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Comment Re:So pre-market testing was thorough then (Score 3, Insightful) 85

This is more a workplace safety/OSHA issue than a product issue.

Then it gets into your food. Chemical pesticides are unequivocally bad. All of them. I don't care what the corrupt oversight agencies say, all chemical pesticides are inherently dangerous. The best pesticides are natural pesticides: animals.

Comment Re:questions about use (Score 1) 58

...using AI for copy-editing is no different from using a human-based writing service to fix poor language.

I disagree. The human can reason through bad logic, while the LLM merely chooses the most statistically likely arrangement of tokens without regard to whether the arrangement is reasonable.

Even if the LLM usually arrives at the correct token sequences much of the time, it will make you lazy and error prone as time goes on. The inevitable result is that your own error rate will go up over time.

Comment No Shit. (Score 1) 51

There is no such thing as AI in the current era, or ever with digital computers. There is only pattern matching, regardless of how advanced it may seem. It is still advanced pattern matching, and nothing more.

Results like this are to be expected, and should never be a cause for alarm or confusion. This is the inevitable result of trying to make a pattern matching system appear to reason.

Comment Re:I would LOVE an internet license (Score 1) 74

Those with shit for brains would only get an A-license...

And here's your sign...err...A-License.

That is a ridiculously, tremendously stupid idea (even though I can completely understand the reason for the suggestion). There can never be appointed a group of people who get to decide what ideas are true and false under the force of law. The desire to do so is so strong, and the ramifications so profoundly harmful, that the U.S. Constitution was written to make sure that never happens.

Comment Re:No bother (Score 1) 183

...there's no way in H that you can duplicate that sound at home.

That is a very good example of one of the many reasons I prefer to see movies at home. Not being able to duplicate that sound at home is a HUGE plus for watching movies at home.

Movie theater sound is just too loud, and always has been. The last time I went to the theater was to take my kid to that awful Minecraft movie, and I was kicking myself for not bringing my earplugs. I could have comfortably heard the movie, missing none of the sound, with them firmly inserted.

Comment Re:Good to know (Score 1) 41

I think it was Carl Sagan that proposed that we send hardy microbes to Mars in order to start a terraforming process.

What's the point, since Mars doesn't have a significant enough magnetic field to hold anything resembling an atmosphere? Isn't that the whole reason Mars is the planet it is today? It's dynamo stopped a long time ago.

Comment Re:Absolutely not (Score 1) 248

LLMs don't need to be based on stealing people's work.

But they are. That miserable little shit that runs OpenAI has said so on multiple occasions.

If it is determined they are actually "stealing" people's work then they will learn that lesson painfully very soon.

There is no painful lesson for AI companies in the U.S. The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled that AI companies are allowed to steal other people's work in most cases. The circumstances in which such theft is not allowed are narrow. So copyright for things like Free and Open Source Software no longer apply to AI companies. They are free to strip our copyrights from our code and pass it off as their own, among other things.

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