I'm sure the guys behind PalWorld would pay you handsomely for telling Nintendo that.

How does an AI agent without emotions and with, technically, all the time in the world thanks to the speed of computers over human brains, manage to 'panic'? Is it also going to commit seppuku to erase the stain of dishonor on its family?

It REALLY depends on the kind of search, though.

If I'm doing a quick search to verify if I remember something correctly, and the AI summary or the two line Wikipedia excerpt say exactly what I was expecting, then I'm not going to go any further.

Have you never used a search engine before or something? Do you think the internet pre-2022 was just people entering random letters and numbers in the address bar and praying for the best?

Agreed. For kicks I asked ChatGPT:

Apparently the reports of the horrible casualties are all wrong and fake news! I love the idea of getting a text summary of bloated, ad-infested YouTube videos, but Jesus....

Where da bitch at?

Because they're just The Poors. Who cares about The Poors? The people making the rules are The Rich, so they make all the rules favor The Rich so The Rich can keep being The Rich without risking any of The Poors sneaking into the club.

Yup. It's past comical how much bullshit nonsense (no doubt most of it AI slop these days) gets put before a recipe on most sites. I've started going to AllRecipes by default most of the time, just because it doesn't do that.

The Firefox extension Jump to Recipe automatically clicks a "Jump to Recipe" link on the page if one exists. It works pretty well for me.

Agree and disagree. While I share an affection for the simpler hardware and instruction set and do see value in being able to fully understand the whole thing end to end, the simplicity and limitation also gives rise to complexity in the search for performance and capability.

You can "understand" the assembly code (or even machine code), but when a program is using esoteric or questionable techniques to eek every last clock cycle of performance out of these chips, you can end up with code that requires a larger breadth of knowledge - everything from binary math hacks (fast inverse square root) to processor quirks (16-bit loads in four clocks vs 8-bit in one) to undocumented ISA "features" like abusing obcodes with flag side effects that end up being faster than the operation you're really interested in.

Some people enjoy this kind of hacking (using the word in the best possible way) but it definitely requires an additional, different, and sometimes very broad mastery of the systems. I think this is both good and bad (but mostly bad once longjmp gets involved...).

A few very isolated incidents from orcas in captivity. That's the same as saying dogs as a whole are dangerous because a few go insane.

If we stop testing then the number of reported cases will go down, dontchaknow?

When are people going to realize that this American government actively gets off on harming and killing people? Or do people actually realize it and just shrug because so do they?

Astonishing. You're proposing MOVING TO A DIFFERENT PLANET that cannot support literally ANY FORM OF LIFE without a massive support infrastructure instead of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, moving away from burning fossil fuels, and making a few other relatively simple changes to keep the earth habitable for human civilization.

This sort of stupidity would be unbelievable if it wasn't parroted so often by clueless and/or paid-for oligarch mouthpieces.

If AI is supposed to be a tool everyone with a job needs to learn how to use then there's no such thing as 'let her have access'.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.

Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I'm certainly guilty of this, though I also use bookmarks. For me, an unloaded tab is much more "in your face" than a bookmark hidden away in a menu. I tend to use my list of tabs (about 30) as a todo list and bookmarks as "this might be useful again in the future".

This may sound weird, but I think the biggest problem with bookmarks is finding them again. Whether you try to organize them into 1000 folders (IMO a lost cause) or use the Gmail approach of just search everything (also a lost cause, because not enough metadata is associated with the bookmark), even if you know you bookmarked something in the past, unless you remember the title of the page you probably aren't going to find it again.

I'd really like to see a better system for keeping track of pages. Personally, I set Firefox to never, ever, forget my browser history, so I can search it going back years. That's helped me dig up a lot of old stuff that I couldn't quite remember where I found something.