Provided you’re paying them, I can’t see why you would need to feel uncomfortable. Many of them would probably be overjoyed to collect some cash doing something they like doing anyway—seniors whose income was just enough pre-COVID are really struggling now.
Unfortunately, no one’s yet succeeded in making a workable checker (AI-written text and the writing of English-as-foreign-language speakers are awkwardly similar along many axes, apparently, so existing checkers have a lot of false positives).
While a nicely-bound blank book with heavy paper isn’t worth $500, it isn’t entirely worthless, either. To really rip buyers off, it has to be an ebook or print-on-demand. As has already been demonstrated.
Probably riffing on the fact that the Pi people hired (some time ago) an ex-cop who had used their devices in surveillance.
I believe there’s an act covering presidential disability, dating from long before Reagan, due to a president’s wife having effectively run the country for a couple of years while her husband was too ill to get out of bed. That would probably cover obvious and serious dementia as well. (Not my country, though, so I may have it wrong.) Problem with the recent Republican presidents is that their insanity is plausibly deniable, if your worldview is damaged enough already.
I concede the point, although Lynx is of limited usefulness on the Javascript-burdened modern Web.
I suppose that what bothers me about the original announcement is that it strikes me as something that shouldn’t have been announced until he had something with at least a Lynx level of viability. You don’t have to tell the world at large about every single hobby you take up.
Maybe I’m just too old and too private to understand People These Days and how they choose to go about their lives. 😅
The author of the article can’t even be bothered to keep his server up-to-date (my first attempt at viewing the article bounced me with a warning that suggests he only has obsolete crypto protocols available for SSL—why bother with SSL at all, then?). He’s quite correct that this initiative is going to come to nothing.
There are currently only four web rendering engines that could be considered remotely usable as daily drivers: WebKit, its fork Blink, and Gecko, with its fork Goanna. WebKit and Blink both have major corporate backing (Apple and Google respectively). Gecko has the Mozilla Foundation paying the major bills. Even Pale Moon’s Goanna has multiple people working on it (and since it’s my daily driver, I know it has persistent issues with a few sites that have to be papered over with extensions). And the rendering engine is not the only thing you need for a browser, just the largest single part. A one-man project starting from scratch is not going to be viable in this day and age.
Pale Moon still supports XUL, if you want to play with it.
Sounds like that shop may have gone out of business for a reason.
I don’t know. Every time I think that there’s some level to which no sane human being would stoop, this guy manages to surprise me. And not in a good way.
Sorry to break it to you, but it doesn’t “know” anything except what text is most likely to come after the text you just typed. It’s an autocomplete. A very sophisticated one, granted, but it has no notion of “fact” and no real understanding of the content of what it’s saying.
Saying that it knows what it’s spouting back to you is exactly what I warned against up above: anthropomorphization. People did this with ELIZA too, and it’s even more dangerous now than it was then.
One could equally claim that the toaster was ahead, because it does something useful in the physical world. Hmm. Is a robot dog more alive than a Tamagotchi?
Let’s be clear on where the responsibility belongs, here. LLMs are neither alive nor sapient. They themselves have no more “rights” than a toaster. The question is whether the humans training the AIs have the right to feed them such-and-such data.
The real problem is the way these systems are being anthropomorphized. Keep your attention firmly on the man behind the curtain.
Even if the article’s title were literally true, 70% of . . . what, hundreds of millions of users? A billion plus? Regardless, that isn’t rock bottom, that’s “balanced awkwardly on the edge of the roof of that ridiculously tall building in Dubai after parachuting out of an aircraft”. There’s still a lot of “down” to cover.
That . . . really looks like a game of DNS chicken. In Cloudflare’s place, I’d just shrug, provide garbage EDNS data that meets the technical requirements (probably pointing at archive.is’s own location), and move on, but they’re apparently too wrapped up in their principles to blink first.
From the point of view of anyone not working in (or at least interested in) the AI field, “AI” means the same thing as “artificial general intelligence”. Much like “theory” means something different to the average person than it does to a scientist.
TDE. It does what a desktop environment should do and stays out of my way, while offering a more-than-sufficient assortment of built-in software when I need it.
In 18 years of Linux use on a rolling-release distro, I can’t ever recall having an in-tree driver cause any problems.
The Windows machine I’m forced to use for work, on the other hand, misbehaves on update at least once or twice a year.
If it matters, most of the TDE development team use Debian or related distros, so if you have no other preference, Debian will probably get you the best support.
If you want to try a live image before committing, Q4OS and ExeGnuLinux both supply ISOs with TDE.