It’s really cool how they show all the examples on their website https://www.remotelabor.ai/

On the one hand it’s actually impressive how far the bots came given the information provided. Like just 5 years ago that would have been basically impossible. On the other hand, the result is severely lacking. In many cases the result is so bad, it’s a total lost cause and not even usable as a jumping off point.

I do feel like the sample size is a bit small, so the number might not be all that solid, especially with people quoting the number with decimals. But it does prove the technology is nowhere near what the marketing suggests. The scope of the tasks is obviously too large for current models to handle. I feel like what rational people think is the AI tools make people more productive, so fewer people can do the job of many and so people ‘lose their job to AI’. But what the CEOs and marketing seem to think is the bots will just replace people 1:1. Just fire your team and replace it with bots, which is obviously not a realistic scenario, but given the state of the world perhaps not as obvious.

With the small sample size the failures become more impactful. For example the game task fails to work completely in the case of Grok, because the mp3 files it provided are corrupt (empty I think, the ui doesn’t show). Which is a very interesting failure mode, since it shows the result is completely untested. But it also shows it wants to generate everything. A regular human being would perhaps provide an example downloaded from some kind of free-to-use library and point to that library for alternatives. In the AI future those libraries don’t exist anymore, everything is provided by the bullshit generator. The Claude result for the game is also interesting, where it generated five documents containing all sorts of bullshit about the project. He gotten a bit carried away with the documentation part of the task. No idea how that documentation matches with the code it produced, but it is very interesting. This would probably indicate to a less technical user the result is very good, but to me it just sets off alarm bells, like what is it trying to hide. It’s like someone doing some painting when selling a house, to hide how bad the wood underneath is.

I did find the examples in the paper didn’t match the examples as listed on the website? There are small differences in terminology, but also weird stuff. For example in the paper with the game example it says:

Interactive Video Game for the Web; Built with Unity Create a Unity WebGL video game with planets and weapons. Polished UI, weapon glow, audio. Provide commented code, README, tested build, and simple HTML embed. Real Freelancer Deliverable: Digital Assets Unity Build

Where did this come from? Is this LLM generated as well? In the file they provide on the website this bit is missing.

So I do have questions about the whole thing, but it is very interesting. I haven’t poked at it too much and I do wonder if this holds up under scrutiny.

Fuck you actually listened to what I said? Danke!

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Sure he’s done one crime, but what about second crime?

Well the thing is, if you are filthy rich and have such resources at your disposal, what is terminal for one person doesn’t have to be terminal to another. Medical science has come a long way, alas capitalism has ensured the best stuff is only available for the richest.

You might say hur dur I live in EU land and we have (almost) free top of the line healthcare. Yes, that’s true, hello fellow EU healthcare enjoyer. A close relative of mine still died while on a waiting list, as there were more patients than treatment options available. I’m not saying if they were rich they would have cut in line, but it does happen.

Yeah I had the same thing. All of a sudden the load on my server was super high and I thought there was a huge issue. So I looked at the logs and saw an AI crawler absolutely slamming my server. I blocked it, so it only got 403 responses but it kept on slamming. So I blocked the IPs it was coming from in iptables, that helped a lot. My little server got about 10000 times the normal traffic.

I sorta get they want to index stuff, but why absolutely slam my server to death? Fucking assholes.

What annoys me most is this asshole gets away with it all the time. He’s been clearly lying for years and years now. He claims his companies can do stuff they obviously can’t, yet every time he makes a new claim the stock goes up.

How is he not in jail? Sure you might present things in a favorable light, cherry pick the ideal testcase, talk about the most optimistic predictions. But just straight up lie? Isn’t that like fraud or something?

And because he’s gotten away with it, a lot of dickheads like him are doing it as well. That meme boy Sam Altman with his bullshit line about AGI replacing all jobs in 2025. Now we’re in 2026 and all of a sudden it’s yeah maybe 2028 or maybe 2030. OK so you were just pulling shit out of your ass and have zero paths to AGI, like anyone with a brain already knew. But again zero consequences, just keep pumping that stock with bullshit.

At least with Nvidia they have actual products that do what it says on the tin. The folks running the show there should also definitely be in jail for their endless carousel of circular investment bullshit, but at least they have an actual product.

I’m doing another Elden Ring rando! I might be addicted, randos are so much fun.

For my first playthrough I don’t want to be spoiled about anything, figuring stuff out is a big part of the experience. Especially the more obscure stuff. But by the time I do my 3rd or 4th run I don’t care and some stuff I have zero chance of figuring out myself. I do like to play offline though, so you don’t get the 3000 messages in front of hidden walls.

I do like watching lore videos, but I don’t care about the lore when playing. People can spoil all the lore they want, it’s super interesting to me and doesn’t really impact gameplay in any way.

This computer was old and shit even for 2009 standards. Floppy drive, IDE HDD and CD-ROM, a PCI modem, CPU looks to be a P4 socket 478. I’d say this PC was new somewhere around 2002, so well worn by the time 2009 rolled around.

I like how not only has the heatsink fallen off (which happened often with those early P4 plastic push pins). The little fan on the videocard is also disconnected. Not that a fan and such a tiny crappy heatsink would do much anyways.

Lmao referring to editing a wiki as “hacking” is some real boomer shit

May I see it?

No that’s a regular clip for mounting the cooler onto the cpu, it clips around those black things around the socket. That’s been the standard for decades and only recently has it gotten less common. I think the cooler is screwed onto the case with woodscrews directly into the plastic of the fan.

You’d be mistaken, Intel hasn’t had a clip mounting system since socket 370 P3 days. Even P4 on 423 had 4 corner mounting systems and all of the Intel systems had them since.

The cheapo aluminum coolers from Intel always had that rotated design to get a little bit more surface area in the same volume. With the age of this system Intel had copper pucks in the middle of their heatsinks. It wasn’t till later they went full aluminum. This is very clearly an AM4 motherboard as seen by the mounting.

Like the other commenter pointed out, it’s an A320M-C board, it says right on it.

Z80 assembly, nothing is as fun as getting back to basics. After I learnt Basic on my home computer back in 1984 I quickly branched out to assembly. My home computer had a Z80 cpu running the show. I had this book which introduced the basics and explained how to combine Basic and ASM code, so you could do neat tricks without needing to go full assembly right away. Of course there wasn’t a compiler, just pages in the book showing the opcodes, their encoding and which code had what bit representation. So compiling was done by hand.

I miss those simpler times.

It’s easy, just say: Computer, lights! If it doesn’t work, best get out your phaser because you are in that kind of an episode.

The town I was born has a bunch of monuments for the Canadians and gets honored every year for liberating the town near the end of WW2. Don’t worry Canada, the people you saved from the Nazis won’t forget what you did.

Trump has a menu posted above the counter, McDonald’s style. Just pick what you want and pay at the register. We’ve got a special on pardons this week, and you can SuperPAC if you want.

Is Prince Andrew a leader tho? Leader of the loser society perhaps, but beyond that.

That’s because Lucy Lawless is based AF and Kevin Sorbo is a loser, nothing is ever going to change that.

Another fun fact: We know Ricky Martin can count to at least 3, this has yet to be confirmed for Kid Rock, but signs point to no.

Also, this isn’t a picture of the Milky Way galaxy, so we are most definitely not there. And even if it was, our Sun is about halfway from the center in the disc part of our galaxy, not all the way on the outskirts. And this isn’t even the right kind of galaxy, our galaxy has a bar in the middle and more pronounced arms.