This crap is why I would never willingly choose to live in the Bay Area. This type of person is disproportionately well-represented there.

I'd take that bet.

if (true) {
say "Let me go ask my manager about that..."
}

30km/h implies urban/residential areas, not wide open highways.

But you can't implement average-speed based on an urban/residential area where there are lots of possible paths, you can only implement it on straight line highways with very few exits.

I think much more safety would be to enforce traffic laws much more strictly around kids/schools and the like.

Lawyers are some of the most overworked people on the planet. Not only that, but the work they do requires a lot of high-level thinking and processing for long stretches of time. It's exhausting work.

So along comes AI, which can turn hours of work into minutes, saving them a lot of time and work (at least up front). Of course they'll take a chance at it, especially when it lets them get eight hours of sleep a few more times a week. Besides, with better odds than a coin flip, the case will probably settle anyways, and what they write will never see the light of day.

Besides, it's very easy to skim through what AI generates and feel convinced that it's good enough. Only if one were to really scrutinize the work would one discover how terrible it is, but why bother doing all that extra evaluation...wasn't AI supposed to save you time?

...When we called them programs? Or executables? I mean, they do end in .exe for a reason...

The feature isn't targeted toward users who spend all their time in the terminal. Those users are likely already savvy enough to realize you shouldn't paste untrusted text into a terminal window. It's targeted toward non-power users who are completely unfamiliar with the Terminal, i.e. the majority of Mac users.

The corollary is you have to not have too many false positives such that the warning is just a nuisance. Consider: how often does the type of user this is intended to protect (i.e. who would paste random text from a website into a terminal window) "normally" paste text into a Terminal window? Not very often. This warning system would go completely unnoticed for the majority of users in the course of their normal use. When they *do* have occasion to paste text into a Terminal window, ideally, it would *also* not be an irritation since false positives would be held to a reasonable rate. Power users (who actually *do* frequently paste stuff into terminal windows regularly) can just toggle the feature off. Toggling the feature off doesn't represent any security degradation relative to the prior status quo.

Make it togglable and default to "on". Problem solved.

Established players have large compliance teams and are able to amortize the costs of regulation over a larger install base.

I think there's way too many people who imagine AI to be some sort of Stuxnet, and they're letting their imaginations run wild. It's all pareidolia at work. AI is just an amalgamation of training data. Think of it like hamburger...when you look at what comes out of the meat grinder, you can't say to yourself, "That morsel came from the shank, and that little bit must be the filet, and that tidbit there came from the rib." It all clearly came from somewhere, but when blended together, you can no longer distinguish its individual parts. There's nothing at all intelligent about AI, but we perceive it as such.

Can we perhaps stop trying to anthropomorphize an algorithm?

It's just absolutely sad to think about how many billions of dollars have been burned by Meta on such stupid things. Hey Zuck, how's that metaverse going for you?

Imagine...with that same amount of money, we could have created a program that would give everyone free access to a four year college education. But to hell with all the Socialists, because clearly this monstrosity will generate more economic growth than free college for all.

Fuck our corporate overlords.

I tend to whip out Baby Shark or the Baby Shark EDM remix.

Here's my reality:

1) AI is not 100% accurate.
2) AI supplanting human thinking is a process known as Cognitive Offloading, which significantly harms learning.
3) NAEP scores have been steadily decreasing since around 2010, which research has shown has been due to the integration of digital technology inside the classroom.

Fuck our corporate overlords. They want to destroy our public schools. Don't let them drive the proverbial nail into the coffin.

I use my kid's Xbox as a streaming console since it's much more capable than the built-in hardware in my several-years-old Smart TV.