The real take-away for all of this is that AIs have no concept of cheating nor of right and wrong. They don't reliably honor even explicit instructions to not do something.

Give them agency and there will be havoc. When you tell an AI with agency to do something, mentally add the phrase "at all costs" to the end because the agent will. Still wanna try it?

But please don't ask it to bring world peace, because grave yards are quite peaceful.

I see a ton of these on VERY fit joggers running along the Charles River in Boston (where all the city runners go to be seen) as well as many gyms. I am confident most are not diabetic. Oh well, good for them, it lowers the prices and gives research data to improve the product for people who actually need it.

For a whole gaming rig? That's pretty typical. If you're spending that much for the video card alone? That's extreme. Yeah, I know many hobbies are expensive. But every expensive hobby I can think of (photography, cooking, arts/crafts, fashion)...if something costs $2000 more than an entry-level alternative, it lasts a lot longer than a video card. TBH, I was racking my brain thinking of worse uses of money. All I could come up with is auto racing.

Can I afford it? Absolutely, I make good money, but because I have a family and demanding job, I have many things competing for my time. I can't justify spending that much money for something that I won't get much use out of and is marginally better than a $500 investment. I know many gaming enthusiasts and none have bragged about spending that sort of money on video card...presumably because either they think that's a bad investment or NO ONE will understand why they did it.

I honestly feel sorry for people who do spend that type of money to play the same games at a higher frame rate and resolution. It's a lonely and solitary hobby. If you're overpaying for a car, at least you can give your friends a ride. If you overpay for camera gear (which I did when my kids were first born), you get amazing photos of friends and family to share and lenses last forever. If you buy expensive TVs, you can invite your friends for movie night. If you buy luxury cookware, you can entertain and it lasts forever. When you pay for insane hardware, you're playing multi-player games with people who spent literally $3000 less than you to get resolutions am skeptical you'll notice.

So yeah...I don't think a lot of people have these lying around. Overall, it's interesting and I'm glad it's available, but I know many AI evangelists and enthusiasts and I can't see this changing their short-term behavior if it requires spending $2200 and setting up a dedicated Linux machine.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

This sounds like it was written by someone who actually knows what they are doing, so I assume that they know better than I; but I am surprised to hear that it is impersonating a system dll; since (in all comparatively recent windows versions) system components are signed. Absolutely tons of fuckery you can do to them and around them; but if dpapi.dll doesn't have a signature that checks out the mechanisms that try to keep OSes up and running on marginal hardware subject to random power loss will likely eventually object and attempt a repair, even if there isn't any more paranoid EDR tooling in place.

Is the on-disk copy of dpapi.dll untouched and only the in-memory instance tampered with?

I just can't believe that It was the guys with their finger on GPU allocations, not just the expendable PC OEM they were trying to throw under the bus, the whole time. Whoever could have guessed?

If 1/3 of webpages are written by AI, humanity is doomed and the world sucks....because that means the majority are scams. No legit business would have an AI write their webpage without HEAVY editing...only phishing scammers would do that. However, it's foolish not to use AI to fix your grammar mistakes or make you a better writer. That's like complaining about someone using a ruler to help them draw a straight line.

The descendants of Ogg have renewed the ongoing lawsuit against the descendants of Zogg alleging that Ogg dropped a rock on Zoggs foot in a cave one fine day and it was really ouchie! Anthropologists are working around the clock trying to restore the cave paintings documenting the original complaint made to the tribal chief in 30,001 BCE.

That's because of all of the inbreeding. A is the CEO at one place where B sits on the board. Next door, B is the CEO and A sits on the board...

We don't honestly know. Most of us want to think that's true, but in economics, if you can't prove it, it's not real. We can prove interest rate increases impacted it. We can prove that economic headwinds impacted it. We cannot determine if employers are really hesitating to hire entry level programmers because they think AI can do it...or they're not sure they will have enough business to invest in future talent. We can reasonably model what hiring would look like if interest rates were halved. We cannot reasonably estimate how much employment would increase if generative AI was never invented.

We live in a new world, economically speaking.

Between natural trends of deglobalization and our largest demographic (baby boomers) being fully retired causing interest rate hikes as well as stupid shenanigans from the Trump Administration with trade wars and immigration....the economy 5 years from now will be radically different than it was 5 years ago.

No one knows what it will look like, so businesses are curtailing all sorts of investment. It's a major reason why you're seeing less innovative products being released. No sense in developing new and risky products like a Vision Pro 2.0 when you're not sure what sort of sales you'll see on your core offerings. This especially impacts investing in young talent.

That alone could sufficiently explain this. AI is definitely adding confusion, but they can't even prove it actually increases productivity, so a well informed decision maker is paying attention, but not betting on AI being the answer to the company's problems.

Exactly that. Many seem to have forgotten that hospitals were absolutely slammed early in the pandemic and that medical care in general suffered.

Less than half my software engineer coworkers have a degree related to computers. Some of our top programmers have chemsitry, physics, history, even English degrees. So what's the historical trend? The majority of jobs out there don't have a specific major for them. There's no mainstream "management" major...yeah, there's business administration degrees and definitely MBAs...and in tech, less than half of the senior managers have MBAs and none that personally I know of have a bachelor's degree in business or management. The majority of hard sciences majors never work in their field. LOTS of nerds want to major in chemistry an physics and there just aren't that many industry jobs for them...and not everyone wants to be a teacher and continue the cycle.

Your metric and thought process is unhelpful and honestly misleading. Underemployment is impossible to objectively measure. There's no objective way of determining what job a person should work at. My peers at my first job out of college during the dot com crash?...75% of them don't work in the industry...the ones I know mostly left tech to become real estate agents, car salesmen, etc. They could claim they are underemployed because they went from 22yos earning $100/h to whatever you earn as a high school guidance counselor....but in my mind, that's the market's way of saying: "Yeah, you sucked at being a programmer....maybe working in your dad's custom cabinetry shop is a better fit for you."

You know the majority of those numbers are housewives/moms, right (as well as a very tiny few stay at home dads and early retirees)? If you're old enough to comment on this site, I'll wager your mom stayed home to raise you, for at least a few years, even if she didn't, I know several of your peers had stay at home moms. If you actually hung out with the opposite sex, you'd know this.

Dude, you can throw as many words at us as you like and your argument even sounds compelling...so long as we forget everything we see and know. C++ has LOTS of memory safety issues. We see these vulnerabilities and many crashes in C++ projects as well as C. I don't work with either, but I use many products written in both and see the results.

You remind me of those ads they ran in the 40s about safer cigarettes and which literally said "More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette." Only a moron would fall for that. You can give me whatever argument you want about how the other guys were morons and you're so much smarter, but we see the results. We don't trust C/C++ for anything where it's not absolutely needed. Every business owner wants to minimize their C/C++ investments because the community is CONSTANTLY fucking up.

Is it because the other guys weren't as smart as you?...maybe...but Rust is nearly as fast and efficient and reduces the chance of a scary vulnerability drastically as well as many crashes. It just makes sense from a rational and business perspective to use safer tools than solely rely on hiring better people.

Finally, you may be a magical C++ programming wizard, but someday you'll retire, quit, or get promoted. History has shown us we can't rely on geniuses like you to maintain a commercial product.