Author: gekko
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LLM-Guided Image Editing: Embracing Mistakes for Smarter Photo Edits
Imagine being able to tweak a photo just by telling your computer what you want. That’s the promise of text-based image editing, and Apple’s latest research takes it a step further. Apple’s team, in collaboration with UC Santa Barbara, has developed a new AI approach that lets users edit images using plain language descriptions. More…
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AI-Powered Browsers Are Changing How We Surf the Web
Remember when the browser’s biggest innovation was tabbed browsing and incognito mode? Those days are gone. The next generation of browsers doesn’t just show you the internet — it understands it. Meet the AI-powered browsers: OpenAI’s Atlas, Perplexity’s Comet, and Microsoft’s Edge Copilot. These aren’t search boxes with attitude. They’re assistants, researchers, and task-doers built…
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The Neural Junk-Food Hypothesis
Based on the pre‐print LLMs Can Get “Brain Rot”! (arXiv:2510.13928) by Shuo Xing et al. (2025) The premise — and why this deserves attention The authors introduce an evocative metaphor: just as humans may suffer “brain rot” when indulging excessively in shallow, attention-grabbing online content, large language models (LLMs) might likewise degrade their reasoning, context-handling…
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Beyond Siri 2.0: Why Apple Owes Us a Leap into General Intelligence
From the earliest Macintosh to the iPhone, I have long held the badge of Apple loyalty. As someone who watched the company evolve from garage startup status to the world’s most valuable brand, I have learned that Apple does not simply enter markets — it aims to redefine them. Now, in the era of artificial…
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“Personality” in a Machine: What Do We Mean?
When we say an LLM has a personality in coding, we don’t mean it’s conscious or has opinions — rather, that given the same prompt or scenario, different models tend to adopt different coding strategies, emphases, risk tolerances, and failure modes. One might favor readability over brevity; another might lean into fancy abstractions even when…