The only reason LLMs that individuals interact with seem intelligent is that they are pulling from massive systems. As soon as you insert your proprietary Vector database for the RAG to grab things usually turn to into just a glorified search engine (granted, a potentially good one that can pull context).
The problem is that we've read your body of work on this website and you would replace "misinformation" from the right-wing with "misinformation" from the left-wing... and we would be back to square one of trans muslims on the BBC saying how quantum physics helped form their sexual and gender identity.
As you say: at a certain point you have to switch from "what about the poor criminal" to "what about their poor victims" to have a functioning society.
Sounds like they are not releasing people with a high risk of recidivism. In other words, they haven't fixed the problem of recidivism, they've just kept people in jail longer.
Which is totally fine. There are a TON of stats out there that show a relatively small amount of repeat offenders tends to create the most crime. Hell, call it a 10 strikes and you're out and you will see a significantly large amount of criminal reduction.
First AI came for the low effort slop, but I don't watch low effort slop so I don't care...
The End.
Are phones excluded from this law?
Depends on how far you can throw it. I could probably cause a phone to become a short-range drone.
I really need to set up my own server again to see how many attacks still try to use overflow to run malicious code. Used to get a bunch of them per day from China back 20 years ago.
Similar happened with the outsourcing craze roughly 15 years ago. Many regretted it.
That's my thought as well: management rushing it in an effort to keep the quarterly numbers happy followed by budgeting to fix the mistakes. We had many "fix this!" projects during early outsourcing. Things are in more equilibrium now, as I'm sure they will be with AI eventually.
I see the threat of AI being entry level though... as AI gets better you need more skill to analyze it for defects, which pushes entry level positions out and you soon run out of people with real world experience in the language or system. I guess you shrink the pool which makes wages rise, but that's about the only good thing.
SQL is probably being taught more than the HTML stack in programming / college classes, and this list is based on search results. I imagine any older language that look "odd" like that are because it is being taught to newer programmers who are searching for answers, while anything new is a little inflated as experienced programmers might need to look up references.
The other Ps (PHP and Python) kind of eroded Perl's base I'd imagine. Then if you learned VBasic you could use it for quick GUI prototyping and simple scripting and probably won't move to the other Visual languages.
VB is still probably taught in enough entry level programming classes that I assume you have more of an influx of people googling answers as well. This isn't "real world" data, but search results which will skew a bit towards what newer programmers might need to look up.
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Nope. LLMs are fully deterministic and anything they do is reducible. Hence there cannot be any consciousness in there that has any visible effect. QED.
I think there is a big error in assuming that consciousness *requires* non-deterministic behavior. We just don't currently know all the actions / reactions in the brain that decide our actions.
Does an insect have as much "consciousness" as a human?
The conspiracy theorist in me wants to point to the Lone Star Tick being genetically modified for this purpose... but that would be silly.
He saw, He came, He... conquered?
I think we should force-sterilize anyone who tries to justify forced-sterilization.
Wait, wait, not me!
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