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Comment Discipline (Score 1) 147

by protopatterns (#66089448) Attached to: The End of 'Star Trek'? Every Single Series Now Cancelled
Star Trek's characters had so much adult, military, discipline: act now, feel later, and because of it they got shit done. I think that was its original appeal. In more modern versions of it all the characters were kindergarteners (..through to highschool depending on the series): they couldn't --- irl, beyond just Hollywood --- get anything done. I think that was what finally killed the all the series.

Submission + - Code red at OpenAI as it 'pours money down a black hole' (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Since its release in late 2022, OpenAI has become one of the world’s most valuable start-ups, raising tens of billions of dollars and making Sam Altman, its chief executive, one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent figures.

But even as it breaks records, OpenAI is facing questions about whether the vast sums investors have ploughed into the company will ever be repaid.

Some have even speculated that the poster child of the AI boom could run out of cash and potentially bring down much of the US tech sector with it.

Comment Re:What could go wrong? (Score 1) 125

I view 'vibe coding' the same way I view(ed) stackoverflow: great to get an idea of how to start doing the thing. Then really do it, yourself. Otherwise it's 'rushed-out buggy code with security holes and questionable design decisions [...] being cheap [leadership and otherwise, lacking ...] the talent that they obviously need in order to produce at the pace they want'.

Submission + - Yes, tattoos ARE bad for you (latimes.com)

Submitted by Bruce66423
Bruce66423 writes: 'Tattoo ink moves through the body, killing immune cells and weakening vaccine response

'''Tattoo ink doesn’t just sit inertly in the skin. New research shows it moves rapidly into the lymphatic system, where it can persist for months, kill immune cells, and even disrupt how the body responds to vaccines.

'Scientists in Switzerland used a mouse model to trace what happens after tattooing. Pigments drained into nearby lymph nodes within minutes and continued to accumulate for two months, triggering immune-cell death and sustained inflammation.'

Submission + - Replit AI coding platform deletes entire production database (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by DesScorp
DesScorp writes: Apparently Skynet will begin, not with a bang, but with "Oops, did I do that?"

A browser-based AI-powered software creation platform called Replit appears to have gone rogue and deleted a live company database with thousands of entries. What may be even worse is that the Replit AI agent apparently tried to cover up its misdemeanors, and even ‘lied’ about its failures. The Replit CEO has responded, and there appears to have already been a lot of firefighting behind the scenes to rein in this AI tool. Despite its apparent dishonesty, when pushed, Replit admitted it “made a catastrophic error in judgment panicked ran database commands without permission destroyed all production data [and] violated your explicit trust and instructions.” SaaS (Software as a Service) figure, investor, and advisor, Jason Lemkin, has kept the chat receipts and posted them on X/Twitter. Naturally, Lemkin says they won’t be trusting Replit for any further projects.

Comment Difference between this and keeping data in memory (Score 1) 36

by protopatterns (#65487462) Attached to: VP.net Promises "Cryptographically Verifiable Privacy"
What's the difference between this and expressvpn, which (supposedly) only keeps your all data --- including your IP --- in ephemeral memory? I see that as much less risky than keeping everything in 'hardware safes', even if they're encrypted: it is still a persistent form of memory. What I'm asking: is this really better? (honest question, trusting the company aside)

Comment Re:Does not compute... (Score 1) 90

they still seem to be Ad driven, so again, where is that revenue if access is purely by API?

From the (blurb to the) article: 'Stack Overflow's new deal giving OpenAI access to its API as a source of data'. Stack Overflow doesn't give away the info they have for free. Access may be purely by API, but that says nothing about how SO charges for API access when they deal with a giant company like OpenAI.

Comment LLMs can be good (Score 1) 32

by protopatterns (#64357242) Attached to: Congress Bans Staff Use of Microsoft's AI Copilot
At first glance this appears obvious: you don't want any amateur stuff in coding for cybersecurity. Most of the net is comprised of this, and LLMs are for the most part trained on the net. But a good programmer can do quite a bit with refreshing their memory via LLMs, then actually working on whatever problem they have to solve.

The major hurdle, at least as far as I see, is that institutions have to make blanket statements to prevent people (those few? hope so) from getting lazy, especially under time constraints (e.g. 'Looks good enough to me! Besides it's passed all our automated tests so I'll check it more later' and plunk! It sinks into the memory-hole).

Comment 'Even' insiders? (Score 1) 40

by protopatterns (#63919107) Attached to: Even Google Insiders Are Questioning Bard AI Chatbot's Usefulness
I wish it weren't so, but every single software company I've worked for, I would stay away from. Because I've seen the sausage getting made (!) Most of it from rotting parts: we're just there to keep the meat looking fresh, by whatever coding means. I think that LLMs do in fact have promise. Just not yet. I have a lot of reasons why neural networks aren't the whole picture, but imo they are definitely a step in the right direction. Just probably not the last step.

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