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Comment Re:Why doesn't this exist? (Score 1) 39

The first two did not exist but the last two do exist but had nothing to do with the topic cited. It would still take a human to determine that these cases where bogus citations.

If you gave an LLM access to a legal database, not training it on it but allowing it to pull things from it, then you should be able to use it to check citations. It should be able to handle both looking things up and reporting null results, and also summarizing those cases it does find and doing a better-than-nothing job of reporting whether they were cited correctly.

If I were a lawyer I wouldn't trust such a thing to check my citations, but I would absolutely use it to look for low-hanging fruit in my opponent's work.

Comment Intel is cooked. (Score 1) 2

I said before that if 18A didn't pan out, Intel is sunk. I had no predictions whether it would or not, as I had no special information everyone else didn't have.

Well, Intel had to back off of doing foundry services with 18A and won't tell us why, but there can only be one real answer: Whatever problem they are having with it takes so much specialized work to achieve that nobody else's designs can practically be fabbed in it.

Intel has had a long line of expensive, high-profile failures. Perhaps most notably given current trends in computing, they failed at ARM. They bought the fastest ARM implementation around from DEC, but they couldn't get the design to scale down enough to match the power consumption of other implementations, so they sold the result of their messing with it (XScale) off again — to Marvell, who they had licensed some bits for XScale from. And let us not forget iTanic, which never achieved performance parity with amd64 because Intel's magic compiler never materialized.

At this point Intel probably cannot be saved with a new process, as their customers are rapidly becoming AMD customers.

Comment I fucking hate JSON (Score 1) 8

JSON is just so goddamned hard to look at, and/because the formatting is so bitchy. Every time I have to work with a JSON file, it's irritating. Are there any general purpose JSON editors which run on Linux? I see there's one for Windows but the author says it is sketchy on Wine. I know that JSON files can have different stuff in 'em, but an editor is still very possible, you just have to be able to edit both the name of the setting and the contents... there are multiple web-based examples, but I sure don't want to use any of those.

Comment Re:I'm of two minds (Score 1) 85

On the one hand, this isn't in the job description, so...no.

Every single job I've ever had has had a description including other duties as required or similar, which means this is in the job description.

And also: no volunteering

Amazon literally cannot legally have them work without pay. Not only is it illegal in itself, but if they did, and they got hurt, there would be an additional ration of shit.

Comment Re:AGI is jargon for 'REAL artificial intelligence (Score 1, Troll) 44

AGI is not jargon.

What? Yes, of course it is.

It's to distinguish an important milestone from the original term, "AI," that has become a marketing gimmick as opposed to the technical term.

Yes, it's a technical term used for technical reasons, which is why it's jargon.

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