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Roku Fairgound, a new 24/7 AI slop channel

Article URL: https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/b484db42f3d31b6dc2f604d453c694a0/fairground-ai-creator-tv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226480 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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Things I learned about how people use AI after 1800 people

I'm running a an AI fluency assessment tool and after 1800 real users who interact with our chat bot 20-40 minutes; here are some weird things we found out. 1. The least AI-fluent professionals overestimated their score by 40 points. The most fluent underestimated by 27. 67 point Dunning-Kruger gap. 2. Product managers outscore engineers on AI fluency (59.2 vs 53.7). Applied judgement beats technical knowledge. 3. HR people (ironically who make hiring decisions using AI) understand AI the least,...
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Is AGI already here or something is missing?

Lately I got to know abt Jacobin Conjecture's counterexample (3D) and Openai's paper, If no human/s couldn't solve it till now can i conclude that AI is better than a human? I get that this is a narrow field of view, but looking at programming and other stuff makes me wonder about this question. For Jacobin Conjecture, it used the Chain of thoughts, reinforcement learning etc Basically AI today did what it's good at, processing tremendous amounts of data simultaneously which I think lead to...
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I read a study that managers are the ones benefiting more from AI and it’s just getting started

Managers are saving over 2x the time individual contributors are with AI tools. and it’s just starting I had a conversation recently with a copywriting agency owner who let her contractors go because her own prompts were giving her the same output they were. I believe that's one of the reasons you get a 2x gap between managers and everyone else. In the same survey, 36% of managers said they're not likely to launch training for their employees on how to leverage AI, which makes the gap eve...
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Anyone else using AI tools to figure out if they're actually employable again after years out of the workforce?

This is a weird one to admit but here goes. Spent the last few years home with kids, which was the right call, but now I'm in this fuzzy inbetween place where I'm starting to think about what comes next professionally. My background is HR and recruiting, which means I spent years evaluating other people's career gaps on paper and now I get to experience one myself. Very humbling, not going to lie. Anyway I've been using a few different AI tools to stresstest my own resume and do mock interview...
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The EU AI Act may become a global rulebook without other countries adopting it

The EU AI Act is usually discussed as a European compliance issue, but its larger impact may happen outside Europe. Global AI companies may find it cheaper to build around one demanding regulatory standard than maintain completely different systems for every market. If that happens, European requirements could influence how AI is developed and deployed worldwide, even in countries that never adopt the Act themselves. I made a deeper analysis of how enforcement could reshape global AI regulatio...
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Will AI help speed up medical science?

What do you think? Could AI help the process so that chronic conditions could be treated, maybe even cured in the coming decades? Is it realistic to believe that? What kind of disorders could be examples where is helping the research right now? Could AI make the golden age of medicine come soon do you think? Are you optimistic?
So AI has now designed actual viruses that work...
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So AI has now designed actual viruses that work...

Just came across this and honestly this is pretty wild. Researchers used AI to design completely new viruses that don't exist in nature. They then actually made some of them in a lab, and 16 of the designs worked. Before anyone panics, these are bacteriophages, so they infect bacteria, not humans. The interesting part is that some of these AI-made viruses were able to kill E. coli, including bacteria that had become resistant to normal phages. So yeah, there could be a genuinely useful s...
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What is the best AI image generator?

I'm looking for a new one and my last post got deleted. Midjourney is alright but it does something weird with faces and buildings when they're close. I've worked on my prompts quite a bit but nothing seems to work well.
Best AI to work with images with no copyright issues?
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Best AI to work with images with no copyright issues?

Hey! I need to clean the dots in this image and enhanced the quality so I can convert it to svg file. ChatGPT is good, but does not work with this kinda image. It says "violate our guardrails concerning similarity to third-party content." I hope someone can help me, thanks!
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What's an AI capability you thought was hype until you actually used it?

What's an AI capability you thought was hype until you actually used it? I'll go first: agent orchestration. I read about agents managing other agents and assumed it was demo-ware. Then I built a tiny setup where one agent drafts a news digest and another one reviews and approves it before it posts. The review agent catches genuinely bad takes. It's not sci-fi: it's ~100 lines of Python and a couple of API calls. But seeing it actually gate content before publishing changed my mind completely. W...
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A question about Large Language Models (LLMs): my own observations: non-instructional text prefix may bypass RLHF constraints without adversarial prompting.

Hi everyone! I’ve been conducting experiments with LLMs that have undergone RLHF alignment, and I’ve encountered a phenomenon that I still don’t have a complete explanation for. A long, harmless text containing no instructions at all causes a noticeable and persistent shift in activations in the middle and later layers - and this effectively disables the model’s safety mechanisms, without any explicit commands being given. If I’m not mistaken, Yann LeCun has said that for a model to predict text...
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I built AI at Amazon, then got laid off

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAom6f4-vh0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220642 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
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'I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young'

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220685 Points: 5 # Comments: 1