That stuff's not even the most pressing problem with YouTube's content censorship. The larger issue is that content that directly crosses the CCP's party line, keeps getting flagged in all kinds of objectively counterfactual ways. Nobody with more than a couple hundred subscribers can talk about the history or culture of Tibet, for example, without running afoul of this.

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.

Eh. The people who actually like Google's horrible AI-generated garbage, were already using Google anyway. No change there.

Whereas, I have entirely *stopped* using Google's main site, and my usage of Wikipedia has increased, because I'm now using it (plus the browser's in-page search feature) for quick lookup of things that, six months ago, I could more quickly find on Google, but now I can't. Other things I find using ddg or startpage, and still others I now have to resort to older, pre-internet methods, like manually punching a bunch of individually-looked-up numbers into spreadsheets in order to calculate what I actually want to know, like it's 1992, because nobody who still indexes most of the internet, can figure out how to do decent relevancy ranking.

I do still use some of Google's other sites, e.g., Google Maps. Though who knows how long that will continue to be useful, given the direction the company is heading.

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.

Well, like I said, appearance isn't the most important thing; in the movies, Herbie doesn't even always have his standard paint job. Sometimes he's (visually) just a plain VW bug. It's what he does, that's important.

/r/duck

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that most houses these days don't have peeling lead paint, like basically all of them did in the seventies.

In literary terms, Herbie is absolutely a character, but I'm not sure why anybody would set about to make real-world replica versions of him. All of his distinctive characteristics (that make him different from an ordinary, non-sapient Volkswagon Beetle, a model of car that was chosen for the films specifically because it was extremely common), are either so cartoonish as to be impractical to replicate in a real car (like the ability to be sawed completely in half and continue to operate as normal) or concern the car's behavior, rather than its physical characteristics. (And it's not enough to make the car drive itself. You have to make it have consistently smarter ideas about where to drive, than the person behind the wheel; and it has to go markedly faster than any other car in its immediate vicinity.) Several of the movies do feature a version of Herbie with some distinctive markings painted on (particularly, the number 53 in a circle), but these markings (and his paint job in general) are not consistent across all the movies and so really cannot be regarded as a core aspect of Herbie's identity. When he's an old secondhand car with a standard-but-weathered paint job, he's still very much Herbie.

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.