[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

That's what happened with Reagan.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Funny you should mention that McKinsey published a paper a few months back concluding that GenAI will take over most of the jobs in America because it was good at doing what McKinsey Associates do. Missed by the authors is that the job of a McKinsey associate is to confidently spout nonsense all day long and that's actually exactly what chatgpt is programmed to do.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

American Psycho (Sam Altman) and his chorus have been hyping AI and the rest of the world's reaction has ranged from "these guys seem smart and chatgpt is impressive so what do I know?" to "isn't this guy a bitcoin bro?"

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I feel like customer support is one place where AI may actually be used going forward because companies don't really care if their customers get support. The only wrinkle is that if companies get held to promises the AI makes (there's that Canada Air incident from last year where the AI offered a refund and the company tried to walk it back).

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Naw if they're publicly bashing it they've already dumped on all the downside risk onto their customers and now they're net short.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Game of Life has cool emergent properties that are a lot more interesting and fun to play with than LLMs. LLMs also have emergent properties like, for instance, failing classification due to the manipulation of individual image pixels.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I suspect Intuit fired those workers for other reasons (free file) and are using AI as an excuse because to admit that free-file is an existential threat to their business is to admit that their company has no long term business prospects.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

This is the same middlebrow dismissal that AI advocates have been using for years.

"It's just a stochastic parrot." "How do you know that you aren't just a stochastic parrot?"

Well we do know. There are experts on human cognition. They have been studying it for decades. We may not know enough about it to know how to make a computer do it. But we certainly know enough about it to know when a computer chatbot is not doing it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

China never would have allowed these transfers to begin with. And if they did happen they would have been reversed with no recourse to the foreign investor. China has actually screwed foreign investors in a million different ways without any real response from the west.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

"We were so poor we had to sell our private plane!"

[-] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago

I heard Biden is serious this time. He's going to send Bibi a very strongly written letter to accompany the next shipment of napalm.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Nobody ran in the primaries

That's because the party elite told all the strong candidates to stay out and "wait their turn."

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