Posts by DrSunshine0104

SpaceX wants to fill Earth orbit with a million datacenter satellites

How about we don't do what is essentially patent squatting on what is a scarce international resource for what is on-the-face plainly fantastical.

How do they plan to radiate kW of heat by millions of satellites without blocking out the sky by thermal radiators? Heat regulation is a complex and highly technical problem that engineers have worked on since the beginning of the space age. And the US is going to give them permission based upon a shrug?

This is as fanciful as his terraforming Mars, which is also silly due to physics. I would like to be proved wrong, but I feel pretty safe in that assertion. I don't expect the laws of physics to change anytime soon. The reason why underwater data centers are far more attractive is the exact opposite of what space can offer. Just got to grift that money from the US government while equally daft people are making political decisions.

DWP finds Copilot saves civil servants a whopping 19 minutes a day

It's... Fine

We use CoPilot for our government work, and it is good at search all our stuff for particular mentions of a topic or information. And, like the article says it is good for creating a first draft of an email.

I work in geospatial information systems, and it cannot really help with that, and even at time when I have thrown something at it to see what it says, it gives the veneer of knowing the answer. It will always suggest the lowest hanging fruit of how to solve a problem, and sometime outright incorrect suggestions. It is like interviewing a potential hire who is trying for a position they are a little out of their depth, they say a lot of the words (which LLMs literally do), but a good grasp of the subject is not there.

Generative AI, LLMs, etc., they all seem fine, but don't feel like a game changer. I want more domain specific ML models, that is where I think the usefulness is.

Capgemini to sell the biz that works for US government amid criticism of ICE contract

Suing the police in the US is a fool's errand. They have some many ways to escape responsibility given to them by the highest court that they are borderline untouchable. Yes, there is the mouth-service that they can be held accountable and at times things work out but the reality is far bleaker. Additionally, at first, you could sue the Nazi government, but they slowly consolidated power over 5 years through systematic means of purges and loyalty that they became incapable of being sued.

Additionally, ICE is enforcing laws that are not considered criminal in nature but are torts. In my opinion, there is no reason to have people being shot, citizen held for months sometimes deported for essentially trespass.

Latest Vivaldi release surfs a wave of anti-AI sentiment

I guess I don't quite grasp the interest in an AI-enabled web browser. Web browsing with a web browser seems like a very human centric activity. Not sure why I would want AI to browser for me?

I guess it could potentially get information to me faster in more concise manners. But I guess I am the weirdo that enjoys researching and actually knowing something.

Cursor used agents to write a browser, proving AI can write shoddy code at scale

+1 Gorman for evoking James Randi in a discussion about claims of AI efficiency without any introspection.

Palantir CEO claims AI will mean western economies won't need immigration

I could have never realized that AI singularity referred to tech and tech-adjacent companies in a circle jerk of money.

Microsoft teases targeted Copilot removal for admins

Which is my concern. For a gov tenant, and our org settintgs (I don't manage Microsoft applications, thank god), just opening office.com loads directly into Copilot. Does this count towards Copilot metric?

They have crammed Copilot into every corner that it is unavoidable.

IBM touts progress on tech stack for AI-enabled airline with no passengers or alcohol

Re: What?

I have lived vicariously through my wife's experience as a HR manager and HR is the worse place to try to make AI work. Sure, a lot of the work is boilerplate benefits and perhaps payroll, if setup that way. But a lot of HR is also handling personnel issues and making one-off calls about human-life-related issues, which automatically make it not easily categorized or resolved.

I feel the bean counters should be the first to go. Math only works one way and there are rules and laws about how to do everything. Then maybe get rid of bankers next and we'll stop having stupid decisions ruining everyone's lives and AI bubbles. (Joking, kind-of...)

Anthropic reduces model misbehavior by endorsing cheating

Still perverse incentives..

Isn't this just moving the goal post and shifting the incentives around?

This feels like treating symptoms instead of causes.

They expect the model to produce something and fit an known set of outcomes. So the models lie, fake data, hallucinate to please the developer and users.

So instead of tricking AI models into 'correct' behaviour like teenage children, why don't they encourage models to just say they don't know. Say it is indeterminate, or it doesn't know how? That would go way further in encouraging my trust in AI models if they would do that. I would start to trust the scope of AI's knowledge base and where I might have to do real research. Instead it behaves like one of those employee that thinks they are more competent then they are and will lie to cover it. They just insert chaos into everyone's day. I respect and trust people more who say they don't know.

But perverse incentives prevail. AI vendors would have to admit their model doesn't have the entirety of human-knowledge and that doesn't sound as good in marketing and ethics doesn't make VC dollars flow. It seems like business majors all nap during ethics classes.

Labor organizers accuse Rockstar Games of 'ruthless act of union busting' after layoffs

Re: Mistake

That is great idealism if the pipeline isn't from university straight into being a contract for a tech company, especially for young workers.

Contracts are complicated legal instruments that should have legal purview from all sides. A college graduate getting their first job isn't going to have knowledge to navigate contract work. They are looking for a job, and companies are saying come here and sign our click-wrap contract to start work! Yes, that may seem daft to older workers, but you are taking your existing knowledge for granted when pitted against someone who basically just left the metaphorical nest; the parents probably don't understand contracts as most people don't touch contract work in any way. Companies will exploit young workers for their ignorance. Young contract workers can't ask questions to things they don't know. Unions can help mitigate that predation on naive workers.

AI blew open software security, now OpenAI wants to fix it with an agent called Aardvark

For Free?

This kind of feels like a racket.

A gangster turning his goons loose on a city, but puts his hand on your shoulder and tells you he can protect your from the rampant crime if you pay him some money and let his accountant take a look at your books.

Texas senators cry foul over Smithsonian's pricey Space Shuttle shuffle

Re: Assume the risk, maybe?

They'll tell everyone it was the 'radical' Left that purposely sabotaged on its way south.

'First rule in government spending; why build one, when you can have two at twice the price?'

I am going to bet on the Smithsonian having a more realistic price for getting the shuttle to Texas in good condition.

Whoever these incompetent boobs hire to move the thing will almost certainly not do it for that price and will be jank.

Vibe coding platform Replit's latest update is infuriating customers with surprise cost overruns

That is what I am thinking.

Is it worth to comb over working code to fix presumably performance issues, and do those issues actually matter?

Unless you blindly trust the suggestions is it worth double checking the AI's work? To make such judgement calls you presumably have an understanding of the code base and would you want AI to suddenly refactor huge amounts of your codebase without your understanding; would you know what source file or module/assembly to start looking for a bug? This tool sounds like it just makes you worse at your job, less skill and less knowledge.

Browser wars are back, predicts Palo Alto, thanks to AI

“You literally will come to a point where companies will say: ‘You cannot use a consumer version of this product’.”

Were not most enterprises already saying this, or at least in the middle of draft new policies that say this?

I work in government and well prior to AI being available widely to the public we were already in the process of writing policy and figuring out how to ban access to consumer AI in our spaces. It is not perfect but there is policy for at least getting slapped around if you introduce personal AI into our networks.

Codeberg beset by AI bots that now bypass Anubis tarpit

I think the thumbs down is for the latent whataboutism in the comment.

All the adults in the room understand the implication of comment and it could be applied to all kind of events and actors. It just so happens that the Ukrainian/Russian war is a current world topic, not a war that was started 20 years ago.

Ironically, whataboutism was loved by the USSR when dealing with more western criticism. Although the points may not be wrong, it didn't typically address the underlying issue of the actual topic.

AI don't know: Enterprises slow to pick up on Copilot+ PCs

From the perspective of risk management and policy, Recall is a nightmare. There is a non-nefarious reason that it is good for things to be lost to time. If everything is recorded in some manner then when subpoenas start coming in... guess what is a record?

Regardless of if it never leaves your computer a lawyer is going to want that. Then you have massive amount of data, are you going to have someone thumb through all the records to determine what is relevant to the subpoena? It probably would be AI yet again doing that work, but are you willing to sign your name to procurement of records and say everything is there when you couldn't reasonably search all that data? What if IP gets written into the record but AI didn't classify it and you were too snowed under to catch it? What if your line manager is a racist/misogynist/etc. and liked to dictate his thoughts in chats or email and your company is now in a labor suit? What if an employee looked at their home cameras through a web portal on their work computer? Now you have recordings of the inside of their private space.

In short, the legal trouble of this is so near infinite, that once you put safeguards in place it would be nigh useless and not worth the effort over normal record management. I wouldn't want to be in charge of that #&$!* mess!

Orbital datacenters subject to launch stress, nasty space weather, and expensive house calls

Re: cooling using the emptiness of space

This is the same lack of basic understanding of the physical characteristics of space that Musk displays with his 'genius' brain when it comes to terraforming Mars. Mars doesn't have a significant atmosphere not only because it is not very massive but also because it doesn't have much of magnetosphere to protect it from the solar winds. The atmosphere it did have was blown away and then there is the problem of radiation.

I guess like all rich assholes, he has no grasp on scarcity. He plans for humanity to continually dump resources into generating an atmosphere, like dumping fuel from a jerrycan into your rusted out fuel tank so you can drive a janky truck a little bit further. But he probably believes he could restart the core of Mars or something absurd like that.

Microsoft says regulations and environmental issues are cramping its Euro expansion

I worked in the construction industry when I started out my adult life and then in permitting on the municipal side for a number of years.

Developers think everything is doom and gloom and everyone is against them. But guess what, if it still makes them money they'll bitch for a bit, but they'll still do it. They'll complain they'll need to spend an extra few hundred thousand on initial costs but then make million in profit every year. Never underestimate the self-flagellation and persecution complex of land developers.

'Cyber security' behind decision to end defense satellite sharing of hurricane data

Re: SimEarth

My family lives a few hundred miles away and there has been a large amount of rain in the Midwest this year and they have received a lot of flood warnings. The frequent warnings are probably not helping.

Additionally, I don't think people realize how fast water can rise from flash flooding. If a storm system dumps most of the water over a ridge it may go into another watershed and a river may never really rise, but if dumps most of the water in your watershed it can rise feet in the time it takes you to: notice the rise, find anyone who might be in danger, and finally move outside of the area affected. It also doesn't take that much water in the road to increase the buoyance of a vehicle, reducing its adherence to the road surface and be swept off the road into the river because the broad side of your vehicle (or just the tires) is/are a big 'sail' to the water. I grew up in rural farmland with low water crossings, as a general rule if you couldn't see the road surface and it is visible flowing you probably shouldn't ford a river. There may debris, scouring, road collapse hidden by the murkiness that is just as dangerous as the water itself.

Anyhow, the Trump administration's cutbacks to the NWS' budget are not helping. Don't mistake tweets as primary source for people's weather information. Where I grew up still doesn't have good broadband internet, mobile signals can be spotty, and radio stations are easily lost in the hills. One reliable source of weather information that could almost always depend on was the NWS weather radio network but that is no more. I recently turned on my weather radio to check it before camping and only one of the three were actually broadcasting now; not helpful if you are in an area with partial signal and that one station is the one not working.

Also, because of my job I am in regular contact with my local NWS office and they have warned because of personnel and budget cuts that warnings may be delayed and less accurate. While no person can point to a particular instance and say this is why so many people were injured or killed. Minor causes can have compounding effects that will lead to visible outcomes. I would expect a climb in property damage and casualties to continue.

To me, it is a combination of human behavior, ignorance, and a loss of public security good that we have had for nearly 60 years.

UK charity bank CAF branded a 'disaster' after platform migration goes wrong

Re: Test, test and test again

1,000 meter view but sounds like there were problems at project scoping. They didn't invite or invite a useful number of users to be stakeholders, or at least survey users to make sure they got the requirements near what their clients wanted. Not sure about the UK, but in the US Quickbooks powers a good majority of non-profit book keeping.

Microsoft Copilot joins ChatGPT at the feet of the mighty Atari 2600 Video Chess

I guess I am confused as to why anyone would think LLMs would be good at chess? They are mediocre at most things, at least competent at writing (which is arguably the thing they are designed to do), and terrible at anything technical (at least my field). I feel LLMs are jack of all trades but master of none.

Not insulting the researcher, at all. Reasearch like this is useful. But anyone's surprise to this would be like them being surprised a riding lawn mower is bad at haircuts. It could theoretically do it but isn't really designed to do so.

A ML model that is designed to compete in chess or work in my field would be / is far more interesting that any LLM. I guess that is why I don't understand all the effort to make LLMs, they are kind of shite at everything when models for specific applications would actually be more interesting and useful.

Apple goes glass whole as it pours new UI everywhere

I am not a fan of the new look but god am I tired of 'flat' UIs and this finally might be the thing that pushes away from this design decision.

They are low contrast, sometime ambiguous buttoned nightmares.

If it catches on, there might be some good skeuomorphic themes for XFCE/MATE beyond a half-dozen unmaintained projects.

Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

Re: vowing to fight the US government in court to protect Euro customers' data if needed

Exactly. This is a red-herring. The misidentification of the causal problem is propaganda used against the American public by companies and especially the federal government. Republicans are quite adept at using this but this administration in particular loves to use it.

The EU already has laws that would de-facto require MS to fight the US for said protections to even to operate in the area. Privacy laws isn't what Europe is anxious about, it is availability and over reliance on technologies housed by a potentially, hostile country. If a broader war erupts across Europe with Moscow-aligned nations and Trump continues to allow Putin to puppet his naive ass, pressuring him into placing sanctions on the European block, then it is no longer about privacy. European lives lost, the economy, and war effort could screech to a halt and the Russian bear could end up demarcating Europe again.

If they are really serious about this, they would consider breaking up their own company into create a European company.

This American is rooting for a European company to fill in this gap and would like to buy server space in the future. Better privacy laws.

And maybe a job.

Hydrotreated vegetable oil is not an emission-free swap for diesel in datacenters

I am in favor of using renewables but the silver lining (ignoring particulates, smog, etc.) is that biofuel's carbon that is already in the carbon cycle. The problem is carbon that has been sequestered underground for millions of years suddenly reintroduced to the carbon cycle in large quantities. Biofuel is almost certainly better than any fossil fuel. An imperfect solution is still better the status quo.

Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs

When it comes to Enterprise...

...And so continues the slow creep of where personnel management becomes less about managing people and projects, and more about looking at KPIs, and surveillance tech. Filling out paperwork to be put in the machine, now with AI(TM)!, where it churns out hiring quota and redundancies to protect shareholder's value.

This is the enshittifcation of management skills.

DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

Re: Surprised - If they had any self-awareness, they would have come to the same conclusion....

If they had any self-awareness, they would have come to the same conclusion....

You work at SpaceX as a software engineer, analyst, etc. and Elon pulls you off real work to go tilt at windmills in a sector you almost certainly know nothing about?

This person was the least productive or successful member of Elon's 'day-job' and they are being put there as a patsy for when this whole thing goes sideways. They are the political cover for when shit just doesn't work and congressional inquest is created to find out who should be blamed.

Sorry to Big Balls and his fellow DOGE-ettes but take some advice from this seasoned, career, US civil servant: start looking for another job now and don't claim this on your resume/CV. You walked into a political land-war as cannon-fodder and immediately stepped on a landmine.

Procter & Gamble study finds AI could help make Pringles tastier, spice up Old Spice, sharpen Gillette

I have seen an ad for a US bank, I think CaptialOne where the ad is just telling the viewer that they are using AI for business processes.

...Great. I guess. What is the corporate policy about binder clips or paper clips?

The only thing I am hearing is: "We are using AI to squeeze you and hard as we can and do questionable things with your money that isn't regulated and won't be because of US Congress and this administration."

Can't wait for the feature where CaptialOne AI is telling me I am not using my money as efficiently as possible and then show me ads where I can spend it.

HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional

<< The company therefore works "to reduce unprofitable customers because every time a customer buys a printer it's an investment for us. We're investing in that customer." >>

That is not how investment works...

That is more akin to how pyramid schemes work.

Trump can't quickly or easily kill the CHIPS Act, but he can fire the workers funded by it

Re: Bizarre Funding

It was probably because your position provided IT support to research projects related to the DoE. If your hospital did research with nuclear material or a synchrotron, and if you did basic IT help with the computers involved, your wages could be partially or totally funded through research grants.

I have never handled a DoE grant; I have managed federal grants before and they typically allow for wages of support staff to be part of the expenditures. A grant that doesn't really cover the tertiary costs of the intended goal is really just wasting money. You would end up wasting $100k+ in idle workers, idle machines, and idle materials because your IT support is stretched thin, when you could have just spent 30k on a part-time or partially funded IT member who was hired to support the project.

Re: What?

My thought too. Why all the 'beautiful' tariffs but then axe the program that was supposed to encourage the semiconductor industry to build in the US?

Though the obvious answer is that he doesn't understand tariffs or is purposely not understanding/misrepresenting them. But I wouldn't expect an heir to billions made in the safest industry for investments, real estate, to understand anything about manufacturing. Especially when the person seems as intellectually incurious as Trump.

Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump – but only in the US

I live in the far corner from the Gulf in the US, so I would have almost no reason to put on a map publication. But this American GIS professional will never refer to it as the Gulf of America.

Tangentially, Denali is way more interesting word that an old, white guy's name. Noah Webster wanted to Americanize English so bad that he can almost be single-handedly attributed to drops of u's and s's in American vocabulary, but we collectively ignored native words which have made it distinctively American in an interesting way.

WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference

I would love if ESRI ArcGIS Pro could be run in WINE. Everytime I have tried it seems to actively check for emulation and won't run.

But ESRI writes some of the most brittle software with the worst logging.

They probably don't want you using WINE because nothing will work because of bad programming practices!

Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office

Re: I went into the office for 40 years

I huffed car fumes and other people's body odour for 40 years!

Kids these days!

Ex-FBI employee jailed for taking classified material home

Re: Orange man...

I feel like I will be talking to brick wall but...

As implied by the line of logic in my previous post. Trump's alleged crimes have had a grand jury, evidence and an indictment. If Biden has committed crimes and the same procedure is used, I won't really have a problem with it.

As far as my belief that Trump is a criminal... I mean Trump has no compulsion against admitting his crimes in writing or on tape, so it isn't a difficult stroll to arrive to that Trump committed crimes.

Re: Orange man...

If he has done something wrong and a grand jury indicts him, or if the Republicans actually make a impeachment case against him that isn't absolute horseshit. Well, yeah I wont't be voting for him or lose my god-damn mind about it.

But the court of public opinion isn't really interesting to me, because I don't care about Biden himself nor am I interested in rumor-mill, school-age gossip. I am not emotionally attached to Biden or being right about Biden. Biden is human, I am human. I may have made a mistake about voting for him. But that doesn't nullify my position on Trump's indictment, my belief that Trump is a criminal, or my preference of political policies. Those are all separate issues.

Re: Orange man...

All conspiracies theories fall into this paradox. The people behind the curtain are simultaneously the ultimate masterminds but also complete dunces that are obviously corrupt. There is so much evidence of their corruption but only bring forward the silliest evidence like Hunter's laptop, or complete hearsay.

Re: Orange man...

You're right. I won't vote for Hunter Biden again.

Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time

Is This Jargon

I am an older Millennial, but I don't feel like I use jargon at all that much in a office setting. I prefer explicit instruction or definitions. I am not going to say EOD or ASAP. I am going to email that I need this at the end of the day on 5th of April or I need this as soon as you can deliver it. I also don't text or instant message much and when I do, I still use formal punctuation and grammar. I don't like ambiguity and idioms, jargon and initialisms always feel like weasel words or imprecise.

But a point of order. Are many of the terms described in the article actually jargon? They seem more like colloquialisms or idioms? I always thought jargon was very domain specific. Though, I guess one could argue that some of this is very business-generic jargon.

Also, are Boomers less likely to actually look or admit to looking up a phrase they don't understand? They are more willing to learn as they go or less likely to worry about a misunderstanding? I have told a handful of Boomers that are somewhat naive what FUBAR meant because they kept using in the wrong company or incorrectly.

Google sued over 'interception' of abortion data on Planned Parenthood website

Re: The data you store in our cloudy appendages will be fondled.

The pipe dream that will never happen in the US is that changes to privacy notices should also NOT be retroactive. If you change your policy and I don't agree, then you cannot use my personal data any longer. It is a little concerning that company X can claim to be privacy focused, get bought out by company Y or simply change their policy and then suddenly all the agreed private data is suddenly sold to the latest LLM or start-up.

Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess

Re: Pay

One of the first things they teach you in university economics is that the free-market works when both parties are willing participants. That is obviously not how health services work. I don't hold off on getting cancer because I want a new vehicle. Private insurance companies have a sweet deal because your are forced to do business with them with the threat of death. So, medical debt or death? I know what most people chose and we can see that by the average medical debt that Americans carry around. I don't know why we continue to pretend that the free-market works in medical service costs.

Re: Pay

Perhaps, but then you spend 3000 to 10000 on medical insurance premiums, depending on your situation, family and employer. The you STILL pay for services rendered, depending on the service, and you won't know how much that bill will be until AFTER you had the service. And because your health care is tied to your employer, if you see better benefits at another employer, then you'll need to go at a minimum a month without health insurance, or pay COBRA which is ungodly expensive until the new employer's health insurance can profit off of your random bad luck and misery... I mean insure your health and well-being. Just don't get an life-long illness or something that needs monthly follow-up if you hate your current job or want to start your own business. Or hope you don't get injured during holiday or you will pay extra for not being a good drone and staying at work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wpHszfnJns

Microsoft can't stop injecting Copilot AI into every corner of its app empire

They want to keep me in business writing policies that disable all this junk. Can't let government data vacuumed up and set to servers not managed by the said government. And it is junk, this is just Cotrana with new tricks to show and just as useless for actual work... can't wait.

Then, for my wife's Windows machine I'll have wait for a couple months until enough people to bitch to MS to finally provide a off switch to their 'AI'. *Stares at the Bing Discover button.* I just need to suck it up and pay another 80 dollars to have actual control of the OS.

Uncle Sam sounds like it may actually do something about rampant visa H-1B fraud

Re: Indian Immigration Visa

It isn't necessarily preferential treatment driving the petitions. Your are comparing four countries, two which have significantly lower standard-of-living and two with countries that usually measure above the US in almost all major metrics. It is far more likely that that a person from China and India will apply for a visa than that of a Canadian or German. As a person who works in the tech industry in Seattle that makes decent pay, I can still see why neither Canadian or Germans are clambering to come work in the US. People from those countries, in many ways have better working/life conditions than those of us in the US. All is not perfect but you are less likely to go destitute from random occurrences (ie. healthcare) or be exploited in Canada/Germany.

Also, you have to consider that everything may not be above-board with sponsorships from corporations. It might be cheaper to hire someone from overseas than to hire a native worker. They might be preying on a workers unfamiliarity of the US' laws and work culture to exploit them. This isn't a 'kids these days' remark but someone who is taking the risk to travel oversees for work might just be a more motivated work as well.

There is likely structural issues in the US' economy and application process that could be driving this phenomena, beyond Indians are gaming the system or foreign workers are getting preference. Use some thought or you sound like a bumpkin from my hometown with a chip on their shoulder.

Pentagon super-leak suspect cuffed: 21-year-old Air National Guardsman

The squads that may be on the ground in Ukraine may be posted out of a random military base in Massachusetts. Their chain of command would be out of the same base and would need to review on-going operations. The National Guard, despite the name and its traditional role, does a lot of operations oversees. George W Bush and his 'war on terror' revolved around sending a lot of the guard to Iraq. The US military is a large complex, overlapping organization so there is literally dozens or reasons why this junior National Guardsman would have access to this information.

NORAD is in a mountain, not at an airbase or in space. I once lived near US Midwestern Air Force base hundreds of miles/kilometres from the ocean and at least 75 miles from a large lake, but there was Navy personnel based there. Lots of places are chosen as bases for operations for many reasons, probably beyond our understanding or access to knowledge. I manage servers that live hours drive from me, but I still can do it from my home.

You know this is the 21st century and you are using a computer to communicate to people all over world from this site, right?

Microsoft promises it's made Teams less confusing and resource hungry

They should make SharePoint less confusing while they are at it. It feels like a decentralized mess without organization. You need to know arcane incantations to find the right site even if you have access to it. I own several SharePoint sites for project management and if it were not for the bookmark I couldn't find it. It doesn't appear in the organizational search when I look for it, but maybe that is user error.

How to get the latest Linux kernel on your Ubuntu box

Re: Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom: Mao Tse Tung...................NOT!!!

People might take you more seriously if you didn't write a post like a feces-smeared, loon with a pinboard and yarn.

Did you have a thesis you want to share? What you wrote is nonsensical screed. This is for IT professionals or enthusiasts not whatever you are... 4chan slob or whatever.

Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed

Between the problems with DRM on vehicles (and tractors), phones, etc and snooping around in them at the same time, we all might as well not call it owning anything and just renting.

AI cannot be credited as authors in papers, top academic journals rule

What about editing?

I know the answer is certainly 'in the future'.

But can ChatGPT actually make an edit to a section of a text without having rewrite the entire document? Can ChatGPT make a rewrite to paragraph in isolation, make it flow or not change voice? I feel this would be an obvious sign of generated text for now, if it is even a hindrance.

I do ponder how many students actually use this. Is this a lot of noise for a handful of bad actors or is it actually problem?

To those who have used it in school... good luck. As an apprentice right of school your work you better hope you can fake knowing this stuff. ChatGPT isn't going to sit for your interview and you'll likely not have the experience to bullshit around the interview questions from the expert across the table.