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Comment Re:Say what you will about basket weaving... (Score 1) 29

Nailed it in one. They're using people with no experience to train their software... so that it can make more mistakes?

Perhaps, but.a quick check of open contract positions requires a PhD or in a PhD program as a prerequisite; so it's not like they're getting some kid who just got an undergraduate degree where AI wrote all the papers. I suspect experts with years of experience would be too expensive; altoughretired ones might be enticed just as a side gig.

Comment It does not mistakes (Score 4, Insightful) 70

The OpenAI founder described the transformation of customer service as already complete, telling the Federal Reserve vice-chair for supervision, Michelle Bowman: "Now you call one of these things and AI answers. It's like a super-smart, capable person. There's no phone tree, there's no transfers. It can do everything that any customer support agent at that company could do. It does not make mistakes. It's very quick. You call once, the thing just happens, it's done."

Yea, AI would never make up references, cheat, hallucinate or quote ridiculous prices... It's perfect.

Comment Re:Educating [Re:Falling birthrate] (Score 1) 160

Well, I don't know about that, but we certainly aren't the best nation when it comes to educating our kids.

Oddly enough, though, U.S. Universities are consistently the best in the world. There are a handful of non-US universities in the top ranks-- Oxford and Cambridge always are in the top five, for example-- but overall, yes, at the university level we are the best nation when it comes to educating our kids, at least at the top ranked universities.

Particularly graduate schools.

So, guess what part of U.S. education is most under fire by the current administration.

-- https://www.timeshighereducati...

Yes, and it is sad. At least Model Rocketry is (still) fun...

Comment How about limiting the number at any one company? (Score 4, Interesting) 160

If you look at employment statistics, three of the top 5 are consulting firms, primarily IT. Setting a cap on H1B visas any company can have or get in a year would encourage them to look for talent they can keep long term as well as make more available for other companies. Allowing H1B holders to more easily change jobs, outlawing exit fees if they leave, etc. would also go a long way to, IMHO, making the system better or all concerned.

Comment Re:don't think this can be coded (Score 1) 13

IA would start flagging real people that sound like other real people, if you just compare sound.

Per TFA, the suggestion was to not add any song not approved by the person who admins the musician's official page to that page. That seems a pretty straightforward coding solution for that problem. Spotify could go a step further and require approval of any song claimed to be by a certain artist be approved by the artist or their representative to block any fakes. A bigger challenge is how easy it apparently is to upload songs to Spotify to the point using AI to create music and upload it to Spotify has become one of Medium's regular "How I make XX$ while I sleep..." stories.

Comment Re:I call bullshit (Score 1) 66

Someone competent today may not be very competent after a few months of doing only boring AI code reviews. That, or the reviews may degrade to rubber-stamping due to their tediousness.

Just get other AI to do the reviews...

Seriously, I've used AI to answer questions that I might have posted to a forum if something is working, or I want some ideas on how to do something. I have found the results to vary from helpful to useless. For me, its usefulness is getting ideas, asking it to explain them and then I write the code so I understand what it does, not just cut and paste. What find it most useful for is taking my code and adding comments explaining what it does so someone in the future at least has an idea of what I tried to do, and for writing documentation drafts; since I tend to avoid doing both.

Comment Re:Scam (Score 3, Informative) 52

What are the supposed benefits over buying the stock itself?

A number of derivatives allow you to control many more shares than if you bought them outright, thus giving you the opportunity for more significant gains than if you bought stock. For example, if you buy a stock at 10Euros and it goes up 2 Euros you make 2 Euros, if the same money bought 110 options you make 10 Euros (20 from sale less 10 spent). Of course, if it doesn't go up enough or drops you lose 10 Euros when the options expire. The TFA wasn't clear what the token actually had as the underlying assets so it's hard to say what is the benefit and risk exposure.

Comment Re:small business (Score 1) 78

Small businesses that get a lot of these calls will revolt quickly. Google can try to force them to feed the machine but its not going to work well.

I suspect they will quickly sour on them as I could see it overwhelm a small business, not just from legitimate queries but from people using it to jam up a business' line for laughs or revenge for some perceived slight. At least Google lets businesses opt out; although it should really be opt in but then Google would need to convince them to use it rather than force them to say no.

Comment Re:Scam (Score 1) 52

Looks like a great scam. I wish it were mine.

Sure, pay a premium over stock price because it's a crypto token or something's

Yea, it's just another derivative; and something you can already do with many available choices. From TFA, it says the company selling the tokens is buying shares, but that could mean a lot of things beyond holding the actual shares. TFA goes on to say since tokens are unregulated you have no idea who is buying or selling, leave it rife for manipulation; although no one would do that ever...

How fucking dumb are people?

There is no bound to stupidity, just ask Einstein.

Scam away!

They will and laugh to the bank.

Comment If people like it, who cares? (Score 0) 215

If people listen to it, what does it matter how it's created? Artists have been using tools to enhance and change music for a long time, this is just th next evolution. Should studios be required to label albums where individual tracks were combined rather than the entire album done in one sitting? This is just the industry trying to protect their revenue stream, and as soon as labels find a way to pay somebody to use AI to generate music that sells they'll be all behind it and pushing for copyright protection. All you have to do is follow the money to see where it is heading...

Comment Re:Why???!?? (Score 1) 154

If you think keeping paper and pencil notes is the same as the massive privacy invasion people call social media, then you need to get off the internet. You have no idea what it is doing.

It depends on how and what they collect, and frankly, if they put it out for everyone to see they should have no expectation of privacy. You post something where anyone can access it and you should expect anyone to access it. If you want your information private, keep it off the internet.

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