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Comment Re:Using AI to find and fix bugs... (Score 1) 25

We need AI that helps us create better software: bug-free, efficient, secure, maintainable, well documented, with all edge cases handled.

In my experience AI does this exceptionally well already. You can describe your software architecture in excruciating detail, and AI (any frontier model FWIW) will happily dissect your plan and highlight all these little weaknesses, omissions, loose descriptions and contradictions, which would later hamper your software project. It's amazing, what it can find.

AI will also refine your architecture, and make very smart suggestions, if you have multiple options to chose from, and so on. Of course, it knows all open source software and man pages, so it can also offload some of your effort to existing software and libraries.

Your software development will slow down considerably, and quality will shoot up.

Comment Re:attack (Score 4, Interesting) 65

City Council member of a non-listed Twin Cities suburb I know:

FBI is involved. Most water systems use one of two control/alert systems that are old and make them easy targets.

All they did was shut down components of the systems e.g., wells/sewer lift stations. Most cities were able to cycle manually to get back up and running. There was not messages warning or ransom of which I am aware.

They could have done a lot more damage if they wanted to, rather than just shutting things down.

Comment Re:Better than an art degree tbh (Score 1) 192

Who gets to decide what's worthless?

Statistics do....

We track what jobs earn what...how many people get accepted in to what jobs on graduation....so, we only offer student loans to degrees that give the student the absolute highest chance of getting a good paying job, one what will allow them to pay off the loans in a reasonable manner.

Comment Re:If he is found guilty (Score 5, Interesting) 181

From what I understand of the guy I'm not a fan and likely would like to see him nailed.

However, in this case...I don't think the govt has a case against him.

If they never got into the phone, how do they know there was evidence on there? How could they proved he wiped evidence if they had no clue what might be on there?

It also sounds like at the time, he wasn't under arrest? He had asked for a lawyer and had been refused?

He's not under any compulsion to give a password is he? They had the phone, nothing forced the authorities to trust anything he said....they could have tried forensics like they'd do if they had a safe and tried a safecracker to get in if the suspect didn't want to give the combination.

I just don't see the case they have....or if they do it has implications far wider for common citizens and their privacy.

Comment Re:Better than an art degree tbh (Score 1) 192

You think only people that make millions pay back student loans?

No, please be serious.

BUT...we do have an incredible number of students that can NOT pay off their loans...hence all this call to have the US Tax payers pay their loans for them ie. loan forgiveness.

We need to quit giving out student loans and scholarships to people seeking worthless degrees....where these kids get into significant debt for fields that lead to jobs that do not pay enough for them to get that loan paid off....basically they become indentured servants for much of their adult life in a manner of speaking.

Let's met out student loans only to those pursuing degrees that are in fields that at least give them a fighting chance to earn enough money upon graduation and actually secure good jobs.

If you want to study underwater basket weaving, then find, do it on your own dollar, but no loaning of money to take worthless classes that do not need to meaningful jobs that earn $$ enough to pay the loans off AND lead to a happy level of livelihood and lifestyle.

Comment Re:Better than an art degree tbh (Score 1) 192

You think influencers don't make money? Why do you imagine people keep doing it?

Sure I do....just like some people become multi-million dollar NBA basketball players, or earn millions doing Only Fans.

I believe that % of people after that goal that attain it are incredibly small.

Again, not massive enough success to risk hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loan debt they'll likely never pay off...

Comment Re:AI break down (Score 1) 128

Well one thing that Apple is showing with their M chips....is that the shared memory structure is VERY capable of allowing individuals to run pretty large local models.....bypassing the need for most people to pay for Frontier model access on the clouds.

This also allows people to keep more privacy options as that their data needn't leave their private hardware at home.

I think growth in this area may lead to part of a bubble crash of the larger AI landscape.

This is already in the hands of of knowledgeable tinkerers....it won't be long till it is a click install app for the masses that have the hardware and Apple is already making that at prices MUCH less than buying NVIDA GPUs and windows.....

I don't know if this was by design or happy accident for Apple, but they got the leap on everyone with this.....we're just now seeing competitors come out with small AI designed boxes with this type of shared memory structure set up.

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