Admittedly I wasn't using a paid frontier model, but I've tried it a few times with very mixed results.

One attempt was to write some code for a microcontroller to do some tricky stuff with DMA and timers to generate a complex waveform. It failed miserably and couldn't seem to understand my implementation that did work, or debug it when I introduced a subtle bug.

Another attempt involved having to develop a system to automatically crop and rotate images to be upright and remove the border. It managed to remove the border reliably, but never got about about 30% of them upright. I provided it with sample, hand crafted output to compare against, and told it to keep iterating until it got it right, but it just couldn't figure out how to do it.

Ironically if I just uploaded the images to bog standard consumer AIs like Gemini and ChatGPT, they could reliably crop and rotate the images 100% of the time. I even suggested that it use the same image recognition systems as those were using, but it couldn't make that work either.

I used to hate long form writing because it hurt my hands, due to arthritis. When I learned to type I was suddenly freed from the pain and I started to enjoy it.

So while hand-written notes are a nice idea, they won't work for everyone. I think recording the screen is going to be the only option for some kids.

It seems to disproportionately affect people on the Autism spectrum. I've been accused of it more than once, and seen people accused when to me their text reads perfectly normally.

These detectors seem to be a load of crap.

Let’s see what DEI hire the administration puts in charge of this.

Simple as, just divide your mile into a grid of 25.298221281347034655991148355462 x 25.298221281347034655991148355462

At least here in America if these hugely important open source projects are in need of support we should have some grant money for them to keep these hugely economically important things moving, particularly if the foundation/engineers are based in the US as that makes it much easier but I would encourage other regions to do the same if they don't already. Some things are too important to leave to charity alone.

The cost of these things breaking can far outweigh what the cost to keep them maintained would. The total economic cost of just this particular incident? Millions? Hundreds of millions?

What counts as AI generated? If I use a spell checker? How about a grammar checker? What if the grammar checker suggests replacements? Often those replacements are either corrections of nonstandard phrases or more standardized diction that introduces no new ideas.

What if an LLM is used to insert a phrase, a sentence, several sentences, a paragraph, several paragraphs? At what point does the LLM usage transform the composition into "AI"?

I often use GMail's suggestions to improve diction. I imagine the underlying software has AI components. Are my emails now AI, even though the usage and end results are closer to Grammatik than an LLM, IMO?

I strongly suspect that almost everyone has a different assumption about what constitutes AI writing or assistance.

Microsoft has probably the most illustrious history of bugs where just visiting a website or opening an email can get your system hacked, but you're right, this is not a problem unique to them.

These days, Lookout asks you before it loads any images from outside your organization...

Assuming there are 2028 elections. Let's see how he reacts to the mid-terms.

They probably have intel that China is making good progress on it's "before 2030" goal. They have all the parts needed either working or in late stages of development, and their plan is conservative and focused.

There is a really good case that public sector unions should not exist and I am generally a pro-union type of person but the dynamics of public vs private sector just don't make sense, the negative factors unions try to correct for are already baked into statutes. Police unions really bear a good portion of the negative opinions law enforcement has today.

We should really be building operating systems with more process isolation and clear permissions systems for which apps can interact with which other apps in which ways. There's elements of this in Android, and in capabilities systems like selinux, but the more powerful they get the harder they are to use. This is inevitable, but a lot more can still be done to make this kind of functionality accessible to users.

Not even Python could keep up with having to update from Python 2 to Python 3.

I mean Republicans have always been MMT believers, debt don't matter. Remember boaters for Trump? Bring-On-Another-Trillion. I'll see myself out.

We need to get to the moon before the Democrats put it in school and then trans it! Also there are illegal immigrants on the moon that need to be deported, Joe Biden put them there himself!

Please one more time fall for the only two scaremongering issues we have left!

Is the argument here really "EV's don't work because I can;t currently take one to my cabin in the bush 400mi away?" Is it 2009 again all over?