i guess you want to make a point but don't care enough for the world to care about what it is.

anyway ... i'll go out on a robotic limb: you suggest to eradicate ai? from games? from development tools? from everywhere? good luck with that ...

- non representative sample size, not even evenly distributed
- four (4) test objets: 1 text terminal, 1 robot, 1 average looking male, 1 uncanny valley miss (*1)

the uncanny valley problem with the female model clearly shows in the (quite limited) surveys: it was perceived as "less human-like" than the male model. (*2) this is not gender bias, it's the flawed execution of the experiment showing in the actual results, and the authors completely ignoring that fact. this bias showed in the total ranking but only very slightly in the "trust" and "pay" rankings ... which kinda works against the stated conclusions.

bona fides my ass, this study is just amazingly dumb. the main idea is not necessarily bad, but the execution is so crude, sloppy and negligent that one could easily assume mala fides, though i would sooner classify it as a class project performed by a bunch of students that was never supposed to be published or taken seriously in the first place, and shame that it was.

*1: https://dl.acm.org/cms/10.1145...
*2: https://dl.acm.org/cms/10.1145...

ai is a tool, if it allows you to do something that you want to do odds are you will, specially if you lacked the ability to do it without.

it's up to you to use it to make yet another slop app. there are many other scenarios where the ability to create sw (ie a game) from text prompts is a godsend. prototypes, proofs of concept, experiments, lay people making their own apps and ad hoc tools ... stuff that might be used and discarded, or might not even work but just maybe might also evolve into a breakthrough, who knows. it's all about what you do and what you do with it.

it probably will. again, that's up to them, ai is not to blame if humans don't verify (or test or review or even understand) or are irresponsible in general. you should talk to management or gtf out of there.

LOL, What broadcom is doing is a tried and tested formulae, you buy a product/company and you raise prices to milk the product till it is dead. They bought some of the most knowledgeable people in the world at doing this when they bought Computer Associates. There are a ton of options that are as good or better than VMWare now, but migrating can be expensive and slow, but make no mistake people are migrating on mass. I work with a collection of organisations and everyone of them has a VMWare migration in train.

Still a lot that are basically being held ransom. They are stuck with huge legacy farms that will take years to migrate away from. I work with one organisation that is desperate to get off VMWare as their bill is just on $50m a year now, but they are still a good 18 months away from being able to retire VMWare due to regulatory and certification requirements of the replacement systems.

understandable frustration, but you forget that this site lives off advertising, particularly for other outlets looking for visibility. it's natural that they service the stampede du jour, the endless stream of chatter and circular nonsense about ai (or crypto or whatever). also, in this particular case the subject has at least some mild technical interest.

what other generalist technically oriented forums are free from this eternal plague? even soylentnews is swamped with it ...

What a stupid statement. It isn't about one size fits all, it is about 1 size saves you a bucket load of integration and maintenance costs. managing 10 different products, licenses and updates as well as there integration is hugely expensive. buying a product that is ok in all of those can save a business a fortune.

nothing to do with genetics. It was a population shift from Black to Brown rats, sanitation, isolation and general cleanliness. The Plague is still as deadly today as it was 700 years ago, except now we can easily treat it.

and just like resident evil 90% of the story is false. She didn't break a test tube in a lab, she was returning from a field trip when she got ill and tested negative for the plague. What she died of exactly is unknown at this point. Really the only reason this is in the news is because of where she worked, if her job was elsewhere this would barely make the local news.

what you think Russia doesn't do medical research?

The cameras are for your protection, what if a burglar breaks in? Also I used your money for the cameras. No you can't know where the cameras are or what they're looking at. No I don't need permission for that, what are you some pro burglar freak?

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it is a fundamental question. and it affects millions of people. that you consider an absurdity to even to entertain it because you believe that democracy is unable to even produce or allow a particular answer (and i even could agree with that) just shows what exactly the problem is with any mechanism you might devise for that same democracy to limit abuse: it is flawed from the get go. if you are unable to stop mass surveillance then by definition you are unable to meaningfully control mass surveillance.

and you may even be right! what's odd is the insistence in calling it democracy (the others are always the authoritarians), pretending that we are free and protected. because you particularly are ready to submit and want to feel good about it?

It has nothing to do with the cameras, it is to do with difficulty of stealing them. Tesla and mercedes are both very difficult to steal now ({wasn't always the case with mercedes).

"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make."

python isn't meant to do compute intensive work directly anyway, it's a high level glue language meant to leave that to low level libraries, and c and rust are in the same category.

python users will see marginal or no difference except maybe problems with the transition itself. this is a thing for maintainers, and it might piss off a few of them. the project will likely be a hassle and a lot of work (llms and all) and i don't see an enticing cost-benefit relation, but that's up to them.