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Spend time using them. You'll quickly learn how much they aren't living up to the hype.
Presumably it would need to be trained with good examples of solutions to complex problems. Maybe there just won't be that many for the foreseeable future.
I believe this is the study being referenced. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2787741
Re:Computers and Creativity on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @02:06PM (#26570859)
I thought that surely some mention of end user programming would have been warranted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_development
Re:Adventures in Advanced Symbolic Programming on Friday March 19, 2021 @11:58PM (#26520712)
I took this class with zero functional programming exposure as a grad student, fwiw
I was also reminded of this patent, which has the potential to be applied in problematic contexts. https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2016/06/apple-w...
Re:I got my file from Clearview AI on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @12:20AM (#22681917)
Even more incredible is that the opt out link requests a clear view of your face to proceed.
My wife gave birth last year in California, and immediately upon returning home, we located the paperwork for requesting the DNA be destroyed and submitted it. We received a response telling us that our request was received, but that's all. Unfortunately neither of us can remember where to find the form we needed to send it to request it be destroyed. Maybe it was in the hospital paperwork?
Reminds me of the Apple patent for disabling cameras in such situations.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/apple-patents-way-t...

The difference I'm specifically curious about is the issue about 'downloading' arbitrary code and evaluating it. Current app offerings don't have this support because Apple has forbidden it in the past unless the evaluation goes through the Javascript context of a web view, which doesn't appear to be the case for PencilCase. I guess I'm curious if they have relaxed their restrictions in this case, are unaware of that feature, or something else.
Question for the developers: It looks like the iOS app allows you to download apps built with the desktop tool, which supports evaluation of Javascript snippets. Isn't this against the App Store policy for the download and execution of arbitrary code?

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