Any criminal gang with two braincells to rub together will simply download any one of the free and secure cryptography libraries, any one of the free and secure messaging protocol libraries, put the two together with a Bootstrap based UI, and
I first heard this comparison back when IDEs were young (kudos to Larry Masinter, at Xerox PARC at the time).
Amplifiers don't really know or care what they are amplifying.
If you tell them to create good, bad, immoral, or dangerous code, they'll try to comply.
Laws against bad uses of LLMs just make them illegal - they don't make them impossible.
Mediocre programmers with IDE/LLM support will create reams of mediocre code, at best.
I have a paid subscription to the Washington Post (I live in the DC suburbs), so I get their content sans paywall. They let me create a few non-paywall links per month, and I share them when I see something the rest of the net should see without the paywall.
I pay Reddit annually, and I get their content sans ads. Whenever I see Reddit before I log in, I want to go wash my eyes out.
The real problem is I don't want to spend the money for a full subscription to every news source I read occasionally.
If there was a way to pay, say, $10/month to get 30 links from a basket of paywalled news sources, I'd be on it in a heartbeat.
My wife is a sign language interpreter, and does a lot of remote work, especially since covid.
To handle a meeting on Teams, sign language interpreters need to pin two video streams - the current speaker, and the deaf client(s).
It is essentially impossible to do this in Teams - they routinely open up a separate Zoom session for interpretation.
You'd think the inability to do this would be an ADA violation...
So the system responded that it was an already claimed serial number and not an invalid serial number? Who the fuck would do that?
Let's say someone put in a claim.
Well what is to stop them from trying consecutive serial numbers to see if they can get even more?
Yes great to mention the linking aspect, that was key to the whole thing being really useful.
Without news sites to scrape, there will be no feeding the AI. With one key exception. When a site is driven by political agenda instead of advertisement revenue.
You have it partially right here.
But the one divergence from the pattern you didn't list is, that because most AI. (and Google's AI specifically) is very left leaning, it will feed you only left leaning news... so the sites that will remain, and keep earring revenue are more right leaning sites since people would have to go to them directly anyway to seek out news Google will never give them.
Of course that merely delays the full effect of what you lay out, when most for-profit left wing news sites fold the AI starved for information will in the end actually make use of right leaning sites as well.
What it does mean is that left wing news sites that remain in the next year or so will only be hyper-partisan info funded by some external source.
The biggest complete failure of a US software project. See here.
1982 - 1994. Twelve years of effort, pure waterfall design/test/implement, everything was believed on schedule until the last minute.
What did HyperCard even do?
It's kind of hard to explain, and honestly my memory of what you could do with Hypercard and how you actually did it is very fuzzy as it was so long ago.
But basically it was a visual programming languages, where the visual bits you drug around were then also backed by actual code that would do things. You would create a variety of cards, and in those cards could store data, move on to other cards, and so forth.
Some people used it to create games, but used it to create an inventory tracking system for a store, and probably some other stuff I have forgotten about.
In the end, it was a way to make programming a lot more approachable to people at a time when programming was VERY low level for the most part!
A key part of it was once you made a stack of cards it was very easy to share with other people as a kind of application (but one you could modify in any way you liked).
You might get a better feel reading this Tribute To Hypercard.
Everyone always talks about Woz but it sure seems like Atkinson deserves nearly as much praise.
Sad to see one of the great ones go, but accomplished so much for so many and that is better than a lot of people manage.
I use Notes with my Dovecot IMAP server. It works, but sync is oftentimes VERY slow. You can speed it up by going to the calendar app and refreshing the calendars (which is odd, because my calendars are on a totally separate CALDAV server).
It's been like this for many years. I realize I'm in the minority of notes users but reporting the bug doesn't seem to help much either.
Nobody is really in favour of limited government because when push comes to shove those who profess being in favour of limited government remain so only until they get into power.
If what you say is true it means lots, not none, are in favor of limited government because they do not seek power over others and thus wish for possible power over them to be minimized...
Basically the age-old axiom, most people just want to be left the hell alone.
Being for limited government, I am also against the 10 year moratorium on AI regulation (and giant bills generally).
But also that is because what are regulations going to do? They can't stop you from accessing a web site in another country running some hyper advanced AI model, or downloading AI malware that can jack your system.
All regulations can possibly do is retard (in the classic sense of the word) tools in the states or countries of whatever places are stupid enough to even try to regulate AI. It's going to hurt enough companies that try to follow the law that it's a bad idea and would provide no benefit you are seeking through the regulation.
In fact if you really believe AI can even be dangerous at all then the only possible thing you can do is to advocate for as much AI as possible to counter the "bad" AI.
What you really want is a dog-like robot with package grippers on its back, and one arm for doorknobs and elevator buttons - something like a Boston Dynamics bot.
Four legs - stable without balancing, so longer battery life.
Low profile - delivery vans could have more than one, in dog-house slots
Can't be mistaken for a human - give it a few cute dog-like mannerisms
The summary claimed the company had $50m in revenue (the real number, not corrected).
I can't understand how it got any revenue, ever - if you ask any real AI to produce code you'll have results in a minute or so.
But if it was backed by people writing real code, answers would have taken many minutes to hours to produce! Heck just the time to write a summary of the request would seem awfully long.
Who would use that after any trial? Who was paying them at all?
Or was it 700 engineers each with a trial chatGPT account just pasting questions and answers back and forth between user and chatGPT?
Maybe you can't buy happiness, but these days you can certainly charge it.
