AI is technically accurate. ML is literally the core component of the 1955 conjecture that defined AI. LLMs are a display of intelligence as a result of ML, also directly part of the original conjecture.

Sorry, no.

LLMs do one thing that was considered probably to be one of many attributes of what the proposal authors conjectured might be required to qualify for their definition of "artificial intelligence". But they do none of the other things: they do not form abstractions or concepts, they do not self-improve, they do not display human-like creativity. They only generate a statistically-probable stream of output tokens rendered as human vocabulary. If that counts as "a display of intelligence" to you, then I worry about what you think intelligence requires. Was ELIZA "a display of intelligence"?

The original proposal also did not define the modern understanding of "machine learning" as part of its outline of "artificial intelligence". The closest it got was this: "...admitting a new word and some rules whereby sentences containing it imply and are implied by others." But in the very next sentence the authors note "This idea has never been very precisely formulated nor have examples been worked out." What is commonly understood as ML by practitioners encompasses a universe of much-better-defined techniques than the first sentence quoted above, including some that don't fit that sentence at all. What was done with Cyc, feeding it carefully-crafted rules of language and logic, would fit into the above definition, but is not ML, and a lot of ML activities like visual object recognition wouldn't fit the above definition because they have nothing to do with language per se.

> I'm not saying LLMs will not write security holes, they definitely will if you don't very explicitly tell them not to. If telling an LLM "Make no mistakes" actually worked, you wouldn't need to tell it that in the first place.

> > 2) contribute slop patches to existing open source > And open source projects are increasingly disallowing AI generated code due to copyright problems. And those projects are finding that a large number of people still submit LLM slop patches anyway. Even if they're all rejected immediately upon submission, it's still a burden on the project. As a result an increasing number of projects are limiting the ability to contribute, some basically closing outside contributions entirely.

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My employer announced that AI costs will be billed back to departments. Token use (almost entirely among developers) was cut in half without affecting productivity, and perhaps even enhancing productivity because they had to think a bit about the best use of what they had instead of trying random things.

It's planet of short stature now

Interesting... I didn't consider that angle.
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In the long term being a dental hygienist (in the USA) is going to suck just as much as being a nurse at a corporate hospital. The same PE firms that destroyed our large clinics and hospitals are buying up the dental practices and turning them into scam machines that sell people fillings for cavities that don’t exist. Give it ten years and dental hygienists will be working six days a week for less than what Buc-ee's pays.

My opinion is that AI will kill Linux eventually. Not now, not when Linus uses it, because Linus knows how to code and is careful. But eventually the crappy vibe-coded junk will seep into the kernel. And then you'll get Microsoft-style code quality issues.

Russian sites like Yandex, Rutube, VKvideo... are great to find porn. But if they go down, I'll take the minor inconvenience for the sake of Ukraine.

More seriously, Yandex has been throttling queries rather aggressively lately, and I'm pretty sure it has something to do with their compute going up in smoke due to Ukrainian drones.

If Alphabet thinks that people in Maryland, Virginia, and DC are going to leave off their air conditioning in August for a paltry payment to keep data centers running then they're fucking insane. Not using much power when it's 105 degrees and humid outside is not something most people will do so Gemini can summarize other people's email.

War department is Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth doing their fascist circle-jerk.

Theyâ(TM)re synergizing paradigms. A goal of many tech companies in the 1996-2000 era. Elon might finally achieve the dreams of the companies that brought low the NASDAQ. Or the market will finally realize that heâ(TM)s full of shit and TeSpaceXSI is just as overvalued as Worldcom.

What can go wrong?

I wonder if the control room technicians will be allowed bathroom breaks...

I think the nudity was her husband, not her.

Anyone convicted of a federal crime committed after November 1, 1987, has to complete at least 85% of their sentence, no parole allowed. Even in a halfway house, she will be subject to strict behavioral rules.