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[–] [email protected] 155 points 1 week ago (7 children)

RX 7900 XTX is better because it has more x

[–] [email protected] 194 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The best thing about this is that it's also on the x-axis.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And they validated this data 4 times. It's really good data.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Actually, they only validated up to 4xs in the product name, so take the 5x result with a grain of salt, one of the Xs aren't validated.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

"Thanks Steve."

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago

X is deprecated. Use the RWayland 7900 WaylandTWayland instead.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's 50% more Xs ! You can beat this deal !

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This bad boy can fit so many X's in it

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But what about the xXx_RX_7900_xXx?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

But X is bad, as proved by Elon Musk - so it should be the other way around.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

That X is twice as much vram, which funny enough, is great for running ai models

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I switched to duckduckgo before this bullshit, but this would 100% make me switch if I hadn't already.

Who wants random ai gibberish to be the first thing they see?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If search engines don’t improve to address the AI problem, most of the Internet will be AI gibberish.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

I think that ship has sailed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

The internet as we knew it is doomed to be full of ai garbage. It's a signal to noise ratio issue. It's also part of the reason the fediverse and smaller moderated interconnected communities are so important: it keeps users more honest by making moderators more common and, if you want to, you can strictly moderate against AI generated content.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

DuckDuckGo started showing AI results for me.

I think it uses the bing engine iirc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Sure, but it's trivial to turn it off. While you're there, also turn off ads.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like the advice you'd get in the first three comments asking a question on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I wonder where they trained the AI model to answer such a question lol.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Don't forget the glue on the pizza

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A.I. or Assumed Intelligence

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's pretty much it. It just assumes what the next word should be.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Its not artificial intelligence, its artificial idiocy

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Nah. It's real idiocy.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here is what kagi delivers with the same prompt:

NB: quick answer is only generated when ending your search with a question mark

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Problem is, you cannot trust it's not hallucinating these stats

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And even if it's showing the correct number, you can't be sure how trustworthy the source is.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

At least it's citing sources and you can check to make sure. And from my anecdotal evidence it has been pretty good so far. It also told me on some occasions that the queried information was not found in it's sources instead of just making something up. But it's not perfect for sure, it's always better to do manual research but for a first impression and to find some entry points I've found it useful so far

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The problem is that you need to check those sources today make sure it's not just making up bullshit and at that point you didn't gain anything from the genai

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

That being said, I can't trust MKBHD is not hallucinating either.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

its not completely useless... i only asked copilot one thing and it worked; 'how do i remove or completely disable copilot'

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Well, I'm sated.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

7900 XTX; more powerful, therefore better.

7900 XT; cheaper, therefore better.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It goes without saying that this shit doesn't really understand what's outputting; it's picking words together and parsing a grammatically coherent whole, with barely any regard to semantics (meaning).

It should not be trying to provide you info directly, it should be showing you where to find it. For example, linking this or this*.

To add injury in this case it isn't even providing you info, it's bossing you around. Typical Microsoft "don't inform a user, tell it [yes, "it"] what it should be doing" mindset. Specially bad in this case because cost vs. benefit varies a fair bit depending on where you are, often there's no single "right" answer.

*OP, check those two links, they might be useful for you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

LLMs don't "understand" anything, and it's unfortunate that we've taken to using language related to human thinking to talk about software. It's all data processing and models.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

ChatGPT4o can do some impressive and useful things. Here, Im just sending it a mediocre photo of a product with no other context, I didnt type a question. First, its identifying the subject, a drink can. Then its identifying the language used. Then its assuming I want to know about the product so its translating the text without being asked, because it knows I only read english. Then its providing background and also explaining what tamarind is and how it tastes. This is enough for me to make a fully informed decision. Google translate would require me to type the text in, and then would only translate without giving other useful info.

It was delicious.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Google: ok so the AI in search results is a good thing, got it!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

At the very least it failed in a way that's obvious by giving you contradictory statements. If it left you with only the wrong statements, that's when "AI" becomes really insidiuos.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I checked it, it’s true. Side note: it’s “the saté of AI.” FTFY. From what I’ve heard it’s even better than 🍿to sit back and watch this farce unfold.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

SearXNG only returns results search engines agree on. That removes ads and this bullshit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Am i guessing it right that the XTX uses 50% more energy for the 20% more power?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That's generally how it goes at the very top of capacity yes.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not useless, it's saying you can't afford the better quality product you dirty, dirty poor.

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