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Comment If this isn't Law School 101, it should be (Score 2) 28

"Simply stated, no brief, pleading, motion, or any other paper filed in any court should contain any citations -- whether provided by generative AI or any other source -- that the attorney responsible for submitting the pleading has not personally read and verified." [emphasis added]

Common sense says if you have your staff prepare a document for court but you sign off on it, you are 100% responsible for everything in the same as if you did all the work yourself.

IANAL so I don't know if the actual law agrees with common sense. If it doesn't, change the law.

In the modern era, "AI" is the new "staff member."

Comment Re:The Rush? (Score 3, Insightful) 38

the current variants are very mild. If you're a chain smoker, elderly, morbidly obese, weak of constitution etc. sure get your shot if you're worried.

But for most of us it's "the sniffles"

Not a reason to stay away from work. If you're that close to death the next bad "common cold" or flu not covered by vaccine will do you in.

Getting my flu shot next month, like every year. Had shingles series too. But covid? Pfffftttt

Tell that to the people who are suffering the effects of "long Covid", some of which last a LONG time and can be quite debilitating. Both my wife and I came down with fairly mild cases - even though we're vaccinated - and had mild-but-persistent tiredness and 'brain fog" for the following 18 months or so. And we're lucky - lots of people are way worse off.

I've never had long-term effects from the flu - even cases bad enough that I thought I might need to be hospitalized. So in response to your "Pfffftttt" I'll just say that you're being Pffffoolish.

Comment Re:Not anywhere near ready (Score 1) 61

America's challenge in any peer conflict won't be satellites. It will be drones

Take away the satellites, and you effectively take away the drones. Don't kid yourself. The destruction of comms satellites will cripple nations, as we've largely gotten rid of backup terrestrial navigation aids like LORAN in the West, while both Russian and China kept legacy nav and com systems as backups, and are even expanding them. The first day of the war, satellites will be the very first thing to go, because you go after your enemies communications first.

Comment Re:Return to office (Score 4, Insightful) 101

They will accept higher costs due to delays and the like with offshoring, if those costs are less than paying the visa fees.

They will abandon paying Americans to do some of the work, and outsource all of it.

The reason this kind of scheme doesn't work is because the costs are different for every company. Some will pay it, some will do more offshoring, and a small number will employ more Americans. The only question is what the proportions will be, and which option your employer chooses. Hope you are in the last group.

Comment Please stop... (Score 1) 34

The space rock swings within 186,000 miles (299,337 kilometers) of us during its closest pass of our planet, de la Fuente Marcos said

Note to CNN editors: You really should recognize that the figure of "186,000 miles" is approximate. Translating it to "299,337 kilometers" implies a degree of precision which in this case doesn't exist. Calling it "300,000 kilometers" would be much better.

It just occurred to me that the literality of the conversion may be an AI artifact, in which case we can expect a lot more of this crap.

Comment Re:Seems like it should be close to useful... (Score 1) 22

Having used machine translation for years, I am well aware that it screws up. Even so, it's very useful and you get used to the mistakes it makes and learn to interpret them.

That said Google's English transcription is better than a human now, and IME is close to flawless. Meta's is probably a lot worse, but the potential is there.

Comment Re:So the drones really only matter (Score 2) 61

Drones don't need air superiority to operate, they rely on numbers to overwhelm. At a recent arms show there was a company offering cardboard drones. Cost in monetary and material terms is getting so low that the challenge becomes mass producing them fast enough to swarm the enemy. Low flying, disposable, and very difficult to stop.

Comment Re:A life of 8500 hours? (Score 3, Informative) 38

The important part is that they are talking about dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), not the typical solar panels you put on your house.

DSSCs are attractive because they are very easy and cheap to manufacture, and flexible. But they degrade fast with UV light, and the expected gains in protecting them have not been made. If their life could be extended to a usable amount they would offer an even lower cost option than already extremely cheap conventional solar cells, and open up some new applications.

Comment Re:smoke and mirros (Score 2) 56

These days, though, the training part is outsourced to the education system. And that's just dumb in so many ways.

Never mind apprentices, even just normal on-the-job training. Personally, I've always been a fan, and if I can do it in a tiny startup, then bigger companies certainly can.

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