OK, it’s time to freak out about AI

Re:OK, it’s time to freak out about AI by falcolas on Thursday March 16, 2023 @02:47PM (#35186475)

> its people so removed from the tech that they fail to RTFM

I find it highly amusing to think anything resembling an average user of tech has actually RTFM.

Heck, I still haven't finished the manual on Firefox and here I am using it as my daily driver. And it has people who actually understand how it all works writing the "manual".

EDIT: How many landlords have read the instructions on how RealPage's rent pricing software works, and how it sets values? 10%? Less?

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Re:OK, it’s time to freak out about AI by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on Thursday March 16, 2023 @02:59PM (#35186661)

Does firefox actually have a complete manual? One that accurately covers the behavior of every option in about:config. I'd love to be able to diff one file to see what things they've screwed with this time when I update.

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Re:OK, it’s time to freak out about AI by eyelidlessness on Thursday March 16, 2023 @10:37PM (#35192209)

Heck, MDN doesn’t even have full documentation for >10 year old tech Mozilla was tightly coupled to in the same time frame. Try discerning how to use XML-related features in a browser and you’ll very quickly find yourself trying to extrapolate from C/Java/even PHP stuff that might be tangentially related but probably isn’t, from increasingly less relevant websites. I couldn’t read the manual even though I tried.

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Re:OK, it’s time to freak out about AI by Quarrelsome on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:27PM (#35188000)

well in this case the RTFM is just the paragraph on the release page that warns against using it in any high-risk scenario.

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