Comment Re:Most important question of all... (Score 1) 6
Does it come with an off button?
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Does it come with an off button?
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
I just give the files I create sensible names. Then "plocate" can find them anywhere in the system in under 10 milliseconds.
No 5 minutes of "Working on it..." with an asymptotically slowing progress bar. No dozens of AI threads in the background constantly swapping out all my memory pages and flushing my IO buffers. No dribbling sensitive information all over the disks and into the cloud.
But that takes time and Glue-All, right? Or was there some way of obtaining Glue-All for free?
Yes it was essentially free. Of course I brought a bottle I scrounged from home along with other school supplies, but what else would I have used Glue-All for in college classes? I'm sure that the one bottle I had went bad before I finished it.
Back then, time was essentially free. Dorm life had a prison-like economy: With room and board prepaid by parents, most people just had some pin money for beer. Everything was evaluated in terms of beer equivalents. Genuine tokens for a load of laundry cost at least 3 or 4 beers. Few would be willing to forego those drinks to save a couple of minutes squirting glue.
Our dorm used plastic tokens that would be dispensed from some central site. (I assume the idea was to discourage people from prying open coin boxes on washers and dryers.)
However, when we arrived we learned from the upperclassmen that you could make a wax mold from a real token, then manufacture all the free tokens you want from Elmer's Glue-All. Nobody I knew ever paid to do laundry, but the University never bothered to change out the system while I was there.
Sometimes the glue tokens would jam the mechanism, but that could usually be fixed by using a chair to deliver a firm blow to the slider.
It seems that just like the T-1000 Terminator, the cable companies are able to reconstitute themselves from a bunch of little fragments.
But in the next decade, the COO believes talking to an AI like you would with a friend, teammate, or project collaborator will be the new norm.
Just remember: This upcoming AI may very well be a friend, teammate or collaborator. But it will be to the corporation that creates it, not to you.
Just like with current tech companies, their business partners and advertisers will be their customers. You will still be the product, but with the creepiness factor cranked up by an order of magnitude.
From the standpoint of wanting something reasonably factual, I am pretty sure it would be dumb to rely on any AI that's using Tweets as the main part of its training data set.
Training an AI on X content is the ultimate goal to which the computer science phrase "Garbage in, garbage out" has been moving for almost 70 years.
We can finally close out that phrase and move on to the next frontier in CS.
Even without bookmarks, there's no need to keep tabs open. Just hit "Ctl-H", then enter a word related to what you want to go back to. You'll almost always find what you're looking for in your own history list within seconds.
I could never understand why anyone would keep more than half a dozen tabs open at any given time. The WWW was designed to be stateless: "Ctl-W" is your friend.
This is like sending coals from eastern Newcastle to western Newcastle.
Which came first? Government or a human's ability to be productive enough to sell the fruits of their labor?
That works if you're a prostitute. Without a government, it doesn't scale much beyond that.
Never had an employee that was critical to business operations, eh? I was one 10 years ago. I said "fuck you" and quit.
Cool story, bro.
And what? Let government dictate how a business is run?
Why not? The whole concept of a "business" is nothing more than a fiat defined by the government.
There are all sorts of rules regarding businesses. One is that customers that owe you money have to eventually pay, and if they don't, you can run to the government for help. In this particular case, large employers have to treat their employees somewhat like human beings, and not just totally upend their families' lives with no warning.
Are employees required to continue working until I can find and train replacements?
Maybe if employees routinely quit en masse without warning, that would be an issue. But it's not an issue. How do we know? Because almost all businesses use an "at will" work policy if they are allowed. This means that being able to unceremoniously dump employees than is much more important to them than the risk of some employees suddenly quitting.
This is nothing new.
40 years ago, I had friends blowing big chunks of money they didn't have on things like new high-end stereo equipment, scuba gear and souping up their cars. They went through the same home economics classes and go the same parental advice as everyone else, but they just chose to ignore it. I'm sure the exact same thing is happening now to a similar subset of the population.
In this case, it sounds like it might be a good idea to invest a couple of bucks in using certified mail with a return receipt.
An 18-wheeler was overkill.
Everyone knows that they should have used a station wagon.
I don't think that the point of writing assignments is to produce documents as a product. It's to have the student go through the process of gathering, analyzing and understanding the material, in order for them to learn it. If they skip that work, they learn little or nothing.
In the real world, being effective in directing a computer to produce a bunch of text that you know nothing about is not a worthwhile skill. If someone comes back with issues related to the AI-generated content, how would you address the problems if you're mostly ignorant about the topic at hand?
Elegance and truth are inversely related. -- Becker's Razor
