Comment Re:Missed opportunity for a headline (Score 4, Funny) 60
"AI makes it harder to prove you are not a robot."
or a dog..
"AI makes it harder to prove you are not a robot."
or a dog..
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At least MS was smart enough to use a recycle bin instead of a trash can.
I miss those days when Apple played the upstart card with funny ads.
I've used CP/M, and indeed there are a lot of similarities to DOS.
Gary could have been as big as Gates if he didn't make a few missteps.
He seemed to be more of the photo-nerd who was more interested in what the tech can do than creating an empire. He went on to do a number of neat things, such as some early CGI:
In an oral history for the Computer History Museum, Brian Halla, Intel's technical liaison to DRI, recalls that Gary "showed me this VAX 11/780 that he had running in his basement, and he was so proud of it, and he said, 'I figured out a way to have a computer generate animation,' and he said, 'Watch this. And he runs a demo of a Coke bottle that starts real slowly and starts spinning, and so as maybe several months went by, he lost interest in this, and he sold his setup to a little company called Pixar.'"
To me, that story shows him to be more of the "what can it do" rather than "what is it worth." Had he had his Steve Jobs to his Steve Wozniak, he probably wouldn't be an historical afterthought. Interestingly, at one point he had the trademark to the term Mac.
While we can recognize evil of Putin's regime when it engages in totalitarian crackdowns on free speech, the sad truth is that we are not far behind. For example, Biden's justice department manufacturing novel legal theories to imprison non-violent political protesters while ignoring similar cases elsewhere.
Ignoring that prosecutors have broad authority to decide what to charge someone with based on the actions of the person, if the conservative textualist, such as Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, stick to their "the text is what counts and not inferring intent" championed by Scalia they should uphold the use of the law in these cases.
Yes, pulling the fire alarm is exactly the same thing as violently attacking police officers, vandalizing a government building and attempting to hang the vice president.
Not in MAGA land. Pulling a fire alarm if you are a D is much worse.
The data centre owners are saying that they want to externalize their costs by re-opening coal plants, instead of investing in renewables and storage for themselves.
Exactly, and they use the lure of jobs and tax revenue to get cities to bring them in; meanwhile the grid gets stressed. The data centers also want to be the last one to get interrupted in the event of demand shortfalls, so guess who will get blacked out before them? Meanwhile, the power company has to fight to get new plants sited cause of NIMBY while the same locations invite data centers to their town. I'm just glad I get my power from a wall outlet...
Nothing except the Slashdot headline seems to indicate they changed the story. They just edited some crappy snapshots. Aledgedly to hide whoever was slipping the filmmaker personal photos from a girl who tried to kill her parents.
Clearly we need a law. All TV shows must consist of slideshows of unedited crappy snapshots.
Yup. Typical slashdot headline; all tjat is missing is “reason ten will amaze you” TFA was clear the reason, as you point out, and nothing was nefarious.
Why do you people think it was poorly edited and anonymized photos by AI and not a person? It's pretty normal to edit photos in these situations for the reasons outlined in the article.
AI has become the big evil; so even if it is used to do what used to be done with other tools the result is somehow bad. CGI, Photoshop, AI are just one set of tools used in moviemaking, and can be used well or poorly and the results are all that really counts. Using any of them to change a story while claiming to present facts is a separate issue form whether or not any of those tools were used.
Still, now someone can write a script to pull all of the names and photos for any negative post and aggregate them from other sources around the net. The general public's response: "How much do we have to pay to see a dossier of random Joe Sixpack's or Jane Average's insane ramblings that we can then shame them for and deny them opportunities?"
All the more reason to use different user names and emails for various sites. If you are careful, no one will know you are a dog.
I think you missed the part of "regardless". I imagine the thinking is standardized tests will be used as a metric for accepting a smart poor kid versus rich alumni kids who get to ski in switzerland with the donors... Will it actually make a real difference on admissions? We'll see...
One possibility is to compare scores of similarly located students and focus on those doing better than the average, even if their score is lower than others admitted. The assumption Is such. student overcame challenges and thus should succeed at Harvard. One challenge with taht approach is you are likely to have small populations to compare results, so average scores may be misleading since many students simply will not take teh SAT/ACT and thus you have a self selected set of data points that do not reflect what the average score would be.
Microsoft's close involvement with commercial model training is taking the risk of ending up on the wrong side of a supreme court judgement for 11+ figure fines. For what? Consumers don't care, it's not a sales driver.
Apple is far better off just buying cloud services until the supreme court says whether or not copying (of pirated content) for training is fair use.
Apple apparently is taking a different route and paying for access to content:
At the same time, Apple is also getting more serious about tracking used iPhone components. The company announced that it will extend its Activation Lock feature, which is supposed to prevent thieves from using a device that’s lost or stolen, to iPhone parts. “If a device under repair detects that a supported part was obtained from another device with Activation Lock or Lost Mode enabled, calibration capabilities for that part will be restricted,” Apple says.
No doubt there will be ways to bypass that but will make it harder and thus less attractive to may thieves.
Teachers will need new teaching methods, since ChatGPT can lift the weight of the simple problems. But if you can't solve simple problems, how do you develop the skills to solve the harder ones?
They could do what one of my professors did when he got two identical answers to a test question. Called us in separately and asked us how we’d approach solving a similar problem. When I got it right it was clear I was not the one that copied an answer.
Have them explain the logic behind their answer. Sure a student could ask Chat-GPT the same question, but then again so could the professor.
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde
