>But we want reports that are valuable, coherent and that actually tell us what's wrong so we csn fix it

You don't get that now 98% of the time. It's going to be difficult for the AI reports to be WORSE than almost all of the reports I've had to read through on the projects I follow.

It's just plain fact that the vast majority of bug reports suck ass, even from the users that bother to report shit back instead of just saying "it dun werk, this thing sucks" and use something else. If AI can help guide / ask questions about the issue / put everything together coherently, it can only help.

Jesus fucking christ...

Devs whine that users don't fill out bug reports with enough info. Some are downright hostile to the people ATTEMPTING to fill out reports properly, even who ask how to even get the info that would help the devs out.

Devs ALSO whine "we are anti-AI... for uh reasons" like the Thailand meme guy, even though it's designed to, oh I don't know, get the fucking information the fuckers need for a good bug report. Or at least present the information better than bubba's basic "It dun werk" filled out 50 times in the mandatory reporting template.

I mean god damn, this is one of the things that AI is a perfect fit for doing - taking the average moron, and making them intelligible in a useful way to people much smarter than them.

>for that you would have to claim that the LLM has personhood (and some other things).

If corporations have fucking personhood, so should the LLM owned by them.

>But those exceptions exist, and any speech carries the burden of respecting those restrictions. How does an LLM do that?

That is what the judge should have said in the ruling. Hmmmmm. Kinda absent in the sources I've seen so far. I'm not going to be bothered enough to read the actual court documents though.

>It doesn't matter, software does not have personhood. "Speech" as it was used, means "protected speech". LLM produce token sequences in response to input token sequences, that is not protected speech.

And you produce drivel in response to comments on every story on slashdot. Guess that addendum they have of all comments being the property of the commenter shouldn't apply eh?

"Maybe, possibly, could", there is also a chance that slashdot will post something that isn't a dupe and is also edited properly by the end of 2025. Doubtful, but it could happen.

It's the same old farts saying the same old shit as before.

"The typewriter is killing penmanship, letters and words now have no soul and feeling to them."

"Word processors are making people dumber, at least with a typewriter you had to think about what you wanted to say because you can't just delete whole sentences or paragraphs."

"Digital artwork is is killing REAL art like painting since you can just undo brush strokes."

"Digital photography is soulless and takes away from the REAL skill of setting every little thing on your camera and these youngster won't even know how to use a darkroom."

"Post processing digital camera pictures is cheating since you can push the image even further from what was really there than by using filters and specific films, or darkroom manipulations."

And that's just shit from the last 100-150 years. Knowing humans, Ug and Grog were probably bitching about those young caveman kids using that new fangled wheel thing, as they are now lazy and won't be as strong if they don't have to actually CARRY anything...

It's the last one. The stupid asshat put it full page behind the text, not just small in the corner next to the law firms signature area.

I fit wasn't full page behind the text I doubt the judge would have even noticed, much less said anything. The jackass had to put it in the most obnoxious place he could though, which makes reading the text more difficult.

>No, not at all. Reasoning models just generate each word as regular LLM models, then feed the answer into the same (or another mode)l to rewrite the response. One word at a time. There is no AI that thinks or reasons here, it's only really clever way of using the magic of "the next probable word". The only magic of LLM is "choose the next word". There is no thinking or reasoning at all, regardless of what they call the model.

You have no fucking clue what you are talking about. Period.

Here have an excerpt of the reasoning process for said isostacy:

But perhaps I'm overcomplicating this.
Let me try again:
Given that the object floats on top of another liquid (so maybe like oil floating on water), but here both have similar densities—0.97 and 0.99 kg/m, so very close to each other.
So in such a case, how much is submerged?
Wait if I use Archimedes' principle:
The weight of the object equals the weight displaced by the liquid it's floating on top of.
But wait—if you have two layers—like oil and water—the total buoyant force would be from both liquids. But perhaps since they are similar in density, maybe only a small part is submerged?
Wait but if I'm just considering one layer (the 0.99 kg/m liquid), then the object floats on top of it because its own density is lower.
So using Archimedes' principle:
( \rho_{object} V g = \rho_{liquid} V_{submerged} g )
Simplify: ( h / H = (\rho_{object})/(\rho_{liquid}) } ) assuming uniform cross-section
Therefore,
h=H*(\rho_{object}/( rho_liquid))
So plugging in the numbers:
( 6 m * (0.97 kg/m)/(0.99 kg/m ) = h )
Calculating that: approximately ( 6*0.98 5.88 meters submerged.

But yeah. It's just estimating the next word. Sure. Oh wait, that wasn't the ANSWER, that was a snippet of the dump of the reasoning chain that went on in the background. Not something that "normal" users would ever see.

>An undergraduate would not do that, it would not select a wrong word and then completely miss the mark because the selected word is more associated with flowers than electrical engineering.

I've had undergrads who couldn't guess the correct amount of days in a year. On a take home lab sheet. That they had a week to work on, and full internet access for. There are a significant number that of them also that can't do simple logic problems that a 3rd to 4th grader should be able to figure out.

So I call bullshit on your magical full classrooms of smart undergrads.

>It doesn't reason.

Except that that's exactly what the latest "reasoning" models do. You can even peek under the hood and see the reasoning steps it goes through if you run it locally.

Especially with the local versions of deepseek - ask it an isostacy question, give it some densities for some parts of the equation, and it reasons in the background that it needs to use the Archimedes Principle and will fill in the rest of the densities that you are asking. It's actually quite interesting watching it do the reasoning for each part of the problem.

>It doesn't understand.

It "understands" about as much as a typical undergrad. It can do many problems without having to be told the exact steps needed since the underlying principles are well known and in the training data. It doesn't know specifics, but it can use logic to put together the steps needed to get specifics. At least for math. Obscure History or esoteric pop culture... not so much.

You've obviously forgotten about the usage surveys Photoshop used to give out then. That's also telemetry, just much slower, and voluntary. They even used to offer discounts for the surveys as incentives.

Too many people just plain didn't bother.

UBI would work fine - IF the government would do its fucking job for once.

I.E.: Making sure that there are checks and balances that ensure the following conditions are met within the UBI budget

There are enough rent capped basic living spaces, without everything being in a slumlord project housing

Caps on how much basic staple foods cost per month.

Caps on the (enforced to be fast enough to at least be useful ) base tier of entertainment / internet.

Anything above the base tier of rent / more or better food things / faster internet and more entertainment options would all have to be worked for.

You'll likely never see that though, as since some things are capped you can't squeeze the poor till the last drop.

Never mind that most would improve their situations because they would WANT more than the basics and would be more willing to even have the chance at a better education which would later have a significant ROI. That isn't more money made RIGHT NOW, even though you can make more than ten times the money LATER.

> a complete lack of environmental protections

Don't worry, the orange idiot just signed more shit making coal the preferred power source "because it's the best"...

You mean the idiots who still won't be able to get up to the speed limit, and everyone else stuck behind them because it will take too long to pass at only 5-8MPH faster? Just like a semi truck trying to pass another on the interstate...

Yeah, I'm all for getting those old farts off the road. If you can't comfortably drive the speed limit in perfect conditions, your driving skills are no longer good enough for you to be driving safely.

>They are both units of power (not energy) so no per hour or per second is needed.

Except that you are measuring the energy USED for charging.

So it's likely 1MW/hour. Depending on charge voltage ( since Watts=AmpsxVoltage) that will push the AMPs delivered up significantly, allowing a X_amp/hour battery to charge faster.

Unfortunately that means heat, and thus faster degradation of the batteries. It's a trade-off - faster charge times NOW for fewer charges, and less capacity in the future... as it always has been.

>Seems you never used either of them.

Yeah, I've never used finder after *checks notes* "Describing the shortcomings of finder in detail, along with the workarounds that people used for over a decade". Yep, sure haven't used Finder from 2013 through 2023 on a MBP. Oh... wait...

>No: "Home" is not D:\users\angelo - it is a fantasy folder no one knows where it is.

Because it's not an actual folder? It's a link that displays all of your shortcuts to folders you designate. My "Home" on Windows 11 Pro points to locations I access frequently on five different physical drives in my machine, as well as a few network drives, and cloud storage drives - both self hosted local, and others for less critical storage. Home can also be turned off in settings, with your default display when starting Explorer can be set to any disk or location you desire.

Why would I want an actual folder that I have to mount remote storage and physical drives to folders? It's a waste of time when I can just slap a "Favorite" on any folder in any drive - including the ROOT of the drive - without having to go through any other effort? I don't NEED to have a D:\home, I already have a place to store USER documents, and have had it since Windows 8 at the least, under /users/ my_user.

>C:\users\angelo\documents - it is a fantasy folder, where no one knows where it actually is.

It's exactly there. If it isn't you are using the onedrive documents folder... under /users/your_username//onedrive/documents and Explorer points right to it. You can also easily just plop down a "My Documents" folder anywhere and add it to your favorites. And gasp - you can even CONFIGURE Explorer to not show the default "Documents" folder in home or on the sidebar! The user having OPTIONS, who would have thought that!

>Finder never crashed on me.

I call BS on that. Even people that are diehard Mac fanbois know how to restart Finder from the "apple menu" when their desktop stops responding, or doesn't show icon previews, or stops showing icons at all, or won't let them mount / dismount drives all of a sudden. It's a common enough occurrence that Apple put a "restart finder" menu right in the damn apple menu on the top bar.

MacOS isn't BAD, there are at least a few features baked in that are arguably better than Windows / Linux alternatives. Quicklook is one that jumps out. Bash / ZSH, and the availability for pure BASH scripting being natively available is also a really nice feature.

That being said, there are tons of really annoying issues that Apple refuses to fix at any cost. The primary one being Finder is a steaming turd that makes the Windows Explorer file manager look like the pinnacle of file management in comparison. Finder is so bad that people make a paid replacement for it, and enough people buy the replacement for the company to stay in business.

Then stuff was needed like xtrafinder to get folders to show up on the top of the lists in finder with your preferred sorting. The people who are STILL so quick to shout out "But Apple made it so folders show up first with a checkbox in Finder settings!" completely ignore the fact that that only works while sorting alphabetically ( unless it's changed in the last few years, which is doubtful ). People have wanted folders sorted on top with their preferred sorting method for YEARS before Apple half assed it to only work when sorted alphabetically.

That and even on a brand new fresh install on Apple hardware - not even hackentoshes, genuine Apple hardware - Finder is dog slow. And crashes. A lot. Considerably more than I've ever had Windows Explorer crash on any OS since early XP pre-SP1 days.