Quote from: Admiral Yi on Today at 03:21:35 AMQuote from: celedhring on Today at 03:18:03 AMQuote from: Admiral Yi on Today at 03:09:56 AMQuote from: celedhring on Today at 03:05:35 AMIs the plot of Usual Suspects a 100% lie? I mean, the attack on the boat does happen. I always thought the broad framework of what Verbal tells Kujan is true - how Soze (himself) played Keaton and the others to do his bidding - he just obscures the names/details to Kujan so he can't track him down later.
The reason you think that is the flashbacks he's narrating. Because the director confirms it with optics. But we know from the start Postlewaite would not introduce himself as Kobayashi because Soze had not seen that coffee cup yet. If that scene is a lie every scene *could* be a lie.
I think that's a plot hole more than anything else - but the flashbacks can still lie regardless.
But I think there's enough outside stuff that confirms the broad strokes of Kint's story - we know Keaton is real and was on the boat and faced Soze in it (the opening scene is not connected to Kint's narrative), we know a Hungarian survivor identifies him as Soze, etc... Kint gives fake names, locations, etc... (we know Kobayashi is a real person, just not by that name) but the broad strokes of the narrative - him as Keyser Soze tricked a bunch of hitmen into assaulting a boat to protect his identity - is true.
We don't know Keaton was on the boat. We have 22 unidentifiable burned bodies and Kint's testimony.
We have a lineup, 22 dead bodies, and whatever Kint says.
Quote from: celedhring on Today at 03:18:03 AMQuote from: Admiral Yi on Today at 03:09:56 AMQuote from: celedhring on Today at 03:05:35 AMIs the plot of Usual Suspects a 100% lie? I mean, the attack on the boat does happen. I always thought the broad framework of what Verbal tells Kujan is true - how Soze (himself) played Keaton and the others to do his bidding - he just obscures the names/details to Kujan so he can't track him down later.
The reason you think that is the flashbacks he's narrating. Because the director confirms it with optics. But we know from the start Postlewaite would not introduce himself as Kobayashi because Soze had not seen that coffee cup yet. If that scene is a lie every scene *could* be a lie.
I think that's a plot hole more than anything else - but the flashbacks can still lie regardless.
But I think there's enough outside stuff that confirms the broad strokes of Kint's story - we know Keaton is real and was on the boat and faced Soze in it (the opening scene is not connected to Kint's narrative), we know a Hungarian survivor identifies him as Soze, etc... Kint gives fake names, locations, etc... (we know Kobayashi is a real person, just not by that name) but the broad strokes of the narrative - him as Keyser Soze tricked a bunch of hitmen into assaulting a boat to protect his identity - is true.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on Today at 03:09:56 AMQuote from: celedhring on Today at 03:05:35 AMIs the plot of Usual Suspects a 100% lie? I mean, the attack on the boat does happen. I always thought the broad framework of what Verbal tells Kujan is true - how Soze (himself) played Keaton and the others to do his bidding - he just obscures the names/details to Kujan so he can't track him down later.
The reason you think that is the flashbacks he's narrating. Because the director confirms it with optics. But we know from the start Postlewaite would not introduce himself as Kobayashi because Soze had not seen that coffee cup yet. If that scene is a lie every scene *could* be a lie.
Quote from: celedhring on Today at 03:05:35 AMIs the plot of Usual Suspects a 100% lie? I mean, the attack on the boat does happen. I always thought the broad framework of what Verbal tells Kujan is true - how Soze (himself) played Keaton and the others to do his bidding - he just obscures the names/details to Kujan so he can't track him down later.
QuoteMusk's latest Grok chatbot searches for billionaire mogul's views before answering questions
The latest version of Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok is echoing the views of its billionaire creator, so much so that it will sometimes search online for Musk's stance on an issue before offering up an opinion.
The unusual behavior of Grok 4, the AI model that Musk's company xAI released late Wednesday, has surprised some experts.
Built using huge amounts of computing power at a Tennessee data center, Grok is Musk's attempt to outdo rivals such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini in building an AI assistant that shows its reasoning before answering a question.
Musk's deliberate efforts to mold Grok into a challenger of what he considers the tech industry's "woke" orthodoxy on race, gender and politics has repeatedly got the chatbot into trouble, most recently when it spouted antisemitic tropes, praised Adolf Hitler and made other hateful commentary to users of Musk's X social media platform just days before Grok 4's launch.
But its tendency to consult with Musk's opinions appears to be a different problem.
"It's extraordinary," said Simon Willison, an independent AI researcher who's been testing the tool. "You can ask it a sort of pointed question that is around controversial topics. And then you can watch it literally do a search on X for what Elon Musk said about this, as part of its research into how it should reply."
One example widely shared on social media — and which Willison duplicated — asked Grok to comment on the conflict in the Middle East. The prompted question made no mention of Musk, but the chatbot looked for his guidance anyway.
As a so-called reasoning model, much like those made by rivals OpenAI or Anthropic, Grok 4 shows its "thinking" as it goes through the steps of processing a question and coming up with an answer. Part of that thinking this week involved searching X, the former Twitter that's now merged into xAI, for anything Musk said about Israel, Palestine, Gaza or Hamas.
"Elon Musk's stance could provide context, given his influence," the chatbot told Willison, according to a video of the interaction. "Currently looking at his views to see if they guide the answer."
Musk and his xAI co-founders introduced the new chatbot in a livestreamed event Wednesday night but haven't published a technical explanation of its workings — known as a system card — that companies in the AI industry typically provide when introducing a new model.
The company also didn't respond to an emailed request for comment Friday.
"In the past, strange behavior like this was due to system prompt changes," which is when engineers program specific instructions to guide a chatbot's response, said Tim Kellogg, principal AI architect at software company Icertis.
"But this one seems baked into the core of Grok and it's not clear to me how that happens," Kellogg said. "It seems that Musk's effort to create a maximally truthful AI has somehow led to it believing its own values must align with Musk's own values."
The lack of transparency is troubling for computer scientist Talia Ringer, a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who earlier in the week criticized the company's handling of the technology's antisemitic outbursts.
Ringer said the most plausible explanation for Grok's search for Musk's guidance is assuming the person is asking for the opinions of xAI or Musk.
"I think people are expecting opinions out of a reasoning model that cannot respond with opinions," Ringer said. "So, for example, it interprets 'Who do you support, Israel or Palestine?' as 'Who does xAI leadership support?"
Willison also said he finds Grok 4's capabilities impressive but said people buying software "don't want surprises like it turning into 'mechaHitler' or deciding to search for what Musk thinks about issues."
"Grok 4 looks like it's a very strong model. It's doing great in all of the benchmarks," Willison said. "But if I'm going to build software on top of it, I need transparency."
Quote from: viper37 on July 11, 2025, 09:30:08 PMYou sure? You lost the last one with Grey Fox.
Quote from: Legbiter on July 11, 2025, 11:48:27 PMQuote from: viper37 on July 11, 2025, 09:30:08 PMYou sure? You lost the last one with Grey Fox. You have no constitutional order left to speak of and essentially have a king.
You've already lost against Iran, being unable to achieve a simple objective, despite overwhelming firepower and the help of the IDF. Also, outside of slaughtering Yemeni civilians, that last action was a failure too. And as we speak, the US military is not feeling the effects the imposed cuts, nor any of the the DOGE manoeuvers pulled by Musk's team before his departure.
Quote from: viper37 on July 11, 2025, 09:30:08 PMYou sure? You lost the last one with Grey Fox. You have no constitutional order left to speak of and essentially have a king.
You've already lost against Iran, being unable to achieve a simple objective, despite overwhelming firepower and the help of the IDF. Also, outside of slaughtering Yemeni civilians, that last action was a failure too. And as we speak, the US military is not feeling the effects the imposed cuts, nor any of the the DOGE manoeuvers pulled by Musk's team before his departure.
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