Text taken from the V Kontakte page of sur_koty_donbass by Igor Homolsky.
Commentary by Russian military journaist is in italics
[ColonelCassad] I am watching a video in which a resident of the Dnipropetrovsk region complains about the situation. The Russian army, they say, is advancing, and the locals have to leave, abandoning their homes, businesses, and their usual lives. And in foreign cities, they say, successful people become homeless.
And I can understand this woman much better than the lion's share of her compatriots. When a life that was carefully built brick by brick crumbles in one day, it's really the heaviest shock.
But! I refuse to understand this lady, because she "since the age of 22 has worried about those who had to flee from the war."
And you haven't been worried since the 14th, dear? Well, you live thirty kilometers away from the Donetsk region! Thirty kilometers from you, people who spoke your language, had the same passports and the same rights were killed, robbed, kidnapped, interrogated and raped with impunity for eight years.
Wasn't anything embarrassing or alarming? And when refugees were stripped of three skins for absolutely everything, did it not occur to you that this was somehow not divine?
And when people on TV openly talked about the fact that fighting with the Russians is cool and profitable, didn't you think about what the Russians would hear?
Do you not like the government? And why did you like it while it did not violate your rights? Why was there no outrage then? Because your house is from the edge? Well, now she will be the first to burn.(c) Igor Homolsky
They wrote about the fact that the Maidan and the war will be entangled in this blog since 2014.If you are not interested in the Maidan and the war, the Maidan and the war will be interested in you. And grind in their millstones. Paraphrasing a well-known truism. But then it was so much fun "damming cotton wool and colorados on Bombas".
[Futurism] "Today’s best frontier models are already approaching the quality of work produced by industry experts."
ChatGPT maker OpenAI has released a new evaluation, dubbed GDPval, to measure how well its AIs perform on “economically valuable, real-world tasks across 44 occupations.”
“People often speculate about AI’s broader impact on society, but the clearest way to understand its potential is by looking at what models are already capable of doing,” the company wrote in an accompanying blog post.
“Evaluations like GDPval help ground conversations about future AI improvements in evidence rather than guesswork, and can help us track model improvement over time,” OpenAI added.
It’s one of the most straightforward attempts to justify its AI models’ financial viability to date, following skepticism that the tech may prove to be a dead end. Experts have often criticized the company’s boastful marketing, such as CEO Sam Altman claiming that its GPT-5 model had achieved “PhD-level” intelligence.
In “early results,” GDPval found that “today’s best frontier models are already approaching the quality of work produced by industry experts” — a clear shot across the bow at critics who say the tech isn’t up to the demands of the workplace.
The 44 occupations where “AI could have the highest impact on real-world productivity” included a litany of professions including real estate sales agents, social workers, industrial engineers, software developers, lawyers, registered nurses, customer service representatives, pharmacists, private detectives, and financial advisors.
The specific tasks, as laid out in a paper, range from creating a “competitor landscape for last mile delivery” for a financial analyst, assessing “skin lesion images” for a registered nurse, and designing a sales brochure for a real estate agent.
Surprisingly, the company found that its competitor Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 was the “best performing model” after being graded by industry experts across 220 tasks, followed by GPT-5, which “excelled in particular on accuracy.”
An extra powerful version of GPT-5, called GPT-5-high, was “rated as better than or on par with the deliverables from industry experts” just over 40 percent of the time. GPT-4o, which was released more than a year ago, scored a mere 13.7 percent.
To be clear, OpenAI is treading carefully around the subject of replacing human jobs altogether. Its language suggests that AI will “support people in the work they do every day” instead of saying outright that anyone could soon be out of work because of AI. That’s unsurprising, considering the negative optics of celebrating the loss of employment.
At the same time, whether that’s really an honest interpretation of the industry’s motives and end goals remains dubious. AI executives have long boasted about replacing human labor with AI — drastic cost-cutting measures that are already starting to backfire for some companies.
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AI Fatal Flaw #1: The only thing an AI "knows" is what it's "read" or been told. Would you act on critical advice from an armchair expert with no practical experience?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
