Yeah, I know what you mean. I just did it the easy way - dropped out of university, eventually move to Montreal where it was almost *difficult* to be a programmer and not end up at a game studio. Thankfully the industry grew in Toronto as well and I was able to move back after some lovely years there.

I'm an oldhead programmer (still) in the games industry. You're thinking of DigiPen. (I didn't go there.)

it's just a pipeline for techno-oligarchs

The AI coding assistants can then be used where appropriate and with greater review by the more talented. Reducing the "slop."

So heres the thing. I've had a bunch of my work as the senior dev move from "Work on coding challenges with the younger devs and help them code high quality reliable software" to "code review this AI slop and tell me why it doesnt work" , and its fucking miserable work.

Theres a lot more of it, and its batshit code for the most part. Just illogical choices and no craftmanship (Though I'll give claude one thing;- It comments its code, something I've been yelling at junior coders to do for the better part of my career. Lets the greybeard know what the hell they are trying to achieve so I can look at their code and fix it so it actually achieves it.

"a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling not warming"

How is this not an indictment on America's ability not to raise incredibly dumb voters? I mean .. c'mon dude. This has to change. I dunno how America, but it's getting hilarious.

"We need to call it Super Intelligence!" Trump demanded, waggling a finger at an iPod.

Lol, this is the president some people are willing to tolerate for a party that promises you'll have lower taxes (while only giving them to the upper class) and less thinking about trans people or something. Communism! Boo! It's quite astounding.

Its really weird. If you look at where the school, and neighboring barracks are. The line between the school and the barracks directly lines up to where the carrier is parked in the strait of hormuz. Ok. So that lines up with the possibility that the missile overshot the target. That happens from time to time, even the best weapons systems have targetting whoopsies.

The problem is the school was hit Twice with a "double tap" kill-the-survivors hit. That meant it overshot twice? Less likely.

The bit that weirds me out, is that any reasonable intelligence analysis , on account of being a reasonable human being , would go. "OK we see the target. Problem is its next to a school full of children" (The school is marked on google maps, it wasnt a secret). So the logical solution is you hit it at night when all them kids are at home. No dead children to mess up the narrative or give the missile loaders PTSD.

So yeah, definite incompetence SOMEWHERE. It is plausible indeed that the AI chose the target and it wasn't bright enough to go "Ok, theres kids in danger with this strike, escalate this to a human with some suggested actions to minimize civilian lifes. Even worse is the possibility that it did, and Captain fuck-face said "I dont care, fire anyway".

Good at math: fail.

Ok, so he's one of the tiny earlier models.

It's actually very funny. There's a reason word of mouth has been doing the heavy lifting for this.

"No, I grew up in the 80s watching the roadrunner"

The connotation that the roadrunner in the 80s was original is hilarious.

This is why I still like the (very) old fashion tape backupp systems. Just backup to tape every day (And preferably a copy kept in a bank safe or whatever. In case your office literally burns down or whatever) and if you get ransomware, just send "Fuck you" to the attacker, go to the safe, restore, be done with it.

Granted the cloud... not so easy. But I always prefer old school on-premise servers so whatever.

As careless as it sounds, dumping it into the ocean might well be the most enviornmentally sound plan. Dilution would be sufficient to just make it a non issue.

This caught my eye from the story;-

Former Meta AI chief Yann LeCun is also skeptical, posting on X.com that Anthropic's Dario Amodei "was already claiming that GPT2 was too dangerous to open source back in 2019. I made fun of them then. Everyone should make fun of them now."

Hang the fuck on Yann. The ACTUAL warning was that GPT2 would lead to the internet being flooded with bad advertising copy, fake news stories, impersonations and spam.

That actually happened Yann!

Some place between sometimes and often - I'm not here to argue that - researchers are the first to discover.

But it's also almost meaningless to just go, "I'm such an amazing realist, the worst case happens every time."

That's not really being realist. That's just you not knowing actual things, and having an emotion.

The problem isn't so much about true public places, but the quasi-private places. If I as a journalist (I'm not, but I did a minor in journalism a very very long time ago) film you in the town square, I'm free to run that footage on a news show. Your in a public place, you dont have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Everyone understands that.

And if your sitting in your bedroom you very much do. I cant filmn you through your window. Everyone also understands that.

But what about when your sitting in your car at the lights chatting to your kids on the way to dropping them off at school. Your sort of in a public place, and your sort of in a private place. But now you have flock cameras peering in your window facial recognizing you and your kids, logging your activity into a database, to be fed into a palatir like system designed specifically to strip you of privacy and be used by potentially hostile adversaries looking to hang you for unaproved activities. They MAY have a legal right (Although thats VERY much something lawyers are challenging) but its certainly not what you expect.

And the way privacy laws work, expectations are very important.