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Comment Co-opting terms sucks (Score 2) 127

I don't particularly care what the cheeto-in-chief thinks about this topic, it is obviously far above this capability. The term AGI and ASI have been around longer than that and have suffered abuse in the fast few years. EVERYONE seems to forget that a human with an IQ of 80 is for certain a natural general intelligence. Talking about super-intelligence, as in smarter than humans, is a useful term.

Comment Ahead of the curve, in crashing 101. (Score 1) 68

I think they just figured out that there's REALLY no reason to have a handful of companies super-valuable. Suuuuuure, they have a lot of compute, and they're making models. But there's really no secret sauce that any one of them can hold over the others. Anyone will really be able to grab some computer, millions of dollars of it, and make the next best model. As for using them and doing things with models, well, you can get 3 tokens a second running a small model across 15 cheap IoT smart TVs.

Comment That's not the point of turnitin (Score 2) 151

The last time I interacted with turnitin, I could easily see its shortcomings. That software is made to look for cheating and plagiarism. That works well for essays, but for math you're looking at a square peg - round hole problem. There are a lot of different ways to write a paragraph on an historical figure. There are only so many ways to solve a given practice math problem. It's easy to show that a history student copy / pasted from wikipedia, it's very difficult to show if a math student came up with the correct math answer on their own or googled it.

The proper way to asses learning in a math class is a live in-person test. Homework should be for the students to practice their learning, and if they choose to not learn while doing it that will be seen on the exam.

Comment Like so many other things... (Score 2) 6

Paypal used to be a useful tool that did useful things. Now it's just a way for rich people and con artists to extract money from others who apparently don't know better. It's infuriating how many nonprofits are losing truck loads of cash to paypal as the fees continue to climb. The ones I'm involved with switch to Zelle a while back for the majority of all transfers and that has been a huge step in the right direction though of course not without its own set of tax weirdness.

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