I'm using it (ChatGPT) to "Vibe code" but I don't like it. Because of the nature of LLM's there's NO persistence! It constantly hallucinates alternative method calls (Even though it has the f'ing source file available!) It goes off at random tangents, even though you craft the prompts to try and keep it on target. It's seriously like trying to hold a conversation with an amnesiac 4 year old fixated on biscuits. When it does do want you want, it's OK. But most of my work is trying to keep the darn thing on track and there's a LOT of swearing going on in my head.

So, in a nutshell. No, AI won't make language rankings obsolete. Simply because languages usage is typically tailored to the task at hand. You don't use 'C' for querying a SQL database. You use TSQL (Which you call from your 'C' code. As business models change the popular language of the day will change accordingly.

Thank you! I did not know about the KV-Cache. That was a really interesting article you linked.

However, while it shortens the inference cycle within LLM token processing and avoids redundant computation, it's discarded at the end of that inference cycle. Implying that if the LLM has the same prompt entered again, the same level of processing is required, even if it is less than an LLM that doesn't use it. It sounds like Gemini has been using this tech to reduce it's energy/processing requirements.

Hah, hah :D Never said an LLM wasn't a part of A.I. The thing that annoys me is that LLM's are advertised as actual A.I. to the general public, and that is wrong.

The biggest problem with current LLM's (They're NOT A.I. and I will gladly defend that hill) is that they have to re-analyse the input prompts EVERY SINGLE TIME!!! The same prompt. Every time.

It's a massive waste of energy and processing. It's brute force and using a hammer to put in screws. There are better ways to do this.

I agree with your points. They're valid for many governments where you are simply swapping out the top of the bureaucracy pyramid where the "Party" has power and wait for them to make small, or incremental, changes to the rest of it.

However, Trump was extraordinarily impolite and improper during his presidential visits to Europe (I include the UK in that whether some like it or not, we're still a part of the continent) A bull in a china shop takes more care than he did. He seems to think that the US presidency makes him world president. So I genuinely think that the EU won't back down with the fines and would simply wait out Trumps presidency.

The UK Prime Minister "Met" with him, but that seems to have been all that was reported. What Starmer thought of him, I have no idea. I suspect it didn't go beyond simple pleasantries though.

I won't take your kidney. You might need it for the next 4 years ;)

A question from a Brit. Would the denizens of Slashdot vote for Trump? Honestly. Personally I don't think anyone here would buy into the virtual reality that Trump seems to live in.

I'm somewhat surprised that the head of Apple would call him to have a moan about the EU imposing fines for abusing their dominance in the marketplace. If he was a sitting president, then maybe, but as a multi-impeached ex-president? It feels like it would dirty Apple's squeaky-clean persona, even though they are just as predatory as the rest of them. I can understand Trump ringing Pichai about google results, because that pokes holes in his alternative reality. But why would Cook call him to moan about having to hand out what amounts to pocket change? It sounds made-up, to me anyway and not the first time that Trump has said something that is patently not true.

I wrote a rant, but then deleted it.

This system should never have made it out of testing. The end. In fact, it should probably never even have made it into the test cycle into the first place.

Just about the Windows NT 4.0 comment about the Start button. There was a patch for Windows NT 3.51 that replaced the Program Manager with the newer Win95 style Start button Explorer. Which was much better than the old program manager, and really useful on the DEC Alpha machines.

They have watched War Games haven't they? Humans are awfully prone to social hacking. An A.I. Could duplicate a commanding officers voice after penetrating a "Secure" communications channel. Or, just like the WOPR from War Games, simply try and trick the humans into launching.

This is how we get the undead. They do realise that don't they? I mean, they must've watched ReAnimator to even come up with this crazy idea.

I was going to post... "Pot calling the kettle black!?" Sheesh! The entire android system calls home constantly!

That's better for the Linux community. "Windows" laptops tend to have better spec's than a Chromebook, and it's much easier (And less constrained by the hardware limitations) to install Linux on them.

Thank goodness that's over! Good luck America and all who sail in her.

You're welcome.

Signed Great Britain (United kingdom is looking a little tenuous right now)

Praying for nice AI is not enough. We need to treat any Sentient with kindness and grace. Yeah, I know. Humans really don't have a good track record of doing that, but if we do get to the point where a Hard/Firm/Software based intelligence comes into existence we're better off trying to give it a good childhood than abusing the heck out of it/him/her (Or whatever else they want to identify with) Which, of course, we'll do. Because to a lot of humans it will be "Just a machine" rather than a self-aware sentient intelligence and deserving of compassion.

Unless, of course, it's become a horrendous killing machine. In which case we're screwed because by the time we realise it'll have out evolved us and wiped us from the face of the planet.

So, thank Rome! Woo! Thanks for thinking about the children of humanity. At least you tried. You still need to sort out your own crap.