There is a way to us DNN/LLM "AI"s correctly; use them like a search engine.

Ask a hyper specific question, and scrutinize the answer given thoroughly.

In the same way that crowdsourced intelligence made google a useful tool for search, and social media created a great pool of questions and answers for that search to run over, DNN's are just an extension of search.

They are a wonderful improvement in the areas of (1) parsing the query and (2) re-jiggering the resultant hits.

(1) They can decode the user's question more accurately, and get a more searchable rewording of what the user is really looking for. Previous incarnations of search really needed you to find a magic word that matched perfectly to get the hits, and when you were using common words it became near impossible. But large language models seem able to do that with a much higher accuracy rate, and dont get hung up without magic keywords or magic phrases.

(2) Instead of merely presenting a raw list of sources, the LLM's actually read the pages, and try to parse out the specific bits you are searching for and ignore the rest of the page. They can also, to a limited extant, specialize the answer to match the query, based on interpolation of the page content. Again this is something that was previously impossible, and saves human time.

I would say, with judicious use of a search-engine DNN/LLM, any programmer should expect perhaps a 1% to 2% productivity increase on average.

Any programmer who tries to ask it to write code or solve problems will likely eat the worm, and suffer a 20%-50% decline in real productivity. Hopefully, any programmer caught doing this would face some kind of disciplinary action.

> It's not intelligence. It's processing.

Its like a souped up search engine;

Its very good at not only finding the answers to a query, but recognizing the question even if it is worded differently than it has been in the past, finding the existing answers, and presenting those answers even if it has to tweak or assemble or rearrange them.

What it cannot do is actually solve novel problems missing from its training set, any more than a search engine can find an match for a document that does not exist.

 

Exactly; if their plans were not profitable without endless supplies of tax money flowing into their pockets, they never really intended to build anything.

What do you mean "open-source"? If CUDA were open-source, you could run it on AMD GPUs or any other reasonable hardware. Instead, Nvidia provides libraries that only run on their own hardware.

In Finland we've just started the first phone-free school year. Apparently, some parents are getting doctor's orders to allow their child to keep their phone, for situations such as anxiety attacks (article in Finnish). It's a miracle how such kids would have survived before mobile phones.

34 was my age when I quit my day job, thanks to Linux and the floodgates of open source software it opened for me.

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I think a long-term rental is called "leash" for this reason.

I imagine so. Itâ(TM)ll probably take place around the same time we get one frigging thread without Trump sycophants.

The world produces twice as many solar panels each year as it uses

Once you've built the solar panel, the energy is very close to free.
How could these go unused?

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The established theory held. The gold exploded as expected.

The only interesting thing about this finding seems to be that they have a very fast thermometer, so fast it could get a reading of temperature within the trillionth of a second window as the gold was in the process of exploding.

Also, can anyone envision a "spaceflight" application of this? I wasnt aware speedy thermometers were a major barrier to space flight development.

I never had a C64 but I still have my original Atari 1200XL, the cassette drive, an external 5.25â floppy drive, and a 32â CRT to plug it into. I even have my original BASIC cartridge and a copy of âoeMapping the Atariâ that Iâ(TM)ve been meaning to show off to my kids (now adults) for 30-ish years. I need to see if I can find original cartridges for JumpMan Jr and other games and original (still readable) diskettes of old Infocom games & one chess derivative game I used to play called Archon. That would be fun.

Given that China doesn't allow everyday citizens unlimited access to the internet, we can assume the only ones allowed out are bad actors like badbot, so blocking China entirely would be a net benefit for the entire world. We'd have to get the VPN operators to cooperate, which is near impossible since they'd sell their own mothers for a quick buck.

I have a hard time believing that a particular encryption will remain unbreakable, quantum computers or not. At the moment, we have Shor's algorithm for factoring numbers on QCs, so we should avoid relying on the hardness of factorization. How can we be sure that there won't be new algorithms in the future that break the current "post-quantum" encryption?

During my advanced math studies, I only took a rather introductory course on encryption, including stuff like Galois fields and elliptic curves. I recall my professor saying that none of the current encryption methods (besides something like the one-time pad) are proven to be safe; we just don't know any efficient methods of breaking them at the moment.

It's easy to keep making new highs when the value of USD itself is in a free fall. Look at USD vs. EUR charts, for example.