I can’t stand lane assist that tries to keep you in the lane by actually moving or vibrating the steering wheel. To me, it feels like the car is slipping. That shit gets turned off right away. But I have driven some cars where the lane assist just beeps, and doesn’t force the wheel at all, I can deal with that.

I find HUDs extremely distracting, they get turned off too.

Adaptive Cruise Control is extremely useful, I love that one.

I can believe that an agent can do 80% of a competent job. But the 80/20 rule posits that the 20% is the hard part, the part that actually justifies your salary. If a human is not going to go in and do that 20% (which might be 80% of the effort), then having the AI do the easiest 80% doesn’t gain you anything at all.

In fairness, this was all on a switch, where the commands are very tightly tied to the vendor and their underlying in-house shell. So commands may vary by release greatly. I was already explicitly telling the bot what software version and licenses I had, but ultimately I had to resort to the CLI’s help function at times and tell the bot “The command you gave me didn’t work. Here’s where it broke, and here’s the commands it will accept”. Given that information, it could (generally) figure it all out.

I have serious issues with being fed confidently incorrect answers.

Except I have plenty of experience dealing with this from humans. (Mainly from the aforementioned new managers, because being wrong with confidence seems to be a key trait to get promoted.) It’s been my experience that when you tell an AI “I just tried that and it didn’t work”, it will accept that more readily than a human would.

Every bit of AI-generated code that I use, even in the smallest and most meaningless context, has to pass my own review first. I have to understand every line, and if I don’t I will ask the bot to explain what it did. By the time I am done with it, I can stand behind it just as if I wrote it all myself. I might note that I got AI help, but if my name is on the commit I will not pass the buck on any errors.

I had this experience once. We have a ChatGPT license where I work, and I asked it to configure a switch that I wasn’t familiar with. I simply described in words what network architecture I wanted and it did it! It even made some nice-looking documentation.

But, then I tried the new configs, and they didn’t work. It turns out there were some key syntax things it got wrong. And the documentation was wrong on top of that, with incorrect diagrams, and when I asked it to fix it it made different errors I the diagrams in different places. On balance, I still saved some time over reading all the manuals and figuring out the syntaxes myself, but only because I made my own documentation with the results that worked. If I had trusted the AI I would be sunk.

I’ve concluded that AI gives the illusion of competence, like a overly confident new manager. This can be very attractive to a less experienced person. But it’s really guessing, just like we all are. It can just guess after actually “reading” all the manuals. I haven’t used AI to write anything more than simple configurations and helper scripts. If I did want to use AI for more it would be in more of a pair-programming context. I might have a window open where I describe some things and ask for analysis, but I wouldn’t just run anything it does blindly.

Euro-area households hold approximately €440 billion in exposure to the Magnificent Seven — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and Tesla

That article is using a bit of AI math there. Or are they overweighting Amazon on purpose?

Interesting that the buyers are willing to pay “top prices” and yet unwilling to spend the money to scan these books non-destructively.

Jesus fucking christ.

I’m sure Grok can make that, too

I don’t know about all that, didn’t they develop Windows just to have a platform to play FreeCell Solitaire?

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.