I'm 20 years out of undergrad with two graduate degrees, and when I switched jobs late last year the company wanted my undergrad GPA. I doubt the actual decisionmakers looked at it or cared though.

I remember being absolutely burnt out on school by the time I reached grade 7 or 8. I started out enjoying learning. In fact, I was the kid who won the contest at our public library over the summer, twice in a row, for reading the most books on my own. I was also "that kid" who really got into doing those science fair projects and having one go on to some sort of regional finals.

I think what really started ruining things for me was the combination of way too much homework and too many classes (by high school, at least) where teachers felt it necessary to fill 4 chalkboards full of notes each day that we had to copy in our notebooks, as study material for their quizzes and exams. Oh, and of course, we still had to read a chapter or two of the provided hard-cover textbook.

I mean, there are SO many truly entertaining stories one can tell about history (YouTube is chock-full of them!), and yet - almost every History teacher I had in school insisted on dry/dull spewing of names, dates and places that had to be copied down, memorized, and spit back. And I'll admit math was always a struggle for me. I just never reached a point where I found any of it "enjoyable". But it never helped me that my math teachers always seemed to cover a steady "topic per day" without much care if we understood one of them or not. Everything built on everything else though, so as soon as I got lost with one or two items, it became a downward spiral. All they could suggest is, "Get tutoring!" ... and frankly? That's the LAST thing a school age kid/teen wants to hear when they've got so much of their waking life already occupied with the school day + hours of homework in the evening.I finally got a really good math teacher in college one year, who made a lot of it make sense for me. But it was one of those remedial classes that I think worked for me because she only taught us in a small group and made sure each of us understood each topic. I was always much better with reading and writing, but even a few of the English Lit. type courses I had were FAR more painful than they should have been. I mean, forcing us to read a specific novel to answer quiz questions on it and report on it later is counter to the way any sane person enjoys reading. (Who goes to a book store and has the clerk shove a book in their face - saying you must buy and read this one now?) Why couldn't they have a selection of books about different topics to choose from?

I dunno.... I guess I can see how AI could cause the same kind of "mental laziness" a calculator does vs learning to do a problem by hand? But calculator results are absolutes. AI makes mistakes and often requires creative re-wording of questions and playing with adding rules/restrictions to the output. If it's simply taught that it has to be used only as a tool, and one with limitations? It shouldn't stop the curious from wanting to learn. I wonder how much of that was already crushed by the system?

I predict a distinct change in the tone and content of ATC radio instructions. Use of the gamer word will skyrocket.

I, for one, doubt we'll see air traffic control replaced by AI any time soon. The big reason is accountability. If one air traffic controller completely screws things up and causes a plane crash -- that person can be singled out, terminated, and things return to normal. If the AI they replaced the human workers with screws up and causes a plane crash? Now you're talking about years of ongoing investigation, arguments/debates and pressure to bring the human workers back.

My own experience using Reddit is that it's really a mixed bag when it comes to forum moderation.
On some of the forums, moderators seem to do their due diligence and people receive warnings before outright bans, with explanations of why they were warned.

In others, you just get a sudden permanent ban, with nobody ever replying if you ask for an explanation.

For example, I work for a company that uses "Docuware", a fairly expensive (and somewhat obscure) document management software package. We paid to migrate our on-site server to their cloud-based solution a while back, but during that process, our support contract expired for the on-site version. We were assured we didn't need to spend the money renewing it just to get help finishing the migration. But we ran into some issues in the meantime (largely because we had to hold off on cutting over fully to the cloud, to retain compatibility with an outside vendor we shared some of the data with). I discovered Reddit had a Docuware subreddit (woo!), and asked a couple questions in there. I got a public reply from a guy in a foreign country who promised he could assist me. But then, he private messaged me, hitting me up for some large hourly fee. In other words, he was just looking for targets to sell his services but pretending he was just another helpful user in the public forum.

Shortly after I sent him a private reply thanking him but declining his services? I was permanently banned from the subreddit. No explanation... nothing. Looks like it was really just set up for Docuware consultants to make a few bucks.

The problem is that the vast majority of legitimate businesses stopped using unsolicited calls a long time ago. The callers that are left are mostly scam centers in places like SE Asia that use spoofed numbers and some combination, robodialers, AI, and slave labor. Since the calls are typically already scams of various nature, the callers already face criminal penalties. A theoretical fine they will never pay isn't going to change behavior at all.

The thing that can help is better call filtering at the OS level. iOS already has AP-enabled call answering, but there's still no way to do a rules-based filtering criteria besides a whitelist only method. An AI agent that could be set up to answer and automatically classify the message as spam and delete before the user is notified could go a long way. Also, carriers need to get better about security. It's still way too easy to spoof phone numbers.

It could be a case of confusing correlation with causation.

People who are easily confused and have trouble paying attention to the road will choose other professions.

I'm reminded of an old saying: "The market can afford to remain irrational longer than you can afford to remain solvent."

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The best solution is to fire all blind police officers and hire police officers who can read and verify license plates before pulling anyone over.

Accuracy does not matter. Legality does not matter. The cameras and the data they gather are unconstitutional - end of story.

SCOTUS has abandoned us to the Leviathan, so do your jury duty.

Those were human made bugs. The point of the article is that AI is finding real actual bugs at a high rate.

Step 1: Make a lot of crimes, such that everyone is at least technically a criminal

Step 2: Stop enforcing the laws against traditional property crimes (theft, vandalism, burglary, etc)

Step 3: Propose cameras, claiming to use them to solve crime problem. People rejoice

Step 4: Use cameras to catch all those crimes you made in step 1. Continue to fail to enforce laws against traditional property crimes.

Step 5: Put on trollface, ask citizens who are being fined and jailed and having guns stuck in their face "We're catching criminals, isn't that what you wanted?"

It is a hash of the actual file.

To be fair, I don't see Brian saying it is free.

The freeness claim appears to have been added by Slashdot editors.