Comment Re:Automattic and WP Engine now have the same prob (Score 1) 38
code that is long gone because Drupal is now Symfony-based and the way you do basically everything has changed since I knew how to do anything meaningful, back in version 7 or so.
Breaking backward compatibility was Drupal's fatal flaw. Not only are old modules incompatible with new versions, the core database needs a migration to go to the next version after D7, and Drupal does not provide this migration.
Comment Re:Commuting to/from work with google? (Score 1) 149
Now you have a reason to use it: Save 30 seconds off your commute.
...and in the process maximize the street surface used for car traffic, endanger and scare away cyclists and pedestrians from formerly quiet residential streets, etc...
Comment Re:Just a coincidence (Score 1) 70
Comment Re:Anyone mirror hf yet? ;-) (Score 1) 39
Comment Wrong link (Score 2) 111
The summary links to the wrong place on Gates' blog. Here is the correct one. But the pages are all mixed together so that as you scroll down you get to a different topic and the url changes.
A good limit on AI development would be to allow it to grow only with renewable power, so that it does not accelerate climate change. If you scroll down Gates blog, you'll see his thoughts on climate change. But there is no mention of it in "The choices we make about AI" essays. As if the world's problems are unrelated to each other.
Comment Re:Only the "flagships"? What a ripoff (Score 1) 69
Comment Re:Disgusting summary (Score 3, Informative) 52
"potentially enabling instantaneous exchanges of information across vast distances"
This is quoted from the phys.org article. It wasn't added in the summary.
Comment Re: So what (Score 1) 145
Comment Flock is Big Tech? (Score 1) 36
Comment Re:AI gives better answers. (Score 1) 85
I bought a big Merriam Webster dictionary along with...
You may be an exception. The books you mentioned are reference books. I am worried that reference books will disappear, because most people won't use them. Which means that we will be at the mercy of getting our information from AI.
Reference book publishers might publish their books through an LLM: you can ask questions but nobody gets the whole book.
Comment Re:LLMs - don't trust 'em (Score 1) 64
LLMs are trained on "large, uncontrolled media collections". But they could be trained on curated media collections.
The humanoid classroom assistants that companies want to introduce to schools may be a sneaky way to educate LLMs and get paid for it, by putting them in real classrooms with humans. With disastrous consequences for the privacy of these students.
Comment Re:Kinda terrifying (Score 1) 19
But if these fell off an existing satellite
Things don't fall out of satellites. But the whole satellite could fall out of orbit and the sphere inside might have "hatched" out of the burning shell.