Comment Re:We're probably going to find more (Score 2) 29
LLMs don't capitalize "Daughter" either. Or write as he did at all.
I mean, it sounds like a coincidence and he sounds like a kook. But not like an LLM.
Comment Some genuinely cool research (Score 1) 95
And news for nerds. So of course /. is ... (looks around) ... excited?
Comment Re:Also as it illegally colludes with the other bi (Score 2, Insightful) 63
In America if you want to have computers you need to vote democrat
OMG I think he's serious
Yes, you'll get promised some RAM in every pot ("a chicken in every pot").
What you'll get though is some studies on the racial equity of RAM or something like that.
Comment Re:Pay people better (Score 1) 188
The initial instinct is correct. Parent is off his rocker. Simple formula is to make having 2.1 kids on average easy and pleasant. IMHO that means -free childcare from 4 months to Kindergarten -free public schools K-12 that are good nationwide -Very low cost education incl state colleges and training + apprenticeships for trades -Affordable health care -Available work that pays the bills, keeps up with inflation, puts a roof over your head
There are solutions to each of these none of which require unseemly new -ism's nor Eisenhower era 90% tax brackets. But it does require taming the corporate and political interests that have effectively sabotaged childcare, education, healthcare, retirement and wages. We see it again and again decade after decade, and somehow don't have the stones to fix it. Oh, and the foreign wars. Those have proved to be absolute wastes of treasure. Back to watching the intro to Idiocracy again
Oh, sure. That's why native Europeans are so fecund, after all!
You realize all your "solutions" have been tried, right?
Comment Ah, like "Farm Aid" (Score 1) 110
We should be at about negative one million family farms in the US by now. Because trend lines never change
10% brighter every year. How long until we go supernova?
Comment Re:They should not allow them for copyright reason (Score 1) 59
The underlying social reason why it should be this way is that copyright is (allegedly) for the purpose of protecting human effort in order to induce additional creations.
First, I would question empirically whether copyright (as normally applied; distinct from copyleft) has even served that goal, for software. I mean in my opinion, the best recent innovations from Microsoft have been 1. open sourcing a lot of stuff, and 2. WSL
Secondly, the use of copyright against LLMs serves (again, empirically) as an attempt to suppress creations.
Comment Re:They should not allow them for copyright reason (Score 1) 59
The other argument to be made about LLMs not washing away copyright is that even if they were considered to be thinking, that is arguably not enough to make what they do legal. Even for humans we have the concept of taint, for which we invented clean room engineering as a circumvention strategy. But the LLM doesn't have any separation, as the model is a direct product of the input data.
That's a fair point.
Comment Re:Unforeseen consequences (Score 1) 65
Good god, this does seem like a disaster in the making. Glad I use Libre Office. Will we have cells in cells all the way down? It is supposed to be a spread sheet, understandable, for crissake!
"It's full of cells!"
Comment Re:They should not allow them for copyright reason (Score 3, Insightful) 59
AI code should have to meet the same standards as any other code so that's not the problem, it's the copyright issue. If using AI doesn't wash away copyrights, and there's no reason it should, then accepting AI code should be a non-starter.
See, the devil's advocate in me can't get past the question of why "washing" code through a brain is better?
I didn't invent, say, php. I learned from being exposed to countless examples of it.
When I "write my own code", I'm surely drawing on those examples. Which examples, under what licenses? Who knows?
Yet somehow that's okay.
Comment Arms race (Score 1) 85
Ah, you've discovered the arms race.
And yes, all you can do is complain about it. You actually can't opt out of it. But please, carry on
Comment Victory! (Score 1) 30
Well, we've solved that big bad social media problem for sure now. What's next??
Comment Huh (Score 1) 72
And OpenAI's models also accessed the website of the U.S. Commerce Department using credentials found in online code repositories, according to the article.
Dang lucky it was them then, seeing how anybody could have done that.
Comment Re:NO one thinks this merger is a good idea.... (Score 0) 120
Like I said they might try to incorporate in another state in order to do bad things to people
Do you
Just a little nagging, uneasy feeling, that perhaps things and people are not all good or all bad?
Comment Oh, you don't? (Score 1) 120
The article notes that California attorney general Rob Bonta still said "I don't think these two companies should merge"
Well, that's nice.
Fortunately, we're still a sorta free country, so they are doing it anyway. Regardless of what you think, commissar.
Comment I had thought ... (Score 1) 55
... that Google's laptop strategy was "thin, cheap client"? I guess that's changed.
