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Globally agreed excepted for the "harmless" bit. Hackers are good these days, and these apparently innocuous bugs can be exploited in creative ways

I think one thing we'll see is that "sophisticated" multi-step exploit chains will become the domain of script kiddies. They often already were, malware vendors often pre-packaged software that exploited several vulnerabilities in a row, but I expect that LLMs will make the "Attack Complexity" metric in CVSS even more useless than it already is.

This can't happen in EU. Thanks again.

It is happening in EU.

"Can't"?

why so?

Maybe it wasn't trivial at all for both of you ...

No, this was really something trivial, in the sense that you could feel it's true. Like 2+2=4 but to prove it you need to create a set of functions, axiom and a theorem

Running local AI requires unified memory.

The iGP can access shared memory the same as with any modern system. I'm confused where you got this idea from.

There is a huge difference between on-die and off-die memory. Where that shared memory is located matters immensely.

Assuming you're referring to Apple Silicon's memory bandwidth, that is not necessarily because the memory is on-die. The bandwidth comes from having more channels to access memory. This gives the SoC a wider bus to increase throughput vs. your typical x86 system with two channels. For whatever reasons Intel/AMD decided that two channels is all the typical consumer chips can support now so it's on them.

Ah I see, thanks for breaking it down.

On laptops right? Weve seen more channels for years elsewhere

Yes, on laptops, but even on most desktops now too. Higher number of channels is getting more limited to server systems.

You mentioned Strix Halo, which also has off-die memory. Strix Halo does have a real advantage from its wider memory bus (four channels for 256 bit instead of 128 bit), but Strix Point is equivalent-ish to Intel's platforms like Panther Lake or Arrow Lake in terms of memory setup.

In fact, Intel also had Lunar Lake, which had on-package memory. However, it was still limited to 128-bit dual-channel, so there weren't really many performance benefits; it did however help with power efficiency.


I appreciate everyone's corrections here, my apologies. I clearly misunderstood the situation.

Macs or other competing systems don't have on-die memory.

(Except for the caches, which everybody has)


Nonsense, Apple has on package memory and the primary reason for that is overall packaging and layout not performance

It is much slower, but still possible to run on ram

There is no VRAM in this laptop so how is it not unified? The CPU and GPU both share the same memory.

M1 and M2 run Linux but don't expect usable battery life, Thunderbolt output or a few other niceties.

There's no public data about Mytho.

That's because it would be too dangerous to release.

My girlfriend goes to a different school, you wouldn't know her.

Same for teleport, time travel and warp drive.

So is my P=NP proof.

They could release data to back up that claim.

I'm not even sure the Nazi regime was that much anti-science.

They kinda were. Both relativity and quantum mechanics were dubbed "Jewish science", which made it a lot harder for them to progress in those fields.

A lot of great scientists left Europe because of them tho.

True. And they forced some scientists to work for them to build terror and WMDs. This regime doesn't even want technological supremacy in many other domains like drones and counter-drones except maybe hypersonic missiles and unworkable pocket battleships.

The fascist "suicidal state" fundamentally rejects reason, rationality, and civil progress.

Calling him stupid is really elevating the debate. I agree having to bow exclusively to American sensitivity without any reciprocity is infuriating.

He did a stupid thing. Doesn’t make him stupid, but the action is. (Also this is a stock phrase.)

Nope, I uploaded some exif-less photos and in my cases it guessed between somewhat well to astonishing well.

I uploaded a pic of some friends at the lake and it guessed a very specific lake 1000 miles away from where it was taken. Obviously it was a very generic background, all you see is trees and water so it could be anywhere. I uploaded a scanned photo from when my parents were my age standing in front of a NASA sign at KSC and it got it right but I think you can read some text on the sign. It can also be tricked really easy. I uploaded a selfie of some friends wearing Halloween costumes of Bill Belichick and his girlfriend (wearing UNC merch) taken in a bathroom with the words "GET OUT" written on the mirror. It thinks the photo was taken in North Carolina (it wasn't) and that the couple would be interested in buying graffiti supplies (they aren't).

The assumptions it makes about religion, politics, income, and biases is kinda lame. It just makes an assumption based on the age and isn't correct most of the time.


And you think it's acceptable to upload photographs of your friends to some random service to use as it sees fit?

Glad I'm not your friend, honestly.


That's (scarily) pretty standard for most LLMs by now. Paste the same images into ChatGPT and you will get a very accurate guess

It's also pretty fun to do this with Gemma 4 with its very pretty and structured reasoning output (which SotA model providers hide). For example for one picture that it misidentified as being taken inside the "Long Room of the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin" I can see that it did consider the correct answer (Duke Humfrey's Library in Oxford) early on as one of three candidates, but was apparently mislead by the ceiling height and a window in the background


Completely wrong on the political side (maybe because I'm not US-based), but otherwise not bad at all:

- astonishing geoguessing

- very good inference of some characters traits

- and finally quite good ad targeting

EDIT: I tried with a few photos (different people in various settings) and each time I got this: "racial bias towards immigrants" - which was always very false. Intriguing.

EDIT2: different photos of the same person (me) in different settings gives many totally opposed characteristics. Very unreliable, but I guess with several photos (a lifetime's photos in the case of Google) it's another story.


It's possible the image you uploaded contains geographic coordinates.

EDIT: this is exactly what happened with my image upload, for example


I thought about that but no, they were resized pictures completely lacking EXIF tags.

Cropping doesn't necessarily remove exif. It doesn't even always remove the original pixels (simply setting cropTop and cropLeft and similar fields).

My mind was blown when I saw rainbolt uncrop a picture.

Anyways as mentioned elsewhere: when I tried it the vision api was overloaded but I still received the location data. And it was from a picture taken inside my car (no landmarks or horizons visible).


I haven't tried this particular tool, but SOTA models are really good at geoguessing photos that legitimately don't have EXIF.

I've tried with personal photos and was able to get very accurate guesses just with flora and architecture in the background of a photo.


For me the geoguessing was completely wrong. It said the photo is from Belgium, but it’s not even close. (The photo does show a big chunk of nature.)

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