Another option: Setup a computer that actually does use some (locally hosted, reasonably cheap) LLM, but with a system prompt that instructs it to make up "chapter 1" of any book it is asked for based on the book title - but make it boring to read, then offer the user to generate the next chapter upon request.

Or, just lower your voice, and whisper to the person asking: "I should not tell you this, but that book has been black-listed by the government, so we are not allowed to speak of it anymore."

Telling from the outside, that plan appears to work fine. It still seems unbelievable to me that among 300+ millions, these two utterly incompetent figures - Biden and and Trump - were presented as the only options to the voters. Almost as if both parties wanted to mock voters by telling them: "Look how we can make you desperately choose between two terrible options, both of which we already know will not work in your interest."

What the US is lacking is at least one non-crazy, non-demented, not-corrupt third option, but it may be too late for this to materialize.

Microsoft lost the console war. They may already have had their last Xbox hardware produced a while ago. And they probably think, "why not sell the rest of our stock at ever increasing prices to the few die-hard Xbox fans that will pay just anything?"

Those 100k$ may become "H1-B loans, to be reimbursed by the employee to the employer" similar to how student loans in the US "work".

I think there will be "mid-level executive directions" from remote, like the remote worker assessing a construction site situation, determining what path to take, while the local computer will still react upon sensor input fast enough to not run someone over or bump into another car. That way, in only the most seldom situations, a less-cheap-more-near remote driver needs to be assigned for a short while.

Not sure why I should pity one who first asks some LLM to spit out code only then to complain how bad the results are. But her fate was much less sad than that of actual senior developers working at larger corporations who are increasingly confronted with code that new hires claim to have coded, and would not admit to have vibe-coded, even though the kind of errors made (and not made) make it quite obvious that the subject of the review is AI slop. Babysitting junior coders that vibe-code without admitting to it is so much worse than just babysitting AI.

I guess the "Tech Giant" side agreed because they expect the time period where this may have any relevance as pretty short, anyway. While truly "autonomous" cars are not quite covering the service, yet, a combination of "automatically driven in many places" with "remote controlled by the cheapest of workers somewhere on earth" will be able to substitute local human drivers soon. And depending on how much time those cars spend under conditions that are easy to automate driving in, on of those remote driving workers will have to control 3 or 10 or 20 such cars.

So I hear they've found a spare planet for us to live on, so we need not worry about destroying this one. That's the message, right? :-)

Past coral restoration efforts were usually done by taking small pieces from living, adult, coral polyp colonies, then "planting" those small pieces in favorable spots were they would continue to grow. But adult coral polyps are pretty much settled on one type of algae they host as symbionts, and that choice fixes them to a very narrow temperature range they can thrive in. Coral zygots, however, are flexible to host different kinds of algae, making that "choice" only when they settle. And this can dramatically improve their ability to adapt to changed temperatures.

This is why "lab-grown" corals are an interesting new attempt for restoration.

If only there was any method to measure productivity other than using a stopwatch for attendance.

Don't get me wrong, I myself have not "worked from home" ever unless when forced to, and I do see advantages of people working together in one place. But arguing with statistics on mere time spent on the job is ridiculous, especially when it is so obvious like now that these "return to office" mandates are just meant to get rid of headcount.

The honest thing to do would be evaluating people by results delivered, and getting rid of "bad apples" regardless of whether they work inside or outside an office building.

The production costs of "Silksong" are obviously not quite as high as those of graphically opulent, almost photo-realistic 3D games. So they can compete on price, while of course only attracting an audience that is interested in the kind of 2D platform game with cartoon graphics they make. Nothing wrong with that, but just a very different market segment.

Certainly, but why would you opt for such a name knowing others named their LLM also "K2"? They could have been more creative, and named it "Everest" or "LLM Khalifa", or whatever.

Yeah, just like with those "quantum computers". Maybe by running some LLM on a "quantum computer" we can have incorrect incorrect results... so, maybe correct ones?

I mean, we only recently heard about another LLM named "K2" from China: https://developers.slashdot.or...

Is there something special about "K2" that I am not aware of?