Comment Re:Oh goody (Score 1) 57
And soooooo unexpected!
And soooooo unexpected!
The speed of Excel are due to the core functions being written in finely tuned assembler, or at least they were in the past. It's not a secret. It's just not easily to duplicate in an open source way.
Yep, pretty much. Not all of them but far too many. And some of the malicious ones are exceptionally loud in addition.
For most people, the LLM is "smarter" than they are because their skills regarding understanding and insight are essentially zilch.
I see the victims of bad tech are, again, out in force and insist the bad tech is actually good tech. How pathetic.
Your comment does not make sense, hence I interpreted it as insult and gave right back. A prototype that has been running 5 years without major problems is a successfully proven prototype but in no way "proven technology". That requires a bit more.
Science moving forward
I don't know if I'd call giving up on prevention or cures and focusing on treatment "moving forward" - I'd call it profitable.
As I suggested in 2008 in "Post-Scarcity Princeton":
https://pdfernhout.net/reading...
"Wikipedia. GNU/Linux. WordNet. Google. These things were not on the visible horizon to most of us even as little as twenty years ago. Now they have remade huge aspects of how we live. Are these free-to-the-user informational products and services all there is to be on the internet or are they the tip of a metaphorical iceberg of free stuff and free services that is heading our way? Or even, via projects like the RepRap 3D printer under development, are free physical objects someday heading into our homes? If a "post-scarcity" iceberg is coming, are our older scarcity-oriented social institutions prepared to survive it? Or like the Titanic, will these social institutions sink once the full force of the iceberg contacts them? And will they start taking on water even if just dinged by little chunks of sea ice like the cheap $100 laptops that are ahead of the main iceberg? Or, generalizing on Mayeroff's theme, will people have the courage to discover and create new meanings for old institutions they care about as a continuing process?"
AI is just one more aspect of that trend of post-scarcity technological change, as (AI-based) one-on-one tutoring is now cheap (or effectively free if you are paying for AI access for other reasons).
Evolution is a million line computer program falling into place by accident.