That #Apple is making #AI an opt in choice continues to show me that out of the BigTech players they continue to be the most thoughtful of the bunch. Indeed they are also very imperfect around the web, right to repair, the App Store, and many other things, but they don’t default to user data abuse, pull products on a whim, change terms all the time, jump on every hype train, etc. it’s like their leaders actually think a little bit about consequences before doing things. 🤔
Last lecture of the quarter tonight and I’m beat. Being a Prof is my second job and an Intro #SWE classes done well are hard, but also so rewarding.
#UCSD CSE 110 students this quarter learned local first platform focused #webdev with appropriate agile team practices, wrote ADRs, practiced UCD, deployed CI/CD, and much much more. I think I broke many of them of code primacy and a wait for the ticket or spec accountability.
Tl;dr - go hire these folks you’ve got lots to work with!
Our sushi isn’t always bad just sometimes. Next week we get distributor 2.0 with more & better fish so it will be amazing. It will be so good you can’t imagine eating other food. But…we need special rules to help us make the most perfect sushi & we totally shouldn’t get in trouble for food poisoning if it happens. Also we may take fish we didn’t pay for, but that’s ok because our sushi will be amazing! You will eat our sushi. All food is soon sushi.
I guess the #AI doomers
were right after all. AI is super powerful and can destroy things, I mean just look what it is doing to the reputations of many powerful tech companies.
@thomasapowell he is saving everyone. Ai clone talks to Ai clone and Ai notetaker takes the notes. And everyone can actually get work done while not having to sit through unnecessary meetings
@vicash absolutely! Then AI can forward the meeting notes to us & we can use AI to summarize it. Next up AI will convert those notes into issues. Then we will have AI read the issues & write the code & schedule the next meeting - the SWE AI circle of life! 🤪
Seriously tho pointless meetings being attended & summarized misses the bigger point of why we have such meetings? If we have such problems it is a symptom of much bigger problems AI can’t solve though it can “check the corporate boxes”!😎
Numerology wise a new entry in the very exclusive two digit number special meaning clan joining the likes of 13, 21, 42, 88, and 99 please give a warm welcome to a freshly minted orange colored 34!
Isn't weird how I can take a paragraph from a book like The Hobbit (page 173 was my test) with no attribution or mention of that work. I can say I wrote this and literally a single word detail like Bilbo or Sting & #ChatGPT can magically spit out the names of things unmentioned like the dwarves, write very close to perfect before and after paragraphs, and more. It's almost as if the entire contents of that copyrighted work is in there? “fair use" really is stretched a lot in #AI
I love the minor shout out to Space 1999 in Netflix movie Atlas. In a scene early on a clearly Eagle inspired type truck drives on a road in futuristic LA. I just hope Alan Carter was driving !
It was a decent movie and my boys enjoyed the enjoyed it but both said it was Titan Fall + Matrix over and over. I encourage Hollywood that they don’t need to be so obviously copying existing properties to succeed. We viewers like new things too!
it is interesting the assumption #AI has that availability == permission. So Sony has to inform them. Even for web content many T&Cs don’t say do whatever you want instead they say for consumption by the individual accessing the content only.
But fair use for training! Maybe, but there is no case law & frankly training to remove need for future use doesn’t seem to be the spirit of fair use any more than a review that tells you everything about the reviewed thing
I asked ChatGPT another #AI BS engine to calculate Google’s BS engine’s failure cost and it came up with about $10.4 billion. Is that accurate who knows? Hilarious ? 💯
Cost calc below from ChatGPT
“Total Estimated Financial Impact:
• Ad Revenue Loss: $2 billion
• Increased Operational Costs: $300 million
• Legal and Regulatory Costs: $600 million
• Brand Damage: $7.5 billion
Total Estimated Loss: $2 billion + $300 million + $600 million + $7.5 billion = $10.4 billion”
If I want to get the American right all wild about #AI accuracy I'll point out that giving Chat GPT 4o the task to estimate #Trump Bronx Rally crowd size (they claim 25k) but the AI has a different thought (< 5k)
“Training on Reddit posts considered harmful to model accuracy.”
Peer reviewers gave glowing comments like “No shit Sherlock!”
Asked for a comment the ground breaking paper’s author Captain Obvious simply stated “have you ever even been on Reddit?’ He also encouraged Google to instead train on 4chan content instead as that will totally “fix” everything.