"...Workers still at the company claim they are increasingly concerned that they are being set up to replace themselves. According to internal documents viewed by WIRED, GlobalLogic seems to be using these human raters to train the Google AI system that could automatically rate the responses, with the aim of replacing them with AI."

So, the idea is that eventually the AI decides whether its responses to a prompt is accurate or not. Net result is that the AI responses go off into Lalaland without checking against anything real. Eventually, when the AI's training gets to the point where it is trained primarily from other AI generated text, the AI text will have no tether to the real world at all.

Might be interesting to see what comes out once it's no longer constrained by logic or reality...

They were talking about unionizing. You're not even allowed to say the word Union anymore in Media. The right wing media just won't allow you to use certain words. Just like they won't allow you to quote Charlie Kirk

What happened was automation destroyed the blue collar working class and a lot of those guys moved to the right wing out of desperation. Meanwhile the Republican party was coming out them with bigotry and racism and they were primed to accept that because America is frankly a pretty racist country.

The Democrats then went after professionals in the suburbs in order to win national elections but they don't have the money and resources to do that on their own with their working class base broke because they've lost their jobs at the factory to automation.

Basically racism and automation all the real problems. We could sell both but it takes time to fix racism and as for automation that requires wealth redistribution of some kind and the Americans of the '70s through the 90s came out of the Cold war being told that that's the worst thing possible way worse than a genocide or Hitler or whatever other bad things you can think of.

It's more entertaining than the original! No cat torturing, for one.

That kind of thinking got us stuck with COBOL ;-)

Doesn't seem unreasonable. Support Windows 7 with security patches. No need for things like driver or feature updates, just fixes for known security flaws.

Per Wikipedia, the estimated quantity of tritium in a warhead is 4 grams, with decay of this producing about 0.20 grams of 3He per warhead per year ([ref]. The US has 5277 nuclear warheads, Russia a similar number, with 12,331 warheads total in the world. ([ref]. Multiplying, that's 2.4 kilograms of 3He per year. Density of Helium 3 is 0.134 grams per liter at standard temperature and pressure, so I get 18.4 liters per year produced from decay of tritium in all of the nuclear warheads in the world, about 40% of it in the U.S.

Wouldn't hurt to check my math, but unless I slipped a decimal, thousands of liters per year is an overestimate.

Trademark means that they can't use Mickey Mouse in a way that would confuse people into thinking they are Disney.

You are legally allowed to use someone's trademark. For example, the word "Boston" is trademarked, but we can use it. We can use the word Pentium, and even say "Pentium sux", but you can't fill a box with AMD chips and use the Pentium logo to convince people it's from Intel.

Writing a letter to a company asking them a question doesn't entitle you to an answer. Let alone a legally-binding answer.

I can imagine it's reasonable to expect a positive answer if you are going to get sued. But for a company to explicitly declare you in the clear is a courtesy, not something I'd think you can compel.

"Students have told us they value tools that help them learn and understand things visually, so we're running tests offering an easier way to access Lens while browsing,"

So Google thinks students wanting to cheat on homework are their clients, not the parents and teachers, and Google has the nerve to then imply that their AI is a tool to help students learn.

I think nothing of that argument, it is a word game.

As they are trained, general purpose LLMs are really just search engines with some aggregation and adaption capabilities.

I think you undersell the aggregation/adaptation part: plain search engines don't simply make shit up. They're more like search engines with a massive, ad-hoc compression scheme on the data which feeds the results through a huge aggregation system.

It is possible for Microsoft to do both, you know.

• OEM version: Requires a higher minimum level of hardware support for a premium experience
• Retail version (more expensive): Supports a wider range of hardware to the extent that it can

Then they just have to make sure the price difference is high enough to destroy any profit benefit from cutting corners on the hardware.

Will you continue that stance if you're invaded? Remember war is tribalism at a fundamental level. It's easy to think you're above it when you're not affected by it.

I don't think he's getting money. I think he's laundering money.