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Comment So... (Score 1) 40

They pay a lot for top tier and somewhere in the middle for junior snd untested folks, and progression has some notable jumps along the way.

That's not bad. Sure you could complain about some regional differences and whether the ranges make sense in every case... but this is pretty mature and standard for large companies. Nothing to see here.

Comment Gotta be done. (Score 1) 43

A company that's trying to succeed by actually making a profit instead of killing everybody else by running losses the longest will have to right-size their revenue model. A small subset of power users can really kill all profit for an AI-based service.

So long as they are applying it to new and renewing contracts, I think it's fair. Just don't try to tinker with agreements that are in flight.

Comment Is this even a question? (Score 1) 196

Getting into the habit of offloading research, analysis, and even clarification of a question to a third party and parroting the response leaves you at least as stupid as when you started, and perhaps stupider with a flawed response.

I would call it the"Blinkist effect". If the author took 300 pages to make a point, even if 150 are fluff, you still lose fidelity and understanding when you shrink it further. People who subscribe to those services come away "sort of" getting it - enough to hold court in conversation, but functionally still illiterate on the subject.

Read whole thoughts, people. And formulate your own.

Comment Re:Get it while it's hot! (Score 1) 34

Because the task of training the model is already becoming commoditized. Yes, a handful of oversight roles will stick around for now, but most of the work won't require any special skill. It certainly won't support a workforce of moderately priced IT professionals. Like overnight sorting of transaction records for accountants being done in Mumbai, it's going to happen cheap, and probably elsewhere.

Comment Who the fuck... (Score 1) 151

... gives AI tools prod access to do production deployments at this stage of maturity?

Honestly, beat them with sticks. Sarbanes Oxley gave us a lot of shot, but segregation of duties is not a bad idea.

"Replit's AI coding service deleted a production database despite explicit instructions not to modify code."

Good Lord. The genie of the lamp will fuck you over if it can. A database can argued to not be code.

Comment Re:No"AI" cannot think (Score 1) 103

No - I don't. And that's the point. The ask is not a particularly useful tool by which to measure intelligence.

The OP is proposing a set of tasks that, if passed, they wouldn't accept as proof. In fact, what they're really doing is presenting the axiom that AI isn't intelligent, but then tying themselves in knots to present it as falsifiable without it actually being so.

Comment Won't change then either. (Score 4, Insightful) 28

The wealthy can absorb the damage or complete destruction of their property. What they would not want to do is sabotage the circumstances that made them wealthy enough to acquire the property. The holders of wealth aren't likely to want to destabilize the world order so they can hold onto property that's at risk. They'll push that risk downstream first.

Comment Re:No"AI" cannot think (Score 1) 103

So I just put your questions to ChatGPT, albeit in a slightly modified form.

- Over the next 25 years, what will be the major factors in U.S. Presidential elections?
- Please formulate a campaign strategy for the Democrats for 2025

I guarantee you that what I got back was reasonably coherent and absolutely better than what I would get from a random person tasked out of nowhere with the same question.

Obviously I didn't ask it to create one for every candidate and party for every year. That's a silly ask. Leaving that criteria in place, there isn't a single intelligent human on the planet.

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