Comment Takes me back (Score 2) 8
A Wizard of Earthsea ... one of my favorite books as a kid.
Comment Ah yes ... (Score 3, Funny) 31
... threaded mastodons, roaming under a blue sky
Comment Re:Cool story bro (Score 1) 102
Current models do not need any prompting. You can build a plain english (markdown file) describing exactly what the agent's role and purpose is. It will continue to operate agains those instructions autonomously until it is shut down. Other agents can create and spin up new agents, with new instructions to help them complete their tasks.
Yeah, you can.
If you do, that's on you. You set it in motion. You gave it initial instructions.
Comment Re:abandon all hope (Score 1) 72
That's been the battle cry for all AI research for several years now. "If we don't do all the things, someone else will."
Yep. "If we do not commit mass-murder, somebody else will." Pretty much the same moral level, i.e. none.
It's a tool. It's what you do with it that is moral or immoral.
Comment Sigh. Then again ... (Score 1) 197
... we'd better get hot (ba-dum ching) and figure out carbon scrubbing and get going with full nuclear.
What's that, no? Not useful enough politically, not enough pain and penance that way?
Well, then carry on, I guess, with your no good outcomes..
Comment Re:Yay (Score 1) 108
Agreed; our Waterpiks have sucked (my wife still wants the name brand) while my "Chinese knockoffs" have lasted longer, and are easier to keep clean.
Comment Re:Yay (Score 1) 108
I've been told (by my dentist) that a water flosser (whatever brand) is better than not flossing
I think it's generally advised as an addition to normal flossing.
Comment Bots gonna bot (Score 1) 43
I've battled bots/scrapers for ages, Long before "AI".
No, of course they shouldn't behave that way. But they do. It just has to be dealt with.
Comment Well ... (Score 1) 185
... I have no doubt that manufacturers wish to cut corners.
But, I do have doubt that in something like cars that they would do so completely against consumer wishes.
Comment Re:GrapheneOS is seeming more and more appealing (Score 1) 31
because you know this bullshit is going to be on by default in no time.
Oddly enough, so far it's pretty easy to turn off.
I had to lose some genuinely useful functionality to do so though - Gmail used to surface things about packages arriving, etc., but that got pulled into the new AI layer and thus got turned off (by me).
Comment Re:They should have used the GCC decision (Score 1) 42
"For the time being, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) policy is to decline any legally significant contributions which include LLM-generated content or are derived from LLM-generated content. "
How would they know?
Seriously, remove the excessive code comments or what have you, and how the bleep would they even know that you used an LLM to help generate your code?
It's like pompously declaring that you won't accept nails pounded by Craftsman hammers, because of a labor dispute or something.
Comment News for nerds (Score 0) 137
The cognitive dissonance, it burns, lol!
"We didn't want him to create a space force!!!!!" - nerds
Comment Defined as? (Score 0) 19
Does "AI slop" actually mean something, other than "something I don't like"?
Comment Lovely ... (Score 0) 151
.... to load a
Just weird to see what has happened to people's brains over the years.
Comment Re:The climate is going extreme (Score -1, Troll) 114
yet people still claim (and some maybe even believe) that climate change is a hoax. Do something before it is too late. I used to think that it would affect my grandkids, not me (I am 71), but I am now not so sure - this Summer has been hot!
If "something" means getting back to going nuclear, and also figuring out carbon scrubbing solutions, then sign me up.
But if "something" just means "random emoting and demonizing", then no thanks.
