Will there be a flood of reddit users here today and tomorrow, I wonder?

I'm curious about this... given that it's trivial to get GPT to write in different styles, and that presumably can be automated, isn't it just a matter of time before it becomes an arms race?

Soon I'll have a thought, ask ChatGPT to turn my one-phrase idea into a 3-page memo to email my boss, only for him to use ChatGPT to summarize it for him into one concise phrase.

This may sound inane, but I think it's profound. Soon, a big chunk if not the vast majority of content will be AI-generated, and we'll use AI to filter it. The next evolution of crowdsourcing.

I also was surprised to see that a billion dollar investment will only create 100 jobs, but I guess the computers don't need that much maintenance once the facility is built.

Building the facility has just got to create more than 100 short-term jobs though, right?

My experience is that at the low end of that 20:1 ratio is the dead weight that should never be in the programming profession. Those are the people you should really fire. A more reasonable number between an average contributor and a top contributor is 2:1 or 3:1... and you sometimes see that big a gap in pay.

My favorite example to answer this question is when laptops first became popular, and operating systems became aware of battery levels, both Windows and Mac OS had helpful dialogs that popped up to say something like "Your computer is about to shut down."

On a Mac, if you then plugged in the power cord, the dialog automatically dismissed itself because it was no longer relevant. On Windows, even though you just plugged it in, you had to hit the cancel button.

Now this one example isn't likely to change your mind about Windows vs. Mac, but it was one example of HUNDREDS that you would encounter with Mac products. They had a polish and a "wow that really makes sense" that just wasn't there with Windows.

Both operating systems were capable of roughly the same thing, but IMHO a Mac did it with greater thoughtfulness and ease-of-use.

Is there a good source for info on the upcoming movies? I'm not really interested in spoilers per se, but rather just to see how things are shaping up (without CGI, obviously)

Holy crap that brings back the memories! I think my path was very similar.

*waves to Dan*

Been here since the beginning!

One of the things slashdot rarely gets credit for is that it was among the first blogging platforms (yes, everyone could create their own blog within /. with slash), and also among the first social networks. Those two things definitely influenced the early thoughts behind Multiply.

Got me by one....

Do you remember how you first heard of /. or Chips & Dips? I've been trying to remember, but haven't got a clue.

I still read /. almost every day, but I'm an infrequent commenter. This post is quite nostalgic for me, as well as many of the other 2, 3 and 4-digit IDs who still hang around. I can still see those icons in the left rail of "Chips and Dips" and the distorted ROB MALDA lettering on CmdrTaco's home page.

Rob, you were an absolue inspiration to so many of us. I'm sorry to see you go, but thank you for the many years of entertainment and education.

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Murdoch is in a tough spot. The internet has given us access to nearly every piece of content that has ever been created, or is currently being created, in near real-time. In addition, automated editing tools are improving by leaps and bounds every year, with recent apps like Flipboard (and others), obviating the need for professional human editors.

So it's difficult to see how this slight re-working of an old model is going to work in a world where the game has changed in such fundamental ways.