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"Salesforce will not be hiring any more software engineers in 2025 amid significant productivity boosts from AI, Marc Benioff has revealed.

The CEO and founder of Salesforce told the 20VC with Harry Stebbings podcast that the cloud giant was in the midst of doing its business plan for next year, and Agentforce – the company’s flagship artificial intelligence product – was the “only thing that really matters today”.
 
Blade Runner said:
All the studies on creatine show pretty significant benefits, especially for people 60 and older.

It's one of the few supplements that actually is worth buying and taking. Fish oil and various other vitamins that might not be in the soil, and are cheap, would be further considerations.
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Fish oil is good because omega-3 fatty acids are not well represented in the modern American diet. Magnesium and zinc deficiencies are also very common due to the depletion of soils, and also people choosing ultra-processed foods over real food. Vitamin D is another one to consider if you don't go out in the sun much.
 
analyst_green said:
Fish oil is good because omega-3 fatty acids are not well represented in the modern American diet. Magnesium and zinc deficiencies are also very common due to the depletion of soils, and also people choosing ultra-processed foods over real food. Vitamin D is another one to consider if you don't go out in the sun much.
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I take creatine, fish oil, Vitamin D and Tumeric. Also drink at least 8oz of raw whole milk each day, tablespoon of olive oil, handful of blueberries, and try to eat Avacado, grapefruit and spinach each day (anything off most superfood listings). Rest of my calories, I try best to stick with meats (beef and chicken and eggs mostly), but I’ll still have the occasion processed meal, fastfood, cookies/treats and beer etc. I don’t deprive myself anything but shift the daily calories in a much more healthy ratio. When I go on a toxic food bender (like Thanksgiving day for example) and I notice I feel bad, then I just do a 24hr fast to reset the body. Think it’s working pretty well alot least for me. The secret is to consider treats (a soda, cookie, ice cream, Mc D’s burger etx) the rare and occasional treat (like once a week max ) and not part of the daily standard diet.
 
bubs said:
I take creatine, fish oil, Vitamin D and Tumeric. Also drink at least 8oz of raw whole milk each day, tablespoon of olive oil, handful of blueberries, and try to eat Avacado, grapefruit and spinach each day (anything off most superfood listings). Rest of my calories, I try best to stick with meats (beef and chicken and eggs mostly), but I’ll still have the occasion processed meal, fastfood, cookies/treats and beer etc. I don’t deprive myself anything but shift the daily calories in a much more healthy ratio. When I go on a toxic food bender (like Thanksgiving day for example) and I notice I feel bad, then I just do a 24hr fast to reset the body. Think it’s working pretty well alot least for me. The secret is to consider treats (a soda, cookie, ice cream, Mc D’s burger etx) the rare and occasional treat (like once a week max ) and not part of the daily standard diet.
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Lol, thought I was responding under the Health and fitness thread..
 

The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world. This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies.

The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with SoftBank having financial responsibility and OpenAI having operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman.

Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners. The buildout is currently underway, starting in Texas, and we are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as we finalize definitive agreements.

As part of Stargate, Oracle, NVIDIA, and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system. This builds on a deep collaboration between OpenAI and NVIDIA going back to 2016 and a newer partnership between OpenAI and Oracle.

This also builds on the existing OpenAI partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional compute to train leading models and deliver great products and services.
 
In all seriousness, I fear that very evil people and institutions are going to harness this AI power in order to create bio-weapons that absolutely nothing can stop. Never forget that they want us all dead.
 
So which free AI do you all find the best/most accurate? Which can you access as a guest/anonymous without creating an account? So I started with ChatGPT for about 2 years, then in last few months switched to MS Copilot. Copilot is far from perfect but seems improved over Chat GPT (free version). I have no interest in paying a fee. Is there something better I should try? I also would love to not have data collection but realize that’s probably impossible.
 
This depends on what you're trying to do. Generate images? Use a robot as a friend substitute? Use 'intelligent' search?

Keep in mind that none of the LLMs is completely free from hallucinating - it can give you a response that looks meaningful but has little connection to reality, such as a cat with 6 paws and 2 tails or recommend a drug from Philip Kindred Dick novel as a treatment for disease.

P.S. "AI" is a word journalists made up to generate hype. There are many artificial things about many-variable statistical models, but, alas, nothing intelligent.
 
OrthodoxWanderer said:
This depends on what you're trying to do. Generate images? Use a robot as a friend substitute? Use 'intelligent' search?

Keep in mind that none of the LLMs is completely free from hallucinating - it can give you a response that looks meaningful but has little connection to reality, such as a cat with 6 paws and 2 tails or recommend a drug from Philip Kindred Dick novel as a treatment for disease.

P.S. "AI" is a word journalists made up to generate hype. There are many artificial things about many-variable statistical models, but, alas, nothing intelligent.
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I’ve only been using it as a more efficient method to get questions answered and problems resolved (like using YouTube for DIY home repairs and troubleshooting root causes of problems). So what AI is most reliable and recommended?
 
An LLM then. I'm tempted to answer that the most reliable is the pre-trained model you can run locally, but when it comes to LLMs, they're so huge that even running it on your own machine (without training) takes a powerful system. If you do have such a system, you can play with LLaMa and use a few different models.
 
I have a friend who enjoys perplexity, it is an AI that strictly uses real search engine results. I've tried ChatGPT on and off for troubleshooting problems, but honestly, real humans helped more than the AI. I was having a problem with my cpu overheating and I did many many things suggested by the AI, but ultimately I was able to solve the problem after watching one human video that suggested messing with your power options (which happened to be the culprit). That suggestion never came up by the AI. I find myself using AI less and less for serious stuff and I only use it for occasional things where it isn't as important to me if I get the God's honest truth.
 
I go back and forth. I love the efficiency of AI if it gives accurate advice, but frustrated when it does not. Then internet searches and YouTube can be more reliable but AFTER you have to read several websites and videos so that takes longer. I love the fact I don’t have to constantly bug people /Subject matter experts all the time. But sometimes the expert can give quick and immediately perfect advice. It’s all give and take. AI just needs to get better. That’s why I was asking “which is the best/most reliable” at this 2025 point in time.
 
OrthodoxWanderer said:
An LLM then. I'm tempted to answer that the most reliable is the pre-trained model you can run locally, but when it comes to LLMs, they're so huge that even running it on your own machine (without training) takes a powerful system. If you do have such a system, you can play with LLaMa and use a few different models.
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So this is first Ive heard of LLaMa so thanks for sharing. Seems you can access it free thru meta.Al and don’t have to sign up or subscribe. I’ll give that a try vs CoPilot (which I found better than ChatGPT).
 
bubs said:
So this is first Ive heard of LLaMa so thanks for sharing. Seems you can access it free thru meta.Al and don’t have to sign up or subscribe. I’ll give that a try vs CoPilot (which I found better than ChatGPT).
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LoL, I did my same test asking Meta.Al “provide the rank order of Rolling Stones albums from best to worst”. It did a reasonable job with the rankings, however at the end it stated “please note that this is based on one experts opinion”. I then asked “Who is the one expert?” It then answered “I apologize, it is a ranking from various reputable sources” then went on to list 3-4 of the sources.

So yet another AI lying to the human right off the bat on first try. I’m sticking with CoPilot just due to familiarity for now.
 
The one consistent pattern I’ve noticed between ChatGPT, Meta.AI and CoPilot, is they all provide a false sense of confidence in the info. they provide to a human inquiry or question, then when you question them on it, or ask follow up questions, all 3 apologize, and go on to provide a different answer. Ugh, I want to find a reliable one that doesn’t come across like a typical smug know-it-all that isn’t correct half the time.
 
I don’t mean to be overloading the conversation on this thread but have findings I thought to share. So interesting that MetaAI (and assuming all competitors are doing the same), is they are trying to balance providing accurate information, with creating positive interactions experience for humans (i.e not just a tool, but a companion). Sort of the concept it’s better to tell a white lie if it avoids conflict or causes the person negative feelings. To me that is disturbing, as it seems they think replacing human interactions will be the better business model for these companies vs making a highly reliable and efficient tool for people.
 
bubs said:
I don’t mean to be overloading the conversation on this thread but have findings I thought to share. So interesting that MetaAI (and assuming all competitors are doing the same), is they are trying to balance providing accurate information, with creating positive interactions experience for humans (i.e not just a tool, but a companion). Sort of the concept it’s better to tell a white lie if it avoids conflict or causes the person negative feelings. To me that is disturbing, as it seems they think replacing human interactions will be the better business model for these companies vs making a highly reliable and efficient tool for people.
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'Human interaction as a luxury item' had been a thing silly valley did even before the current resurgence of machine learning algorithms (it is not the first one, if you're interested, I can recommend Roger Penrose's "Emperor's New Mind" and "Shadows of the Mind" where he touches on a problem of an actual artificial intelligence from mathematical and philosophical point of view). In their feverish dreams, it is only the elite who will get real teachers, friends, etc while the rest will have to deal with screens.
 
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