get a LLM to design and build a realistic talking and walking plush pony using available hardware, like Raspberry pi's. That would be an upside if the "AI robot revolution" actually happens. Robot pets. And also a downside. Already alarmists are griping about chatbot addictions interfering with people's ability to deal with messy everyday person to person interactions.


Source: http://cannibalus.deviantart.com/art/SweetieBot-does-not-like-cats-442132308

Custom robotics notwithstanding, for universal automation to enable a universal utopia divorced from the monetary economy to which we are presently shackled, there has to be first a state sponsored universal basic income, free universal healthcare, free education up to and including higher education, free transportation and a universal creative commons for all intellectual property. Otherwise we will continue to worsen the present 'utopia for billionaires' and deepening poverty for everybody else.


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN114Cq4fv4