We are not. Sorry. You are fucked and you did it yourself by voting us down this path with every tiny decision you make supporting it (except for that petition against a local data center that lets you pat yourself on the back despite you actually doing 100s of bad actions.)

For starters, we do not know what to address in a rapidly changing landscape. I can tell you that CAPTCHA and plumbing are tasks AI can't do...

You have kids who can't think or learn backed up by parents who don't even know how to be decent parents. The lack of basic skills or poor level of knowledge is already shocking but we are not failing enough of them before they get to me and I'm still failing more of them than ever. No real changes; no evolutionary change, just a sick culture and environment. The GRADE is the sole focus not subject mastery; credential over credibility. USA culture has become vapid on all fronts; cheating is acceptable as voting for a pedo/rapist felon president/dictator (you can SAY one thing but DO the opposite; no problem. hypocrisy seems to have become a virtue.)

You can't MAKE somebody learn outside of really basic things. Studies show using the stick harms problem solving abilities; what little exists in the 1st place. Problem solving is what the AI can't do at all, it only adapts answers and development thinking skills requires practice. The attention and mental energy required for difficult new lessons is not there in enough quantity to keep pace with past expectations. It was bad enough before trying to motivate students when they are flooded with motivators draining their dopamine. In college, just by the nature of being there in the first place precludes most the hurdles faced by teachers! (gradually as the masses enter the system this shifts.)

Blame the teachers/professors for everything and the schools...because that is literally one of main causes of the decline! Way to go! Externalize all YOUR problems like an MBA and now you too have fucked up your supply chain. The school has to compensate for everything wrong, including parenting your brats for you. If the students fail it must never be their fault. Not your perfect snowflake! This is the background problem festering for years before ChatGPT which couldn't have come at a worse time. These students don't study or do their homework (practice) except the slightly lower number of diligent disciplined students. Millennials were a problem until they grew up and realized more effort was required in their late 20s but they were AI free during their bad years...(we had workshops on their very real attitude problems.)

The great student of the past will continue to succeed despite the bad conditions; we couldn't transform the majority into becoming those disciplined students with generations of attempts, some emulation was possible. The amount of discipline required in today's environment is insane. Then you have places forcing AI use despite studies showing it harms already skilled thinkers.

I can tell you there is a mass depression over the situation in my circles. Some are trying to find solutions, but with so many variables and rapid change in the last few years it's been fruitless in the short term. Wait for things to settle and see what works is the general attitude. Humanity has always had troubles adapting new tech responsibly, bad applications come faster than wisdom does -- we're moving too quickly.

some background: https://youtu.be/BRD2EkhZZRI

Most the web was already slop for SEO or marketing.

I would think the quality of the HTML would improve since HTML generation software often writes poor quality HTML that is just good enough to work in Chrome. The frameworks out there violate tons of things and accessibility is going back down hill again. We have HTML giving in to all the invented html elements and standardizing common violations which became worse once we standardized error handling to the point people engineered around the error handling... almost instead of the specification. One of the reasons I stopped working (volunteer) on the spec (aside from w3 politics when they took it over and ruined/"normalized" the documentation.)

It's an engineering challenge but not that practical because purposeful design won at the speed task with the invention of the wheel. Most every narrow use case has a better solution than humans many broader ones as well. Even reasoning in a narrow scope is now likely best done by an AI (or will be) if it is repetitive enough to have the overwhelming amount of training data (something humans do way better at, finding a good heuristic from minimal data and applying unrelated data well.)

Fast is also an easier and a different problem from slow less controlled environments; such as navigating a child's bedroom avoiding lego being embedded in your foot or handling unsure footing when one of those toy mines finds it's way under foot.

Fun part: you can tell properly trained AI to give generated piece "a sense of the personality and mood of the specific performer". Today, 4/5 times it will be successful in doing so, provided it had enough of performer's works to learn from.

At this point, there are two kinds of successful artists.

Those that tell you that they use AI to assist with their craft, and those that lie about it.

Because the amount of extra work that needs to be done to without AI is ridiculous at this point. Add to this the part where AI provides several unique services that humans cannot deliver in time frames that aren't thousands to tens of thousands of times longer, allowing for rapid iteration on concepts that would be impossible otherwise, and today you no longer can be successful without it.

The only difference today is how much of it is used, for what parts, and what specific model.

I think the best term for AI luddites such as yourself is "AI Vegans".

Like vegans, you know a tiny sliver of reality, and make it your whole world. Like vegans, we don't need to know you're like this, because you'll tell us. Like vegans, you're wrong on almost everything. Like vegans, you believe your faith makes you a higher form of being, and those who disagree just "are lesser" i.e. "do not understand math".

Like vegans, you'll mostly go away in a decade or two.

It's actually the opposite. It was stagnant between 1960s and early 2000s. Where we thought we'd need to program it, because we were modelling it on ourselves even back then, and back then we thought brain was biologically fully pre-programmed.

Then fMRI brain imaging came, we understood how brain functions, that's it's not pre-programmed but learning from basic LLM-like template and then inferring based on what it learned (remember the "90% of the brain is not used" pre-fMRI myth?), and within a decade, basics of modern AI being "learn and infer" principle became mainstream.

And then they look at alternatives, and conclude "yes, this is in fact by far the best system we've ever had for this purpose".

"It's not perfect" is utopian thinking. What matters is "is this the best system we had so far".

Curious opinion considering that legal profession is mostly applied about logic. You learn the rules, and they you use logic to apply them to each situation.

Of course we do. We literally modeled current gen AI on it.

In fact, we even know that LLMs overwhelmingly struggle learning where humans struggle as well. Because it's the same process.

The only difference is that we are embodied and spend decades learning, while they have far more compute and memory and are able to learn in days. Each grants us slightly different advantages and disadvantages within the learning process.

Which is fundamentally the same process.

It is literally learning though. It's a neural network modeled on human brain, learning in the same way human brain does.

You going "lalalala, can't hear you" isn't changing reality. It's still learning.

Doesn't matter if Biden was slowly going senile, he hired good competent people and had a grasp of issues which Trump NEVER did - it's way more about the team you form and the connections you make; plus he managed to get a lot done in an impossible mess he had to clean up. It was going way better than I thought possible, I didn't expect as much as he accomplished. It is easy to break everything; hard to fix it when 1 side is actively trying to destroy anything that might help; simply because politics is more important than doing anything good. Everything is a lie / projection, it was never "America First" that is just old fascist propaganda they recycled. The biggest victims of their graft is their fascist supporters.

Biden would probably have stepped down at this point and the 1st woman would be president which is the only way that is happening; the USA will be gone soon so that will never happen. It is certainly no longer united; and some people will be delusional after it is obvious; like COVID etc.

At what point is it actually gone? The clever way is to hype the corpse as being alive -- Rome took 100s of years to die and it's not clear exactly when; the constitution has been reduced to a meaningless word, Christ is gone from American Christianity, facts are just an opinion, etc. It's all messaging for emotional appeal and the words have lost meaning which is the most important point from 1984 is how language controls thought... so important he made an appendix for the book to explain it! When a fiction book adds an appendix it's a huge indicator that shouldn't be overlooked!

At some point that turkey that fell out of the car...is not edible...after it gets lost in a swamp for a few hours... some will say-- just wash and cook it longer, it's still good! it's still good! If you learn about KGB subversion, you know we've passed the point of no return and the collapse will happen - it's just a matter of how fast Agent Orange can accelerate it. The poisoned culture will infect all attempts to correct making them ultimately a lost cause. Nobody truly knows how to cure a diseased political culture like Russia and exporting their social disease is their greatest weapon. It's what they've used against the USA primarily and Putin was at one point in charge of it then he took over and super charged the effort way beyond the cold war levels. It's certainly extremely cheap but very slow in effectiveness. Trumps such a natural, it's like he was engineered in a lab or heavily trained when he visited Moscow. (I think he is a mentally ill asset they know how to control.)

In EU, most grid operators learned from the mistakes of "let's just let everyone feed grid from unexpected input points all at once, and then stop all at once".

So the offset for feed in tariff is so high that it's basically never profitable to do so.

Correct, that's why I didn't mention it at all.

All I spoke about is that "you're not taking electricity from the grid when electricity from the grid is basically free, and you're taking electricity from the grid when when electricity is hilariously expensive".

It's telling that I haven't talked about that at all, and yet both naysayers claim I did, because that's your narrative.