At some point people decided that it was reasonable to not actually buy things and instead purchase a limited license to use things and, like, hold them or whatever.

We need to take a step back, admit that it was a dumb direction, and if you hand over money for any physical thing, then that physical thing is yours to do with as you wish. Anything other than that is merely a rent-seeking scheme to get paid again and again for the same thing.

Let me get this straight. A company can enter into a contract with me for my data with certain restrictions on using or sharing it. If they then file for bankruptcy and get auctioned off, the new owner can do whatever they want with my data because in some sense it's the property of the defunct corporation and not mine, since I shared it.

Am I the only person who thinks that that's fundamentally broken, and if that's how it works then "how it works" needs to be fixed?

A model might be equally likely to make a mistake on a calculus question as it is to propose that cabbages eat goats..

What about the cabbages serving the goats at their restaurants?

A LLM will be just as confident when saying something completely wrongâ"and obviously so, to a humanâ"as it will be when saying something true..

So there's this guy...

We also tend not to put people exhibiting these behaviors in decision-making positions.

Either you're proposing that the newly re-elected President of the US is actually an AI, or you haven't been paying attention.

The problem isn't the specific noise that the alarm makes, it's summed up in the article itself.

"Auditory alarms can sound up to 300 times a day per patient in U.S. hospitals, but only a small fraction require immediate action."

When everything is built to try to notify everyone of everything all the time, well, yeah people are going to start ignoring them. That makes perfect sense. And you can't fault someone for ignoring the one notification that actually meant something amongst the billion that meant nothing.

And as soon as they figure out the optimal sound to actually get someone's attention, every other alarm will immediately copy it.

How about some regulations around when alarms and notifications in general can be used? I feel like I'm under a constant barrage of notification harassment from literally every company out there, and I don't even work in a hospital.

I'm not an expert.

"equipped with four cameras to send live video (without audio)..."

I think they better enable the audio. Things can go wrong if he didn't hear it.

I saw this one already.

But does Elon love Ice Station Zebra?

Are fake books purchased by people who never had any books in the first place and want some for decoration, or are they for people who have a library of embarrassing books that they don't want to show off?

Gonna go out on a limb and "not having enough books" is probably not a problem many slashdot readers have.

If college were free we'd have a better idea of what people were actually interested in and wanted to learn. Since it's not, and most people aren't born into massive wealth, it has turned into a stepping stone for increasing your earning potential. And means the humanities are a luxury item that few can afford.

Ask Todd Todgers how much money there is in Dragster.

The umlaut didn't come through, apparently. Won't try that again.

It's pretty wild that a language bases yes and no on degrees of probability.

I think we're less than a decade out from not being able to buy pants anymore, instead needing to subscribe to them monthly.

What a world this is becoming.

I can't end an interaction with Alexa without saying "Alexa... A l e x a... STOP."