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Also interesting. Do you happen to know if once they've used those thousands of contractors to teach the model something like Blender (or some similar app) using RL, when they t…
by computerdork · Oct 6, 2026
Yeah but they are already RL'd too. No doubt you can further improve an RL'd model by doing your own better RL on top of that. But it's not going to be the same as starting with…
by redox99 · Oct 6, 2026
It strikes me that heavy AI agent users have an extraordinarily high risk tolerance for identity theft, privacy breaches and data loss vs. perceived productivity. Far beyond wha…
by parasubvert · Oct 6, 2026
Excerpts from Mark Smotherman's ACS site [1] ... > To achieve a profit for the ACS program, Amdahl asked IBM management to approve three ACS/360 models: the high-performanc…
by boisterousness · Oct 6, 2026
There have been previous "we will release the model" when the model release never comes in the past. I think the comment you are replying to is unnecessarily hostile too though.
by nl · Oct 6, 2026
This is literally what the labs have been doing over the past year. The whole idea of emergence is a lie, there is some interpolation and superhuman long evaluations the models…
by efficient_dairy · Oct 6, 2026
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A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin modulus, 'a measure'. Read more on Wikipedia