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Some guy on Facebook I don't know with 56k followers whose profile claims he is an AI expert.....


"Grok 4 Just Crushed Every AI Benchmark
xAI just dropped the most powerful AI model ever created!
After months of anticipation, Elon Musk's team has officially unleashed Grok 4 and the benchmarks are absolutely INSANE. It is the new SOTA large language model.
Grok 4 delivers SOTA capabilities that put every other model to shame:
Humanity's Last Exam Mastery - Achieved 45% accuracy on the most challenging academic benchmark ever created, where other top models barely crack 25%. It's beyond human expertise in every academic discipline.
#1 on Artificial Analysis - Officially crowned the top AI model with a 73-point Intelligence Index, surpassing every competitor in reasoning, knowledge, and problem-solving capabilities.
ARC-AGI Champion - Scored 16.2% on visual pattern recognition, nearly DOUBLE the performance of Claude Opus 4. This benchmark measures pure intelligence and reasoning ability.
Coding Domination - Grok 4 Code variant hit 75% on SWE-Bench, outperforming every other model at real-world software engineering tasks. Integrates directly into development environments.
Multi-Agent Intelligence - Grok 4 Heavy uses collaborative AI agents to solve complex problems, pushing accuracy beyond what any single model can achieve.
Real-Time Knowledge - Unlike static models, Grok 4 accesses live data from X, providing current information and context that other AIs simply can't match.
Economic Genius - Outperformed humans and all AI models in business simulation tests, generating 5x more revenue than the nearest competitor."



On the ARC thing, I believe Grok was just at 8% last year.  It took forever for models to get even that far, and now Grok doubled its score in a year.  The growth for these is exponential, not linear.  Still don't know if AGI is possible, but if it is, it could be much closer than the futurists like Kurzweil think.   

Damn. I haven't thought about tin whisker problems for a while now... The move away from lead-based solder had some pain points in the early times...

maybe a rule should be enforced that these datacenters only use green power

maybe a rule should be enforced that these datacenters only use green power

Maybe rather than more heavy-handed government regulation, incentives could be used instead.

No, I don't mean that at all.

There's a term I'm grasping for, or at least there should be a term for it.....technology-creep, maybe.  I'm referring to a paradigm where technology was implemented long ago, and it keeps being added to and updated, but a lot it now ranges from clunky to crappy, but the only real fix is to blow it all up and have a total redo.  But you can't, because it would cripple everything for far longer than any department could abide.  So you're just stuck with this massive, poorly-evolving blob.

The university I work at has a serious case of it, imo.  

I'm working on a project for the industrial engineering dept. that really needs a database solution.  We have a database.  But for various reasons, implementing a new workflow like they need is not going to happen.  For all I know, it can't happen.  So my department builds what I consider a work-around solution, and it won't be bad, per se, but it'll hardly be ideal.  The software we license to address these kinds of projects just isn't made to do quite what needs to be done, so I fear it'll be a bit of a meh work-around.  

Our database was implemented....I don't even know when.  Some version of it was probably here in the 70's.  Now it's a mercurial beast, with so many tables and tentacles that no single person on campus, no one in IT, no administrator I've talked to, no one, really knows the whole thing.  There is no schema.  Supposedly anyone who works directly with our database takes forever to train because you just have to use it over years to get familiar with it, they say, because anyone who tries to map a schema probably eventually just throws their hands up in dismay.  

We need an AGI super-intelligence to enter the system, map the whole thing, and then reorganize the database into a much cleaner, more concise, more manageable environment, and can keep the hordes of existing data right where they need to be.  

sigh....and then it would need to magically update every interface, program, etc. that interacts with the database, in every department.....

*double sigh*

......furk.  

The industrial engineering dept. is gonna get what they get.  If this could be handled some kinda way that it needs to be handled, we are not the department to do it.  

So, my Dell was getting "wonky" at times.  I "discovered" poking around this feature that allows one to delete "cookies" etc. (which I normally like).  So, it took a while, but I did it.  Now it seems to be working normally, again.