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Comment So much for the "promise of AI" (Score 2) 86

The promise as per Tech CEO's in 2024-2025 is massive increases in productivity, output, speed, and efficiency.

Yet this company is advertising longer hours, more grueling work.

CEO's promised AI will multiply productivity without burning people out, in practice it seems to be just justifying pushing people harder.
CEO's promised AI will elevate talent and create better jobs, yet this seems to be showing that "talent" is a disposable input. Fuel for the AI race.
CEO's promised AI will reinvent how we work. In practice it's "We work the same way, just more of it"


This is all the exact opposite of the "AI will make work more productive and humane" storyline that they have been pushing for the past few years.

Comment Petty (Score 5, Insightful) 93

"declined to comment on whether the decision had anything to do with former CISA director Jen Easterly being named chief executive of RSAC last week."

More than likely it is. So far this admin has made a point to hate on anything a democrat administration has done regardless if it was good for the country or not.

Comment Another case of investors not knowing what it is (Score 1) 35

They see google doing something that sounds vaguely game related and sell positions.

I looked at this in more detail and honestly this looks like something that would be great for making a proof of concept to sell the idea of a game pretty quickly, but it's far from being able to make a full game.

Example: "Make a proof of concept for an open-world single player game with the art style of League of Legends" then make a bunch of iterations on that with "art style of film noir" or "art style of high definition cinematics".

Then people can use that as a gauge if something would be good to make or not vs having to use a power point presentation and leave it to the imagination.

Comment Why the bias? (Score 1) 238

This text is really trying to push the reader towards being skeptical, alarmed, and resentful towards the rise of disability accommodations while trying to frame them as possibly overused, abused, and unfair.

My guess is it makes it a very "clickable" story, so drives engagement. Given the vastly higher amount of comments on this topic vs some others on the ole /. homepage, I'd say it's playing at psychology as intended.

Comment It could or could not be an issue (Score 1) 125

"Grade inflation" sounds like a term that implies a bad thing, in this case a lot of "A" grades. However it doesn't really get into the details beyond it but strongly implies that top marks are being "given out" as opposed to earned.

I don't think anyone would bat an eye if the tests are all the same difficulty and the % of students that meet the quality bar for an "A" grows. The implication here is that the difficulty is dropping for some reason and the student quality is what is remaining the same.

Comment Re:Corporate free speech is bollocks (Score 1) 61

And that is why up in MT there is a public initiative going that will make the state the first to deny that right to companies that are registered in the state or do business there. Companies fundamentally have no rights, only those which the states grant them. So just don't grant them the right to have that type of speech.

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