I have mixed feelings about the team behind the AI that called itself MechaHitler getting tons of taxpayer money
All of the large AI platforms have similar issues.
xAI is the only one opening admitting it happens and trying to resolve it.
So I'd rather give my money to them then a company pretending the well they are drawing training data from is not poisoned.
You are about 8 billion cycles behind on news it seems like, this story should clue you in as to how far off you are.
Like most of the ills of academia, this one is largely self-inflicted.
For decades, promotion & tenure committees have held junior faculty to standards that they themselves could never have achieved. You'd have P&T committee members passing judgment on assistant professors who had published more journal papers than any three of them put together. It didn't matter - the bar was constantly raised.
So faculty increasingly turned to the MPU (minimum publishable unit) strategy - chopping up what should have been one really good paper into five or six mediocre ones. Even before AI exacerbated this problem, the crapflood of journal submissions was overwhelming reviewers and journal editors.
And now? It's become even more nightmarish. Many of my colleagues simply refuse to review papers any longer. They're done wasting their time going through ultra-dense text with perfect grammar and spelling that was clearly written by ChatGPT. There have even been Ph.D. students who attempted to pass their qualifying exams with immaculate presentations on material that they could not answer even the simplest questions about. So now we're moving into the second phase of the rot, where students who earned fraudulent Ph.D.'s become the next generation of faculty.
Academia will not be a pretty sight twenty years from now.
YOU should probably try reading the summary, they were not here legally, but were given forbearance because of supposed hardships where they came from - but no one really vetted the claims they made. They could still apply for legal immigration.
To me Bitcoin long term is still kind of iffy, but if you want something ELSE to help you escape the traditional monetary system, there is gold and silver which are also up quite a but for the year, even the past year, and moving higher.
You can also get crypto backed by gold or silver as well if you want an electronic form. Just make sure you get a form actually backed by real metals in vaults.
Learning to program isn't the same as Computer Science.
Computer Science is lots of algorithms, computational theory (finite automata, P and NP, etc.), graph theory, tons of numerical algorithms, lexical, syntax and semantic analysis, program transformations (loop unrolling, etc.), lots of compiler theory, databases, networking, cryptography, etc. Tons of really interesting stuff! A lot of CS is more like mathematics than programming. Lots of proofs.
Focusing on programming is a little like telling an engineering student that the curriculum is mostly bricklaying. Are we talking about a college that teaches computer science or a trade school doing "programming"?
Tan said Intel will instead focus on "edge" AI that operates directly on devices rather than centralized computers.
And will those "edge" AI devices have to sell for $1000 each in order for the engineers who design them to be rewarded and promoted within the company?
That has been Intel's doom for the past three decades. The employees working on high-end products with high margin sales get all the attention and promotions. The ones working on high-volume, low margin products go nowhere. That's why Intel has made so little headway in anything beyond enterprise products in recent years.
This new "focus" will go nowhere unless Intel's corporate culture is vastly different than what is was when I last dealt with it.
I don't want to unsubscribe to this or that.
I want to give natural language filters like "I never want to see a political email again, from anyone"
Or maybe "If they make it sound urgent but it's not urgent at all, don't show it to me and remind me a week before the actual deadline if it's at all important".
As others have said, unsubscribe links often do not work and it's probably all the Gmail feature will use.
LLM crawlers are understandable these days, but who on earth is actively trying to take the FSF down?
A bunch of heathen VIM users trying to stop people from accessing EMACS? What the heck?
Let's say you actually managed to take down the FSF website. Who would even notice or care? How would that help your hacker rep in any way? You'd be a laughingstock for making the attempt.
Yes AI may be generating a lot of code now. But you need someone to find where what was generated was weak, or inefficient.
Over time the quality of generated stuff will improve, but since so many companies are generating a lot of code today that is a LOT of technical debt that is building up rapidly.
I especially agree that now is the time to round out your skills - as stated, study design, study platforms you connect to but do not develop on. Study AI tools, find out when they work for things you work on and know well - and when they do not.
Good luck out there everyone!
What sin has not been committed in the name of efficiency?
