BillyClark

True. The Republican incumbent that he’s running against, Tim Burchett, promised to legislate against Flock cameras. While that’s nice, I no longer trust the promises of any Republican.

As far as I’m concerned, we need to replace all Republican politicians. If their opponent is a Democrat, we need to be a little careful not to elect a wolf in sheep’s clothing. But if they’re independents like the guy we’re talking about, I think just about anybody would do. Like an animal or an inanimate object would even be infinitely preferable to a Republican.

Wikipedia itself is still one of the best resources on the internet, and they actually make it pretty easy to back up their data, which is why there are so many clones out there.

If Wikimedia foundation died, somebody else would take over, and hopefully the quality wouldn’t decline too much.

Besides, we have seen it work recently. A bunch of local stations took Kimmel off the air, pressuring Disney to cancel his show. So Disney was about to cancel Kimmel, and instead everybody canceled their Hulu/Disney+ memberships, and a couple of days later, Kimmel was back.

I get what you’re saying, but it’s still harder to live in space or on Mars than to try to fix Earth. What I’m saying is that SpaceX would have to be run by a complete idiot for them to think they have an incentive to ruin the planet…… Wait…. It is run by a complete idiot.

I worked in software for, well, let’s say 20 years, at some elite places, too. And the one thing that I never understood was how few people ever bothered “to make sure it is correct,” as you put it, even before this new problem with AI. They didn’t even bother to make sure it was correct even when they wrote it themselves.

You don’t know how many times I’ve been sent a request to review code, and it should have only been like 20 lines of code, but instead it was page after page of irrelevant stuff, because they created the review from the wrong baseline. But they never even took a single look at it before they sent it to me.

So many people don’t write tests for their code that generally my biggest achievement at any given assignment was creating test frameworks that let them write tests using domain specific language, because it made it much easier. At a certain point, if it’s easy enough, even those people will write tests, especially if they know that I’ll be doing the review.

I honestly don’t see AI code as being all that different. People still don’t even do the minimum, but they just get exposed and embarrassed more easily.

I don’t know that the article was all that badly written, but you missed a couple of points that I’d call essential:

One, it was 32 students out of 35 total who used AI and then didn’t even bother to check it, so only 3 students even made an honest attempt in the entire semester.

Two, the professor told the students that they were allowed to contest the grade if they wanted, and only 2 out of the 32 students even tried to contest it.

The guy from the article was referred to as “a US man,” so I’m assuming he has US citizenship.

The border cannot legally deny US citizens from entering the US. But they can do all sorts of other things, like detain or delay or prosecute people for not complying.

OpenAI’s general model doesn’t give out reliable medical advice. So, they need to instruct it not to give out medical advice, and instead to tell the user to consult a real doctor. Hopefully they have done that already.

But beyond that, there’s a quagmire. Some people will move mountains to avoid talking to humans about anything, or even about some certain things like their health, and if ChatGPT refuses to give advice, they’ll either find a way around the instructions to the AI, or they’ll just find another AI that is willing to give medical advice. So part of me is glad that these people will get a specialized medical advice AI model, because it’s better than nothing, and if OpenAI wants to risk the lawsuits, that’s their problem. But it’s still dangerous if their new medical advice model hallucinates like all of the current models seem to. I personally wouldn’t recommend people use it.

I’m reminded of how Disney pulled most of their movie ideas from the public domain, and then pushed hard to try to extend copyright so that none of their movies would ever enter the public domain themselves.