I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s heavily botted, as it’s a relatively influential place and an obvious one to shill your startup/grift or whatever.

That being said, I still see a lot of push back against true Tech Bros in the comments.

You said:

Imagine 10,000 emails an hour through your enterprise and 1,000 times It fucks up.

So I interpreted that as an implication of “90% accuracy.”

I’m sorry I misinterpreted you, but I’m not sure why you have to be so abrasive calling that out? “Shillsville?” ???

Yep. This is why Nvidia is preaching open weights literally every chance they get, too.

Still. It’s a better stance, even if for selfish reasons.

It doesn’t literally mean “90% failure rate vs 100%”

In the HLE benchmark, for example, we may be talking about 45% test score for MiMo Pro or GLM or something, vs 55% for Sonnet and 61% for maxed out Claude.

But further complicating that, those particular open weight models do better than Claude in one particular hallucination benchmark, meaning Claude/ChatGPT might be worse at RAG/extraction type workloads. It’s like this across the board, with different models trading blows in different areas.

By “90%,” he really means “it’s so close the better model depends on the particular application, workload, harness, sampling configuration” and such, and that none of these models are close to “100% accuracy” across the board.

One other thing: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Grok have all been accused of “dumbing down” models under high demand to speed up inference. If your application depends on them, and they are the only provider, that could throw a wrench in the workflow.

But open weights? Pick your provider. You get an API as consistent as you are willing to pay for.

In other words, that “100%” isn’t really representing the potential inconsistency one gets being locked to a single provider.

Tencent bought 40% afaik, and they had several rounds since then.

Maybe Sweeney owns a controlling portion with a privileged share class, but I would be surprised if he owned a majority.

…You are not wrong though. I guess this wouldn’t be happening if he didn’t have absolute control.

Yeah, like scripty said, I access it on my desktop or have it time locked on my phone. TBH I think I will block it on my phone entirely.

And I only do the browser, no app.

Yeah. I see this attitude on Lemmy a lot. In Linux circles in particular, but elsewhere too.

No one is perfectly insulated from the rest of the world, as much as they’d like to think they are.

What gives you hope about the future.

Not being on Lemmy.

Seriously. This place is pretty… well, I have it blocked on my phone along with some other time sucking/doomscrolling sites, and it’s definitely better for my mental health.

How do EGS’s investors let Tim use Twitter?

If I was at Tencent, Sony or whatever, I’d take his phone away. The sheer toxicity of this one person is, err, unreal, and just shutting him up would eliminate so much drama.

There must be some massive egos and drama involved with keeping BGE2 alive so long.

I mean, no. It will not. Some neat features or hacks may be LLM assisted, but it isn’t a miracle.

Besides, we can’t even convince people to switch to Linux, even with the RAMpocalypse in full swing. The vast majority still run Windows (or OSX/iOS/Android). How can we get even a fraction of them to hack a PS5 or something like that?

The other side is… what’s even out there to hack?

Old PS5s? Old PCs? Old Macs? Old servers? All these are skyrocketing in cost, and the instructions/features they physically support are aging. The only thing that’s plentiful are old smartphones, and you can already turn those into Linux boxes.

Hell, the RTX 3050 is still expensive.

My 3090 costs more than it was new… that is messed up.

Also, on open models: I can run Deepseek V4 Flash at 20 tokens/s on a single 3090 desktop, a Ryzen 7800, and 128GB RAM, with measurably low quantization loss. And 4.1 once the engine updates to support it.

That was eye-opening to me. Thats faster than some cheap APIs, and higher quality too. Once companies figure that out, what are they gonna do with all those idle datacenters?

Dev time is spent on mostly-idle GPU instances too. Code, test, doesn’t work, edit, test launch again. As one sometimes needs the full environment to even test whatever they’re ultimately trying to deploy.

And yeah… like I said above, I’m more afraid of actual utilization under load. Some deployments are so inefficient it makes me want to pass out.

I’d be more interested in efficiency under load.

There is evidence that some training runs at bigger companies are hilariously inefficient, or even that they run busywork to meet contract quotas. And that’s not to speak of the questionable efficiency of US “frontier models.”

And I’ve seen some staggering inefficiency even just deploying stuff, like “running Ollama on an H100 box” levels of ignorance. It boggles my mind. The heck are they even paying their employees for?

Now “Evil Dragons Exterminate Humanity While Humans and Demi-Humans Bicker Over Politics”! There’s a keeper

Wherever those BioWare employees land, they should do fantasy space opera, like Shadowrun. With that premise. In space.

Make it Bioware-y, with drama and sexy elves and armor lights and lens flare.

Both for something fresh, but also to spite EA.

At risk of going off-topic, exercise?

I don’t mean run marathons, but just stuff at home. Knee push ups, sit ups, squats, standing on your toes, sitting in a chair to lift your leg with your biceps; whatever you can manage until you are little winded.

You will gain some weight, keep more of the calories you ingest, and eating will feel better too.

I’d recommend some beans too. I like black bean bowls with rice, and both are cheap.

Look. I’m all for a new world.

But there’s nothing wrong with building on a good, existing constructed world, too. They can do both. You mentioned publishers that did that quite successfully, at the top of this thread: Owlcat, Paradox, and especially Larian.

It’s also quite practical from a development perspective. It’s easier to pitch to get funding, they already have lore experts on the team, mechanics they don’t have to invent from scratch.

I’m just not buying that Mass Effect is a “dead end.” It’s a great setting, there’s tons to explore, and they’ve already broken away from the main trap of being stuck with Sheperd. Halo is a bit different not because they wrote themselves into a corner (which ME aid also guilty of), but that they utterly refused to leave it, amongst other things.

I will say that I think BioWare just deteriorated.

…There’s no getting around that, whether they start from scratch or not.

I have the same opinion of Halo. I vividly remember forming it upon playing Halo 4, with how cheesy it felt.

No it’s not. They can use the entire world they constructed, its history, and (for the players) all the nostalgia. And selectively bring back characters.

I mean, that immediately drew me into this trailer.

Halo is an entirely different beast. They could not let the MC/Cortana go like they are stuck to them with a chain, but side stories in that world would have been interesting too.

Mass Effect is a wonderfully constructed world; I disagree on you there.

I’d also argue ME3 is not the peak. The best gameplay, sure, but a more questionable campaign IMO.

You are not wrong about the story trajectory though. They wrote themselves into a corner with the Reaper arc, and that is done now. But I do think “Shepard-free, smaller story spinoffs” were the correct move, rather than trying to pick up a story that should be done (like Halo did).