I think a tool that lets one person do the work of 20 will result in 17 people being laid off, as the company triples its rate of work. (I can see triple being feasible and achievable in the software industry, but maybe not more)

Oh, and a "train" is a bit like 100 cars back to back.

"this belief is utterly false. To quote the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the recent Hobby Lobby case: 'Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.'"

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfo...

"We ... show that [the Shareholder Primacy Norm] is not a legal requirement, at least under the guise of shareholder value maximization. This is in contrast to the common assertion that managers are legally constrained from addressing corporate social responsibility issues if doing so would be inconsistent with the economic interests of shareholders."

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p...

Dawkins is very likely right. I am also impressed at how human AI can seem, with all our faults of hallucinating, hiding our mistakes, and making stuff up, as well as the stuff we are proud of. But Dawkins and I both realise that we have no definition of 'intelligence' that will allow us to rule whether AI is intelligent. The Turing test has foundered because the early AI attempts were able to express ideas eloquently even when their 'intelligence' was questionable. It seems that AI has a talent for imitation and mimicry, which lets it convince us in a Turing test even when it shouldn't. Any adversarial training to get AI to distinguish between AI and us will also spawn a more convincing imitator. Where do we go from here? I find it entirely reasonable that AI executes the same sort of processes as our minds do, but proving equality rather than equivalence is going to be hard.

> Am I the only one that can't imagine any possible value an AI assistant would bring to a game?

I use AI assistants lots when playing games!

At the moment it's Minecraft. I want to figure how to build something, e.g. a golem farm. I look for tutorials online but (1) they're all videos which I hate watching, (2) they're all hyper-specific and concrete, "place this block here then that block there", but what I want to understand are the foundational principles so I can know how to adapt the golem farm to my own purposes -- what are the mechanics, how do they spawn, how does water flow, what is the SOLUTION SPACE of possibilities.

Gemini AI has been really good at this kind of thing.

The other time is when I get stuck, or want advice on how to make a character build to achieve a certain end. Once again the online advice is typically in the form of "walkthroughs", do step 1 then step 2 then step 3, in other words just one possible way to play the game, and it's too easy to accidentally read too far and spoil the rest of it. I don't want that. I like the feeling of openness and possibilities. I again ask Gemini, and it gives me advice on just the particular bit I'm stuck on, and is better at showing for me the available options.

There are definitely instance of AI memorizing images/paintings and having full recall. So that is a copyright problem.

Lua remains the commonest choice today for games to offer scripting/modding. It's pretty much the industry standard. (Outside C# for Unity).

Nothing. $103/hr for a superhuman employee or $10.30/hr for a superhuman employee.

If it's boosting employee efficiency by 50% as claimed in another Slashdot story above then assuming your Sr. Engineer makes $250,000 a year / 48 weeks / 8hr days = $650/day. + 50% for AI means you're getting an extra $325/day in work from the employee.

They could run 10x costs for 3 hours a day and break-even. But the average is currently way less than 3hr/day. Claude claims the average developer consumes $13/day in tokens. So even if we 10x that it's $130/Tokens per day vs $325/day in productivity.

DJI just released an e-bike platform where the firmware lets you pick what Class of e-bike you want it to be in the menu. And that takes like 2 seconds to change. So, you're supposed to put a sticker on it labeling what class you picked, but then you also are supposed to be able to use unlimited power on private property and then go into the menu and de-tune it to ride on the road.

And that ladies and gentlemen is from someone whose username is "Stabiesoft".

The practical application IMO is a glorified cubicle. I just want to be able to put on a headset, and have a wireless keyboard and mouse with a 32" 4k monitor anywhere I need to go.

Laptop screens are way too constrictive and the ergonomics are atrocious. But we're still a long way off from 32" 4k display equivalent VR.

There is also the problem of maintaining approval over the duration of a project. If voters approved something and couldn't ever be messed with then things would proceed more smoothly. But if at any moment its popularity drops below 50% suddenly it gets defunded and dies and is nearly impossible to revive.

I've seen several infrastructure jobs suffer this fate. It gets approved, then during planning and development voters change their mind and the project is shutdown. Then a couple years later voters change their mind again but it's too late everybody has moved on and you have to start the whole process over again.

When projects take a decade or more, that means it has to survive the political winds for an eternity.

What we're really missing today is Tape. Iomega Ditto was impressive because it brought tape to the consumer segment. Today, Enterprise has tape but there's no good way for your average photographer or prosumer to have cheap backups of their data.

I have about 2TB of photos that I've accumulated and there's no easy backup option except for very fragile external HDDs.

Don't even have to go very far. The company responses say exactly what's going on. (d) the law doesn't say we can't create cookies unrelated to ad tracking.

This is new with quarks but old (1948) for electron-positron pairs, though it may otherwise have been explained by the breaking of a pair with a virtual lifetime back then. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for references. This is can happen in empty space, though it was first observed close to nuclei where the fields are strong and the two particles can be separated more easily.