A Lisp Programmer, or a German or a Roman.

The silly things that happened in the last decades is:
- decline in local capabilities
- don't build, buy cheap on the world market
- world market (China / Venezuela) reacts and supplies the market
- cry because some self invented enemy controls the world market
- invent lies and blame them for slavery and other absurd things, like pollution
- then invade and steal what you can ... worked in Venezuela, did not work in Iran

And: everyone involved knew the dates and could buy shares or options or make future trade deals to profit from it.

USA is a kleptocracy, last 50 years they stole from their own population, and since Iraq and Afghanistan they openly invade other countries and plunder the gold and the museums.

It has seemed to me, for a very long time, that modern AI systems would need to be integrated with standard RDBMS systems for reliable persistant storage of raw information, some sort of no-sql database (memcache or some variant) for persistant storage of associations, some sort of document database for blocks of textual information, a SPARQL system for searching semantically-marked information within the document database, and a more old-fashioned back-propogation NN to provide a store of understanding that the user can directly manipulate.

Probabalistic classifiers are all fine and good, but only for a subset of the tasks needed. The above structure is a very loose, wildly-speculative initial framework. It's almost certain that if you actually tried building an integrated multi-model system, that you'd end up making a lot of changes to this basic idea, but that you'd end up having to implement the same core concepts that are identified in it.

The British government, in a desperate bid to increase profitability, has trademarked Alan Turing himself.

How is ChatGPT supposed to know the difference? Both involve hands and mouths, so clearly it's the same context. :P

From their careful selection of text, they WANTED it to mean something else so badly that they couldn't handle putting in the full text. It's a common blight on today's Internet, where people want other people's writings to mean something other than what was meant by the writer, so carefully select the words they read.

That's the entire point. Trying to solve other people's problems NEVER WORKS. You CANNOT control others into responsible behaviour, but you CAN place them in a position where they will choose to be responsible of their own accord. It is the ONLY way that works. It is the only way that has ever worked. If you look at computer programming, you will see this repeated over and over - well-meaning "hard rules" are ignored, STANDARDS are kept.

You must give them parameters and force them to find their own solution within those.

The control system responded to a combination of inputs it had never seen before that resulted in a low pH condition by increasing acid flow to lower it further.

That is close enough for me. All those weights between layers result in a non-linear failure mode which is not acceptable in the real world, rather like Elon's self-driving cars ramming firetrucks.

As Cringley points out, all they've done is throw horsepower at it. It's like the old argument in physics, if we knew every particle's position and velocity we could calculate everything forever. But you can't know that so the whole concept if flawed.

It is fun to watch the flailing though. "But it's got to work, I've spent Billions!"

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That was easily refuted.

That's what I remember too. There was a real Cringely at first, but somehow he ended up signing away his name in the context of the column and then it was done by the magazine staff. (memo: read the fine print)

I ran headlong into what we now call hallucinations in 1996 working on my Ph.D. on process control using neural networks. I decided it wasn't going work for real-word real-time control (and the committee agreed). I've been very amused by this whole AI rush.

As the saying goes, "It's human to err, but it takes a computer to really screw things up."

especially since Windows hides extensions by default.
Which every user should switch off the first time he uses the computer.

No idea who had that braindead idea, he should be chained in a dungeon with mold dry bread and muddy water.

That is not what "learning" means.

You have a local session, and over time you have configured it to understand and do what you want to do in that context.

Close the session and try again, and it is back where it was before.

However you likely remember its misunderstandings and formulate your new requests different and avoid its pitfalls, and hence you have the impression it learned.

What LLM are you using?

Nope. The Secretaries are part of the Executive branch of government. They do not originate legislation.

The commissioners then have a double role, as they are primarily also executive branch.

They hold the exclusive "Right of Initiative" in the EU.
It is a bit more complicated than that, but in general you are right, I was not thinking about that point.

Could be a typo for palm, or Thai language for wrestling (Muay Plam) ... your pick.

No, it referred to LIQUID waste, which is completely irrelevant considering the amount of TOTAL waste,