Brian Durand

Demystifying AI tools, apps, and news—for everyday people.

[Brian Durand @bridurand1]

@amanobviously AI. If you fall behind on that than the rest of it will not matter much unless the people who control it are generous and share it. We have already seen they will not.

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@RinkRatReport They get cap space and flex-ability. Goalies like him never get a big return. It was either trade Woll now or lose one of them for nothing as they couldn't keep them all. He was a good goalie but totally unreliable.

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@MeridaMX2025 @AuerDirk That would be good but than you will have the USA saying that we can't afford to have such a powerful weapon right beside us. They would just try to take us over under the same national security defense logic.

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No. Codex is doing everything I need it to do right now without ever going over my limits. I am sure Codex newest model will be just as good anyway. I am tired of going back and forth. Saying that it is good to have the companies pushing each other to get better and better models.

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The sadder thing is we have been conditioned to believe we need to get meaning in life from working for a living. Personally I enjoy spending time with family and doing the things I enjoy doing without having to worry about if I have enough money to survive. Lots of retired people have very fulfilling lives after work if they planned properly. Imagine that but not being old with no energy by the time you are able to retire.

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@ThomasPainejr1 @UziCryptoo Zero property tax is fine, but than you need another way to come up with the money for all the services the city provides. So one way or another you are going to have to pay for it. I don't think they should be able to take your house away though once it is paid for.

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Of course the human is going to win in the short term. But humans can't make another version of themselves ready to work in an hour. Plus if one robot learns a new skill they all know it. It is about the exponential scale of the robots once they are proven useful. Have a problem or something needs to be built quick? Throw thousands of robots at it.

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@niccruzpatane The tech is amazing and will replace all human drivers eventually, I think. But how many times has Musk said "By the end of this year" before?

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It would all depend on McDavid saying to Edmonton I am not resigning with you and I will only go to Toronto in a trade, make it happen or lose me for nothing. Than the first overall and one other good player back. I would not give too much for him as if that was the case and McDavid really wanted to come here over anywhere else we could get him in two years for nothing.

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@alphafox DVD quality is horrible. No way I could go back to that on a 4K tv.

[Brian Durand @bridurand1]

@ClendelWark It all depends on what McDavid wants. He could say I am not resigning, trade me to Toronto or else lose me for nothing. Give them the first overall pick and a goalie, maybe Knies?

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@BacLeodiv AI is a tool, just like a computer is a tool. Use the best tools at the time to create things.

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@TTrimoreau Use Codex, I find it much better, I have not went over any limits doing the same thing Claude would constantly hit limits on.

[Brian Durand @bridurand1]

Too little to late for me. You can have 3 times the time if it does not work as good as Codex than it is meaningless. It has to work for it to be useful, it was making to many mistakes, going around in circles for my use cases. Codex just fixes things much quicker that Claude could not.

[Brian Durand @bridurand1]

You are naive to think we don't need data centers. What happens when AI super intelligence is reached in the USA or China? Do you think they are just going to share it with Canada out of the goodness of their hearts? Most likely they just come and make us the 51st state like they have already been promising, and take our resources. We need AI and robots to compete with the world and be independent, we can't rely on other countries to provide it for us.

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I don't know, I don't mind people know that I use AI in writing. You still have to come up with the idea for the AI writing. It is not just going to write for you without you directing it and approving the post. We have always used tools to help us do things. AI is just the latest, and best.

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@PaulMaddison121 @adcock_brett @nuthatch9s That is all great until you show up to take over the new planet and the robots put up a closed sign, not accepting humans. Seriously though we are living in exciting times. One way or another the next 25 years are going to be wild

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@gailcweiner He will not stop training AI. Will he try to compete with the other models for the consumer market, maybe not. But AI is to powerful not to try and have your own models.

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It does not matter who is the first to show a concept or cool demos. I would not count out Elon and Tesla for anything. He has the will and the money, and support to make Optimus the best. Saying that I think Figure will do well too, just not at the scale that Tesla will. Tesla has the resources and money to scale way better than Figure.

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@hamids The thing is Elon will not stop until Optimus is the best. He has the will and at this point the money and support to make it happen. You don't need to be first to be best.