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Comment Hmmm (Score 3, Interesting) 37

While I've certainly seen ChatGPT generate some false and even outright hallucinatory things, I've never seen it produce anything like these claims. I can see ways of getting it to produce such output, but it would requiring seeding the chat with a lot of pointed instructions to get the desired bizarre output; in other words my suspicion is a lot of these stories are basically reporting what amounts to manufactured chats meant to produce apparently bizarre results.

Comment Re:Microsoft vs. Customers (Score -1) 166

Well I, for one, am glad someone is sticking up for Microsoft. On Slashdot, no less. And telling off the little guy. Linux still sucks as a desktop OS and always will.

But you go, defend the megabillion dollar abusive monopolist who held computer systems back for decades and punch down on the little guy. Speak truth to the powerless!

Comment Re:greater good (Score 1) 139

She actually threatened to kill "Mexico's".

The other girls on the chat were teasing H.M. about looking Mexican because of her darker complexion. One of H.M.â(TM)s friends asked in the chat, âoewhat are you doing this Thursday?â H.M. responded in jest, âoeon Thursday we kill all the Mexicoâ(TM)s.â To which another friend wrote, âoeIf Mexicans killed ur gonna die.â

This is obviously not a true threat.

Comment Re:And this is the fucking cause. (Score 1) 139

If it ainâ(TM)t the Medical Industrial Complex, you tell me what the fuck changed in 50 years. Because it wasnâ(TM)t the truck. Or the school. Or the shotgun.

It was the cigarette. They don't let the teachers smoke on school grounds any more, and that makes everyone way more on-edge.

Comment Hour of mediocre (Score 4, Insightful) 31

Coding arguably requires talent - although Microsoft has been proving consistently for half a century that you can be a successful software company with piss-poor engineers.

But even if AI produced perfect code, then producing software essentially requires no talent. I'm not saying it's a bad thing in itself, but it moves the act of producing software squarely into the realm of everyday mediocre accessible to everyday talentless people.

And on top of that, the fallacy is that AI simply doesn't produce anywhere near anything that resembles perfect code. But of course, Microsoft is desperate to have you believe otherwise...

I'll just say this: I'm glad I'm at the end of my career as a software engineer, because I didn't spend a lifetime honing my skills to end up a mediocre types-question-guy.

Comment Re:The only thing smart-anything things do is (Score 3, Interesting) 57

The stress level measurement is what the smartwatch pretends to supply you - a feature that entices you to purchase the watch, if you're interested in knowing your stress level.

What's being monetized is the raw data - accelerometer measurements, O2, location... whatever the hell those things measure to do what they pretend to do - because a lot of really invasive and personal information can be inferred from those measurements.

Comment Re:When dictators lead in innovation (Score 0) 61

We can't innovate what we don't have.We don't have any HSR.We were supposed to have highspeed rail already. We gave billions to California to build a line between San Francisco and LA. The Californians simply stole the money and did not build one mile of track.

In China they execute government officials who do this.

Nobody has been arrested for the California theft and nobody ever will be.

Good guy CPC.

Remember: America innovates,China duplicates and Europe regulates.

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