Tag: aichat
All the articles with the tag "aichat".
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Are local models strong enough for chat?
OpenClaw allows you to switch models in the middle of a session. This enables one of my favorite quick and dirty evals, which I call the “brain transplant”: start talking to a frontier model like Sonnet-4.6, switch to a local model like Nemotron 3 Super, and see if you can spot the difference.
When you do this, it turns out local models are both stronger and weaker than you’d expect. But are they strong enough for chat? Specifically, for voice chat?
One example brain transplant shows how they’re strong enough to sound smart, but maybe too weak to follow instructions in the way needed in order to sound more natural.
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Differential diagnosis: debugging like a doctor?
Chatting with an AI, I learned about the medical concept of differential diagnosis. This concept, and the broader vocabulary which clinicians are taught, seems to map closely onto software debugging. It’s puzzling that software engineering does not have as explicit vocabulary for this, despite handling the same concepts implicitly.
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AI Chat: The Last Messiah and Herzog's penguin
AI chat regarding Peter Wessel Zapffe’s The Last Messiah, Herzog’s penuin, modern philosophical pessimism, and whether it is ever much more than a dramatic gesture.