AI won’t replace mathematicians. But AI may replace their grad students, when the Computer Science department shows how much more “work” the Al can do and steals funding from the Mathematics department.

Then, when the current Math faculty retires, there won’t be any new Mathematicians to take their place.

Certain employer-sponsored visas have requirements that the job be posted for a period of time to see if any US applicants apply. This is supposed to make sure the foreign worker isn’t “taking a job away” from a similarly qualified American.

Companies do prefer to hire foreign nationals for these jobs, though, because they typically take less pay, and their US work authorization is tied to their employment, so that makes it much harder for them to change jobs in the US without leaving the country first. So while they are supposed to “post the job” for Americans to apply, they will do the bare minimum to post it, and make sure the requirements are written so that no one other than a foreign worker would bother applying.

I bet they asked the AI to help them design the sandbox to keep the AI h4x0rs contained

It’s worse than all that. I clicked on all the Xitter links so you wouldn’t have to, at the bottom is this post from this guy who was able to put a photorealistic image of a nuke plant in Iran, and a throng of migrants at the US-Mexican border, both of which didn’t exist in the source material:

https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-plant-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran

We know that this didn’t come out of a vacuum, this capability has been there and was only recently released to the public. We also know that this Administration is in very close with all the tech bros enshittifying everything, and they like to lie, especially about history.

So, now we know what the October Surprise before this election is going to be: the Administration is going to use fake satellite imagery to rile everyone up. We’ll be lucky if they don’t drop some nukes in the process…

But the destruction is the essential part, ironically, that makes this copying kosher for copyright purposes:

Destroying books, it turns out, isn’t just cheaper than maintaining them: The presiding judge also ruled that it’s transformative enough to constitute fair use under Section 107 of the Copyright Act.

So, somehow, destroying the books afterwards makes it all legal. In spite of the fact that no author who wrote a book in all of human history before about 3 years ago had to worry about a chatbot sucking up all of its work, and vomiting it back out, without compensation.

The stock is hovering at around $324 at the time of writing, down over 15 percent over the last five days and about 28 percent year to date.

That ain’t free fall, it has a ways more to go

US citizens have an unequivocal right to enter the country, eventually, just not necessarily on a flight they booked (or any flight in the next few weeks, until the goons are done with them…)

Thanks for the clarification, I thought I had read somewhere that they were doing something special in terms of their specs but maybe that was wrong (or maybe they transitioned at some point to save money)

My understanding, though, is they have their own chip specs, for custom die nobody else uses , and they integrate that into their chiplets or whatever it is they are using. So it’s not like those vendors can just sell those die to other customers. Whoever is making Apple’s RAM is making it specifically for them.

Unless their contracts with Apple have some sort of escalation clause, I would figure Apple would be pretty insulated from all this price nonsense. Heck, they have enough cash on hand that I bet they can buy a smaller RAM vendor if they had to. It mainly depends on how much of that custom RAM tech they own vs. licensing from any particular vendor. If they are using patents from their vendor, then that makes it harder to just switch.

Wait, don’t new iPhones and Macs have that unified memory? Maybe I’m missing something, but shouldn’t Apple be in the best position with regards to memory prices in their products?

I wonder if they are calling it the “drone deal” just to get under Trump’s skin. After all, he views the world as a zero-sum game, and the US as competing with Europe. So, any deal thar Europe “gets” is one less deal for the US.

Ukraine’s territorial integrity shouldn’t be subject to “deals”, but here we are.

If I am reading the article correctly, the point of the lawsuit is not that they used AI to make their staffing decisions. It’s that the criteria they asked the AI to use to make those decisions directly disadvantaged people who were on approved leave for medical reasons, and whose jobs were supposed to be protected by law.

It’s an important distinction. These decision makers delegated their staffing decisions to a bot. But bots are not people. If the instructions given to those bots resulted in actions that violated the law, the decision makers need to be held accountable, I the same manner they would if they made those decisions without AI assistance.

Since it’s a Republican doing it, I guess not.

It’s always dangerous when we try to apply technical solutions to what are essentially social problems. Because then the task isn’t necessarily “how can I improve my behavior”, but it’s “how can I get around this tech”.

I have long believed that this interlock nonsense is really just a way to punish poor people for DUIs while making sure that rich people can still continue to not face consequences for them by paying to get out of jail. After all, it would be cheaper for all involved to just suspend someone’s license entirely (and impound their car), even after they get out of jail. But then there is no opportunity for rich people to use their connections and wealth to get around the rules.

Just wait until it gets integrated into that database ICE is using that can tell them who is a citizen and who isn’t, just by looking. Then it will shut the car off if the driver looks drowsy, drunk, or the wrong shade of brown.

This shouldnt surprise us. This is how Oligarchs like Musk intend to turn the US into an oligarchy like Russia. They don’t need to hack the vote counts if they can hack voters’ minds and do their thinking for them…

Exactly! And maintaining the plant to make physical discs costs money. Sony can reduce costs by forcing everyone to digital copies. Customers will ultimately go along with it, because they understand their personal preferences are not worth as much as an extra $0.50 per game in profit.

Won’t anyone think of the shareholders?

Nothing happened to it. It’s there in some fonts, and not in others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif

I am all for the proliferation of (Weird) Al in everything, particularly when using sans-serif fonts.

In retrospect, we dodged a bullet when the Internet developed the way that it did, in an open fashion, at Universities, largely by hippies (and, later, furries).

Remember Compuserve? And early AOL? I remember Quantumlink (Steve Case’s company that eventually turned into AoL) and how my parents had to pay for it by the hour.

Tech Companies wanted to erect tool booths on computer communication, just like the phone network, but the Internet (and it’s open architecture) beat them to the punch. They’ve been trying to fix that bug ever since. But they figured out that if the interconnect is open, they can still charge a toll if they have root access in the hardware at both sides. Once TVs became computers, it became so much easier.