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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 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 Flock is Big Tech? (Score 1) 36

The word "Big" is not mentioned in either the salon or politico article. It was added by editor david. Flock is a private company, and most likely not worth a $billion. If "People are sick of tech billionaires trying to control our lives", a Flock uprising is a diversion. The real Big Tech is in everyone's phone, stalking everyone's browser, and who knows what else. Big Tech is carefully sly and does not make Flock's amateurish mistakes. Big Tech tricks people into paying for the spyware that spies on them, or giving away their privacy for free, in exchange for convenience.

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.

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