Yeah, it was around 2016 when I finally left and didn't look back. The same with Amazon. That's around the same time reviews on Amazon went to shit too. Come to think of it, that's when the Chinesium wave hit Amazon too.

I agree.

The only way to turn these companies around is to lose the bean-counter culture and reinstate engineers at key roles in the companies.

In other news, the catholic church is suing OpenAI because they had the idea to simply make suicide illegal a thousand years ago and have been using it ever since.

Not sure if it's a trade secret or a copyright case, the news often don't mention the fine details.

That's a good point. Here on /. I can assume people know what open world games are. Out in the real world movies are probably the better analogy.

I miss ZipZoomFly.

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That place became a shit-hole years ago. Surprised they are still relevant. It used to be my go-to site for all things computer related.

Why would this be surprising? Mars has huge dust storms and is very dry. The perfect recipe for static electricity. What am I missing?

I have a question. In the past I've always avoided AMD video cards because of the driver issues I always read about. Over the past year however I have been reading that AMD Linux drivers are so much better than nVidia's drivers. I'm looking to upgrade my video card, and since I use Linux now, would it be wise for me to try an AMD video card this time around? Are the drivers really that much better?

What are you talking about Jerry?

Sure do :) I can provide more if you want, but start there, as it's a good read. Indeed, blind people are much better at understanding the consequences of colours than they are at knowing what colours things are..

The movie analogy is old and outdated.

I'd compare it to a computer game. In any open world game, it seems that there are people living a life - going to work, doing chores, going home, etc. - but it's a carefully crafted illusion. "Carefully crafted" in so far as the developers having put exactly that into the game that is needed to suspend your disbelief and let you think, at least while playing, that there are real people. But behind the facade, they are not. They just disappear when entering their homes, they have no actual desires just a few numbers and conditional statements to switch between different pre-programmed behaviour patterns.

If done well, it can be a very, very convincing illusion. I'm sure that someone who hasn't seen a computer game before might think that they are actual people, but anyone with a bit of background knowledge knows they are not.

For AI, most of the people simply don't (yet?) have that bit of background knowledge.

And yet, when asked if the world is flat, they correctly say that it's not.

Despite hundreds of flat-earthers who are quite active online.

And it doesn't even budge on the point if you argue with it. So for whatever it's worth, it has learned more from scraping the Internet than at least some humans.

We didn't. The media and the PR departments did. In the tech and academia worlds that seriously work with it, the terms are LLMs, machine learning, etc. - the actual terms describing what the thing does. "AI" is the marketing term used by marketing people. You know, the people who professionally lie about everything in order to sell things.