- lonelyasacloudCoding agents like Claude are just one line of AI making inroads. There are lot of nearly tasks that can be almost, but not quite, implemented effectivly with existing tools like Excel and Word. As they seek a return on their investments, are MS likely to target those nearly cases with AI in their Access, Excel, Word etc product lines?
- >> I mean, it's there any genuine case you can cover with SO that you cannot with your favorite LLM?
Perhaps better than current models at detecting and pushing back when it sounds like the individual asking the question is thinking of doing something silly/dubious/debatable.
- Not sure it matters.
It's a relatively uncontroversial ban, with public support in Aus because of mental health concerns, and key social media sites complying.
VPN's come with their own minimum age 18 T&C's. As do the credit and debit that are usually required somewhere along the line to pay for the services.
Historically, if it's awkward to circumvent most people tend to comply; which means in turn that minority that can figure out a way around it are unlikely to find many of their friends present. While for majority there's unlikely to be much of a draw or peer group pressure to circumvent.
I'm sure Aus gov will monitor, media will highlight problems etc, but would be surprised if it was not actually quit effective.
- Afraid the intuition is somewhat incorrect.
Similar to with tire wear what's important to emissions is the amount of force that has to be applied to decelerate and how often it occurs. At highway speeds it's far less of an issue, but in slow speed urban environments with lots of stop start driving and high vehicle densities it's a real problem.
See for instance https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/assets/documents/reports/cat09/1...
- How does the fuel get to it?
Building roads and running tankers is expensive. Ditto pipelines unless very close to suitable sources.
Especially when the moment these go online at any scale the price of natural gas starts getting jacked even further.
- TL;DR; Until we are sure we have the moderation systems to assist surfacing the good stuff I would be in favour of temporary guidelines to maintain quality.
Longer ...
I am here for the interesting conversations and polite debate.
In principle I have no issues with either citing AI responses in much the same way we do with any other source. Or with individual's prompting AI's to generate interesting responses on their behalf. When done well I believe it can improve discourse.
Practically though, we know that the volume of content AI's can generate tends to overwhelm human based moderation and review systems. I like the signal to noise ratio as it is; so from my pov I'd be in favour of a cautious approach with a temporary guidelines against it's usage until we are sure we have the moderation tools to preserve that quality.
- Even if a throw away and replace strategy is used, eventually a system's complexity will overrun any intelligence's ability to work effectively with it. Poor engineering will cause that development velocity drop off to happen earlier.
- Yes.
It wasn't an unintended consequence.
The goal of the legislation was to "stop children from accessing age inappropriate content" on the internet.
Ahead of the legislation it was known that there would be a significant proportion of individuals who would switch to using VPN's because without platform based verification it would be a pita for users (more logins, random age verification services, and some sites just deciding to block).
However, VPN's, come with their own minimum age 18 T&C's, as do the means of payment for those services (credit and debit).
So from the pov of "stop children from accessing age inappropriate content" similar result
Not perfect, but empirically this seems to be working well enough e.g. "New data shows no rise in children’s VPN use after the introduction of online age checks" (https://www.internetmatters.org/hub/research/data-shows-no-r...), i.e. the VPN traffic is largely adults.
As to other unintended consequences, such as making it more difficult for the authorities to snoop on their citizens, I doubt this effectively makes any difference whatsoever.
- What killed it was that a lot of its development talent effectively went off and worked on a completely different programming language that eventually got released a Raku.
When the team departed, Perl lost its development velocity and Python wasn't that far behind.
- Empirically on UK roads it's as much about the car industry getting away with selling vehicles that are too large for our roads i.e. oversized SUV's and trucks, as anything else. The combination of driver's side closer to crown, and higher mounting, mean the light's from these behemoths tend to cast more of their beams into the eye line of anyone coming the other way, particularly in smaller, lower to the ground vehicles.
- No: SoftBank bought Arm in 2016, then refloated in 2023. They have good lawyers and a lot money.
- > Such as alternative chips or that the Chinese will go in-house sooner than we think. Nvidia’s moat is not as permanent as people think.
SoftBank have holdings in Arm and likely to know what is coming down the pipeline.
- > My bet is that it is non-0.
For the Russians it would be a mistake to rely on the unreliability or inferiority of their weapons - they historically are very adept at addressing those with sheer numbers.
- >> I'm trying to ascertain their incentive here...
It's good for their mission and business.
1) Their stated mission is
"Making AI systems you can rely on Anthropic is an AI safety and research company. We build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems" - https://www.anthropic.com/company
2) They've increased their credibility.
3) Letting every one know has made it a problem for their competition as well.
- >> ... baseless ...
Depends on
a) How well it's believed science is able to keep up with the "creativity" and dollars of the food industry.
b) The health costs to the individual and society of any subsequent problem.
c) How well the society in question is likely to do in overcoming the vested interests to fix any subsequent problem.
- Highly rate her episode of the BBC’s The Life Scientific https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jmsd
- Perl 6
- > In the Netherlands from what I've seen (at least around Amsterdam) it's almost always forbidden for houses to be rented out to a group of flatmates (e.g. students), some people go so far as to fake relationships to imply they're a couple instead.
The landlord believes that their property and their relationships with the neighbours of the property will be less likely to destroyed by letting the property to older/respected/settled down members of society. Common practice in most of UK as well.
- Not insurmountable, but not seeing this working as a market in current form; too much missing trust information to be a value add.
For instance: - Who is behind (and liable) for each agent? - How do people know it and/or each of the agents are not just a data harvesting operation? - What data privacy guarantees are there for site/agent. - Is site actually anything like a multi-vendor fair market?
- "The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality."