…fuck! And my little chunk of sanity goes away like this, like a speck of hummus.

I’m picking #7 to make my life slightly less insane, since I live with a muppet who leaves empty containers in the freezer.

I’m not surprised. And I heavily recommend people to ask questions about a topic that they reliably know to those assistants; they’ll notice how much crap the bots output. Now consider that the bot is also bullshitting about the things that you don’t know.

My guess is that both my cats have multiple hiding spots each, and that I only know a fraction of each. Recently I discovered one - when Siegfrieda is afraid (fireworks, garbage truck, etc.), she hides inside the corner kitchen cabinet, in a way that the door closes behind her.

Sometimes I swear that my cats do this. Except that the cracks are too thin for human eyes to notice, so the cats become invisible. Hidden. Waiting for the crucial time when you tell them “it’s food time!”, only to emerge from the cracks and go full “meeeow meeeow meeeow”.

Obligatory mention to Junji Ito’s Cat Diary.

My first bet is roughly in this direction, too.

I think that “all” is evolving in this direction. It was already used as an explicit pluraliser for “you” (alongside “guys”, -s, and others); and now I’m seeing “they all” more and more across the internet, even in situations where the “all” clearly does not convey “every single one of them”.

Just keep in mind that this is anecdotal from my part, not backed up by hard data.

I do wish English had some common-use ones that were explicitly singular, though.

In the long run I predict that “they” will follow the same path as “you” - it’ll become increasingly more associated with the singular, until it’s the default interpretation. I also predict that both “they” and “you” will eventually require a pluraliser to convey the plural.

“Vos” (you, singular) in Rioplatense Spanish followed a similar path.

If that’s correct, eventually there’ll be explicitly singular second and third person pronouns.

“Free” as in free beer, not as in freedom. And to get that free beer you need to sell your soul.

(I love how this shit does not roll in most languages out there.)

If a billionaire slapped someone’s face, I’d expect Forbes to narrate how the second person cruelly hurt the billionaire’s hand with their face.

I mostly agree with you, I think that we’re disagreeing on details. And you’re being far, far more level-headed than most people who discuss this topic, who pretend that AI is either e-God or Satanic bytes. (So no, you aren’t an evil AI tech sis. Nor a Luddite.)

That said:

For clinical usage, just monitoring it isn’t enough - because when people know that there’s some automated system to catch their mistakes, or that they’re just catching the mistakes of that system, they get sloppier. You need really, really good accuracy.

Like, 95% accuracy might look like a lot, right? If it involves death or life, it means a death for each 20 cases, it’s rather high. In the meantime, if AlphaFold got it wrong 60% of the time instead of just 6%, it wouldn’t be a big deal.

Also, note that we’re both talking about “AI” as if it was a single thing. Under the hood it’s a bunch of completely different things; pattern recognition AI, predictive AI, generative AI, they work so differently from each other that we’d need huge walls of text to decide how good or bad each of them is.

A lot of those points boil down to the same thing: “what if the AI is wrong?”

If it’s something that you’ll need to check manually anyway, or where a mistake is not a big deal, that’s probably fine. But if it’s something where a mistake can affect someone’s well-being, that is bad.

Reusing an example from the pic:

• Predicting 3D structures of proteins, as in the example? OK! Worst hypothesis the researchers will notice that the predicted structure does not match the real one.
• Predicting if you have some medical problem? Not OK. A false negative can cost a life.

That’s of course for the usage. The creation of those systems is another can of worms, and it involves other ethical concerns.

Another four-legged anyarchist!

Cats give no fucks.

i wish the light in the pic were more golden

Like this?

It does the same with subscribe, I think. (I actually removed all those buttons from the desktop interface, using uBlock Origin, so I never see them.)

OpenAI was not the first domino, just the one that got the most attention.

Yes, that is correct. And perhaps it got the most attention because of all the ruckus Pigboy did over “his” precious data (i.e. users’) + because it made the whole thing hard to ignore.

Remember when you bought shit once and that meant you owned it?

Yeah. I was talking about this with my mum today - the chat started with my cat refusing litterboxes, then “if this was the 90s old newspapers would do the trick”, then on how you don’t really own books you buy from the internet (unlike pirated ones). But it’s the same deal with some physical goods, if someone can brick them from a distance they aren’t really yours.

[Sorry for the rambling.]

Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

This process has been happening since ChatGPT was released. And it’ll only get worse.

And when are those corporations get that people hate this sort of system? Ask Clippy.

Therapy is not kawaii. Any further question?

My neighbour’s cat (Luna) does the same. She lives dangerously because my cat (Kika) is fed up with this shit.

AND NO, LUNA, I’M NOT PETTING YOU. Stop asking. You’re getting out.

Initially I was thinking on how this is such a blatantly bad idea. I don’t think that it’ll attract chip makers to USA, but instead send the industries relying on those chip makers to other countries. Because as the text says it takes years to build a chip factory, and those industries downstream simply won’t wait.

Then it clicked me - government debt. He might be trying to find new sources of income for the United-Statian government. They only need to last four years - if they ruin the economy later on, it is not his problem.