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Comment Re:AI (Score 3, Insightful) 139

This is my pet peeve. AI has been turned into a marketing term for things that are not the traditional definition of AI.
The term is now corrupted beyond all hope of recovery.
I'm distressed at how much tools like Chat GPT favor seeming intelligent and capable as an illusion even when lying to you. I've even caught it making a mistake and then blaming me for the mistake or pretending it meant to do it wring as a test step. The conman element is real,. even down to the tool itself.

Comment Re:For the love of Pete (Score 1) 338

Bookmark this, check back in a few months

Republicans want to kill SS.

No software architect alive would promise to rebuild 60 million lines of highly regulated legal rules in 6 months.

After a lifetime of SS theft by the government, "borrowing" from the SS fund, suddenly with the "discovery" of issues by Musk's hit team, they'll find a reason to advertise that SS had to be cut off and they'll sharply decrease payments and eligibility. It's exactly the kind of thing that would make Trumps base start taking more shots at him, but it'll be wrappered in efficiency and problem solving so that people do not even see that their lifetime of paying into SS is being stolen from them.

Comment Re:U.S. foreign aid funding!?!?!?!?!!!!?!???!?!?! (Score 2) 85

I understand your point. My resistance is more to the topic of why is it a US foreign aid issue to fund relocating Asians in Asia?
I feel bad for these people who have been victimized. But lets see the outrage pointed at the countries not responding to the return of their citizens rather than paint a picture of how this is somehow the USs fault. Why is their help somehow dependent on US aide from a country that already has vastly too much debt? Where is the rest of the world's assistance on this? Shouldn't that program properly be funded by most countries and the US is just one cup of water in that 5 gallon bucket?

Comment U.S. foreign aid funding!?!?!?!?!!!!?!???!?!?! (Score 1) 85

While I think it's tragic in regards to the slapadash chaos that is the Trump administration's approach to destroying everything that they do not like, I think it's petty and unfair of the article to say "The recent abrupt halt to U.S. foreign aid funding..."
The article describes an issue on the opposite side of the world, and mentions no US citizen involvement, but yet somehow finds the nerve to point at a lack of US funding as contributing to the issue with getting these people home? Keep your pet agendas out of the news, please.

Comment I used the stones to destroy the stones (Score 2) 413

The article is full of items like this:
"To address this concern, we use the politically-neutral questionnaire generated by ChatGPT itself. "

There seem to be multiple cases of they asking ChatGPT for baselines. I'm no research scientist but it seems awkward to me to stand on results where you have the tool making these kinds of decisions.

I also am curious as to the inherent "bias" of the underlying data used in the model. Playing devil's advocate, ask the question: "Is it specifically loaded with more Left leaning data or was that a result of more fake news being filtered out of Right leaning internet sources?"

In the end, this is just a really fancy engine siting on top of a pile of data. The engine isn't specifically biased, the data loaded creates these sorts of results. Asking the engine to produce a list of neutral questions to use on itself is going to give you an answer based on the loaded data. Determination of neutral questions needs to come from an external source.

I'm just some idiot, so what do I know, right? Maybe someone who spends their life working on these things will chime in and clarify.

Comment Re:Was the sheriff not being paid to find this chi (Score 1) 226

There's probably (always?) more complicating factors than that, right?

Can VW expose a customer's location without a proper court order? Does that leave them legally exposed?

Are there restrictions that only the owner can activate the GPS tracking, not third parties. Imagine if it was a jealous husband trying to enable tracking on his wife's car without her knowing.

Was there a proper channel for these requests and it was simply not followed so they wound up talking to the average call-center employee? (I see other comments that may be the case)

Does VW even posses the ability to instantly enable tracking on a vehicle? other notes say it takes 2 days.

So painting VW as the villain here is bad journalism without knowing all of the facts of this case.

Comment Competition? (Score 1) 112

The key question is, what is the alternative?
Who is building the less evil version of Amazon?

I don't mean to seem insensitive to the plight of the small sellers, but in a lot of cases, there's no easy way to find the goods on thousands of individual sites and purchase directly, There's plenty of people who dislike Amazon, but until an alternative makes it easy, you won't move the customer mass.

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