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811.
by intended 1y ago
It’s even worse when you think about what happens when it’s NOT English + NOT mainstream content. I really wish someone could tell me that either 1) Yes we can make a system that enables functional and effective customer support (because th
812.
by intended 1y ago
By this criteria - all papers that extrapolate are BS papers. There’s a ridiculous number of stars in the sky - no matter how low you put the odds of intelligent life, you will still end up with more than 1 civilized species in the universe
813.
by intended 1y ago
As the two other commenters pointed out The mess already existed for a reason. There’s a certain amount of expertise in the average firm. If they could afford an expert, they wouldn’t be the same firm. If they do get an AI expert - how do t
814.
by intended 1y ago
Found the person who hasn’t seen excel in the real world. Excel - whatever its origin story - is the actual Swiss Army knife of the tech world. There’s easily a few billion people who use excel. There is a reason it survives.
815.
by intended 1y ago
Everything is now about verification. AI may be able to spit out ann excel sheet or formula - But if it can’t be verified, so what ? And here’s my analogy to think about the debugging of an excel sheet - you can debug most corporate excel
816.
by intended 1y ago
That is the luxury of theory. Yes, most situations are terrible compared to what would be if an expert was present to perfect it. Except if there isn’t an expert, and there’s a normal person, how do they know the output is right ?
817.
by intended 1y ago
what sound does a falling tree make if no one is listening? I’ve asked LLMs to write code for me in fields I have little background knowledge, and then had to debug the whole thing after essentially having to learn the language and field. O
818.
by intended 1y ago
If everything is coercive - Yes. Your definition of coercive is too permissive, so it ends up being more of an ideological stance, but its a saturday, so its a fun argument to work through. If something is coercive, its inherently aiming to
819.
by intended 1y ago
Eh? Theres too many moving parts in your very short paragraph, to actual engage with without any substantial engagement being minced into woodchips, I fear. Theres many things that have happened since the 40s, just to name ONE thing that ha
820.
by intended 1y ago
A year ago there were links to things that didnt exist. Has that changed?
821.
by intended 1y ago
What ? What do you mean ?
822.
by intended 1y ago
Nope. Capability begins to degrade once you move away from english. Plus all your T&S/AI Safety is not solved with translation, you need lexicons and data sets of examples. Like, people use someone in Malaysia, to label the Arabic
823.
by intended 1y ago
For some reason, I find that these tools are TERRIBLE at helping someone learn. I suspect because turning one on, results in turning the problem solving part of ones brain off. Its obviously not the same experience for everyone. ( If you ar
824.
by intended 1y ago
How? Neat formatting didn't save any model from having the wrong formula pasted in. Being neat was never a substitute for being well rested, or sufficiently caffeinated. Have you seen how AI functions in the hands of someone who isn&#x
825.
by intended 1y ago
I used to live in excel. The issue isn’t in creating a new monstrosity in excel. The issue is the poor SoB who has to spelunk through the damn thing to figure out what it does. Excel is the sweet spot of just enough to be useful, capable en
826.
by intended 1y ago
As an inveterate Excel lover, I can just sense the blinding pain wafting off the legions of accountants, associates, seniors, and tech people who keep the machine spirits placated. lies, damn lies, statistics, and then Excel deciding cell d
827.
by intended 1y ago
Nothing will backfire. A Reuters poll on the White House demolitions had a 63% approval for one question and a 40% approval rating for another question - from Republican voters. As long as there exists a content economy on the right that do
828.
by intended 1y ago
Sure, and it is used in a perjorative manner - > As a result, U.S. strategy is shedding values and historical memory, narrowing its focus to money and homeland defense. Allies are discovering what unvarnished unilateralism feels like, as
829.
by intended 1y ago
For someone who was part of groups that played a role in Project 2025, he seems to have issues with the implementation. > “ the United States is becoming a rogue superpower, with little sense of obligation beyond itself”
830.
by intended 1y ago
Argh… yes … I was being lazy, and definitely didnt want to spend the calories figuring out or coining the right classification for what the NYT is doing. Yes, the crossword has existed for longer, but it was never the core source of funding
831.
by intended 1y ago
Technology has been used to absolutely decimate the news media. Organizations like Fox have blazed the path forward for how news organizations succeed in the cable and later internet worlds. You just give up on uneconomical efforts at accur
832.
by intended 1y ago
Yes, I absolutely see the case for the faster, cheaper, more efficient solution at making random content. Why stop at what humans can do? AND to not be fettered by any expectations of accuracy, or even feasibility of retractions. Truly, eff
833.
by intended 1y ago
This is the kind of reassurance that misses the message. News cannot survive, because it has no real revenue stream. the NYT figured out video games as a solution.
834.
by intended 1y ago
Oh it’s absolutely a terrible idea. I can think of an infinite ways why this is bad. The alternative is what we have now. I don’t think the current situation is worth leaving uncontested. Seriously - we’re copying all the art, music, lit, d
835.
by intended 1y ago
The warning sign is not traffic for ads, although this will result in a drop in donations eventually. It means that now, people are paying for their AI subscriptions, while they don’t see Wikipedia at all. The primary source is being interm
836.
by intended 1y ago
I’m a pro-market solution person, but markets are a tool. This is the kind of capitalistic behavior that is repugnant to our idea of how things should work. This is not what the commons is for - taking the work of creators, repackaging it,
837.
by intended 1y ago
The production of factually accurate content is a pretty expensive job. We who were born before this era really took off, are spoiled by the journalism standards and information purity levels of the past, especially post the fall of the USS
838.
by intended 1y ago
> Imagine if your Indian politicians were to sell out India to the West or maybe import Africans or something similar, … Firstly, this is so wildly tone deaf, that I don’t know what to say. Secondly - India (and most developing nations I
839.
by intended 1y ago
The idea is that there will be newer jobs that come up. The issue is that there will be no one earning money except the owners of OpenAI. Take outsourcing - the issue in developed nations was underemployment and the hollowing out of industr
840.
by intended 1y ago
Because the open models are not going to make as much money?

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