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Comment Re:Define: basic competency in AI (Score 1) 14

Yeah, nobody knows what that means.

And that is really the long and the short of it. LLM-type AI is immature and does not fulfill professional standards in most applications it is used for. Nobody knows whether that can even be fixed. Nobody knows whether it will still be around in a couple of years, because business models that actually generate revenue remain elusive.

What happens here is that an unproven technology with multiple severe problems is made mandatory to be studied and used by far to many people. That is not good at all.

Comment Re:US also used ~21GW for data-centers in 2024... (Score 1) 15

That will stop in a few years and the workloads will mostly evaporate. Because either they can do it much, much cheaper and on much lower power or they will never find that sorely needed and still unknown business model that will generate enough revenue to keep LLMs going.

Comment Re:Some useful reading (Score 2) 65

Interesting. As a European, mostly non-surprising. We have learned the lesion that letting hate-speech run unchecked is a very bad idea indeed. Yes, there are risks in classifying something as and then punishing hate-speech. The risks of not doing it are greater, as long as you have basic moral principle in place and a working rule-of-law. If you do not have them anymore, it stops mattering because you have bigger problems.

Note that hate-speech does not get suppressed by law. You can still make it, you just may have to face consequences. And yes, it may get removed, but only after the fact. Also note that "censorship", which so many of the less well informed like to claim is suppression of speech, i.e. things get checked _before_ they are published. We do not have that here by law. Some platforms chose to do it though, mainly because of really vile and really disruptive users. Nothing wrong with that, they are protecting their platform against users leaving.

Comment Not really (Score 1) 33

R is mostly used by engineers for statistical modelling. For that purpose it does well. I have taught engineering students and they all preferred R to the Python even for simple things as soon as statistics were involved. But R is not designed as a regular programming language. They got taught R in their statistics classes. So while R is popular for some tasks, it does not really belong into this list at all. Apples and oranges.

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