Check what is happening in Ukraine. The war moved a field of moderately cheap and moderately powerful drones forward.
We don't understand the consequences yet... Ukraine is actively working on hunter drones that could operate on 10 km altitude to shot down enemy targets. Now, imagine that cartel, terrorists put their hands on such technology, endangering whole civilian air transport.
Whoever is that "jack", he should go back to school to learn how to use capital letters, commas, periods and all other difficult stuff. Or, just ask Chat GPT to write this kind of letters to the people. Maybe, after comparing "jack" writing with AI's writing company stakeholders would figure out, that maybe it is "jack", who should be replaced by some Open AI et. al. tools...
Well, maybe people stop changing their smartphone every two years. Or every year. Imagine the positive impact on the environment!
I am always surprised that when the planet caring, liberal Apple boss shows up on the Big Apple Event stage, he encourages people to ruin the planet by needles purchase of the new hardware, even though the old one can do the same job easily, as now the improvements are barely incremental, if any.
"Mass domestic surveillance. We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. But using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values"
Translating to human language: mass surveillance in USA "is incompatible with democratic values" but if we do that against, say, Germany or France this is OK. Ah, and if we use AI for "counterintelligence missions", for instance against <put here an organization/group that current administration does not like> this is also OK, even if this happens in USA.
"Tailwind didn't win because it's the best CSS solution. It won because it has the most tutorials per capita in the training set."
Obviously. People keep forgetting that "Artificial Intelligence" does not think and is not intelligent. It just statistically predict next token in a sequence. It is all statistics.
So, Django 6 has new task framework, but LLM does not care, as Celery has better stats.
Side note: it is not only LLM thingy. Companies for years were choosing tech stack because of fashion or popularity, regardless on technical feasibility for a given solution. So we have companies adopting Kafka, even though it sucks for their usecase, companies switch from Jenkins to Github Actions, even though Jenkins was cheaper and more performant.
"does not think and is not intelligent. It just statistically predict next token in a sequence. It is all statistics"
Technically correct, but pretty useless as a working model. Like sayin humans are not intelligent. It's just biochemical and bioelectric reactions. It's all physics.
How would you, from a Searlian perspective argue against "humans are just statistical next token predictors"?
We don't know what humans are because they are a black box, we use some imperfect models that have limited usability in specific contexts.
LLM is white box that we know for sure is just a statistical next token predictor and nothing more. It's not a just a model of some black box we are trying to understand but the whole actual thing. That people think it's something more or could be something more is on them. If you understand that then you understand the flaws, limitations and vulnerabilities which is very useful.
The problem is that, at least for now, it is dead easy to switch to something else. No need to convert anything, reconfigure anything, it is not like changing gmail to something else or dropping Word for LibreOffice.
Chat window is a chat window.
I can imagine that sooner or later things like OpenClaw (or its alikes) will become more popular and that could be something that will catch users.
Ah, fond memories... First website in Poland was the homepage of the Faculty of Physics of the Warsaw University (been there at that time). It was 1993 I think, although wayback machine stores a newer snapshot (1998), but it looks the same as original page: https://web.archive.org/web/19980120060239/https://www.fuw.e...
Ok, and what will be the alternative? I am not talking about the easy part, like documents creation, although I don't see walking away from Excel as LibreOffice alternative is a bit of disappointment. But what about the whole security/networking/permissions area? What is the viable alternative that can scale?
Remember Covid times? In Poland all schools got access to Office 365 (overnight ) and education kept going. 500 000 teachers and a few millions of pupils. Tell me who else except Microsoft or Google have ability to support that?
99% of users, could just as well use another form of spreadsheet. Only complex macros or custom integration does. Perhaps very large spreadsheets, I don't know.
In my part of Germany we used BigBlueButton after a short time when Zoom was used.
E-Mail and a LDAP account was also always available for students.
It's not exactly Rocket Science.
There are also ready made solutions available for purchase
Also the IT Administrators that may be skilled in Windows Server and similar but less so in Linux. Thats something that beeds to be taken into account. Can be changed they can learn new things, but that takes time.
Time is not a problem. Keeping up with Microsoft takes time and investment too. Especially right now as they're changing stuff around on a monthly basis in their rabiate urge to sell copilot.
"unintended consequences and liability cascades from imperfect repair" - I would say this is not the greatest argument. If someone messes with the equipment outside official channel, loses equipment guarantee, so there is no liability on the producer side.
If some firmware is buggy and pose cybersecurity issues, hiding that will not help, as sooner or later someone will discover those bugs anyway (and will turn good old John Deere into B-class horror movie serial killer machine).
So I am not buying manufacturers arguments. If they were honest, they would said openly they want to earn money on overpriced service because CEO wants to earn more and stakeholders are after him.
We don't understand the consequences yet... Ukraine is actively working on hunter drones that could operate on 10 km altitude to shot down enemy targets. Now, imagine that cartel, terrorists put their hands on such technology, endangering whole civilian air transport.
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