Re: Gentle
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This is the same "distinguished analyst" who told us 7 years ago that millions of jobs would be replaced by AI by 2020.
And 8 years ago that the business value-add of Blockchain would be 176 billion by 2025.
https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-ai-augmentation-will-fuel-net-job-growth-by-2020/
Why do reputable publications keep regurgitating his nonsense?
Yup. I accidentally clicked on something on the start menu that opened Edge on a new W11 machine.
Which then immediately triggered a modal popup with multiple tabs asking me to agree to various T+C's or import data which I had no intention of agreeing to.
It ignored attempts to close it with Alt-F4 or from the taskbar.Had to kill it with Powershell.
It's pretty pathetic and desperate, like much of MS these days.
This seemed suspicious:
" GitHub's inadequately explained graph that shows 60.8 percent of developers using Copilot passed all ten unit tests while only 39.2 percent of developers not using Copilot passed all the tests."
Bit of a coincidence that they add to 100? I thought maybe they'd meant the of those who passed all the tests, 60.8% used Copilot
In fact, the graph in the linked GitHub blog post shows that of those not using Copilot, 39.2% passed all the tests and 62.2% didn't. Out of 101.4%.
Meanwhile, of those who did use Copilot, a total of 98.6% did or didn't pass all tests.
It's possibly the percentage are supposed to add vertically, but that's crap presentation.
Either way that graph looks like AI produced garbage.
The same "Distinguished VP Analyst" at Gartner predicted 6 years ago that:
"The year 2020 will be a pivotal one in AI-related employment dynamics — Gartner predicts 2.3 million jobs will be created and 1.8 jobs will be eliminated."
https://venturebeat.com/ai/how-ai-augmentation-will-fuel-net-job-growth-by-2020/
How much do these people get paid for churning out endless tat?
And why haven't they been replaced by AI yet?
It's the one thing it's actually good for
If I rewrote this and every other Reg article with mild paraphrasing along the lines of:
"AI newcomers Perplexity have responded to a legal claim that they're stealing content from..."
and then based my business on publishing that content, I'd (rightly) get sued.
Mind you they should be sued just for the sickening tone of that blog post alone
They used to have enough staff to do it manually?
But now that everything is computerised they can do the whole thing with less staff and more profits, and so it all works fine.
Except that the remaining staff are probably constantly overworked anyway ( but hey, profits!), and when the system goes down there aren't remotely enough people to make it work manually
This. 1% of a ludicrously high number of installs is a very high number.
I can't be bothered trying to find a reliable source for the overall number of installs, but the very fact that a Google mouthpiece has chosen to express it as a seemingly low percentage instead of an outright count is enough to know it's bad
I fail to see how letting the company go bust from legal costs wouldn't have been a better solution?
They pay the price for scraping people's data, the product built from that data goes nowhere, seems like a win.
Oh. Except of course the lawyers bringing the class action suit would never get paid. Can't have that.
Data centers already account for over 20% of Ireland's electricity usage.
Claiming they can help reduce CO2 by providing power from their UPS back to the grid is just greenwashing. It's power that wouldn't be consumed in the first place if they didn't exist.
It's like offering to use your private jet to carry one Ryanair passenger with you to reduce their carbon cost
I nearly got knocked over last week walking from the plane into the terminal building by a guy rushing past me. He vanished off up ahead.
At passport security I ignored the facial recognition scanners which are always a nightmare and joined the short queue for a human at a desk.
I'd been standing at baggage reclaim a few minutes when I noticed the guy in a hurry arrive into the baggage hall. I can only assume he'd been stuck at one of the facial recognition machines, since he should have been at least 5 mins ahead of me.