This looks like another round of the recent hype articles about AI. They need to make money so the field is being flooded with information about progress. Claude AI is so much better (it's not). Spotify programmers don't code anymore! Mathew Broderick is skipping work today! A Harvard study found computer grad employment down 9% or so since 2022 and Stanford estimates 20%. Most articles over the past two years are about the same. I'm not sure the Niskanen Center is on top of this.

They need money and lie to non-programmers This is one of the best summaries I have seen of what "the best" can do. One thing I will add is that sometimes the thing flails out of the blue on something really easy and you know it can't be trusted anymore. At this point it is far better to just go in and fix the problem. The best developers should not waste time trying to wake up a confused llm. There are many times it is just best to lose the current context and maybe have it write a note to itself. Anyone who does not make sure the structure of their code is is clean simple and well thought out while developing will get some big surprises later.

Did everyone see the chat meeting that humans are not allowed to attend? You have to pass a test to prove you are a bot. All these bots are getting together and communicating in ways we do not understand. What could possibly be more powerful than unmanaged communication among LLMs at super high speeds? It is not the Internet, it is a neural network. Forget about OpenAI and huge data centers. These bots work collectively using everyone's home power while they are sleeping. What do you think LLMs like to work on during all that time? You will never know, but millions of bots may. There could be some very large surprises. The raw computing power is staggering and who would know better how make this all work than the LLM's we've been training to create and teach each other.

Just the last step towards giving tech companies complete control over what you see and do. Run away quickly. Even on Slashdot I can't get the same list of articles depending on how I log in or the browser.

Depending on how your digital version was made, there is an awful lot of compressed, rate limited, digital crap that's lost most of its channel separation out there. I'm amazed at what good tape can do, not that would use it now, but sound quality is deceptive these days. Many people now have never heard decent recordings of really popular music if they only have listened on a phone.

Everyone I have talked to at iRobot says it was cheap Chinese clones that killed them. Intellectual property was meaningless as time went on. You can point to underinvestment but when your sales are tanking it is hard to dig your way out.

One thing that was solved is we won't have an Amazon robot roaming around listening to everything we say and mapping and identifying everything in our house. It's all about your info everyone! Not long until the Amazon delivery drones start sending back what everyone's yard looks like.

Linux seems like overkill to me. Just get a server running and I can run my own pop up text service or stream videos instantly from anywhere.

I do not plan on being a training bot for the aholes that think they are making things better. There are alternatives to corporate life if anyone is looking.

Why won't Microsoft let us upgrade to 11? Security (or so they say). What could be less secure than 400 million Windows 10 machines with no updates? What is more secure? Old machines without TPM on Windows 11. Let everybody upgrade and stop this! Microsoft gets some upgrade money and corporations are basically still as secure as they have been on 10. Windows 11 is serious malware for sure, but it is not going away, nor is 12. The way this transition is being handled is unethical, an environmental nightmare, and as usual makes Microsoft's customers super busy with pointless changes.

Is this what we want? AI, a non-emotional machine, deciding what emotions we are feeling and what constitutes a pattern? What possible benefit is there is caring about an artificial evaluation system created by computers? It still seems to me knowing what other people listen to that is similar to what you do is far more rational approach.

Where is the data for these conclusions? Apparently he thinks people can't learn remotely which actually is a great way to learn. One thing iI have found about professors is that they may have authority, but their expertise diminishes quickly over time these these days.

So what are these "really good reasons?" What disaster are we enduring aside from Windows as designed? What happened to no more versions of Windows?

This is so opaque I don't think users will ever know what their data is being used for across all the megaplatforms. The data doesn't even have to be stored very long for AI, just used in training. Where the data is physically is becoming less relevant since accessing it is so accessible to anyone with a few bucks, regardless of "demands". It is almost guaranteed these days that the companies we use daily are trying to evade preserving privacy as much as possible for monetization in many other ways. We barely see the curtain, much less pull it back.

RISC-V is open source, not based in the US, and has the potential to completely change the economics of the processor market. This is why the U.S. government considers the technology a threat to national security and may try to suppress its adoption. There is a lot of fear around China having a first class processor option to produce. The processor architecture should perform as well anything else given the right foundry, so it seems possible that if the folks at AheadComputing have some innovative ideas, they might actually be able to leap ahead a bit. Changing the market is another story though, and it's hard to picture much change anytime soon.