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Comment Re:Computers don't "feel" anything (Score 1) 32

It's different from humans in that human opinions, expertise and intelligence are rooted in their experience. Good or bad, and inconsistent as it is, it is far, far more stable than AI. If you've ever tried to work at a long running task with generative AI, the crash in performance as the context rots is very, very noticeable, and it's intrinsic to the technology. Work with a human long enough, and you will see the faults in his reasoning, sure, but it's just as good or bad as it was at the beginning.

Comment Methodology? (Score 4, Insightful) 36

Clicking through a few levels, it appears this is based on an analysis of stolen password dumps. It does not say whether they took steps to limit their analysis just to passwords grabbed in bulk as part of data breaches - so, if brute-forced passwords make up a meaningful percentage of the total, it's possible their overall counts are biased and inflated.

Comment Are we back in the '90s? (Score 2) 36

I remember a story on Slashdot from around the turn of the century, an audit of servers at the Pentagon found that the most common Admin password was Password, the second-most common was P@ssw0rd.

At my first real IT job in 1996 if you knew the birthdate of of the children of 4/5 of the users you knew their password. I wasn't allowed to insist on a change in the user training.

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