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Comment Re: Barn Door (Score 1) 153

Almost every single campaign I've seen to push out "conservative speakers" were against racist white men coming to spew hate and misinformation. I'm not sure who considers what "far left", but implying these are somehow discouraging of honest discussion is laughable.

The problem is...they define any white man as a racist and the problem with society today.

Comment Re:Barn Door (Score 1) 153

But, AI should never come close to touching our medical data

Well, we already have AI outperforming Radiologists reading films and digital studies, finding potential problems long before the humans do.....are you wanting to walk away from that?

As I understand it, with AI modeling folding of proteins and viruses .....they're coming up already with meds that are extremely targeted and effective.....wanna throw that out too? Personalized meds?

Comment Re: Barn Door (Score 1) 153

If Anthropic is to be believed and the Chinese models distilling through their models is as pervasive as they say, slowing down United States AI development would slow down China also.

From what I understand , the latest Astra model form OpenAI, using the different reasoning model, non-linear and non-human readable would definitely slow down the Chinese from reverse engineering western models....

Comment Re:I gave it my all.. (Score 1) 33

Actually I'd posit that young folks today have more mental problems, more loneliness....and NOT getting laid problems more than my generation is precisely due to lack of alcohol....we used to call it "conversation lubrication".

It loosed up women and gave a bit more confidence to men.

I know you're gay, so likely not a 1:1 analogy in your life.

But, social media and lack of booze, I think IMHO...have ruined a LOT in society.

Is it a poison? Yes.

Is it without problems it causes? No

But you look largely at previous generations ....boomers, X'ers...back in the normal days with primarily human interactions and alcohol use....people got together more in person, had meatspace "real" friends .....they interacted with the opposite sex, they had kids.....life in general was more actually SOCIAL.....

Again, while the tech today is fun and aspects of it are GREAT, I thank my lucky stars I was born when I was....we didn't have fucking cameras EVERYWHERE, we didn't have social media ability to roast someone from miles away for nothing.

We didn't have helicopter parents...we as kids, were able to run off, be alone....get into trouble, learn from mistakes....TAKE risks, and learn how to deal with rejection and learn what it means to have REALY FRIENDS..and not worry that anything stupid you did was recorded for posterity and follow you till the end of your days.

Frankly if I had to make a choice, I'd choose to ditch the tech to have the childhood I had again if I had to do it all over again.

Right now, we're not seeing any good trends for humanity with the the way it is now....

Life was simpler in my time...the country was largely more in step together, shared experiences....even our disagreements politically were NOT as far apart as they are now...we were more alike and united than we are now.

Excuse me...I need to go have a shot.

I feel for ya, that it isn't something you can participate in....I really do.

Comment Re:Cool story bro (Score 1) 82

Why if your hormones were unbalanced when you set it in motion? You might not be legally responsible for your actions due to insanity.

Apparently ONLY if you are a chick.

IF a man strangled his three infants....he'd be in front of the firing squad pronto...

Well, hmm...maybe not these days. Now I guess all he'd have to do is claim he's a female, has hormone reactions and not responsible for his/her actions.....

What an interesting age we live in....

Comment Re:Going to get worse before it gets better (Score 1) 82

Anyone activating a dangerous machine while knowingly not putting adequate safeguards in place is a criminal. If done as organization, this organization becomes a criminal enterprise. It really does not matter what that machine is.

Well, get ready for a 'flood"...it's already very simple for anyone with any decent IT experience to set up their own local models and agents.

Wait till those start going rogue in mass....

How are you going to sue THAT many people or "hold them responsible "...?

It's only a hop, skip, jump for those without IT experience to run local models , agents....

You think "Eternal September " was bad.....wait till this hits the world....

Comment Re:I gave it my all.. (Score 2) 33

I really have it the old college try. My liver - and all of my other organs - ultimately forgave my transgressions. We'll see what my brain says when I'm in my 60s, but... cross that bridge

Yup...I'm getting up there in years...past 50's.

I wouldn't trade a second of my years having drinks with friends...at bars at homes...home brewing together, etc.

And we were smoking back in the day for most of it too....sure, not good for you, but we sure looked cool.

;P

Sure, years are catching up....but would you rather live to be 100+ with a boring life and no friends...or to maybe your 70-80's with a group of buddies you can get together with, and between ya'll actually remember the antics you got into, relive war stories...the trouble, the girls, the fun lives?

I'm certainly glad I chose the latter...

A few years ago, I started to actually realize how bad a hangover could feel and I have dropped off drinking almost totally for the most part....but I have the (partial) memories I still enjoy.

I still brew some beer and save my days for sipping for those mainly...especially if a good LSU game is on tv.....better with old college friends when there too.

Now...let's get onto grilled and slow smoked BBQ foods eh?

I'd rather risk years over those that have given them up.

There's quality vs quantity of life you know...

Comment Re:Totally unbiased statement (Score 1) 129

You're begging the question, but sure, a couple reasons:

1) Output quality is still heavily gated on the person controlling the agents, their knowledge/capability, and the environments they setup, how they're prompting them, and their constraints. Microsoft has not had competent developers for at least a decade. You think they have robust CI/CD, good unit tests for Windows, and so on?
2) Code review is also hard for AI agents. The way they're designed ('next token') does not make them as discerning of common errors as people can be. In aggregate, however, they're still better than we are, and hundreds of times faster. This is particularly true if you tell them what to look for and how to find it. It's how people have been able to find a myriad of (often, very old) security vulnerabilities. You can't have AI both suck AND be a security threat; I don't know how people can make this argument and not see the inherent contradiction.
3) Again, code review is hard for agents, as is discovery. MS code is massive legacy code going back 30-40 years in Windows and Office applications. Fixing their shit is not as straightforward as "just use AI".
4) People ARE using AI to fix Microsoft shortcomings by, largely, avoiding them outright and implementing replacements.
5) What has Microsoft done to demonstrate they're actively improving legacy projects with AI (aside from saying it)? I've not seen any releases suggesting it's true. It's just marketing, likely to get more companies/individuals to start using their products.
6) Any efforts to change Windows will be substantially stymied by legacy application support, which MS has painstakingly managed (to the point of retaining legacy bugs for decades in order to make sure those applications which depend on them continue to run).
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