I don't think it's entirely that. It may be for things like NASA projects where innovation is much more prevalent, but there are other factors in Government projects as a whole. I suspect there's a large element of costs and time frames being deliberately underestimated. If the true costs were stated up front it may be more difficult politically to get something approved. HS2 here in the UK seems to be an example of that. The originally stated costs and time frame were ridiculously low and have risen steeply since, but if the full price had been stated upfront it's doubtful it would have ever got approval. That may well have been a good thing, but that's a discussion for another time. I suspect (but obviously can't prove) that underestimating such things is common in Government projects across the Democratic world so that things get started, then the later rise in costs is easier to sell and often becomes Someone Else's Problem anyway.

It's a great feature but what's weird is that "Live Translation with AirPods is not available if you are in the EU and your Apple Account Country or Region is also in the EU." https://support.apple.com/de-d...

Sorta like the equivalent of explorer.exe in Windows but for your Android device. It provides the UI elements and interface to lay out your app icons and, well, launch them. I also like to think of it as the desktop interface to your Android device.

It's even worse here in the UK than the US. At least your Government and President campaigned on the platform they are governing on. Nobody there can truthfully claim they didn't know what to expect when they voted Trump in. Labour campaigned on a platform of progressive change, promising to govern for the people. The second they got in power they started clamping down on free speech and banning peaceful protest. It's a coup. They don't have a mandate for this.

The problem with this specific law though is that it wasn't this current Government that brought it in. It was passed by the last lot, who are now claiming they are against it. And the Far Right ReformUK also voted for it but are now pretending they didn't. Vote for Center Left get Far Right. Vote for Center Right get Far Right. Is it any wondser that the most likely next Government is a blatantly Far Right one? We get that whatever we vote for anyway, why bother voting against it?

An android is by definition male. The clue is in the etymology. Andro-id, meaning male being. A female version would be an ogynid. Asimov discussed this in a conversation about I Robot.

I'm as certain as it's possible to be that LLMs are not the path to more accurate AI. They will be a part of it, but statistics just doesn't work that way. They are as accurate as they will ever be. Something else is needed to correct their errors, and to the best of my knowledge nobody knows what that is as yet. These Companies keep claiming they've found it but every time their claims don't stand up to any scrutiny. That's not to say it won't happen in the near future, nobody can predict when that sort of breakthrough will happen. But equally it may not happen for decades if ever. We don't understand how human thought and reasoning works well enough to emulate it yet.

So my answer was based on the models we have now. That's the question that was asked after all. Predicting what may happen in the future is a fool's game, but right now the models we have aren't good enough for anything but the simplest of problems, and only usable on problems that a human has already solved. Using them is the equivalent of looking up the answer to a question every time, and not bothering to remember that answer or understand the subject on the basis that it will always be available to look up. This is also making predictions about the future that may or may not come true.

Your machinist is fine for as long as a CNC lathe is available but without it may be useless. That's still better than a programmer relying on current AI because that lathe can at least do every job conceivable in that domain. In the programming domain AI can't yet and may never be able to.

I think the point here is that it can be useful for someone who isn't really a coder, to produce just about usable simple things. But if you are a coder it's not really faster. Maybe in the short term, but in the long term it's worse.

As somebody who's been coding for 40 years, in multiple languages, I already have my own libraries full of the vast majority of stuff. These libraries are not just fully tested already, I understand them thoroughly and so can write the small changes to them needed for each project. I only need to test the changes, not the main body of code. If I use LLMs for it, I need to test every single bit of it every single time, and because I'm not learning the algorithm myself I make myself dependent on the LLM going forward. Even on those occasions where I don't already have something similar in a library it's better to write it and understand it myself rather than rely on an LLM, just in case I need something similar again in the future. And if I do the code I've saved will be fully tested in advance.

So in summary an LLM can be useful if you don't code often, and can speed up work in the short term. But using it will prevent you becoming fully experienced and will mean that you are always slower than someone like me no matter how many years' experience you get, because using it prevents you from gaining that experience. And it will always be useless for larger, more systems level projects because it is too unreliable and if you don't have my level of experience you won't be able to spot the thousands of subtle bugs it would put in such a project.

Not that most systems level projects aren't already full of these subtle bugs, but that's a whole different problem caused by Companies not wanting to pay people like me what I'm worth.

He is blue, right?

Definitely not! That town in 30km from where I live!

Due to a disability, I can only type with my right hand. It definitely slows my typing. But, I have learned to work around this. For example, I use "sticky keys" which lets me type Shift, Ctrl, Alt, and release those keys. so, Ctrl+C is typed by pressing Ctrl then releasing it, then pressing C then releasing it. The regular way also works while "sticky keys" is enabled.

And then Microsoft will hire them all, at reduced salaries because there's a surplus, and laugh while all their foolish competitors fail. It's a dastardly plan but it mmight just work.

This is important because what it does is it shows that hiring a human software development engineer is going to be required for that to be considered a business asset or to have some kind of lack of liability from it, Because a non-human won't have the same rights and therefore cannot sign off on transferring those rights to a company.

It also means that code written by AI has Liability that code written by humans does not, Because code written by humans is free speech but code written by AI is not.

Clearly separating human freedom of speech from AI software output also allows us as humans to differentiate between the human that can be hired to do the work legally and the robot that the company bought to maintain profits by not having to hire a human being considered a corporate liability; And it shows that hiring humans to code gives your company rights you don't otherwise get from an AI because an AI is not creating free speech.

It also carves out a dedicated place for professional tech people in a world where you can buy a version of C-3PO or JARVIS to code for you.

"doesn't affect me personally so fuck it".

Spot on. Gardening Copywriter does not mean what it says directly. It means the person is a copywriter. Just happened to work for a gardening magazine. A information source written by people. If AI takes over all the text we are going to live on regurgitated stuff from now on. Like eating your own shit because it it is recycled.

As for "I am not too sad"? The guy is just a goddamn psychopath without feelings for other people.

And while you were typing it in you are already thinking about to add and modify stuff to make even more fun! Those were the days.

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