Interesting that Gemini said it was infeasible. It should be aware that using a Pico W as a transparent ethernet bridge has been done several times over in open source projects, for example on BlueSCSI (emulating a Daynaport SCSI-Ethernet adapter) and PicoMEM and my own PicoGUS project (emulating an NE2000 Ethernet adapter).

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tehlike 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's often good to approach what llm said as a guidance, and not as ground truth.

You can ask follow up questions or point to potential feasibility and it will change its answer.

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bookofjoe an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, but. I asked Perplexity Pro the same fact question (sports) three days in a row after correcting its error the first day and having the correction acknowledged with a promise to get it right in the future. Same error on second day, same promise. Third day: correct. Perhaps it needs to be in the "Slow" classroom....

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oarsinsync 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I've never used Perplexity Pro, but I would expect the exact same outcome from Claude, as I don't have cross-session memory enabled.

If you do have cross-session memory enabled, I agree this is not glowing performance. If you don't, then I think it's working exactly as intended.

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functionmouse an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

perhaps we should stop personifying organized dirt

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SecretDreams 21 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Perplexity still exists?

I just got major Dotcom vibes

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rvz an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It is "grounded in reality" and changes its answer like the weather.

	▲	nekusar 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No, Claude, etm are for "Entertainment purposes only", as listed in their TOS. You know, like the same for horoscopes and psychics.

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xd1936 23 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

stopcitingai.com. Been trying to say this as much as possible.

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byb 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Exactly, bit banging an 8-bit bus isn't that different from pushing the data out of the USB port. It would be great to try an LLM trained on pre-1900 documents and ask it if powered flight is possible.

Great work on PicoGUS.

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dofm 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can probably try this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590280

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tonyhart7 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

does the LLM speak old english ???

	▲	wongarsu 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		English around 1800-1900 reads almost like modern English. At least if the author didn't write in an overly pretentious style, which was more common back then

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alexjurkiewicz 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was Gemini Flash, probably an even faster variant optimised for immediate response on search pages.

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rvz 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Interesting that Gemini said it was infeasible.

Unless there is a hardware limitation or the hardware does not support it, anything in software is possible.

Gemini and all these other LLMs are designed to convince you that they have "awareness" which they do not have any of the sort. They are neither sentient nor do they have consciousness

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whywhywhywhy 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Something doesn’t have to be sentient or have consciousness to answer a technical question like that.

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dTal 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Bad take. Some things are feasible and some things are not, "anything is possible" is a useless framework. Example: go convert two smartphones to communicate p2p over their 4g radios - it's all software!

LLM "awareness" is similarly irrelevant. They process information usefully, in a way grounded in reality, and that's that.

	▲	rvz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You seem to be all over the place, most of it by not reading the parent's comment. So let's break it all down. > Bad take. Some things are feasible and some things are not, "anything is possible" is a useless framework. It would help if you quoted the entire comment rather than removing the context and further giving a very bad example afterwards: > Example: go convert two smartphones to communicate p2p over their 4g radios - it's all software! Nice try. That is a hardware limitation in the 4G radio which is designed to connect to an operator mast. Even if you wanted to do it in software, the hardware does not support that P2P use-case which is what I already said. > LLM "awareness" is similarly irrelevant. Exactly. There is no such thing as awareness in LLMs. The parent comment I replied to believed that an element of awareness had to be present to give an answer because this was done "several times over" in open source projects. Which that is inaccurate in the context of LLM research. >> "It should be aware that using a Pico W as a transparent ethernet bridge has been done several times over in open source projects..." > They process information usefully, in a way grounded in reality, and that's that. Useful to those who know when it is either mostly correct or outright wrong. Clearly in this example, Gemini doesn't even know if its own answers are grounded in reality and consequently people using them are unable to determine if the results they bring are true or not and there are countless examples of that. So you know what you just said is not true.

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acimen101 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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