Yeah, i remember the discussions. None of the details though.

Same. :)

I don't remember Duckpins. I remember dips and chips, but not sure if i was reading then.,

That's the first Slashdot email i've gotten in a little while...

If you are looking for ads. If your looking for content, you need to scroll down. way down.

If you try to compile it, it will fail if you have anything less then gtk-4.8. Ubuntu-22 has GTK-4.6 and to upgrade you've got to compile from source... Too much trouble for one program.

I kept thinking maybe slashdot.org could make a big return !

It's a different platform with a different audience. I really don't think that idea has any hope. Unfortunately. :(

Heh,

I've been journaling, but stopped reading the main page long before that.

I think you might be right. Elon Musk wanted a pause, while busy buying NVIDIA graphic cards so he had time to catch up.
Big players now are:
Microsoft (openai, azure)
Meta (facebook)
Amazon

I think we are in a period of Open Source AI starting and the big players are worried their vast fortunes in the future are going to become as common as Linux in cellphones.

First, it's all math. The chatgtp is just figuring out the next most likely letter to come next. Understandably it's a very large list to choose from and the data is incomprehensible but it's still just math... So you're going to pause probability mathematics?

Second, What exactly is the pause pausing? People using it? People developing it? Computers capable of running it? Computers are powerful enough now that a home computer can run a close approximation to chat-gtp. You know it's going to get better. It's become the opensource of AI, all that's happening now is the exploration of limits.

Third, we are in the Cold War in AI. What I mean is, suppose the west does pause all development of AI. Do you think the East will too? I think not. Like it or not, this is a race and if you pause, you are effectively quitting the race.

I think it's here to stay and it will be regulated, but only after real damage has been done, and then only superficially. But like all new technologies old jobs will be replaced, new ones created.

I've needed to write some arduino code and it knew about libraries that I did not. It also knew how to use them, and I was able to copy/paste much of it right in. I also like that commenting that it does on code. I'm starting to emulate it's commenting style.
I've also put in tricky code (for me) and asked it to explain it and comment it. Often I can copy/paste back into the source and it looks much better.
I've also asked if it can re-write tricky code in a better way. Sometimes it's way better.

I do find the 4k token count to be a bit limiting. You've got to keep the code to bite sized chunks which if you are working with large classes isn't too useful.

How should i know? :)

Last farewell was to ~talinom, this one is to ~jawtheshark. Otoh, this is part 2, so it sounds like they're connected.

Wasn't that someone else?