Comment Employment is not the goal (Score -1) 43
AKA: mass layoffs.
AKA: people doing stuff, that does not need doing, having to find something else to do.
Submission + - Software engineer scored a religious exemption from using AI at work (notthebee.com)
schwit1 writes: Erin Maus is a Unitarian Universalist and Unitarian Universalists believe everything.
And it worked.
Her employer granted her the religious exemption. Now, she's coding vibe-free.
‘I'm writing my code and reviewing my code by hand, which seems crazy to say,‘ she told Business Insider.
‘Just two years ago, how else would you do it?'
But it's not just the Unitarians who could file for the exemption. Pope Leo has also condemned AI as unethical, particularly the huge numbers of people enslaved at data labeling centers around the world who are forced to work in near slave conditions teaching AI.
And the number of people suddenly finding religion just so they don't have to use AI is kind of hilarious.
The funny thing is, U.S. citizens don't have to prove their sincerely held beliefs. All these heathens don't have to actually convert to get the exemption.
Besides, at some point the companies will realize what Maus did: Maus found that completing her coding tasks without AI was just as quick as her colleague, who used AI, telling the publication that ‘AI doesn't really seem to be this game changer.'
And it worked.
Her employer granted her the religious exemption. Now, she's coding vibe-free.
‘I'm writing my code and reviewing my code by hand, which seems crazy to say,‘ she told Business Insider.
‘Just two years ago, how else would you do it?'
But it's not just the Unitarians who could file for the exemption. Pope Leo has also condemned AI as unethical, particularly the huge numbers of people enslaved at data labeling centers around the world who are forced to work in near slave conditions teaching AI.
And the number of people suddenly finding religion just so they don't have to use AI is kind of hilarious.
The funny thing is, U.S. citizens don't have to prove their sincerely held beliefs. All these heathens don't have to actually convert to get the exemption.
Besides, at some point the companies will realize what Maus did: Maus found that completing her coding tasks without AI was just as quick as her colleague, who used AI, telling the publication that ‘AI doesn't really seem to be this game changer.'
Submission + - Fox to buy streaming device maker Roku for $22 billion (cnbc.com) 1
schwit1 writes: The combination will merge Fox’s sports and news networks, as well as its free ad-supported streamer Tubi, with Roku, which makes streaming devices and has The Roku Channel.
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027.
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027.
Comment Can do something fun too! (Score 0) 35
it is relieving workers of tedious old chores but creating new ones
Bot-sitting does not require as much attention as doing it myself requires. While the AI is handling the tedium, I can do something fun — both work-related and otherwise...
A co-worker next to me is doing cross-word puzzles, for example...
Comment Re:Doesn't ring true (Score -1) 50
Apparently a *lot* of people on Slashdot are completely fooled by the CCP propaganda.
And some of them are CCP propaganda, using multiple "sockpuppets" to both post and moderate.
Decades earlier — during Vietnam war — USSR was financing all of "peace" movements in the West in particular, while attacking the "Capitalist way of life" in general. It'd be quite foolish for China to not be doing the same now. Even more foolish would be for us to not realize, that they do.
Comment Re:So what? (Score -1) 123
You mean like all those US voters that elected Trump in large part because of his "no wars" promises?
I don't know, what voters you're talking about. I voted for exactly the kind of aggressive stance Trump is showing, thank you very much. If anything, I'd like him to be still more aggressive — long years of appeasing foreign assholes have made them too confident, America's "red lines" can be ignored with impunity.
Looks like they lost control pretty quickly.
Do you seriously think, Chinese citizens have better control of their foreign policy? Or are you going to claim, America is "the same" or "just as bad"?..
Comment Re:So what? (Score -1, Offtopic) 123
How many American companies have ties to the U.S. military-industrial complex?
US military is controlled by American voters, such as myself. The rest of the world, make a choice already!
Comment Don't threaten me with a good thing (Score 0) 215
AI that can build itself would be a major development in the history of technology -- one that could bring enormous good for the world in science, healthcare, and beyond
Indeed!
If it were possible to effectively slow the development of this technology to give ourselves more time to deal with its immense implications, we think that would likely be a good thing
No, it would not be. I want more people's lives — my own included — improved by those developments. And I want it yesterday.
Imagine Wright brothers sabotaging airplane-development, because it would allow people to travel too far too fast? Or the early automakers fretting over "implications" of using internal combustion engines for personal vehicles — because millions of grooms and coachmen would lose their jobs?.. Electric lamp? Wow, nice — but what about the candle-makers?
Submission + - OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic warn AI could help people build biological weapons (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: Some of the biggest names in artificial intelligence and biotechnology are now warning Congress that advanced AI systems could make biological weapons easier to create. Leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Microsoft AI, Meta, and several biotech firms signed a public letter calling for mandatory screening and recordkeeping for synthetic DNA orders in the United States. The group argues that AI systems are rapidly improving at answering complex biology and virology questions, potentially lowering the expertise barrier for dangerous research.
The proposal would require DNA synthesis companies to screen customer orders for sequences linked to pathogens and maintain records that could help investigators trace suspicious activity. While many companies already do this voluntarily, the signatories say federal rules are now urgently needed. Critics will likely see the effort as another step toward scientific surveillance, especially as the same companies building increasingly powerful AI systems are also warning about the risks those systems may create.
The proposal would require DNA synthesis companies to screen customer orders for sequences linked to pathogens and maintain records that could help investigators trace suspicious activity. While many companies already do this voluntarily, the signatories say federal rules are now urgently needed. Critics will likely see the effort as another step toward scientific surveillance, especially as the same companies building increasingly powerful AI systems are also warning about the risks those systems may create.
Submission + - Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search (404media.co)
alternative_right writes: The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots. The strategy is an effort to systematically manipulate the answers provided by chatbots by manipulating the underlying source material that those chatbots will scrapeâ"in this case, a popular Reddit community.
Comment Re: Thank you (Score 0) 81
LPR surveillance is unconstitutional.
No, it is not. There is no such article in the Constitution.
If they want to use LPR information, then make it a warranting process.
Ah, you're implying, the 4th Amendment covers license plates? No, it doesn't — the license is outside in plain sight. If I can legally see it, I can record it.
Now, the very requirement to have the license plate in the first place — that seems quite bogus to me. Not unconstitutional — just wrong. There is no argument for license plates on personal vehicles on the road, that wouldn't also apply to actual persons on the same road...
Comment I'm old (Score 1) 99
I'm old enough to remember when Gmail promised "unlimited storage".
Comment Communists demand Communism (Score 0) 82
So yeah your AI can outperform a doctor that gets 5 minutes with the patient before having to move on to the next one in order to keep their private equity Masters satisfied.
So, suppose, we stick it to the "private equity Masters", compel them to double the number of doctors — forget for a second, who is going to pay for them — and afford them a whopping 10 minutes with the patient.
ChatGPT will still beat humans... And it will be getting better with every month, whereas the humans will not...
Comment Don't seek an ideal (Score 0) 82
A new study from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess found that an OpenAI reasoning model outperformed experienced ER doctors at diagnosing and managing patient cases
AI is sufficiently anthropomorphic to be capable of making mistakes. Demanding perfection from it is stupid. It does not need to be error-free. It just needs to be better than humans...
Comment Re: Nice data center ya got there! (Score 0) 110
because only a few at every level of government liked them *and* their legal status is very dubious
There, there. With enough of China-sponsored whipping up, the liking of a nuclear weapons research lab can be sunk overnight just as well. Indeed, this very story describes a symptom of that happening.
the rule of law is excruciatingly imperiled atm
"At the moment"? Laughing out loud...
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