Bartholomew Gallacher
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On Monday, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released its new R1 model family under an open MIT license, with its largest version containing 671 billion parameters. The company claims the model performs at levels comparable to OpenAI's o1 simulated reasoning (SR) model on several math and coding benchmarks.
Alongside the release of the main DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1 models, DeepSeek published six smaller "DeepSeek-R1-Distill" versions ranging from 1.5 billion to 70 billion parameters. These distilled models are based on existing open source architectures like Qwen and Llama, trained using data generated from the full R1 model. The smallest version can run on a laptop, while the full model requires far more substantial computing resources.
Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk has broken stride with his tight confidante Donald Trump — lobbing criticism at Trump's lucrative $500 billion AI infrastructure project, seemingly because he was left out of the deal.
Earlier this week, OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and UAE-backed investor MGX pledged to pour up to $500 billion into building AI data centers in the United States as part of an initiative dubbed "Stargate."
There's a lot we don't know about the joint venture and whether it has any chance of ever being realized. And Musk, strikingly isn't convinced; late on Tuesday evening, he took to his social network X-formerly-Twitter to mock the plans.
1974 called and wants their COBOL back please ha ha ha you cause me to reminisce.I get Numbers for free with my Mac but I replaced the only regular need I had for a spreadsheet program at work with a script that reads from a CSV file and produces another CSV file that I can send in pretending I created it from Excel.
I've documented it and put it in on the office Wiki and everyone but the dedicated Softies use it.
My reaction was both HUG and SCARED! Because if you did...someone WOULD probably want to hire you to maintain some old COBOL code. I also had a "Wait, Argent is older than me?" reaction. (Fixed the code so it will compile with cobc)My first COBOL job was about 1976 but I never put it on my resume for fear someone would hire me to do more of it.
000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000200 PROGRAM-ID. COBLNVR.
000300 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
000400 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
000500 DISPLAY 'I SEE YOU KNOW COBOL, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAINTAIN'.
000550 DISPLAY 'OUR LEGACY CODE FROM 1974?'.
000600 DISPLAY 'YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.'.
000650 DISPLAY 'PRETTY PLEASE WITH SUGAR ON TOP?'.
000700 DISPLAY 'IF YOU DO NOT, WE WILL JUST HAVE AI DO IT'.
000750 DISPLAY 'AND YOU KNOW AI WILL JUST FUCK IT UP.'.
000800 STOP RUN.
There is no data division in that code, which might lead tocode]
000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000200 PROGRAM-ID. COBLNVR.
000300 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
000400 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
000500 DISPLAY 'I SEE YOU KNOW COBOL, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAINTAIN OUR LEGACY CODE FROM 1974?'.
000600 DISPLAY 'YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO. PRETTY PLEASE WITH SUGAR ON TOP?'.
000700 DISPLAY 'IF YOU DO NOT, WE WILL JUST HAVE AI DO IT AND YOU KNOW AI WILL JUST FUCK IT UP.'.
000800 STOP RUN.
[/code]
I don't know COBOL, so that's the best I can fake. I had to reduce the output text line lengths to get it to work, it compiles with cobc. Updated the original post with the fixed version.There is no data division in that code, which might lead to
No worries. A data division is optional. I just needed a hook for a reason to post the Joy Division video.I don't know COBOL, so that's the best I can fake.
I see a lot of potential, as well - for ludicrous predictions.Dario Amoedi made the prediction during a Davos panel titled “Technology in the World,” where the moderator noted that Amoedi seemed to have the most optimistic predictions for the speed at which the world would change as a result of AI deployment.
“It is my guess that by 2026 or 2027, we will have AI systems that are broadly better than almost all humans at almost all things,” Amoedi said. “I see a lot of positive potential.”
Well there was biased AI. Remember the picture generator from Microsoft or Google, which should create authentic WWII Nazis and it mainly used PoC for that? Or created Asian vikings? Or Indian kings of England?![]()
Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Woke AI
President Donald Trump's second administration is all-in on artificial intelligence — just not the woke kind.futurism.com
Wait, there's a woke AI? Could have fooled me.