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Comment Re:Answer question headlines with (Score 1) 196

I'd argue that while you might be gaining something here (time) you could also losing something and that is expertise.

If you aren't reading the documentation yourself, then you aren't absorbing things that could be valuable later (even though they might not be relevant to the particular task you are doing now) and are therefore "stupider" at least by that definition.

All the time I'm involved in conversations where it is useful to have information in my head to either
- immediately answer a question (and avoid a follow up meeting), or
- prevent time being wasted on some course of action that isn't viable, or
- to suggest a neat solution I am aware of
all because of some detail I have read that hasn't previously mattered.

Of course, perhaps you are reading the documentation first, then pointing the AI at the relevant bits so it can complete some task and then reviewing the output for sanity, in which case I think you probably aren't losing out.

In the real world though I am seeing more and more information coming my way where it is pretty obvious that the person presenting it hasn't actually done their homework and doesn't really understand what they are proposing or working with.

Comment Alphafold (Score 5, Informative) 40

I don't mind articles mentioning AI when it's relevant but using that generic term over and over again without mentioning which specific tool just smacks of a writer more interested in hitting buzzwords than conveying information.

From the article published in Cell it seems to be Alphafold and the structure it reveals seems vital to being able understand how PHGDH could be interacting biologically and therefore be a critical part of the discovery, so a shame the uscd.edu article doesn't mention it by name.

Comment Re:Trump vs. 2k years "saving face" culture of Chi (Score 1) 464

Long term, they will pay the 500% tariff because this tariff level is not enough to induce American manufacturers to compete with the Chinese on low margin products.

I am not sure that is quite true, there will definitely be a threshold where it would become more than viable for American manufacturers to compete.

However, the investment involved is only going to be made in an environment where there is some predictability. If anyone believed that the tariffs would stay at that high level for years then they might invest, but no one in their right mind would believe these tariffs will stay the same next week, let alone past the end of the Trump presidency.

Comment Gee, thanks for something else to manage... (Score 1) 32

I am glad I was here for the good old days, when computers were at least supposed to do something a certain way and if they didn't it was a bug someone could permanently fix.

In the brave new world when they make a mistake it's now everyone else's job to just deal with it....

Comment Massive extra risk in Multiplayer games (Score 1) 104

I have to wonder how much of the negativity towards the game comes from people who's motivations are tangential to the games actual quality. Reviews seem reasonable and people who played the beta seemed to indicate that the game did a few interesting/unique things compared to others in the genre, but the game was suffering massive negativity well before anyone got their hands on the game.

I think it's a big extra risk for multiplayer games (particularly co-op games).

With single player games if a certain group of people react negatively to a game for non-gameplay reasons it doesn't really matter too much, people who do like it can just play it regardless. With multiplayer games buy-in from other people is vital for a game to be good for you, both generally and from your cohort if you play in a friends group.

Personally I think Sony are kinda bonkers to even try to go into this space in such a big way, but perhaps the potential upside is enough to justify the risk, even if it didn't work this time.

Comment Re:What is the upgrade? (Score 1) 47

It basically updates your code to work to be compatible with most recent major versions of libraries/frameworks and uplifts some deprecated functions usage. IIRC it is leveraging Openrewrite underneath.

We have used it to upgrade some old code with a bunch of dependencies as as a trial and It did a good job, but mostly in the sense of doing something dull and uninventive quickly and well. Doing in an hour or so what would have probably taken a few days of boring iterative work for a developer otherwise.

Comment Re:Running blind (Score 1) 106

Just let the model interact with the world and other models and us.

This seems to miss the point. The problem is models interacting with each other without a strong evaluator for quality once models are generating more content than humans.

We are used to language changing at human scales, we have just enough rizz to more or less keep up with whatever skibidi things the kids are inventing these days.

But what happens when LLMs are generating and consuming orders of magnitude more information with each other? The signal for "quality" as a human would perceive it is drowned out.

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