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AI seems to be popping up everywhere, so it’s no surprise that it has made its way into software development. Fortunately, it’s not here to take over, but to make our lives a whole lot easier and a bit more fun. There we go: a four-day work week
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Velato is a programming language, created by Daniel Temkin, which uses MIDI files as source code: the pattern of notes determines commands. Dun-dun-DUNNNNNN!
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Police uncover plot to defame principal with AI-generated racist and antisemitic comments. No one would ever misuse AI
Like they'd never misuse any other technology, of course.
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Hackers have been using a sophisticated man-in-the-middle attack to exploit a vulnerability in an antivirus solution to spread backdoors on corporate networks Security is job #1!
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Creating a desktop application and need to decide between the long-time reliable WPF and the up-and-coming cross-platform .NET MAUI? No gain, all pain
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The agency voted to reclassify internet service providers under Title II of the Communications Act but says it doesn’t plan to regulate prices. Neither Good, nor Evil. Nor Lawful or Chaotic
Proof that the FCC are druids!
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The notoriously confrontational tech site SemiAccurate claims that Qualcomm is cheating on the benchmarks of its new Snapdragon X Elite and Plus laptop processors, and Qualcomm has now responded to those accusations. There are four kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and Benchmarks
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Kent Sharkey wrote: There are four kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and Benchmarks
5... do not forget politicians' promises
M.D.V. 
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The curious case of a living room screen making Windows' Settings app disappear. The "smart" TV wanted it to be The Year of Linux
"The fix is deleting hundreds of keys from the registry." <-- oh, how grateful we should be for the invention of the registry
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The comments contain this gold nugget: TaxiZaphod said: I'm not sure which is more newsworthy: that a Hisense TV borked a user's Windows PC, or that a thread on the Microsoft support forums actually contained useful information.
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New types of jobs are emerging: The modern skillset that employers are recruiting for is vastly different from what they used to want. They have to make sure they're as trendy as the next CEO
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Article wrote: The modern skillset that employers are recruiting for is vastly different from what they used to want.
And they need to have at least 10 years experience on them
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Using his previously formulated Second Law of Infodynamics, Vopson claims that the decrease of entropy in information systems over time could prove that the universe has a built-in “data optimization and compression,” which speaks to its digital nature. He just saw the same black cat again
And by "evidence" he means a full word salad of bafflegab. I'm certain that Saint Carl Sagan would have something to say to him.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm certain that Saint Carl Sagan would have something to say to him.
Or Frederick Pohl
Kent Sharkey wrote: He just saw the same black cat again
Or a green wall
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...like "Who are you!? Get out of my office!"
...and
"Melvin? What sort of name is that? Your parents didn't want you did they?"
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“Which episode of Gilligan’s Island was about mind reading?” As long as we have more knowledge about syndicated sitcoms, the AIs will never win
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After skimming the article, its central point seems to be that LLMs can't reason. They merely do a great job summarizing and regurgitating the data that they've scanned, so it's hard to know how accurate they are. This hardly comes as a surprise given the many documented, deranged responses from various LLMs.
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The dirty little secret is that LLM is that training... it is essentially stacking the deck and then managing to pull an ace... maybe > 50% of the time.
But it's still "luck". We've rigged the game by telling it what we're most likely talking about when we say x.
This is a fundamental issue when it comes to contexts where it absolutely shouldn't be allowed to be wrong (like handing it its own reigns).
Ask it if a football is a sphere 
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See if can make the following make some sense.
the LLMs currently GENERATE output, not reference it. Meaning that they have been done to simulate human thinking in a fashion.
Like if you ask someone give me a sentence. Person has to figure out context, they know what a sentence should be, but then fill in the content to form the sentence and either coherent of wtf.
Some people are great at this and many are not. but if ask give me a sentence BASED on a shakespear play, that narrows down the content, and possibly the top of the mind words would (most populare that person knows) would steer the sentence.
add receite a line from shakespear, that is more specific. Can person recall a line verbatum, or they use context they know how a shakepsear sentence is done to mix recall and construction.
the LLMs, negate reference and just jumble all the data, and spit out something.
Hence the lack of factual data.
Contrast with google index which links to specific data.
Mix the two and then suggestion comes into play which is the next step. Load a LLM with your domain data and someone can ask, give me a wedding dress with nice pattern, and will write "this one has recommendations for late spring, and here is the link"
With copywrite issues making that direct refernce, unless for webpages is currently a challenge on mass, unless individuals, which is what the LLMs are pushing out creators to make
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The domain data thing you bring up at the end is why I think general AI driven by LLM isn't coming anytime soon and if it does, we should probably smash it with as giant and hard a hammer as we can find.
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Here's one way to handle the tech skills shortage: IT functions are increasingly being delivered and maintained by hybrid pros with one foot in the business and the other in technology. "The horror! The horror!"
If that isn't inspiration to get ahead of "citizen developers" on AI, I don't know what might be.
Of course, it's probably also inspiration for early retirement.
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IMO, this is a good thing.
Getting everyone more involved needed to have happened a long time ago.
Everyone should be a programmer. Not really, but you should probably know a thing or two.
I think you look at many things, compromises, hacks, scams, cambridge analytica, "bad" AI...
So much would not have the possibility of ever being so bad if people just knew a little bit more in general about tech.
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jochance wrote: So much would not have the possibility of ever being so bad if people just knew a little bit more in general about tech.
You overestimate the human race... 
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Aligned interest of self preservation is only generally reliable, and only if people recognize there's any threat to begin with.
We're boiling frogs because we're dumb as frogs.
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In this episode of "How to make Windows 11 more annoying," Microsoft is bringing new Start menu ads to all users. If you start up the ads, they'll never stop
With apologies to Mick and Keef
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