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Comment All we really need is one simple rule (Score 1) 78

1. Computers are not responsible.

Thus AI or any other decisioning system run by a computer should not be making suggestions, giving guidance, or worse taking action in a manner on their own. In all scenarios it should have to be associated with a responsible party (human or company) and that entity is merely using the output of the computer for guidance, as with any other advice, and the decision followed by consequences thereafter is in the hands of that entity — this really doesn't need to be spelled out, but apparently it does. In this case, OpenAI /is/ the culpable party, that is somehow able to keep going despite the gross damage their product is having on all of society, because the executives have boners so hard for this myopic notion they can go down in history for making the first truly self-aware AI, that they can't see past the damage their doing

(side-note: we'll have such a thing as soon as we have flying cars. And just like people thought flying cars were "just around the corner" in the 50-s and 60-s... yeah).

Comment Sad but accommodations are not the right answer (Score 1) 238

Schools need to recognize not everyone learns the same, not every one tests the same. They need to stop the insanity of expecting a "normal" way and then the accommodated way, and consider if the very way they teach and test themselves are flawed.

Opinion time, which I don't have time to explain a lot of, but I think our entire model of schooling is entirely broken.

Tests should be about demonstrating COMPETENCY not the ability to memorize something you'll subsequently forget. All tests should be open-book too. Any teacher who thinks they need to do a closed book test doesn't know how to properly make a test. The real world is open book.

Ohh, but that's harder right? So I guess we just keep the broken system we have.

And don't get me started on grades. They are toxic. You shouldn't just suddenly stop trying to learn a thing they say "well so far you're a 4 out of 5 and that kid over there is a 2 out of 5, now move along, even if you didn't understand it."

WTF? No, you keep trying until you pass. No grades. You pass, or you keep trying. no arbitrary "welp, time to move this one on I guess, even if they didn't figure it out."

Comment Re:Right nuts (Score 1) 224

From a centrist, your arguments are equally applicable to the other side.
Yeah Trump is an extreme nutjob. But the outliers exist in all equations.
Generally speaking both parties are equally corrupt. The Right AND the Left.

They're called "Politicians" and it doesn't matter what flavor they pretend to align to, they're all corrupt.

Comment Teach this person everything you know... (Score 1) 76

Yeah when told that, I'd make sure to transition as little as possible. The company is obviously cutting me, and that is a sign of zero loyalty, so why would they expect any back?

Severance pay? Ok, I'll teach this person a bunch of BS garbage so they think they're picking up something...

Good luck with that

Comment AI makes Bigmacs, not fine meals (Score 1) 121

Generally speaking AI makes bigmacs and not fine dining experiences. Especially when it comes to something that is more than a snapshot.

And it will always struggle with this because of its very nature. Its training models are designed to homogenize to the highest score for a thing (aka the middle).

Good artists/authors need not fear AI, just always make stuff that's better than it.

Artist/Authors who make bigmacs—they're the ones who need to be afraid.

Comment Re:fan stupidity created ticketmaster (Score 1) 22

Actually doing ticket sales as a dutch auction (not reverse) is fairly brilliant.

So the tickets start at $5000, and every few minutes drop in price until they're all sold out. People who must have the right seat pay more, people willing to wait for it to go down wait. The dutch auction process at its best.

Comment Start by not using government contractors (Score 1) 128

Gov contractors are THE WORST. They have turned milking the US Government into a science.

Put out a call for somebody to do the work, with a requirement that they can't have ever done work for the US gov before.

And don't be extremely prescriptive like "must support these 200 other interfaces to other systems written in 30 unknown ancient languages including screen scraping of that one system"

Comment Re:Finally... (Score 1) 284

The government doesn't pay for this stuff.
And SpaceX has done a great service for the government, driving down the cost of rocket launches so far that it's made the cartel that Boeing and Lockheed made to drive up the costs through a single bidder all but go out of business.
Your comment shows how myopic your perspective is, and how emotional it is, not based in any logic.

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