I've said it other places, but you don't get a sense of just how bad they are until you see one in person. I don't know if it's that they're a bit bigger than I thought, or that I'm used to seeing fake images of all sorts of things, but even though I'd seen pictures I was surprised at how bad they are in person. They're cartoonishly awful.
Except unlike those others, this woman sued (for a bunch of things, not just the card thing), and the judge dismissed all of them saying she displayed a victim mentality over normal office interactions. I'm not faulting people for assuming she's not very likable.
I'm a manager at a large aerospace and defense company. We had a hybrid arrangement where most people (who didn't have to touch hardware) could work from home a couple days a week. Most people seemed to think it was pretty reasonable. There really are benefits to in person collaboration, so some on site days seemed to make sense.
We recently moved to fully RTO, and I find it frustrating. It's not a big deal personally - I live close and I'm older - but it pisses off a lot of the employees, who see no good reason for it. I don't see any notable productivity increase moving from three to five days on site, it just makes my management job harder.
See, this is an example of why he likes Putin. If you publish negative stories about Putin, regardless of truth, you're going to fall out a window. Trump wants that.
I've always told my family I like to build up "cart karma." You get karma by bringing a cart in with you from the parking lot, or returning the one you use after. You lose karma by leaving your cart in the parking lot. Even if I'm going in for a single item, I'll take a cart in from the parking lot with me and leave it in the rack by the store.
I don't really care about cart karma, it's just a way of saying that it seems like the nice thing to do.
Yeah, I'm far from anti-AI, but we're just not anywhere close to where people think we are with it. And I'm pretty sick of corporate leadership saying "We need to make more use of AI" without knowing the difference between an LLM and a machine learning application, or having any idea *how" their company could make use of one of the technologies.
It really feels like one of those hammer in search of a nail things.
What people mean by AI has been changing for as long as the term has been used. When I was studying CS in the 80s, people said the holy grail was giving a computer printed English text and having it read it aloud. It wasn't much later that OCR and text to speech software was commonplace.
Generally, when people say AI, they mean a computer doing something that normally takes a human, and that bar goes up all the time.
LLMs don't "understand" anything, and it's unfortunate that we've taken to using language related to human thinking to talk about software. It's all data processing and models.
The article makes a mention of the early part of the movie Her, where he's writing a heartfelt, personal card that turns out to be his job, writing from one stranger to another. That reference was exactly on target: I think most of us thought outsourcing such a thing was a completely bizarre idea, and it is. It's maybe even worse if you're not even outsourcing to someone with emotions but to an AI.
Ha! I didn't even notice that.
Starlink, Starship, Starliner... who can keep them straight?
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Jesus Christ, the astronauts aren't stranded. The first manned flight of a new vehicle and there were some issues on the part that gets jettisoned and burned up, so they can't inspect it afterwards. They're trying to analyze it while they have it, and even with the leak they could be to there a month with no issue.
Boeing deserves the bad press they're getting on the planes lately, but this is crap.
Isn't this one of the LLMs that was partially trained on Reddit data? LLMs are inherently a model of a conversation or question/response based on their training data. That response looks very much like what I saw regularly on Reddit when I was there. This seems unsurprising.