Comment Re:GIGO (Score 1) 55
We usually have seen boobs, watched horror movies and tasted alcohol by the age of 14
Have you ever shot an animal?
Comment Re:Open weight models FTW (Score 1) 55
Comment Re:AI (Score 1) 49
Computationally, a "wrong" program can be just as valid a result as a "right" program.
I think you have a point you are trying to make, but I cannot figure out what you are trying to say here at all.
Comment Re:I've heard this one before (Score 1) 49
Comment Re:Fun (Score 0) 49
Comment Fun (Score 4, Insightful) 49
If you have fun programming in Rust, you will have fun programming in C.
"Fun" is something manager types tell you when they are trying to convince you to do something. If something is fun, you don't need to tell people. It's also what you tell toddlers.
Comment Re:So.. drive them somewhere? (Score 1) 72
If someone is not responsive in the back of a vehicle when the ride ends. the vehicle should just BE DRIVEN TO THE NEAREST EMS LOCATION,
Selfdriving cars cannot drive to every location, they can only drive to somewhere that has been mapped. So they might actually be incapable of doing this.
Comment Re:Even an idiot can be right (Score 1) 118
it would have a far greater chance of creating something Shakespearian
This is fuzzy thinking, "Shakespearean text" is not the same as "text of Shakespeare."
But its likelihood of creating a single Shakespearian work would still be extremely tiny, although not zero.
LLMs only produce text within the parameters they were built. If it was not built to produce a text of Shakespeare, then it won't.
A simple heuristic to understand this is to think of Elizabot. An Elizabot can produce meaningful English text, and has even passed a Turing test. But it will never produce a work of Shakespeare, no matter how long you let it run. It's outside of its parameters. If you don't understand how an Elizabot works, then this example is too much for you.
Comment Re:Even an idiot can be right (Score 1) 118
A non-random generator cannot. LLMs are not random generators. To generate the entire works of Shakespeare, they would need to retain the entire works of Shakespeare in their memory (weights).
Comment Re:Just Red Team the heck out of it (Score 1) 53
Security has to be a main design requirement from the beginning. If your software engineers don't know how to write secure code, then they won't write secure code.
Comment Re: Even an idiot can be right (Score 1) 118
Do they serve vegetarian me meat ads out of spite?
Maybe.
I've never seen an advertisement for meat, and I've bought meat online. So maybe.
Comment Re:That is called "being competent".... (Score 1) 147
I don't know where you get this idea, did you stop reading the news? Did you see that they conquered Venezuela in three hours?
The current task for the US military is to open the straits of Hormuz. How much of a ground force will be necessary (if any) is unclear, but we will see. Incidentally America is the only military in the world that can currently do large scale combined arms operations.
The US military won the Iraq war easily. The problems came when brain-dead politicians made bureaucratic decisions that were completely disconnected from reality, as dramatized by Matt Daemon. If America fails in Iran, it will be for the same reason. Given Trump's tenuous connection to reality, that's a real risk.
Comment Re:They're obsolete. (Score 1) 225
Also in America automatics are cheaper to buy,
Five years ago when I bought a car in America the manual was roughly $1000 cheaper than the automatic.
Comment Re:It _is_ already paying off. Epic style. (Score 1) 118
My productivity has increased tenfold since January...I'm a sole developer at a law firm.
That is believable. A sole developer at a law firm will have random tasks (like, "find out what is in this dbDOS PRO database we found during discovery"). As such, a lot of your time is spent figuring out how to do things that will only have to be done once. Traditionally, you would have spent time in search engines or StackOverflow trying to figure it out. Now AI is acting as a type of advanced search engine for you.
So your work is like the ideal use case for AI.