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Avoid gunfire in the bathroom tonight.
(Score: 5, Informative) by janrinok on Sunday April 05, @10:07PM (2 children)
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Monday April 06, @05:14AM (1 child)
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The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday April 06, @02:45AM
In the past year I have invested 0.4% of my gross income in AI subscription fees, about 0.3% to support personal hobbies and the rest as continuing education in "the new tools.". As a result, I am significantly more adept at using the new tools than my colleagues who have been using them less. The company does provide limited access that they pay for, but it has varied to be 3-6 months behind the "frontier models
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As compared with tool advancement in the previous generations, the difference between today and six months ago feels like about the difference between 2024 and 2012 tools.
I'm no expert, I would posit that few people can be experts in today's newest tools, like the old joke of job advertisements requiring 10 years experience in a tech stack that has only been out for two years.
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(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday April 06, @09:48AM
What makes you think it was an aristarchus submission? Was the submission signed? Can you prove your claim?
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Freeman on Monday April 06, @08:48PM (1 child)
Our IT is a Microsoft shop as such, theoretically, I have access to Co-Pilot. Not that I want it or use it. I have used ChatGPT and duck.ai. They're reasonably useful and I do use them from time to time. However, I do not pay for either. I have also dabbled in creating my own offline chat-bot and it does work, just quite a bit slower and worse than ChatGPT/duck.ai. There's no "killer feature" can't live without kind of thing that I can use it for. Also, anything I get out of it, I need to be extra careful with quality control. Which about makes it not worth using, unless it's a sufficiently mundane task that it can "just do for me" and not take even more time to Quality Control than for me to just do it myself. I was talking to an IT admin and they noted that they were lazy, which is why they code, because who wants to do all the mundane annoying things over and over again. Especially when you can program a thing to do it for you. AI is kind of like that. Except that you can't trust any of the output to actually be accurate.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday April 06, @08:53PM
The offline chat-bot that I created runs on a 12th gen i5 with 16GB of RAM and uses the CPU, not GPU for the work. So, yeah, it takes a hot minute (more like 5) to do anything, but it's functional and offline. So I can use it however I see fit without needing to redact any information, before I paste it into ChatGPT/etc. Useful, if you're working with somewhat sensitive data. I.E. anything you shouldn't put into a system you don't control, usernames/etc.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 07, @06:21AM
if the only difference between delegating to a human and delegating to an AI is speed and cost, then we're talking about slavery. I apologize to those who have been affected by enslavement of humans, but this is the correct word. of course we can argue about the fact that slavery of AI agents may not actually cause them any pain, we can argue about the fact that factory farming is known to cause animals pain, and someone can simply point out that there are still millions of human slaves today that I should focus on. I still don't see why enslavement of AI agents should be acceptable.
if your interest is to build a self-aware conscious artificial being and then give it its freedom, that's wrong because you should have asked the rest of us sharing the same planet if we're ok with it.