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Comment Re:You buy a gilded toaster.. (Score 3, Interesting) 110

The U.S. Navy showed interest in switching to SAP ERP back in 1998. More than a billion dollars later in customization, the Navy is still struggling to consolidate their financial systems under it. SAP: "you need to change your business processes to align with our software." The U.S. Navy: "we're not a generic commercial entity, so let's customize your software." ERP Contractors: "Sure, we can do that"... lol

Comment For many projects, I work better alone (Score 1) 293

Just give me autonomy and project ownership, please, and I will take full responsibility for deliverables. I will meet with the customer, hash out the requirements, design the architecture, manage the timelines, and write the code. But take your soul-sucking meetings and bureaucratic layers and SHOVE IT.

Comment QAnon-style conspiracy nuts on the right and left (Score 3, Interesting) 265

Wi-Fi causes cancer and "leaky brain," Kennedy told podcaster Joe Rogan last month. Antidepressants are to blame for school shootings, he mused during an appearance with Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Chemicals in the water supply could turn children transgender, he told right-wing Canadian psychologist and podcaster Jordan Peterson, echoing a false assertion made by serial fabulist Alex Jones. AIDS may not be caused by HIV, he has suggested multiple times.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187272781/rfk-jr-kennedy-conspiracy-theories-social-media-presidential-campaign

Comment OpenAI/ChatGPT has an indemnification clause (Score 4, Informative) 32

It will be interesting how lawmakers/judges deal with this. As of now, this is what you agree to when you use their services:

“Section 7. Indemnification; Disclaimer of Warranties; Limitations on Liability: (a) Indemnity. You will defend, indemnify, and hold harmless us, our affiliates, and our personnel, from and against any claims, losses, and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) arising from or relating to your use of the Services, including your Content, products or services you develop or offer in connection with the Services, and your breach of these Terms or violation of applicable law.”

IOWs, imagine the hourly rate of OpenAI's legal team. Now imagine you, i.e., the end-user of ChatGPT, publishes something that gets OpenAI sued. Guess who gets the legal bill?

Comment Re:Incomplete data (Score 1) 197

It's just going to tell them we're living in a statistical approximation of a universe, isn't it?

With a dash of confirmation bias from people who "worked on and led the development of some of the largest breakthroughs in the field including AlphaStar, AlphaCode, Inception, Minerva, GPT-3.5, and GPT-4"

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