Given the way so many people vastly over-estimate ChatGPT as an actual intelligence, I thing it's quite fair to put it up against an old and tiny chess engine on easy level. This is basically "Are you Smarter than a5th Grader" for AIs. And it is NOT.

Only sort of. Current artificial models are missing several layers of reasoning over the top. They do a decent ob of modeling speech and writing production, but lack any form of executive function or higher reasoning. They often model a person suffering fluent aphasia. They also lack the inhibition that curbs hallucination and allows for prioritization. Further, they lack the effects of the lower functions that seem to provide energy to the system to bump it out of local minima to the better broader solution. There's a long way to go.

Current work is mostly on the lower hanging fruit of making the part that's been figured out work better.

Because the female mosquitoes from the mating are sterile but the males are fine and carry the trait. Presumably those males mate with unaffected females of their generation and produce another generation of sterile females and carrier males. This can continue until there are no remaining fertile females, then they all die out.

They might bring the owl back, but thanks to their AI, it'll have 6 toes and whinny now.

/r/duck

Reddit's use of AI for handing out bans is getting concerning.

What really killed it is pointy headed morons replying "JuSt GoOgLe It" to every damned question. As a result, any attempt to google it just returned a few pages of said morons and no useful answer. If there was an actual answer on stack overflow, it was a needle in a haystack.

It doesn't have to. At the end of the fiscal year, cash in the bond for a cool 3 billion in revenue on the books.

Meanwhile, new analysis and techniques come along (often in areas related to security and resilience to hacks) from time to time that no AI is going to manage.

Vibe coding is essentially cargo cult programming if you peek behind the curtain.

AI isn't actually intelligent in the general sense and doesn't actually understand the problem. Vibe programming is when you request something from the LLM and it essentally "says to itself" when programmers are asked for something like that they usually write something like this.

At best, LLMs can be the new code monkey. They will not consider maintainability or expandability. They have no ability to anticipate that XYZ feature will probably be requested sooner or later, so the design needs to at least be able to accommodate that to avoid a complete re-write.

Give it a few years and watch as some poor schlep has to try to do something with the steaming pile to get it to do XYZ without requiring a whole new system with data loaded from scratch. You'll have to pay those people handsomely because it will be nasty work nobody wants to do. The AI won't likely be able to help you. We know that when you feed the output of AI into the input, it tends to go crazy and start babbling about quantum fluctuations and giving people 6 fingers.

Yeah, I don't mind the $20/month. It's a good deal.

The starting pitchers rotate, but the rest of the lineup tends to play almost every game baring injuries.

Of course, even with a 5 or 6 man starting rotation, they tend to blow their elbow out and require surgery somewhere in their mid 20s. Many players have to retire in their early 30s.

I said 20 dollars a MONTH.

Perhaps you meant to reply to the person I replied to.

I'm more of a baseball fan. Last year, my legit options to watch were a crazy-over priced streaming service with deceptive advertising or the even crazier over-priced DirecTV. It's possible I may have watched some less official streams for free.

This year, it's available for $20/month and goes month to month. So I'm paying and watching the official streams.

It's that simple.

And by the way, it's not the streaming devices enabling the yo ho ho. By the time they see a stream it has already been stripped of it's DRM and looks just like any other stream.

The power bricks were always failing. I ended up chiseling the case of the power supply and potting plastic to get at the wires so I could solder in a regulator IC from Radio Shack to revive the C64. That lasted several years (longer than the original).

Or better, just take it behind the barn and do the right thing.