Having dealt extensively with British Gas staff over the past year I absolutely believe that claim. Their human staff are uniquely stupid, obstructive, rude and useless. An AI that can only tell you … (View Post)

The Chinese ethos of cheaply training 'trailing-edge' models is a sensible one I believe, because the performance of LLMs is starting the plateau. So the gap between a US frontier model and… (View Post)

They're already doing so, which is a problem as both OpenAI and Anthropic have enormous financial commitments that require constant, rapid growth to sustain. Despite AI's numerous problems … (View Post)

Absolutely agree. I visited Edinburgh a few years ago for the first time in decades and the buses were a revelation. Modern, tidy, incredibly frequent, polite helpful drivers and nice information scr… (View Post)

It's quite concerning level crossing safety signals can actually fail in such way. I would have expected the system to keep the lights at red unless it had an indication the barrier and alarms h… (View Post)