CloudFlare was an aggressive global internet surveillance and privacy invasion operation. Now it's an AI-powered aggressive global internet surveillance and privacy invasion operation.

Why don't I feel excited about it?

That sounds great. However, anything that causes anatomical brain chages that persist after a month, with a single dose, would be, by me, considered unacceptably risky. I'm not saying that it's by default considered bad, both you and the paper are talking about positive changes, and that's good. I'm saying, "risky," as in, I don't know what negative effects haven't been identified and I'd need a much more complete understanding before I'd be willing to try it.

Most of the positive effects are in reported well-being, but I really want to see more cognitive tests. The tests on cognitive flexibility is a great start, but we really need a barrage of tests here: mathematical ability? Short-term *and* long-term memory? Spatial thinking? Are there *any* cognitive functions that are negatively affected here? It's important to understand this with anything that has this type of long-lasting effect.

Or BlueSky

Wonder if someone from Apple will be sitting at a desk writing check for One dollar and NINE CENTS! LOL

Crypto grift, AI bubble and psychopathic billionaire CEO.

... not GenZ and GenA

From my experience with my Gen A daughter, they are VERY well versed on distinguishing AI from non-AI.

It is the older cohorts who are being deceived.

Unless you are stupid enough to damage/destroy your phone, just because your "carrier" (mainly USA) says you can have a "free" upgrade, you DON'T need to buy a new one every flippin' year! Maybe if people would stop trading in the one year old phone, kept them 3-4 years and SALES would start lagging, the CEO's would get nervous and start cutting down on the stupid more is better garbage and start INNOVATING.

Yes, that's because there have been a lot more stupid humans doing stupid things to databases for a lot longer than AI agents.

So tell me: if AI is no safer than people, what's the point of replacing humans with AI?

and animate it eating your face when the AI agent wastes your entire database.

Foolish mortal. I am unkillable.

A lot of the audio production in individual videos is really bad. This isn't anything to do with YouTube per se, not their compression algorithms or other features. A lot of YouTubers have absolutely no concept of microphone placement, of using audio compression, of reducing background noise. All of which are things which will drastically affect audio quality and the ability of a speech-to-text model to create subtitles.

It would be nice if YouTube would normalize all the uploaded videos to one set standard. Note I'm not suggesting that they compress the videos as that might change the intended presentation of professional audio productions. I just mean peak-finding normalization which could be implemented losslessly and without breaking existing video links.

Having said that, when I look at my own channel - and I am not claiming to have great audio; I have a host which would destroy a lavalier microphone in mere seconds. YouTube's subtitling is really good. It automatically switches between English and French and Hebrew, and even with a fair bit of background noise (welding, grinding, cooking, crowd noise, music) it generally gets the text correct. So I don't know what the original complaint is, except that it's not perfect. Well, guess what, neither is human hearing. How about that famous Jimi Hendrix line, "Excuse me while I kiss this guy."

I agree 10000% with what you are saying

But again, my company is not a charity

I can't afford to hire junior developers and train them for funsies. That's what you are suggesting.

What does that mean 5-10 years down the road? We are all fucked. But again, I can't solve that for society. That is SUPPOSED to be the job of government, but they are all sitting on their hands eve though the industry has been screaming at them for 3 years now to start plannibg and do something

This braindead article is very out of touch with what is happening on the ground. Go and actually talk to developers, or look at Department of Labor statistics.

"AI is just making developers more efficient" - Yes, which means, we need less of them.

Speaking as the position of someone in charge of an engineering team - I don't plan on ever hiring another junior engineer, ever again. I only have jobs for senior engineers now. What does this mean for the industry? It is going to be dire - however my company is not a charity, I need to make decisions based on what is best for the company - and right now, that means hiring hardly anyone and those that I do hire are only seniors.

The people in charge of IT.

Haven't laid one bit of track after how many years and how many millions of dollars? If "the big one" hit southern California, it would do the rest of the state a favor sort of. California use to be a place you WANTED to visit and move to. Now, people are fleeing in droves!